Tour 2018 stage 21: Houilles - Paris 116 km

[SKSemtex]

Lampaert

 

[Gigs_98]

This must have been one of the weakest paris sprints in decades. Congrats to kristoff though on his first tour stage win since I think 2014.

 

[Inquitus]

Aye well deserved for UAE and Kristoff! A second stage win for the team and in the greatest of all sprint stages!

 

[SKSemtex]

Badly played by BORa. They were cooked on the end. Only chance for Sagan could be sprint for 200 meters.

 

[yetanothergreenworld]

The sheer hatred of Demare kind of boggles my mind. Are you guys just frustrated because Bouhanni isn't here for you to *** and cry about?

 

[Valv.Piti]

This must have been one of the weakest paris sprints in decades. Congrats to kristoff though on his first tour stage win since I think 2014.

Yep, very disappointing by Démare not to be able to beat Kristoff and Degenkolb in such a sprint.

 

[rlntlssly]

You have to wonder what Bora were doing all that work for, if Sagan wasn't even going to sprint.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Sprint of the slowpokes

 

[Alexandre B.]

A sprint of hardmen.

The better kind.

 

[muppetkokken]

Hagen did a good sprint as well.

 

[Gigs_98]

Just noticed the top three are all former winners of MSR and two have won a cobbles monument. Hard men sprint indeed

 

[glassmoon]

Brace yourselves. The boos are coming.

 

[wirral]

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Brace yourselves. The boos are coming.

Brailsford has bussed in a cheer squad.

 

[MuskyOurSaviour]

Well that was definitely the best Tour victory speech lmao

 

[rlntlssly]

That was a hilarious speech. Froome's "prepare your speech in advance in French" lesson clearly didn't get passed on.

 

[rick james]

lol....Drop the mic

 

[TomLPC]

Here he is, Angel of the West, Luke Rowe. Would’ve been king of the mountains if breaks weren’t factored in

 

[RedheadDane]

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That was a hilarious speech. Froome's "prepare your speech in advance in French" lesson clearly didn't get passed on.

I missed that part.
Link!

 

[rlntlssly]

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Here he is, Angel of the West, Luke Rowe. Would’ve been king of the mountains if breaks weren’t factored in

Rather impressively, none of Rowe, Castroviejo, Kwiatkowski, Poels and Moscon won a single mountain point. You'd think they'd score at least some by accident!

 

[Red Rick]

Dumoulin has finally found a use for Laurens Ten Dam.

LTD is at the Dutch post tour analysis, while Dumoulin is eating pizza and drinking beer.

Tom has his team tactics down.

 

[Lequack]

So both teams that left their sprinters home as punishment, meaning Mitchelton Scott with Ewan and Cofidis with Bouhanni, they didn't get anything out of this Tour. I wonder if they think it was worth it?

 

[Valv.Piti]

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So both teams that left their sprinters home as punishment, meaning Mitchelton Scott with Ewan and Cofidis with Bouhanni, they didn't get anything out of this Tour. I wonder if they think it was worth it?

I can understand leaving the nutcase Bouhanni at home, but I will never understand why they didn't select Ewan. What a horrbile decision.

 

[Red Rick]

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So both teams that left their sprinters home as punishment, meaning Mitchelton Scott with Ewan and Cofidis with Bouhanni, they didn't get anything out of this Tour. I wonder if they think it was worth it?

I can understand leaving the nutcase Bouhanni at home, but I will never understand why they didn't select Ewan. What a horrbile decision.

Are you suggesting Yates 29th spot in GC wasn't absolutely worth it?

 

[Valv.Piti]

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So both teams that left their sprinters home as punishment, meaning Mitchelton Scott with Ewan and Cofidis with Bouhanni, they didn't get anything out of this Tour. I wonder if they think it was worth it?

I can understand leaving the nutcase Bouhanni at home, but I will never understand why they didn't select Ewan. What a horrbile decision.

Are you suggesting Yates 29th spot in GC wasn't absolutely worth it?

The consistent and exciting bike rider that is Adam Yates obviously needed all the support he possibly could get.

 

[yaco]

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So both teams that left their sprinters home as punishment, meaning Mitchelton Scott with Ewan and Cofidis with Bouhanni, they didn't get anything out of this Tour. I wonder if they think it was worth it?

Laporte is at a similar level to Bouhanni and I doubt Bouhanni would have got 2nd in a stage and I doubt he would have survived the mountains.