Tour de France 2020 | Stage 16 (La Tour-du-Pin - Villard-de-Lans, 164 km)

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Mitchelton has been naive in the way they've tried to infiltrate breaks - With Bora chasing green jersey points, you need to be patient and play off Bora - Get in the break after the intermediate battle or observe closely if Bora don't have the firepower, then you fire up the road.
 
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Mitchelton has been naive in the way they've tried to infiltrate breaks - With Bora chasing green jersey points, you need to be patient and play off Bora - Get in the break after the intermediate battle or observe closely if Bora don't have the firepower, then you fire up the road.

Absolutely true. If two teams of big lumps are predictably going to be knocking seven shades of *** out of each other for the first hour, the smart thing to do is to use that as a launchpad not waste your energy trying to ride away from them.
 
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Yeah it's blatant and clearly against the spirit of the sport.
Really hate it.
They should make it illegal, somehow, I dont know how though. But commentators are just noticing it and feels its the most natural thing in the worlds. Its such a stupid thing to do, it really hampers the racing and since Prudhomme in theory should be all about exciting racing, thats something he should look into, no? Or is it such a big part of the sport that its impossible at this point?
 
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The GC teams are saving it for tomorrow.

Chris Anker said earlier in the commentary, that he believes Col de la Loze is arguably the toughest mountain in the history of the Tour, and that is from a former climber.
Always some hyperbole and him being a climber doesnt mean dogshit IMO

I think a climb like Portet is at least as hard, most likely harder. 2018. Thing about Loze is only the 5-6 kms are hard.
 
Your anger management issues are not by concern.

Oh, and btw..... Chris Anker rode the climb on the rest day........ but hey, you may absolutely be right that you know better, from the comfort of your couch :cool:
I have absolutely no issues with anger or whatever, but I have yet to meet such an arrogant, know-it-all and just flat out annoying person on an online forum. And do you really need to post these stupid emojis after your every god damn post? Holy *** bro...

Whatever man, guess Ill try ignoring your ass
 
Worst one from a "killing the spectacle" perspective was Radioshack blocking the road to prevent any Frenchmen getting in the break on Bastille Day in 2010. That didn't even have a purpose as they had no GC interest. Paulinho at least won the stage from that breakaway to give them something.

Worst one from an "unsporting behaviour" perspective is probably the Rabo rolling roadblock in the 2014 Giro Rosa, which was pretty bad, though despite the protestations of Abbott's American support, even if Mara dropped Vos, no way she took the near 2 minutes she needed on PFP that day.
Was these a story behind the RadioShack one? Was it another Armstrong gripe with someone
 
Obviously Chris Anker Sorensen knows more than anyone on this forum but the profile does look easier than Portet.

Dude, I am merely relaying what he said, that's all.

Fact's are:

He is a former World Tour climber, who rode as a mountain dom for the Schlecks and Contador.
He rode the climb yesterday.
He said, live on TV, that he thinks it's the toughest climb the Tour has ever seen.

The contrary position:

Random dude on an Internet forum, who looked at a stage profile online, and says Chris Ankers experience is "dogshit".

I don't understand why this is even a debate :rolleyes:
 
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