Tour de France 2015 Stage 21: Sèvres › Paris 109.5k

[Gigs_98]

Froome will win that stage in a bunch sprint

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Kristoff top 3 and I am happy (even if Cav wins by 3 bike lengths). And if he (Kristoff) doesnt, Cav also shall not... then I am happy too.

Kristoff was on a tremendously constant relax mode to have all the energy left for a powerful sprint: 156-157-157-159 in the last four stages. So far so good

 

[Dog]

1st ???
2nd Sagan
3rd ???

 

[TomLPC]

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Who will be the final man for Cav?

Uran, complete with a comically bad timed glance behind

 

[Yingge]

Heaven forbid if Froome was to puncture with 4km to go, and then be unable to properly ride Richie Porte's bike - and come in 1'13" down on the peleton.

 

[shalgo]

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Sagan to do a Vino

Who is going to play the Bradley McGee role and drag him to the finish? Nobody has been willing to collaborate with Sagan so far in this Tour.

 

[TMP402]

Heaven forbid if Froome was to puncture with 4km to go, and then be unable to properly ride Richie Porte's bike - and come in 1'13" down on the peleton.

If Sky don't surround Froome with Poels, Rowe and Stannard then Brailsford should be brought up on charges.

 

[TMP402]

I would have Stannard hide an entire foldup bike down his shorts. Koenig should have an ejector button to facilitate a quick wheel donation. Roche should practice his 800m running in case he needs to push Froome back into the peloton at 3.7km to go. In fact Sky should bribe Usain Bolt to be a "mechanic" for the day. They should hide a secret Formula 1 pitlane in the tunnel and change Froome's wheels every lap anyway.

 

[BigMac]

I remember reading somewhere if any drops the champagne glass and it breaks they can be DQD? Maybe it was nonsense, I don't remember.

 

[TMP402]

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I remember reading somewhere if any drops the champagne glass and it breaks they can be DQD? Maybe it was nonsense, I don't remember.

Well if someone at the front of the peloton managed to scatter glass over the road that would be tantamount to sabotage. Unintentional but you can see why the rule would be there if it's true, to encourage people not to use glass bottles etc.

 

[BigMac]

Re: Re:

I remember reading somewhere if any drops the champagne glass and it breaks they can be DQD? Maybe it was nonsense, I don't remember.

Well if someone at the front of the peloton managed to scatter glass over the road that would be tantamount to sabotage. Unintentional but you can see why the rule would be there if it's true, to encourage people not to use glass bottles etc.

Ye makes sense, thanks!

 

[Sasquatch]

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1st ???
2nd Sagan
3rd ???

 

[wwabbit]

Odds according to betting exchange markets:

36.5% Greipel
26.5% Cavendish
11.4% Kristoff
10.1% Sagan
5.8% Degenkolb

 

[Happy dude]

What time is the stage scheduled to finish today?

 

[auscyclefan94]

I think Kristoff will finally get his stage win...surprised he hasn't got one yet

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Froome to crash on the descend of the cat 4 climb, then crash in the rain before finally crashing on the cobbles on Champs elysses.

 

[DBotero]

Cav ftw! Kristoff is really bad this Tour,so no hopes here and Greipel already made the hattrick,he can stop here.

 

[Cyclingismylife]

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What time is the stage scheduled to finish today?

Between 19.04 and 19.19.

Who will Cofidis sprint for today? Laporte or Soupe?

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Would love to see Greipel or Sagan win today. This year, an attack might have a better chance than ever to actually work out. I hope so!

 

[RedheadDane]

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I would have Stannard hide an entire foldup bike down his shorts. Koenig should have an ejector button to facilitate a quick wheel donation. Roche should practice his 800m running in case he needs to push Froome back into the peloton at 3.7km to go. In fact Sky should bribe Usain Bolt to be a "mechanic" for the day. They should hide a secret Formula 1 pitlane in the tunnel and change Froome's wheels every lap anyway.

Careful. If UCI see this post they'll implement a new rule:

Domestiques are not allowed to hide foldup bikes in their shorts. Nor are they allowed to have ejector buttons.

 

[samhocking]

Quintana & Valverde attack Froome when they hit the Place de la Concorde and stretch out a 1:13 lead over Froome for Quintana who wins yellow by just 1 second. Sagan chases down to take 2nd, Valverde rolls in 3rd after confirming he didn't have use of the big chainring ever since Froome threw the dregs of his champagne into his EPS shifters, buggering them up 30km before they hit Paris.
No questions are asked of Movistar's performance of course - no power data needs releasing, no phlem was spat, no urine thrown, Sky boos were replaced by cheers of joy each side of the Champs-Elysées and everybody goes home with that warm feeling Cycling has finally returned to the glory days of entertaining TV, which after-all is all that matters.

 

[Fight.The.Power]

Breaking News ‏@BreakingNews · 4m4 minutes ago
Official: Paris police open fire on car that tries to crash through Tour de France barricade - @AP http://www.breakingnews.com/t/Wwt

 

[Fight.The.Power]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/tour-de-france-police-open-6140405

 

[Squirbos_19]

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/tour-de-france-police-open-6140405

Oh that's horrible. Just as I'm getting ready to head down to Champs as well.

 

[Vasilis]

Re:

I remember reading somewhere if any drops the champagne glass and it breaks they can be DQD? Maybe it was nonsense, I don't remember.

As far as I know, you can't carry glass with you. So I don't know if they get a fine by default and they don't care, or they make an exception as long as nothing goes wrong. I found out that it's in the UCI rules when looking into wheelgate, I think Cyclingweekly mentioned it.