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Eddy Evenepoel

Eddy Evenepoel

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Seems like we almost got a real elite group getting away with Matthews, Schmid, Barguil, Abrahamsen, Skaarseth, Tarling, Armirail, Turgis, Riesebeek & Flynn. That would've been an interesting group, both because there is insane amount of horsepower so the peloton would've struggled to keep them within range and because it would've been an interesting group to fight for a potential stage win with a lot of potential winners.

Now we rather get a weaker 4 man break.
 
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noob

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Sciatic said:
In addition to the teams, the riders themselves have a certain degree of responsibility here too. Since there was no specific restart time it would make sense to stay close to the front of the stoppage point, even if folks needed to go back to cars to get warmer clothes and food. It's like getting to the airport and despite the plane already being there, something needed fixing and the airline posted that there is a 3-hour delay. One could go to a distant airport restaurant order a big meal, have several beers, and saunter back to the gate in 2 hrs. I almost missed a flight once because they ended up fixing the problem much more quickly than anticipated so instead of a 3-yr delay they were boarding folks just 45 minutes after the original departure time. When there is a delay--in sport, in life, where ever--the length of a delay is always an estimate. Riders who didn't want to get left behind or scrambling madly when the race restarted needed to be somewhat cognizant of that.
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Wow! seriously this was life wisdom for this autistic noob. I had never realized this! I always just assumed that delays can be prolonged but never realized that they could also be shortened.

I wonder if the riders are as noob as me. It wouldn't surprise me. A lot of them seems odd or stupid enough :grin:

Thank you this was really helpful! :smileycat:
 
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Eddy Evenepoel said:
Seems like we almost got a real elite group getting away with Matthews, Schmid, Barguil, Abrahamsen, Skaarseth, Tarling, Armirail, Turgis, Riesebeek & Flynn. That would've been an interesting group, both because there is insane amount of horsepower so the peloton would've struggled to keep them within range and because it would've been an interesting group to fight for a potential stage win with a lot of potential winners.

Now we rather get a weaker 4 man break.
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Tudor will control until the hills start and then Ala will attack.
 
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Vingegaard crashed, but seems to look okay

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Berniece

Berniece

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tobydawq said:
Danish TV2 showed a lot of riders being interviewed about yesterday. Nobody agreed with Jonas about stopping altogether being the best option.

Yet Jonas maintains that the organisers chose not to listen to the riders and force the stage through.
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I'm not sure how many teams in total wanted to stop, but Naesen said that 7 teams wanted to stop, and 2 teams wanted to follow the majority. He knows this because he is one of the peloton representatives so he needed to talk with the teams.
 
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