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You got me there. So you could be right about that. Very hard to prevent idiots behaving bad on the side of the roads.So you're saying there's a lot of risk?
Maybe it was officially regulated distancing, RhD.
You got me there. So you could be right about that. Very hard to prevent idiots behaving bad on the side of the roads.
Having said that, I read in the article what the Education Minister was saying that the attitude of governments now is hardly of going back to drastic measures. And one of those is cancelling these events. Governments are willing to face the consequences now. Might take some strong measures but not going back to what happened in April or May.
Could they just skip stages 1-3 to get out of the red alert zone? "Everyone stay in the hotels until Monday, then team buses to Grasse on Monday morning, and we will ride out the last 150km of the same scheduled route to Sisteron."Tour de France in doubt after Covid red alert issued before Grand Départ in Nice
The 2020 Tour de France is edging closer to collapse after the Alpes-Maritimes region, site of the opening stages of the race, was placed on Covid red alertwww.theguardian.com
** through **** are guys I would actively cheer on if leadingWho do you want to win?
I've ranked the top possible GC riders based on how much I want them to win:
(++)Pinot, Carapaz, Bardet, Urán
(+) Bernal, Buchmann, Martínez, Lopez
(+ -) G Martin, Mas, Valverde, Quintana, Landa
(-)Roglic, Sivakov
(- -) Dumoulin, Pogacar, Mollema, D Martin, Porte
Tour de France in doubt after Covid red alert issued before Grand Départ in Nice
The 2020 Tour de France is edging closer to collapse after the Alpes-Maritimes region, site of the opening stages of the race, was placed on Covid red alertwww.theguardian.com
Could they just skip stages 1-3 to get out of the red alert zone? "Everyone stay in the hotels until Monday, then team buses to Grasse on Monday morning, and we will ride out the last 150km of the same scheduled route to Sisteron."
Disclaimer; I don't know if the alert extends as far as Sisteron or not.
** through **** are guys I would actively cheer on if leading
Indifferent through * I could care less, but wouldn’t root against them. With the Sky train glory days effectively over and a new generation coming through, I’m not going to root against them
****Enric Mas will win this bike race (probably not- judging by his lack of form but a guy can dream)
***Valverde (definitely not gonna happen either)
***Thomas de Gendt- If the race was stopped and De Gendt had taken the jersey on a breakaway the day before I wouldn’t complain.
**Dumoulin- I like Tom
**Pinot (good chance he could)
**Landa (better chance than the other two Spaniards, but hasn’t looked explosive post lockdown)
**Aru- no chance, but it would be cool since everyone wrote him off
*Quintana- I wouldn’t complain since it would be a nice comeback story
*Roglic- Wouldn’t root for him but if anyone has to win, why not?
*Lopez- he’s fun enough to watch
Indifferent:
Bernal- I wouldn’t boo him
Carapaz- I liked him before Aquadro, but don’t dislike him
Pogacar- Just don’t care enough
I don’t think there’s anyone I’d actively root against this year. I miss Froome already.
Andy Schleck's Tour de France favourites
2010 winner ranks the main GC contenderswww.cyclingnews.com
This is about as good as if someone asked my son.
Yeah.This is about as good as if someone asked my son.
Andy Schleck's Tour de France favourites
2010 winner ranks the main GC contenderswww.cyclingnews.com
Fun fact, teams without TdF stage winner
Bahrain-McLaren (Caruso has been part of TTT winner though)
Sunweb
Ineos
Jumbo makes sense; they have a very strong team.Interesting. The teams with most stage winners have 4 and are Jumbo, Lotto and freaking CCC.
I'm a bit surprised to learn that Ben Hermans, Luka Mezgec, Sam Bewley, Felix Grossschartner, Kenny Elissonde and Davide Formolo are all debutants.
I was just about to say the same thing about Bewley being in all the backstage pass videos. I suppose that they were all on Vueltas or Giros....That is surprising. Why did FdJ never pick Kenny? I understand why Sky didn't, even if he was epic in Froome's Giro win.
I'm surprised by Bewley too. He seemed to be in all of those Backstage Pass videos.