TdF 2017 stage 7: Troyes > Nuits-Saint-Georges 213,5 km

[DFA123]

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Long (5,3 Km) boulevard spurt with tailwind...I think Greipel could come on top of Démare today in the fight for "best of the rest" behind Ivan Drago.

What's happened to Greipel this year? Is he just at the age now where he's starting to enter a terminal decline, did he put too much focus on the classics, or has his leadout just got that much worse without Henderson?

He was poor at the Giro - Greipel of 2015 or 2016 would have taken three or four stages with that level of competition - and again here, he looks a level below what's needed to win - unless the others mess up big time.

Hopefully he can find something today at least, to seriously challenge the Kittel/Demare duopoly, but it looks a long shot.

 

[Laplaz]

What a race! Now for 150 km the gap will be at 3 minutes, great!

 

[Martin]

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What a race! Now for 150 km the gap will be at 3 minutes, great!

Such as thirlling event. Can wait to see Le Gac holding a medic car 10 kms again!

 

[frisenfruitig]

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Somebody euthanise me now. I can't take another day like this.


In the tour the best we can hope for are some echelons but before a very hard weekend I expect a boring stage ending with a kittel win.

Well there's a rest day tomorrow so maybe they'll feel like doing something. Probably not but one can hope.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Somebody euthanise me now. I can't take another day like this.


In the tour the best we can hope for are some echelons but before a very hard weekend I expect a boring stage ending with a kittel win.

Well there's a rest day tomorrow so maybe they'll feel like doing something. Probably not but one can hope.

No there isn't..

 

[frisenfruitig]

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Somebody euthanise me now. I can't take another day like this.


In the tour the best we can hope for are some echelons but before a very hard weekend I expect a boring stage ending with a kittel win.

Well there's a rest day tomorrow so maybe they'll feel like doing something. Probably not but one can hope.

No there isn't..

Whoops, my bad. At Sporza they said "last feast for the sprinters before rest day" but apparently they said that because there are 2 mountain stages now.

 

[bob.a.feet]

Anyone else prefer the Nike leader's jerseys?

 

[Pricey_sky]

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What a race! Now for 150 km the gap will be at 3 minutes, great!

So just like most other sprint stages? Apart from perhaps a little bit more a a gap, The main difference now is you get the choice between whether you watch all of it from the start or just a part of it.

Seems like there is a fair bit of moaning at the moment, maybe overspill from the Sagan incident and it's a forum so that's perfectly reasonable to voice your unhappiness, However as I've stated before the first week features about as many sprint stages as there have been in each of the past 10 years, and exactly the same number as in the first week of this years Giro (four).

 

[RedheadDane]

Chris Anker: It just doesn't feel right to have another man touch my bum while I'm peeing.

Oh... right, then. :lol:

 

[Kazistuta]

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Somebody euthanise me now. I can't take another day like this.


In the tour the best we can hope for are some echelons but before a very hard weekend I expect a boring stage ending with a kittel win.

Well there's a rest day tomorrow so maybe they'll feel like doing something. Probably not but one can hope.

No there isn't..

Whoops, my bad. At Sporza they said "last feast for the sprinters before rest day" but apparently they said that because there are 2 mountain stages now.

Rest days are never in the weekends. Bigger potential TV audience also means better stages Saturdays and Sundays.

 

[frisenfruitig]

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Somebody euthanise me now. I can't take another day like this.

Rest days are never in the weekends. Bigger potential TV audience also means better stages Saturdays and Sundays.

Yeah I know. I just saw "rest day" and didn't think much of it.

 

[Lexman]

On Sporza José de Cauwer predicts echelons...

 

[sir fly]

Saying you've never seen Quintana's suffering grimace?
Take a look at the Canyon commercial.

Nice portrait of Bardet on ES.

 

[MartinGT]

Last comment prior to this was 30mins ago. Says it all :lol:

 

[MartinGT]

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On Sporza José de Cauwer predicts echelons...

Where?

 

[Jungle Cycle]

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On Sporza José de Cauwer predicts echelons...

Where?

maybe here...
https://twitter.com/ProCyclingStats/status/883266988210040832

 

[Kwibus]

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On Sporza José de Cauwer predicts echelons...

Where?

maybe here...
https://twitter.com/ProCyclingStats/status/883266988210040832

End of the stage mayhem. Not big time gaps, but could be a very interesting final 25km.

https://twitter.com/thijszonneveld/status/883279695042760705

 

[sir fly]

Sonny eyeing points' classification?

 

[Valv.Piti]

This GT has unusually many rest days

 

[MartinGT]

Int Sprint
1. Manuele Mori, 20 points
2. Maxime Bouet, 17
3. Yohann Gène, 15
4. Dylan Van Baarle, 13
At 1.40:
5. Sonny Colbrelli, 11
6. Alexander Kristoff, 10
7. André Greipel, 9
8. Zdenek Stybar, 8
9. Michael Matthews, 7
10. Arnaud Démare, 6
11. Borut Bozit, 5
12. Rick Zabel, 4
13. Grega Bole, 3
14. Jack Bauer, 2
15. Andrei Grivko, 1

 

[Netserk]

Problems with Demare's gearing? It looked weird how he was spinning but going nowhere.

 

[Pricey_sky]

The wind is definitely picking up and a big crosswind where the break just passed on exposed roads.

 

[sir fly]

They'd definitely drop me in these crosswinds, but I'm not sure it's enough for the professionals this early in the race and this far from the finish.

 

[MartinGT]

Chute Chute Chute

Roglic down again.

 

[Vasilis]

Nice FDJ guy