Tour de France Tour De France 2021, stage 1 (Brest-Landerneau, 197.8 km)

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

Way harder climb than I thought it would be. In hindsight this had Alaph written all over it. The bigger guys struggled quite a bit - Sagan was dropping already at the very start.

 

[Nin1388]

Where did Tao Geoghegan Hart finish?

5 mins down as per official website

 

[topt]

You don’t win the tour winning this stage, they came home in the first bunch

only Thomas was in the first group, Carapaz 5 sec down on Rog and Pog

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Should have brought Padun Mader

They couldn't.

He was not on the long list, which was submitted prior to his wins.

The Danish commentary explained today, that once the team submits their long list to the Tour, only riders on that list can get selected for the final team.

 

[titan31]

Woods down at 8.49 on PCS. TGH down at over 5 mins. Kuss at over 16 mins with Teunnissen, Martin, Jansen and Hirschi.

Just praying there's a transponder issue with it and Woods was on Boivins bike.

 

[Breezy1985]

5 mins down as per official website

He will probably win the TdF now with a late stage Landis

 

[Panda Claws]

Each year we get dumber fans.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Wiggins says that this has "put paid" to Chris Froome's chance to win this TdF.

Also, ES studio talking about the injustice to riders of the spectator-caused incident, as though the rider-caused pile-up with 7km left had no effect at all. Yes, it could have done a lot of damage, but Sutterlin apart, it didn't really.

 

[Escarabajo]

damn shame for lopez

With those 2 initial stages was almost like to be expected. Lopez never has been good at positioning or first week of the race. That's just him unfortunately.

 

[ontheroad]

Ineos team leaders already whittled down to Carapaz/Thomas.

 

[Amazinmets87]

Valverde caught out?

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Wiggo going on about Froome's GC chances being over

Does this chump even watch cycling

He's being nice, to an old friend, calm down

 

[bigcog]

Wiggins says that this has "put paid" to Chris Froome's chance to win this TdF.

Also, ES studio talking about the injustice to riders of the spectator-caused incident, as though the rider-caused pile-up with 7km left had no effect at all. Yes, it could have done a lot of damage, but Sutterlin apart, it didn't really.

Jumbo Visma team has taken a hit, neither Martin and Kuss look good following that crash.

 

[Poursuivant]

How come Carapaz dropped time at the end?

 

[Escarabajo]

Having this stage on day 1 is massive. People under estimate the hardness of this stage on day 1. Look at all the GC contenders gasping for air. You could see nobody wanted to follow Ala. They all looked dead. Even Pogacar went "I am not following or working for Roglic" and let that gap go.

 

[Poursuivant]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1408812424829014018

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1408812424829014018

 

[Escarabajo]

How come Carapaz dropped time at the end?

He let a gap of more than 1" go.

 

[T-Nielsen]

Acording to a danish reporter at the finish Hirschi was last man in and he did not look good.

 

[Skalman]

Very Nice Win Ala! What Champ he is.
Surprised though that Roglic didn't have more to give when he tried to follow when Ala accelerated the first time, he usually have a lot more power, it looked kind of strange. Maybe him not racing since Liege have made him miss form.

 

[Billie]

How come Carapaz dropped time at the end?

Carapaz clipped out of his pedal 100 metres from the line.

 

[Jagartrott]

Rabofail right there, Wout should have pulled with all his might for Roglic once Ala attacked. Roglic prefered to hold hands with Pogi and of course MAL and Porte lost time today...

Not at all. WVA had the whole bunch in his wheel (again), and then Roglic followed a move so Van Aert stopped pulling. That was good tactical sense. That Roglic didn't work with Pogacar was less smart of course.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Wiggo going on about Froome's GC chances being over

Does this chump even watch cycling

Dry humour by Wiggo? Maybe he was making fun of Froomey when mentioning his GC chances. Their relations were far from perfect...

 

[Breezy1985]

He's being nice, to an old friend, calm down

Old enemy you mean

 

[MartinGT]

where is the Ineos "machine"

Warming down

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Kruijswijk dropped 1:49 and Kuss dropped 16:29

If they wish to maintain tactical options, they may decide to move Vingegaard up to "protected", instead of burning him up as a Dom?

Depending on how Kruijswijk is feeling obviously - his loss today may be purely bad luck.