Tour de France 2020 | Stage 8 (Gazeres-sur-Geronne - Loudenvielle

[Broccolidwarf]

that is, with all due respect, remarkably stupid. If Bennett could reliably hold Asgreen’s wheel in extended all out classics style efforts in the wind, he’d be a cobbled classics contender, something he conspicuously is not. It was self evidently much harder to catch up with (ie travel faster than) that group on one rider’s wheel than it would be to sit in that group had it been caught.

"With all due respect"?

 

[sir fly]

The race for the green jersey is becoming a joke!!!

All the work yesterday, and the advantage's just 7 at the moment.
Entertaining for us, but hasn't made many friends to Sagan and Bora.

 

[fuiers]

Zakarin is dancing with his bike. Could be a strong contender for the win today.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Dumoulin exists. It's debatable if he is in better form than Bernal. TJV wants to have both their leaders up there in the final TT.

Yeah, Dumoulin is a good point.

However, I question if Roglic will be in peak condition week 3, so I would think they wanted to atttack the race early.

 

[sir fly]

Considering yesterday's labour, would've been better the stages are in inverse order.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Bennett not rolling over in the Green competition. It’s about time somebody actually gave Sagan a fight

 

[BlueRoads]

tempo in the break: Morkov chatting with Zakarin while climbing cat 1

 

[bob.a.feet]

Jumbo coming to the front now.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Bennett not rolling over in the Green competition. It’s about time somebody actually gave Sagan a fight

Question is if Sagan gets his usual freedom to go in mountain breaks, to gobble all the intermediate points.

Bora may be focused on Buchmann from now on?

 

[houtdffan]

Anyone think they are overdoing the HC rating with Bales? It isn't exactly the Tourmalet.

The climb is measured really strangely. When it was first introduced, the lower slopes were included, and it came out to at 19.2km at 6.2 percent gradient

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[Eddy Evenepoel]

If they're just gonna soft pedal today, I hope the tour gets cancelled. Let it be several positive Covid-tests at rest day, Tour get cancelled, all races rest of season gets cancelled, half the teams loses their sponsorship and many riders lose their job. If they just soft pedals every easy/medium mountain stages they dont deserve making a living out of cycling.

And they will probably say that yesterday was so hard so they had to take it easy today. It's easier to make firework in the mountains if everyone is tired, not when everyone is fresh.

 

[houtdffan]

The only riders who really attack from distance today are Nibali and Evenepoel.

Let's hope Evenepoel rides the tour next year so that we don't see these old school giro piano stages in the mountains

 

[Libertine Seguros]

The climb is measured really strangely. When it was first introduced, the lower slopes were included, and it came out to at 19.2km at 6.2 percent gradient

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FWIW (which probably isn't much) the Coeficiente APM score for Port de Balès is 268 if you do the full 19,2km. They tend to use 240-250 as the threshold for when something goes from cat.1 to HC, so it suggests it is a HC, but a fairly easy one. However, the Coeficiente APM is scaled so it increases in massive amounts as steepness increases, so it can often overstate the difficulty of short steep ascents and underestimate longer ones which are lower in gradient but inconsistent. They also don't take into account altitude.

 

[sir fly]

Question is if Sagan gets his usual freedom to go in mountain breaks, to gobble all the intermediate points.

Bora may be focused on Buchmann from now on?

He may be freed, whenever the sprint's behind a climb, will he have the legs is a real question.

 

[Rollthedice]

Nizzolo has had enough. I think it's the first who retires.

 

[fuiers]

Nizzolo abandons?

 

[JosephK]

This stage needs a defibrillator.

 

[bob.a.feet]

Nizzolo abandoned.

 

[KZD]

The only riders who really attack from distance today are Nibali and Evenepoel.

Let's hope Evenepoel rides the tour next year so that we don't see these old school giro piano stages in the mountains

Van der Poel too.

Such a disappointment Nizzolo. Let's hope he is better in the Giro.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Such a disappointment Nizzolo. Let's hope he is better in the Giro.

I had him pegged pre-race, at the one guy who could challenge Sagan for green.

What a disappointment, coming straight off 2 big wins!

 

[BlueRoads]

Greipel who's on antibiotics is slightly distanced... serious climbing begins

 

[BlueRoads]

I had him pegged pre-race, at the one guy who could challenge Sagan for green.

What a disappointment, coming straight off 2 big wins!

Yes, I had him for green in the predictions game... probably still a bigger disappointment for him, though.

 

[geisterhome]

The pace is increasing.

 

[Big Doopie]

powless learned his lesson?

hanging more at the back of the break, not overdoing it like he did two days ago...

 

[red_flanders]

If they're just gonna soft pedal today, I hope the tour gets cancelled. Let it be several positive Covid-tests at rest day, Tour get cancelled, all races rest of season gets cancelled, half the teams loses their sponsorship and many riders lose their job. If they just soft pedals every easy/medium mountain stages they dont deserve making a living out of cycling.

And they will probably say that yesterday was so hard so they had to take it easy today. It's easier to make firework in the mountains if everyone is tired, not when everyone is fresh.

Calm yourself.

You’re wishing COVID on people because they’re not racing to your liking? Despicable sentiment.