Tour de France 2020 | Stage 6 (Le Teil - Mont Aigoual, 191 km)

[BlueRoads]

Everytime I look I see Alaphilippe at the back. Obviously he has problems to hang on and needed the bottle yesterday to make it to the finish.

 

[BlueRoads]

I wonder do Alpecin recruit their riders based on the amount of hair they have. Now its Van Der Poel and before him Kittel. It would be nice to see a rider who is really fighting for his hair.

That could be bad PR if the hair does not improve despite fighting, instead just keeps vanishing... It's the sure thing to take a rider with lots of hair.

 

[broppo]

roglic is the favourite now in livebetting, but i think the breakaway will stay away easily/

 

[Lexman]

what's Kluge doing?

 

[broppo]

damn roger kluge is cycling away from the peloton, roglic might get nervous now!!

 

[broppo]

lol is KLuge on drugs?

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Kluge ftw

 

[333]

I wonder do Alpecin recruit their riders based on the amount of hair they have. Now its Van Der Poel and before him Kittel. It would be nice to see a rider who is really fighting for his hair.

They did have Kristoff for a while though and he's hardly the poster-boy for good hair

 

[broppo]

sagan is really weak this tour, i think bennett will get the green jersey.

 

[Lexman]

sagan is really weak this tour, i think bennett will get the green jersey.

Sagan will get in a few breaks the coming stages and get points where bennett won't be able to follow...

 

[RedheadDane]

Dayer crashed. But he's back up.

 

[glassmoon]

Dyer, eyes up front ffs

 

[broppo]

Sagan will get in a few breaks the coming stages and get points where bennett won't be able to follow...

maybe but i dont even know if sagan has the energy for it, and this is also the first time Sagan really sucks in the sprints, he is struggling to finish in the top 10 in flat stages.

 

[fuiers]

Sagan will get in a few breaks the coming stages and get points where bennett won't be able to follow...

No matter what happens this will be closest green jersey competition in years.

 

[happytramp]

Sagan will get in a few breaks the coming stages and get points where bennett won't be able to follow...

Why do you think that DQS will let that happen?

 

[RedheadDane]

sagan is really weak this tour, i think bennett will get the green jersey.

But to everyone's suprise, it'll be George!

 

[richwallone]

maybe but i dont even know if sagan has the energy for it, and this is also the first time Sagan really sucks in the sprints, he is struggling to finish in the top 10 in flat stages.

As I said in the yesterday’s stage thread, he dearly misses racing in the Spring to ride himself into shape. He just isn’t the type of a rider to sit on a trainer indoors.

 

[Salvarani]

maybe but i dont even know if sagan has the energy for it, and this is also the first time Sagan really sucks in the sprints, he is struggling to finish in the top 10 in flat stages.

No.

He has been top 5 so far, in every sprint.

No one positions themselves better before the sprint, so even if he dont have the top speed anymore he is still consistent enough to get a decent result. Therefore always getting some points. Where the others might win one, but then struggle and barely make top 10 in the next one due to a bad position when the sprint begins.

He lacks some explosiveness these days, but he is still strong. The wins will be fewer, but he always gives himself a chance still. I see him handeling the climbs better than most of the other sprinters.

 

[fuiers]

Bennett has green chains

 

[sir fly]

Sagan will get in a few breaks the coming stages and get points where bennett won't be able to follow...

No more than two stages where Sagan can get to the intermediate without Bennett's company.
And it's doubtful in the shape he's in.

 

[richwallone]

No more than two stages where Sagan can get to the intermediate without Bennett's company.
And it's doubtful in the shape he's in.

Unfortunately, I agree with you, too

 

[Red Rick]

What's the wind situation on the final climb?

 

[fuiers]

By the looks of it this recon promises a lot of GC action.

 

[BlueRoads]

I don't really like the break to get this. Almost all the riders seem underwhelming to me as winners of a mtf except Lutsenko.

 

[JosephK]

In the break, Lutsenko is a decent climber. Powless is a climber. If GVA is within 20 seconds at the top of the big hill, he may claw back time on whoever is up front?