Tour de France 2017. stage 1: Düsseldorf, 14 km itt

[cycladianpirate]

OK. If I don't see EVERYONE vs Sky from hereon in, I am going to be ********.

 

[Samamba]

Ion DNF according to Tissottiming?

 

[silvergrenade]

I'm wondering what Contador would say?
"It was very tricky today...So I took no risks so that I reach the mountains fresher. The first stage was absolutely how I wanted the things to be."

 

[Son of Amsterhammer]

You could tell that Froome was riding harder than Porte. You didn't need the time to see that.

 

[Brullnux]

Re:

Porte took it very conservatively. Understandable, but if Froome's powers it then he could be forty seconds up already in a race where time in the mountains doesn't appear that easy to come by

 

[GuyIncognito]

A lot of people on twitter questioning Sky's kit saying it's illegal.
Before the stage too, but more now.

Nobody's saying what's wrong with it, they all just talk as if it's obvious.
Well, it's not obvious to me.

 

[Publicus]

I'll be interested to hear from all of the GC guys. They're all bunched together (save Froome) around the same time. I was expecting more from all of them frankly.

 

[can3478]

Congrats to Thomas, he deserves it after that incident at the Giro.

 

[Escarabajo]

LOL.

I hate bad weather so much. But there is nothing we can do about it!!!

 

[Irondan]

Re:

I'm wondering what Contador would say?
"It was very tricky today...So I took no risks so that I reach the mountains fresher. The first stage was absolutely how I wanted the things to be."

I think you nailed it!

 

[bajbar]

When I saw how Contador took the first corner... and then how Froome took it... 5 seconds were lost there already...

 

[Blanco]

Re:

Sky with 4 riders in top 10.

They came to the race ready, is everyone else?

Too ready, I would say...

 

[deValtos]

Looks like TTT's will be hold until Froome retires?

 

[Brullnux]

Horrid coverage from ASO/Tissot. The timing screen either didn't show up or was wrong most the time.

 

[IndianCyclist]

BMC maybe making an error in sending Porte before Kung

 

[perico]

Re:

It wasn't even that Froome was that good. He was on his level, not anything special.

The rest was just really bad.
I mean cmon, Gesink was faster than Porte, Quintana and Contador... they simply did very very poorly

Valverde's crash probably affected Porte's ride considering they had to move him off the course, and probably spooked the others. Froome was confident enough and had obviously done his homework. It wasn't a devastating ride, but solid when compared to the rest.

 

[movingtarget]

Perfect start for Froome, Contador and Porte will be a little disappointed.

 

[TomLPC]

Froome was prepared to lose, the rest weren't

 

[Benotti69]

Re:

A lot of people on twitter questioning Sky's kit saying it's illegal.
Before the stage too, but more now.

Nobody's saying what's wrong with it, they all just talk as if it's obvious.
Well, it's not obvious to me.

Names on the back of the jerseys was done by IAM cycling a few year ago and UCI said nope, illegal.

Sky do it and UCI say great idea.

 

[jsem94]

Tour over..

 

[William H]

Re:

A lot of people on twitter questioning Sky's kit saying it's illegal.
Before the stage too, but more now.

Nobody's saying what's wrong with it, they all just talk as if it's obvious.
Well, it's not obvious to me.

I think its the lumps on the upper arms.

Chris Boardman suggested it was technically against the rules, though he also implied that it was a rule a lot of people break and the UCI doesn't care

 

[GuyIncognito]

Re: Re:

A lot of people on twitter questioning Sky's kit saying it's illegal.
Before the stage too, but more now.

Nobody's saying what's wrong with it, they all just talk as if it's obvious.
Well, it's not obvious to me.

Names on the back of the jerseys was done by IAM cycling a few year ago and UCI said nope, illegal.

Sky do it and UCI say great idea.

People talking about the shoes now. Whatever it is I don't think they mean the names.

 

[Inquitus]

Re:

BMC maybe making an error in sending Porte before Kung

The conditions seemed to be universally crap with no wind, so I don't think start position made any difference today.

 

[ice&fire]

Re:

Ion Izaguirre DNF.

Same curve as Valverde, according to Purito's twitter

 

[movingtarget]

Re:

Horrid coverage from ASO/Tissot. The timing screen either didn't show up or was wrong most the time.

Yes terrible, every time it said 600 metres to go it was more like 300 !