Tour de France 2018, stage 1

[Akuryo]

Re: Re:

Froomes crash from bike camera on rider behind Froome - does not look good with that post
https://twitter.com/LeTour/status/1015617032967028738

He was so lucky to miss that pole!

It was clearly a Katusha rider. Majka, Bodnar and Poljanski all ride for Bora.

This is a pole

But this is also a pole

 

[Põhja Konn]

GC riders and their teams have no business fighting for position with sprint trains during the last kilometers of a flat stage. It only serves to escalate what is already very dangerous situation. Sky have been the instigators of that unwelcome trend, so Froome losing the Tour and double that way would be more than a little bit ironic.

 

[jmdirt]

Re: Re:

Froomes crash from bike camera on rider behind Froome - does not look good with that post
https://twitter.com/LeTour/status/1015617032967028738

He was so lucky to miss that pole!

It was clearly a Katusha rider. Majka, Bodnar and Poljanski all ride for Bora.

This is a pole

But this is also a pole

Actually MK is a Pole, and the thing that CF almost hit is a pole. And since we are playing this, the Katusha rider, Zabel, is a German. No fault anywhere in that incident IMO. Obviously in hindsight CF should have soft pedaled a few strokes.

 

[GuyIncognito]

There was space for at most the 2 that were already there (Zabel and the DDD rider) and Froome tried to make it 3 wide

A mistake everyone makes every once in a while, but a mistake nonetheless.

Froomes crash from bike camera on rider behind Froome - does not look good with that post
https://twitter.com/LeTour/status/1015617032967028738

He was so lucky to miss that pole!

It was clearly a Katusha rider. Majka, Bodnar and Poljanski all ride for Bora.

This is a pole

http://cdn.media.cyclingnews.com/2017/06/22/1/michal_kwiatkowski_white_jersey2_670.jpg

But this is also a pole

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/road-block-pole-straight-line-65675111.jpg

That pole needs a bit more polish

 

[Lequack]

24 Big Photos from Stage 1 (more to come) — corvos
http://www.steephill.tv/2018/tour-de-france/photos/stage-01/

 

[tobydawq]

Re:

There was space for at most the 2 that were already there (Zabel and the DDD rider) and Froome tried to make it 3 wide

A mistake everyone makes every once in a while, but a mistake nonetheless.

Froomes crash from bike camera on rider behind Froome - does not look good with that post
https://twitter.com/LeTour/status/1015617032967028738

He was so lucky to miss that pole!

It was clearly a Katusha rider. Majka, Bodnar and Poljanski all ride for Bora.

This is a pole

http://cdn.media.cyclingnews.com/2017/06/22/1/michal_kwiatkowski_white_jersey2_670.jpg

But this is also a pole

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/road-block-pole-straight-line-65675111.jpg

That pole needs a bit more polish

I don't know. With those colours it already looks Polish.

 

[Escarabajo]

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Fuglsang, Majka and Nibali in just after 8 sprinters...... guess Majka is doing GC after all

Btw, people should stop hating on Zabel.... watch the video footage.... he is getting bumped by a rider inside, and has to adjust for balance.... it’s not a deliberate act against Froome.

Also, now that people keep mentioning it.... Sagan should not have been booted last year.... He also just adjusted to not crash, after getting hit himself.... again, not a deliberate act.

Calm down brits

I think there was only one person doing that

 

[Escarabajo]

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Movistar have made a massive mistake appointing Landa and Valverde as equal leaders with Quintana.
BMC are idiots for not having riders with Porte. Tejay Van Garderen hasn't shown any Grand Tour podium ability for a few years now - he is in decline. Plus its a Grand Tour why would you waste your time protecting classics riders (GVA)?
Anyhow what happened happened, deal with it and move on I guess.

Even if Quintana was sole leader of the team before the race, neither Valverde nor Landa were going to wait for him anyway. That is the Movistar way. In fact the only domestiques left stayed with Quintana.

 

[blaxland]

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Are you shitting me. He was just trying to keep his balance when Froome tried to get past.
Froome's fault for going places he shouldn't be.

Thats exactly the way i saw it too...looking good for fuglsang,no time lost yet

 

[Koronin]

Re: Re:

Movistar have made a massive mistake appointing Landa and Valverde as equal leaders with Quintana.
BMC are idiots for not having riders with Porte. Tejay Van Garderen hasn't shown any Grand Tour podium ability for a few years now - he is in decline. Plus its a Grand Tour why would you waste your time protecting classics riders (GVA)?
Anyhow what happened happened, deal with it and move on I guess.

Even if Quintana was sole leader of the team before the race, neither Valverde nor Landa were going to wait for him anyway. That is the Movistar way. In fact the only domestiques left stayed with Quintana.

There appears to be a non understanding of the Movistar way, which is well different than other teams. Alex Dowsett once described the difference between Sky and Movistar as Sky has your entire day planned out for you down to the minute and Movistar is organized chaos.

 

[woodburn]

So Uran almost gained as much time (51 seconds) as he lost to Froome in last year's race (54 seconds).

 

[Wigry3]

Actually MK is a Pole, and the thing that CF almost hit is a pole

Do you have any idea how to pronounce 'p' written in capital letter? :lol: