Tour de France 2020 | Stage 9 (Pau - Laruns, 153 km)

[TomLPC]

It's breaking up massively this, everyone is knackered already

It's a shame this climb isn't closer to the finish

 

[Red Rick]

The ineos-jumbo battle is amusing, i'm wondering ineos is just trolling.

We'll I'll certaintly ban them from this forum if they continue like this

 

[Salvarani]

What a stage so far

 

[Cance > TheRest]

It's mayhem!

 

[fuiers]

Bernal dropped already?

 

[titan31]

Gaps all over the place. This is great

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

His race is done and all of a sudden he's reborn.

If his back got locked yesterday that would be possible to fix before today. Once I got my back locked up when getting out of bed. I had to be carried to the car and brought to a chiropractor. He spent 4 minutes breaking up my back and it was all okay. In the afternoon the same day I went for a 3 hour mountain run, not being bothered at all.

 

[TomLPC]

Barguil, Van Aert and Van Baarle in the break, kicking off

Edit: Is Kuss chasing this down or are they mobbin the front, what are they playing at?

 

[Brumdog66]

Bernal must be bad if Van Aert is let in the break

 

[Broccolidwarf]

His race is done and all of a sudden he's reborn.

So you don't like it, when people that have been knocked down, get back up?

 

[Red Rick]

Bernal dropped already?

No he's right there

 

[RedheadDane]

His race is done and all of a sudden he's reborn.

And I can't help but wonder if some of what he did was to help Gaudu. He seems like the kind of guy who'd do that.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Gaps all over the place. This is great

People really race like there's no tomorrow because of the testing on the restday and I'm not talking about clinic related stuff...

 

[ice&fire]

Didn't Aru do Tour/Vuelta last year despite being way undercooked and very unready for anything

He did both. He finished 14th in the Tour but DNF the Vuelta

 

[Pirazziattacks]

Didnt Kwiatkowski complain about something similar to "chronic fatigue" last year? When he wasnt really at the level we seen from him before. Most likely because he had been over-trained. Over-raced.

He needed a lot of time in the off-season to just rest. He hasnt really been much of a factor this year either, yet. Even if it hasnt been that many opportunities.

Some of the symptoms people have reported from overtraining are crazy, some claim it can make it seem like you have a serious illness.

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This piece on overtraining in ultra runners is really interesting.

 

[fuiers]

I don't know what kind of injury Pinot is going through but I recently slipped a disk from my back and had to rethink everything. I have bad days and some days are better when I'm on the move early in the day.

 

[Salvarani]

Pinot feeling better today!

 

[Red Rick]

He Hath Arisen

 

[F_Cance]

i don't care. Just not another boring WVA/jumbo win

 

[sir fly]

Don't they know that having Van Aert in the breakaway doesn't make their chances any bigger?
On the contrary.

 

[titan31]

Jumbo playing this stupidly imo. Have Van Aert up front and riding on the front of peleton. They're down to what I assume is kuss, Bennett, roglic and Dumoulin.

 

[Savant12]

Pinot on some miracle cure.

 

[Cassirer]

As amazing as WvA is, they cant have him do such stuff for 3 weeks, one should think...

 

[markene2]

Race like its 2006 please

 

[70kmph]

Pinot going on a Landis