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

[Red Rick]

Who is in the Ewan group? Cause I can see that failing the time limit if the finale is echelon speed.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Speakings of "Martins", Guillaume Martin just punctured in the lead group.

 

[Red Rick]

Yeah, Bora is probably just preparing the final kilometre attack by Pöstlberger.

Libertine Seguros and Gigs_98 like this

 

[Jspear]

Who is in the Ewan group? Cause I can see that failing the time limit if the finale is echelon speed.

I don't fully know but Nizzolo, Vivani, Kristoff, Bols....

 

[RedheadDane]

I don't know how things are in Belgium (or rest of Europe/World), but here in Norway Eurosport have exclusive television-rights on the first 75 minutes of every stage in this tour. And here in Norway most people use Norwegian TV2 to watch the Tour, so it was a bit problematic on the first stage since they had not announced it beforehand.

Luckily we don't have *** like that here.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Who is in the Ewan group? Cause I can see that failing the time limit if the finale is echelon speed.

Ewan, Nizzolo, Kristoff, Bol, Mads Pedersen, Viviani.

 

[Krokro]

Who is in the Ewan group? Cause I can see that failing the time limit if the finale is echelon speed.

40 riders including Hirschi, Rosa, Viviani, Kristoff, Nizzolo, Bol, Pedersen, Ewan, Greipel, Poels, Sivakov, Bonnet (GC wise : 2 Arkeas, 1 Bahreïn, 1 GFC and 1 Ineos)

And because it's fun, the whole Sunweb team...

 

[F_Cance]

40 riders including Hirschi, Rosa, Viviani, Kristoff, Nizzolo, Bol, Ewan, Greipel, Poels, Sivakov, Bonnet (GC wise : 2 Arkeas, 1 GFC and 1 Ineos)

the disrespect for the WC.

 

[bambino]

I don't fully know but Nizzolo, Vivani, Kristoff, Bols....

There are 40 riders in total, the ones above and also Greipel, Pedersen, Hirschi, Roche, Ellisonde, Pouls, Sivakov, Benoot, Morkov in example.

 

[Faserr]

Bora can take it a bit easy now and prepare forxthe crosswind.
Bennett doesn't look like he can ride uphill that hard.

 

[Berflamand]

Who is in the Ewan group? Cause I can see that failing the time limit if the finale is echelon speed.

Amongst others already mentioned, I think all 8 Sunweb riders.

 

[bob.a.feet]

People earlier on were talking about the Passage du Gois stage back in 1999, comparing it to the Millau viaduct . That was the fastest ever Tour stage. A sign for today?

 

[Gigs_98]

Seriously though, stages like these are exactly the reason why I love gt racing so much. Race dynamics like these frankly don't emerge in one day or 1 week stage races.

 

[RedheadDane]

Seriously though, stages like these are exactly the reason why I love gt racing so much. Race dynamics like these frankly don't emerge in one day or 1 week stage races.

You're... watching...?

 

[Krokro]

the disrespect for the WC.

Sorry, had a quick look. Edited.

 

[Gigs_98]

You're... watching...?

Yeah, about that, now that it seems a bit calmed down I actually do have some work to do. Should be back in less than an hour though. Expect carnage

 

[sir fly]

Will they, at least, come earlier and have more rest, if they don't care about the Pyrenean weekend already?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Seriously though, stages like these are exactly the reason why I love gt racing so much. Race dynamics like these frankly don't emerge in one day or 1 week stage races.

Well, the Tour of Turkey a few years ago had echelon day after echelon day, with Caja Rural teaching people a lesson one day, and then Lotto-Soudal taking them to the advanced class and riding MINUTES into everybody a couple of days later.

Think it was this one.

 

[Jspear]

Amongst others already mentioned, I think all 8 Sunweb riders.

I thought they were going to go get Bols and bring him back

 

[Gigs_98]

Well, the Tour of Turkey a few years ago had echelon day after echelon day, with Caja Rural teaching people a lesson one day, and then Lotto-Soudal taking them to the advanced class and riding MINUTES into everybody a couple of days later.

Think it was this one.

True but that was still very different to this stage. Today the gaps opened up on a 3rd category climb at the beginning of a long stage because Sagan wanted to drop his green jersey opponents. You don't get that sort of stuff in Turkey.

 

[Oliver]

Van Avermaet, Van Aert, Stuyven, Hagen, Venturini, Trentin, Colbrelli , Mezgec en Coquard, possible winners in the first group with a sprint.

 

[TomLPC]

Some TJV has punctured and they're talking about potatoes on eurosport so I couldn't see

Edit: Big Tom, coming through the cars now

 

[Keram]

I am going to celebrate birthday with some of my coworkers. Better not to be so epic as first hour

 

[Sestriere]

When the ride the stage at 46 km/h average today time limit should be around 22 minutes.

 

[perico]

People earlier on were talking about the Passage du Gois stage back in 1999, comparing it to the Millau viaduct . That was the fastest ever Tour stage. A sign for today?

Nah... that peloton went full Portugal nuclear. Never go full Vuelta Portugal Nuclear.