Tour de France 2020 | Stage 7 (Millau - Lavaur, 168 km)

[ice&fire]

F*** all of you, now I got really hyped about today’s stage Another massive disappointment incoming

The Tour never disappoints with the disappointment

 

[Anderis]

Which climbers are the most vulnerable?

I think there are a few teams without any strong rouleurs.

Quintana has probably the weakest team for crosswinds but he's been good on crosswinds himself recently.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Which climbers are the most vulnerable?

I think there are a few teams without any strong rouleurs.

Landa springs to mind.
Pogacars team is perhaps not great, but I suspect he is good also in this element of cycling.
Pinot always seems to *** these kind of things up.
Buchmann doesn’t feel like a great rider for echelons, but if he can stay with Sagan and OSs he will do great.

 

[Velolover2]

Quintana has probably the weakest team for crosswinds but he's been good on crosswinds himself recently.

Yeah, for some reasons he survives even without any team mates. A master of positioning.

Ineos, Bora and Jumbo do have very strong crosswinds teams. Almost as strong as the Steppers.

 

[F_Cance]

Always Porte

 

[Berflamand]

The Trek sprinting/boy scout (dixit Tom Boonen) squad (Stuyven, Theuns and Pedersen) should also be able to wreak havoc in crosswinds but they might have to babysit Porte who then again might possibly be one of the worst in these conditions.

 

[ppanther92]

Buchmann doesn’t feel like a great rider for echelons, but if he can stay with Sagan and OSs he will do great.

Pöstlberger, Oss, Sagan is probably as strong as it gets in a crosswind scenario.

 

[Eclipse]

Yeah, for some reasons he survives even without any team mates. A master of positioning.

Ineos, Bora and Jumbo do have very strong crosswinds teams. Almost as strong as the Steppers.

Nairito really learnt from the savaging they got in 2015 - he lost that tour by less than he lost in the crosswinds on stage 2

 

[repre]

Which climbers are the most vulnerable?

I think there are a few teams without any strong rouleurs.

Pinot, Porte, EF guys?

 

[TomLPC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1301820683295633414

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Reminds me of the big bridge after the passage du gois they used in 1999.

That stage would've given the cycling whatsapp committee a heart attack i believe

 

[Avoriaz]

The bridge after Passage de Gois is much smaller and shorter. Ridden it myself and Passage de Gois - beautiful as it was more or less dawn, but didnt half make my bike dirty

 

[spalco]

I admire the optimism of people who think any *** thing at all will happen today, but hope you're right and I'm wrong.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

We will probably see a good break today.

The first part is up and down, and the last 40 k is with tail wind, which means it won't be easy to control a break.

Chances are for the bunch sprint in the end though.

 

[TomLPC]

The bridge after Passage de Gois is much smaller and shorter. Ridden it myself and Passage de Gois - beautiful as it was more or less dawn, but didnt half make my bike dirty

It sort of passed me by because I was a young lad, but watching the highlights VHS of that tour, you see Johnathan Vaughters go absolutely launching onto a beach on stage 2 and wonder just what they were thinking sticking that in. Great scenery like, and you know even if they put it in this year there would probably be someone lunatic enough to attack.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Wow..... once again..... passive peloton

This most definitely is a weird year.

 

[Faserr]

Nizzolo is dead

 

[Broccolidwarf]

5 k into the stage, and Nizzolo looks like he is dieing

 

[Eclipse]

A very 2020 tdf break

Time to start praying to the crosswind gods or this is going to be a really dull friday

 

[TomLPC]

Carlton using the history of the viaduct to have a go at Jacques Chirac.

Going to be a long day i think

 

[starlord]

What's the point of that bridge? The terrain underneath doesn't seem particularly rugged. Anyone knows why they needed to lift the road to heaven?

 

[Laplaz]

Bora pulling

 

[Faserr]

Thank you bora. We have a race.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Bora trying to put Bennett in trouble on this Cat 3 so that they can get Sagan to the int sprint without him ?

 

[Eclipse]

Thank god for Bora and Sagan sticking with it even if his legs aren't there this year

 

[TomLPC]

Ewan and Nizzolo dropping, you would think they might even push on after the Cat3 if enough are dropped