Tour de France 2018 stage 7: Fougéres - Chartres 231 km

[Flamin]

Sagan with Mur in the legs for sure, but great sprint from Groenewegen.

 

[Akuryo]

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I told you. Groenewegen is far and away the fastest here

Yeah, often its his poor positioning that costs him.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Kittel completely off the rails, it seems. Too lazy?

 

[krakenKE]

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If this guy gets Gaviria train he wins all flat stages. Simply humiliated everyone

Yup absolutely dominant performance.

 

[AQETUYIOI]

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The point of these sprints is?

A winner!

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Groenewegen confirms what we all new: That he's by far the fastest. Give him a decent train or teach him how to position himself and he'll dominate the sprints.

 

[Salvarani]

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Kittel completely off the rails, it seems. Too lazy?

Probably lack of form/lack of confidence than being "lazy"

 

[movingtarget]

Very easy win.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Great sprint Cav!

 

[Gigs_98]

This must be among the most boring tdf stages ever. Even the sprint was absolutely unspectacular and won by a huge margin

 

[sir fly]

That looked easy.
Can't be that Gaviria and Sagan are getting tired. Lotto NL Jumbo studied the finish better than the others.

 

[movingtarget]

Gaviria gave up on that one pretty early.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Excellent sprint Groenewegen. Showing pretty clearly that those who were sure that Gaviria was the fastest based on earlier stages were jumping the gun. There’s no need to overcompensate based on this one sprint though. The sprinters field here is wide open. It’s just a pity that the old guard haven’t got any form.

 

[movingtarget]

Greipel was in a hopeless position once again.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Kristoff's sprint

 

[gmedina]

I think Gaviria and Sagan were too far back and spent lot of energy fighting to get to the front. However, great win, it is nice to see another sprinter taking it!

 

[Keram]

Fair sprint. Young guns clearly above everyone. Sagan best of the rest once again. 5th podium already. Crazy.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Kristoff's sprint

Sprinting backwards
Nice win for Dylan!

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

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Excellent sprint Groenewegen. Showing pretty clearly that those who were sure that Gaviria was the fastest based on earlier stages were jumping the gun. There’s no need to overcompensate based on this one sprint though. The sprinters field here is wide open. It’s just a pity that the old guard haven’t got any form.

I'm not basing it on one sprint. I'm basing it on this season. Time and time again, everytime Groenewegen is not blocked or bad positioned, he wins, and easily as well.

Too bad LottoNL has such poor preparation because of divided goals. Basically he has only Jansen, Martens and Roosen. Roosen is good but even he can't do it alone vs a QS with Terpstra, Lampaert, Richeze...

 

[GuyIncognito]

Gaviria showing Roosen how to give Groenewegen the perfect leadout

 

[jaylew]

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Excellent sprint Groenewegen. Showing pretty clearly that those who were sure that Gaviria was the fastest based on earlier stages were jumping the gun. There’s no need to overcompensate based on this one sprint though. The sprinters field here is wide open. It’s just a pity that the old guard haven’t got any form.

Exactly. People always overreact. We have a bunch of sprinters that are at a similar level with slightly different strengths and advantages. There is no sprinter here that's head and shoulders above the rest. This has been the case all year. Terrific sprint from Groenewegen, though.

 

[King Boonen]

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Groenewegen confirms what we all new: That he's by far the fastest. Give him a decent train or teach him how to position himself and he'll dominate the sprints.

We’ve seen this before with Greipel and Kittel, almost unbeatable when launched from the right position but in the weeds most of the time without the support. Hopefully Dylan can learn to go it alone and get a decent train.

 

[RedheadDane]

It wasn't just us being kinda bored, Cort and Hansen regretted not bringing an iPad along so they could watch OITNB...










(Really weird writing 'Hansen' and not having to specify that I'm not talking about Adam...)

 

[Escarabajo]

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That looked easy.
Can't be that Gaviria and Sagan are getting tired. Lotto NL Jumbo studied the finish better than the others.

Gaviria looked a bit gassed at the end. So some of that as well.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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Excellent sprint Groenewegen. Showing pretty clearly that those who were sure that Gaviria was the fastest based on earlier stages were jumping the gun. There’s no need to overcompensate based on this one sprint though. The sprinters field here is wide open. It’s just a pity that the old guard haven’t got any form.

I'm not basing it on one sprint. I'm basing it on this season. Time and time again, everytime Groenewegen is not blocked or bad positioned, he wins, and easily as well.

Too bad LottoNL has such poor preparation because of divided goals. Basically he has only Jansen, Martens and Roosen. Roosen is good but even he can't do it alone vs a QS with Terpstra, Lampaert, Richeze...

You are a big cheerleader of his. If I was going to dismiss your opinion it would be on the grounds of wild favouritism rather than overcompensation based on one sprint. The general tendency on the forum though is to treat the most recent sprint as proof that the winner is really the fastest. So it was Gaviria, now suddenly it’s Groenewegen.

Today Groenewegen had a superb lead out, one of the best we will see all season. Admittedly it was from Kristoff rather than his own team, but unintentionally the Norwegian first protected him through a pretty rough sprint and then launched at high speed at the perfect time. Him winning from that wheel proves nothing more or less than Gaviria winning off Richeze’s did.