Tour de France 2019 stage 5 St D -Vosges - Colmar 175.5km

[Red Rick]

Watched the last 6km, 5.5km of which I regret.

 

[Velolover2]

It seems like the gradients is more important than the length in modern cycling.

5 climbs averaging 1 km of 8% in the last 60 k > 3 climbs averaging 5 km of 5% in the last 60 k

 

[Robert5091]

Sunweb work hard and get nothing, Bora work hard and get the win. If Sunweb had not worked ... probably the same outcome.

Chapeau Sagan - Van Aert had some good speed, but ... no cigar! Better positioning would have given him the win.

 

[Frankschleck]

Tough Luck for EBH, don't see many stages that suit him this year.

 

[hfer07]

Re: Tour de France 2019 stage 5 St D -Vosges - Colmar 175.5k

Hats off to Sagan
he still relevant

 

[KZD]

Good win by Sagan, nice sprint by Van Aert too.

 

[ClassicomanoLuigi]

Kruijswijk vs. Alaphilippe tomorrow, that part is for certain - who prefers yellow as fashion statement.... plus at least a dozen guys who are dangerous for GC / maillot jaune, and who have some scores to settle on Belles Filles

 

[Nirvana]

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It seems like the gradients is more important than the length in modern cycling.

5 climbs averaging 1 km of 8% in the last 60 k > 3 climbs averaging 5 km of 5% in the last 60 k

Because everyone but pure sprinters can hang on when there is a steady, even if pretty fast, pace on 5% climbs and no one is able to attack because alone is a suicide. Today there were more riders than two days ago.

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

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Kruijswijk vs. Alaphilippe tomorrow, that part is for certain

I'm going with neither.

 

[Jagartrott]

Amazingly, five stages in, no-one has yet abandoned. Is this (partly) because tramadol and other sh** has been banned?

 

[woodburn]

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Kruijswijk vs. Alaphilippe tomorrow, that part is for certain

I'm going with neither.

Yeah. Time gaps will be bigger than some people think, especially if Sky (Ineos) actually want to make it difficult as they did in 2012.

 

[Finn84]

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Tough Luck for EBH, don't see many stages that suit him this year.

Probably best chance to try to win from flat stage from a break like he did two years ago.

 

[Velolover2]

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Kruijswijk vs. Alaphilippe tomorrow, that part is for certain - who prefers yellow as fashion statement.... plus at least a dozen guys who are dangerous for GC / maillot jaune, and who have some scores to settle on Belles Filles

Alaphilippe will lose 3 minutes tomorrow and Kruijswijk wouldn't be wearing yellow.

That part is certain.

 

[del1962]

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Amazingly, five stages in, no-one has yet abandoned. Is this (partly) because tramadol and other sh** has been banned?

More likely east France not West France so less crashes

 

[del1962]

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It seems like the gradients is more important than the length in modern cycling.

5 climbs averaging 1 km of 8% in the last 60 k > 3 climbs averaging 5 km of 5% in the last 60 k

Because everyone but pure sprinters can hang on when there is a steady, even if pretty fast, pace on 5% climbs and no one is able to attack because alone is a suicide. Today there were more riders than two days ago.

Also GC guys and teams saving themselves for tomorrow

 

[Tonton]

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Amazingly, five stages in, no-one has yet abandoned. Is this (partly) because tramadol and other sh** has been banned?

Because of luck. Fuglsang, for example, was very lucky. Today, that divider at the bottom of a hill just after the sharp right turn could have caused mayhem. Luck.

 

[Gigs_98]

Re: Tour de France 2019 stage 5 St D -Vosges - Colmar 175.5k

I wonder what Costa was thinking today. "That final climb might not be hard enough to create significant gaps. So let's rather attack right when the flat part starts" ???

 

[Summoned]

Re: Tour de France 2019 stage 5 St D -Vosges - Colmar 175.5k

I wonder what Costa was thinking today. "That final climb might not be hard enough to create significant gaps. So let's rather attack right when the flat part starts" ???

I’m guessing he figured he wasn’t going to win in the sprint, so why not try something. But that was a large group to try to escape from, and he had to know there were at least a couple of teams who had enough riders there to put together a decent chase, even if it did take a couple of minutes to organize.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Watching vive le vélo, Bert de Backer analyzing Sagan's manoeuvre...dirty trick tbfh.

 

[glassmoon]

OK, I saw it 3 times already and still can't figure it out? Why the *** there wasn't anyone from DD to bring EBH back when he was 30s behind?

 

[Danskebjerge]

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Amazingly, five stages in, no-one has yet abandoned.

Many crashes, but only involving relatively few riders in each case. It seems like a coincidence that no rider has abandonned. There has been some serious incidents that could have caused severe injury.

 

[Tigerion]

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Watching vive le vélo, Bert de Backer analyzing Sagan's manoeuvre...dirty trick tbfh.

Have you got that link? I heard something mentioned but didn't notice anything

 

[Lequack]

30 Big Photos from Stage 5 (descriptions added) — corvos/flockton/bettini/aso
http://www.steephill.tv/2019/tour-de-france/photos/stage-05/

 

[Danskebjerge]

Re: Tour de France 2019 stage 5 St D -Vosges - Colmar 175.5k

I wonder what Costa was thinking today. "That final climb might not be hard enough to create significant gaps. So let's rather attack right when the flat part starts" ???

He attacked just before a bridge. Bridges are often used for attacks within the final few kilometers. Even 5-10 vertical meters can have an effect in those situations.

 

[RedheadDane]

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Amazingly, five stages in, no-one has yet abandoned.

Look what you did! You jinxed it!