Tour de France 2020 | Stage 19 (Bourg-en-Bresse - Champagnole, 166.5 km)

[Volderke]

Many single guys or couples. Couples should ride, single guys probably not going to ride. So the peloton can still come back if some random DS gives his team a punishment for not having a rider in the break.

 

[Lequack]

Is the break really going to bring Sam Bennet to the line? Must be Christmas fro Quickstep.

 

[TomLPC]

It's over this

 

[BlueRoads]

Cool break

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Wasn’t Bol but Arnt, the second Sunweb guy

 

[trevim]

Now sprinters breaking away is a really fun and unusual behaviour. It's quite rare, I remember Degenkolb (yes!) attacking in Paris-Tours but in a GT stage I don't really recall

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Is the break really going to bring Sam Bennet to the line? Must be Christmas fro Quickstep.

they won’t. too many people there know they can’t win a sprint

 

[Devil's Elbow]

NTT are just pitiful at this point.

 

[Volderke]

Devenyns and Bauer going to ride.
Lotto won't take this back unless they have a good De Gendt pulling like crazy (not going to happen it seems).

 

[RedheadDane]

Hagen, Coquard, and Hofstetter realising that this is the sprint-break.

 

[ppanther92]

Is the break really going to bring Sam Bennet to the line? Must be Christmas fro Quickstep.

Sagan surely has a better probability of winning from the break against Bennett than from another bunch sprint. Same is probably true forTrentin, Mezgec or Stuyven. So why wouldn't they ride?

 

[Breezy1985]

Technically 70 points (20 intermediate, 50 stage) available on Sunday, so not yet.

But if Bennett wins today it's over

 

[trevim]

Lotto guys should just punch Ewan in the face for missing the break
Poor Frison, no one else helps from Lotto?

 

[Salvarani]

They got it

 

[richwallone]

Come on Sagan!!! If not the green, at least one win this year!!!

 

[RedheadDane]

Frison actually slowing the peloton down?

 

[BlueRoads]

Is DQS afraid of CCC now?

 

[Red Rick]

Wasn't that MSR into a headwind up the Poggio?

In fairness, Bennett has never survived the Poggio in MSR. But also, endurance after 6.5 hours in the saddle is different to endurance after 3 weeks in the saddle.

Yeah it was a 6.15 or something by Nibali. And Ewan, being as short as he is, should benefit the most from headwinds there.

 

[Salvarani]

Van Avermaet will definitely attack closer to the finish

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Sagan on Bennett’s wheel already lol

 

[ppanther92]

Frison actually slowing the peloton down?

Looks like it, actually.

 

[Volderke]

It's the GC stage for the sprinters:
Bennet, Sagan, Trentin in the break. Coquard and Boasson Hagen following. Ewan dropped on a false flat.

 

[TomLPC]

Stage got really interesting really quickly

 

[repre]

Big brain strategy. But they said on French TV that last 35 kms are easier and shouldn't be a problem for sprinters. So I don't think those breakaway can work.

And who is right now?))

 

[Valv.Piti]

Pretty sure this is better than Col de La Loze and Glieres.. and thats pretty sad