Tour de France 2015 Stage 15: Mende-Valence 183km

[DFA123]

Sagan was the fastest although he was in the break...How can he not win a stage? How?

Lack of team mates to help him. He was perfectly placed with about 600m to go on Kristoff's wheel, but Degenkolb pushed him off it and was then able to get onto Greipel after the last corner.

It's pretty hard to defend positions all the time for 4km without any team to support you. He was the fastest finisher as usual, would probably have won if he had got on Greipel's wheel

Not at all

Are you Degenkolb?

 

[Sem Travões]

The Tinkoff mechanic knows how to throw bidons perflectly

 

[Trond Vidar]

Realistic summary from Kristoff:

- I clearly did not have acceleration of his when he went. I'm at max, so no chance. He is a strong sprinter and has beaten me many times before. Currently, he is better than me, reasoned Kristoff

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Robbie Mcewen on Aussie TV saying Sagan might get docked points lolool

Sagan did not throw the bottle - it was the mechanic.

 

[Couq-DK]

Robbie Mcewen on Aussie TV saying Sagan might get docked points lolool

Sagan did not throw the bottle - it was the mechanic.

It is the sprint finish he pushes to Coquard.

 

[Pierrot le Fou]

Dangerous sprint by Sagan there (looked like him), nearly took out Coquard.

Apparently Coquard's chain fell off.

Yep, when Sagan veered into him.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Robbie Mcewen on Aussie TV saying Sagan might get docked points lolool

Sagan did not throw the bottle - it was the mechanic.

It is the sprint finish he pushes to Coquard.

I thought that's why they gave him the combatif award

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Greipel just too good.Kristoff doesn't have it this Tour and the team is bad.

His team were fantastic today

 

[Flamin]

Sagan was the fastest although he was in the break...How can he not win a stage? How?

Lack of team mates to help him. He was perfectly placed with about 600m to go on Kristoff's wheel, but Degenkolb pushed him off it and was then able to get onto Greipel after the last corner.

It's pretty hard to defend positions all the time for 4km without any team to support you. He was the fastest finisher as usual, would probably have won if he had got on Greipel's wheel

Not at all

Are you Degenkolb?

Greipel has clearly proven to be the best sprinter this Tour. How anyone can say Sagan was the fastest finisher as usual is beyond me. Obviously he goes faster in the final 100m, since at that point Greipel is already sprinting for 150m into the wind while Sagan is drafting behind other riders.

 

[Couq-DK]

Dangerous sprint by Sagan there (looked like him), nearly took out Coquard.

Apparently Coquard's chain fell off.

Yep, when Sagan veered into him.

I think this shows it well:

 

[hfer07]

Re:

One thing is certain: Sagan will not win it

Greipel or Degenkolb FTW

feels good to be right

 

[Stelvio]

Sure, Sagan gives him a little nudge, but it's nothing that McEwen didn't do ten times per sprint.

Would be surprised if he gets sanctioned for that.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Re:

Sure, Sagan gives him a little nudge, but it's nothing that McEwen didn't do ten times per sprint.

Would be surprised if he gets sanctioned for that.

Yeah. It looks worse because Coquard has some sort of mechanical issue, which makes him wobble.

 

[Arredondo]

Re: Re:

Sure, Sagan gives him a little nudge, but it's nothing that McEwen didn't do ten times per sprint.

Would be surprised if he gets sanctioned for that.

Yeah. It looks worse because Coquard has some sort of mechanical issue, which makes him wobble.

Coquard has a lot of mechanical issues then...

 

[Gigs_98]

Btw does europcar really still think coquard can win a sprint in this tour. He is just 5 classes behind the likes of greipel.

 

[Z3lvet]

Btw does europcar really still think coquard can win a sprint in this tour. He is just 5 classes behind the likes of greipel.

He is too small and light and gets easily boxed and outfought. Can´t do much about that.

 

[Gigs_98]

Sagan was the fastest although he was in the break...How can he not win a stage? How?

Lack of team mates to help him. He was perfectly placed with about 600m to go on Kristoff's wheel, but Degenkolb pushed him off it and was then able to get onto Greipel after the last corner.

It's pretty hard to defend positions all the time for 4km without any team to support you. He was the fastest finisher as usual, would probably have won if he had got on Greipel's wheel

Not at all

I guess you like Degenkolb but be honest. Don't you think sagan would have won this if he was in degenkolbs position? I don't think he was stronger than greipel in this sprint but if you consider that he was in the break his sprint is just impressive.

 

[Jerkovin]

Dangerous sprint by Sagan there (looked like him), nearly took out Coquard.

Apparently Coquard's chain fell off.

Yep, when Sagan veered into him.

Actually, it was Coquard who veered in Sagan's direction first and boxed him in at the precise moment Sagan started to sprint. Coq was all over the place at the end

https://twitter.com/cyclingreporter/status/622792840914014208

 

[Pierrot le Fou]

Dangerous sprint by Sagan there (looked like him), nearly took out Coquard.

Apparently Coquard's chain fell off.

Yep, when Sagan veered into him.

Actually, it was Coquard who veered in Sagan's direction first and boxed him in at the precise moment Sagan started to sprint. Coq was all over the place at the end

https://twitter.com/cyclingreporter/status/622792840914014208

We must be watching a different video then.

 

[Jagartrott]

Sagan was the fastest although he was in the break...How can he not win a stage? How?

Of course he was not the fastest today. Head-wind sprint.
Sagan was impressive after his earlier work, but I don't think he could've won today.

 

[Flamin]

Sagan was the fastest although he was in the break...How can he not win a stage? How?

Lack of team mates to help him. He was perfectly placed with about 600m to go on Kristoff's wheel, but Degenkolb pushed him off it and was then able to get onto Greipel after the last corner.

It's pretty hard to defend positions all the time for 4km without any team to support you. He was the fastest finisher as usual, would probably have won if he had got on Greipel's wheel

Not at all

I guess you like Degenkolb but be honest. Don't you think sagan would have won this if he was in degenkolbs position? I don't think he was stronger than greipel in this sprint but if you consider that he was in the break his sprint is just impressive.

Not sure what Degenkolb got to do with this? and no I don't think so. Greipel has beaten Sagan mano a mano several times this Tour. The other way around? Not once.

 

[Gigs_98]

Sagan was the fastest although he was in the break...How can he not win a stage? How?

Of course he was not the fastest today. Head-wind sprint.
Sagan was impressive after his earlier work, but I don't think he could've won today.

I didnt know that there was head wind, so please just forget what I wrote earlier

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

When comes the stage 16 thread? Thanks FYI in advance...

 

[Frosty]

Cavendish had stomach problems apparently

https://twitter.com/markcavendish

 

[DBotero]

Matthews not happy with Christophe Laporte:
“There’s people doing crazy things in finals for no reason. It’s just making it unsafe for the rest of the riders. Using head and elbows and everything. It’s just not safe racing, really.
“Yeah, definitely (had a chance to win) but when riders ride crazy like this it puts too much risk in the bunch sprints. When you’re trying to sprint at 70k an hour and someone head-butts yous that makes things quite dangerous.”