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Tour de France Tour de France 2021 - Enthusiastic laymen's thread

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Which team has the winner of the Tour de France 2021?


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Well, Cort is faster that Laporte on flat road, but he is terrible at positioning for bunch sprints, he always gets boxed out of position and loses wheels..... I simply don't think he is crazy enough, for those last 3K run ins for the big sprints.

So by "better" you mean positioning, you are right, but not on pure speed.

I'm not sure, Cort is necessarily faster on flat roads these days, but he most likely has the best potential of the two, if he did more specific training and improved his positioning skills/gained enough confidence to engage in the battles in the bunch. But if he did that, he wouldn't have the same climbing level, and then it wouldn't be a given, that he would win a lot more than he currently does. He should get a bucketload of podiums and additional top 5s and 10s though, and a Milano-Sanremo win would defiinitely also be easier to achieve.

He did beat Laporte in Paris-Nice, but that had more to do with him reading the finally perfectly rather than just being the fastest.
 
My Tour de France 21 playlist ;)

In the summertime, Mungo Jerry
Bicycle Race, Queen
Beyond the Sea (La Mer), Django Reinhardt
Tu veux ou tu veux pas?, Brigitte Bardot
Painkiller, Jason Derulo/ Meghan Trainor
We Appreciate Power, Grimes / HANA
Summer in the City, The Lovin' Spoonful
Ride like the wind, Christopher Cross
Too Fast, Sonder
Time Flies, Drake
Summertime Sadness, Lana del Rey
Nine Million Bicycles, Katie Melua
Mistral gagnant, Coeur de Pirate
Summer Nights – From Grease, John Travolta/ Olivia Newton-John
Mountain, Jonathan Jeremiah
Ride it, Regard
Hard Times, Paramore
Peer Gynt Suite: In the hall of the mountain king, Edvard Grieg
I'm an Albatraoz, AronChupa/ Little Sis Nora
Song for winners, Nick Waterhouse
Voyage, voyage, Kate Ryan
The winner takes it all, ABBA
Paris City Jazz, Bellaire

Actually there are some songs on it that I don't really like, but what can you do - it's the Tour.
 
My Tour de France 21 playlist ;)

In the summertime, Mungo Jerry
Bicycle Race, Queen
Beyond the Sea (La Mer), Django Reinhardt
Tu veux ou tu veux pas?, Brigitte Bardot
Painkiller, Jason Derulo/ Meghan Trainor
We Appreciate Power, Grimes / HANA
Summer in the City, The Lovin' Spoonful
Ride like the wind, Christopher Cross
Too Fast, Sonder
Time Flies, Drake
Summertime Sadness, Lana del Rey
Nine Million Bicycles, Katie Melua
Mistral gagnant, Coeur de Pirate
Summer Nights – From Grease, John Travolta/ Olivia Newton-John
Mountain, Jonathan Jeremiah
Ride it, Regard
Hard Times, Paramore
Peer Gynt Suite: In the hall of the mountain king, Edvard Grieg
I'm an Albatraoz, AronChupa/ Little Sis Nora
Song for winners, Nick Waterhouse
Voyage, voyage, Kate Ryan
The winner takes it all, ABBA
Paris City Jazz, Bellaire

Actually there are some songs on it that I don't really like, but what can you do - it's the Tour.

First it was Froome sharing his playlists, now it's you. Seems like Chrissy is really becoming a successful influencer
 
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My Tour de France 21 playlist ;)

In the summertime, Mungo Jerry
Bicycle Race, Queen
Beyond the Sea (La Mer), Django Reinhardt
Tu veux ou tu veux pas?, Brigitte Bardot
Painkiller, Jason Derulo/ Meghan Trainor
We Appreciate Power, Grimes / HANA
Summer in the City, The Lovin' Spoonful
Ride like the wind, Christopher Cross
Too Fast, Sonder
Time Flies, Drake
Summertime Sadness, Lana del Rey
Nine Million Bicycles, Katie Melua
Mistral gagnant, Coeur de Pirate
Summer Nights – From Grease, John Travolta/ Olivia Newton-John
Mountain, Jonathan Jeremiah
Ride it, Regard
Hard Times, Paramore
Peer Gynt Suite: In the hall of the mountain king, Edvard Grieg
I'm an Albatraoz, AronChupa/ Little Sis Nora
Song for winners, Nick Waterhouse
Voyage, voyage, Kate Ryan
The winner takes it all, ABBA
Paris City Jazz, Bellaire

Actually there are some songs on it that I don't really like, but what can you do - it's the Tour.

No, Kate Ryan cover for me, please. That would be like bringing Padun's mother to the Tour instead of him.

I will add Tour de France by Kraftwerk and Tour de France by Telex to the playlist as well as The Show Must Go On for when a favourite abandons.
 
I didn't know he did, now I need to compare!
Here's the freshest one ;)

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My Tour de France 21 playlist ;)

In the summertime, Mungo Jerry
Bicycle Race, Queen
Beyond the Sea (La Mer), Django Reinhardt
Tu veux ou tu veux pas?, Brigitte Bardot
Painkiller, Jason Derulo/ Meghan Trainor
We Appreciate Power, Grimes / HANA
Summer in the City, The Lovin' Spoonful
Ride like the wind, Christopher Cross
Too Fast, Sonder
Time Flies, Drake
Summertime Sadness, Lana del Rey
Nine Million Bicycles, Katie Melua
Mistral gagnant, Coeur de Pirate
Summer Nights – From Grease, John Travolta/ Olivia Newton-John
Mountain, Jonathan Jeremiah
Ride it, Regard
Hard Times, Paramore
Peer Gynt Suite: In the hall of the mountain king, Edvard Grieg
I'm an Albatraoz, AronChupa/ Little Sis Nora
Song for winners, Nick Waterhouse
Voyage, voyage, Kate Ryan
The winner takes it all, ABBA
Paris City Jazz, Bellaire

Actually there are some songs on it that I don't really like, but what can you do - it's the Tour.
Ain't no mountain high enough - Marvin Gaye?
Ride On time - Black Box?
 
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It's always nice to see so much enthusiasm & popular support for the Tour in France (i.e. lots of people there to watch the team presentation).

Right, there is singing. Guessing it's the local dialect/language.
Old dude looks like he just randomly walked onto the stage.
This wouldn't be out of place at the Eurovision Song Contest...

None of them look like they've been snorting coke, so it's already better than Eurovision.
 
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