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

[Broccolidwarf]

Old enemy you mean

In sports, enemies often become friends, once they stop competing

 

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

Hard stage to analyze. Can't really tell how much those crashes impacted the riders who lost time today.

 

[saganftw]

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

he crashed twice and that second one he flew into a wood pole or something

 

[spalco]

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

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

Wow, that's quite a clear selection already between the real GC contenders and the maybe top10-hopefuls.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

15 minutes till the Denmark-Wales kick off - sorry cycling, you are only my side piece - bye bye

 

[The pet snake of Froome]

In sports, enemies often become friends, once they stop competing

The wiggins you see and hear now is nothing like the wiggins that was a pro cyclist

 

[Poursuivant]

Wow, that's quite a clear selection already between the real GC contenders and the maybe top10-hopefuls.

And to the detriment of the race unfortunately

 

[HelloDolly]

Well that was not very good for Ineos
They need to keep Porte up there to put pressure on Pog and Rog

Over at Movistar Superman and Soler not good either ...

 

[Anybody_but..]

Squalo - is he still there?

Who cares?

 

[Amazinmets87]

Maybe there should be a rule about neutralization of the race in case of extraordinary big crashes.
Btw, who was the blue guy that caused the last big crash?

No freakin' way.

 

[Billie]

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

Hirschi is the rider who hit the pole in the 2nd crash.

 

[movingtarget]

Matthews is a master at winning bunch finishes for second place. Still he might get a chance later, on an easier finish.

 

[Velolover2]

Another "fan" to decide the outcome of the race.

The peloton is often protesting against wind and snow but never about wild spectators. They haven't even addressed the problem. Now is the time.

 

[saganftw]

Another "fan" to decide the outcome of the race.

The peloton is often protesting against wind and snow but never about wild spectators. They haven't even addressed the problem. Now is the time.

how did the fan decide the outcome of the race? all 4 realistic GC contenders finished together (carapaz lost 5 sec) and its not like alaphillippe is a surprising winner either

 

[postmanhat]

Amazing really, after two massive crashes, how few GC contenders have lost time.

Lopez the big loser at 1'49" Buchmann, O'Connor and G.Martin on the same time

Woods is out of it at 8'49", but I never had him down as top ten anyway?

 

[search]

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.

that rule was abolished at least 5 years ago. You can line up whoever you want

 

[bigcog]

The wiggins you see and hear now is nothing like the wiggins that was a pro cyclist

Yep, I've been surprised when he's talked about the past and Froome in the past few years, seems they are on relatively good terms these days.

 

[BlueRoads]

Another "fan" to decide the outcome of the race.

The peloton is often protesting against wind and snow but never about wild spectators. They haven't even addressed the problem. Now is the time.

I don't know if this was so very important for the end of the race, but I agree that for too long wild, self-absorbed spectators have been seen as important fans who bring emotion to the event.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Another "fan" to decide the outcome of the race.

The peloton is often protesting against wind and snow but never about wild spectators. They haven't even addressed the problem. Now is the time.

The crash that had by far the greatest influence onthe outcome had nothing to do with any fan. The fan-caused incident in no way "decided the outcome of the race", unless you think Sutterlin was likely to win it.

 

[spalco]

Hirschi is the rider who hit the pole in the 2nd crash.

He did not hit the pole, he managed to just so avoid it, fortunately.

 

[spalco]

Analyzing the second crash: I'm not assigning blame, because the footage isn't clear to the cause, but the rider who fell was #224 Maxime Chevalier, and before he fell he was in close contact with #57 Dries Devenyns.

t01 10 3

Watch "t01 10 3 " on Streamable.

streamable.com

 

[Rackham]

The crash that had by far the greatest influence onthe outcome had nothing to do with any fan. The fan-caused incident in no way "decided the outcome of the race", unless you think Sutterlin was likely to win it.

The Jumbo guys took a huge hit from that "fan".

So yeah, it could impact the GC race massively if Tony Martin & Sepp Kuss are badly hurt.

 

[Inquitus]

Team Leaders and outside GC Top 10 hopefuls impacted by the crashing today.

Spoiler

 

[solo80k]

The Jumbo guys took a huge hit from that "fan".

So yeah, it could impact the GC race massively if Tony Martin & Sepp Kuss are badly hurt.

They should be happy Roglic is okay and has good legs. Top 10 GC is somehow established after the first stage.

 

[Leinster]

I know there are rules and so on, but is there no chance of them neutralising the time gaps for the last big crash? It was such a big crash, on the first day, and so close to the finish that there was never a chance to get back on.


I hope Omi and Opi appreciated the gesture at least...