Tour de France Tour de France 2021, Stage 11: Sorgues – Malaucène, 198.9 km

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Cav dropped together with Colbrelli.

 

[sir fly]

Looks better for the breakaway.
We'll see whether it's really good first time up Ventoux.
INEOS showing off colours more than anything.

 

[Inquitus]

Is Cav is serious shít here? wrt to the OTL time?

 

[Netserk]

Is Cav is serious shít here? wrt to the OTL time?

Not now, no.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Is Cav is serious shít here? wrt to the OTL time?

Time limit likely to be 40 minutes plus and there's decent amounts of descent - he's going to have 15 minutes or so to play with on each ascent.

 

[Inquitus]

Not now, no.

I mean is it looking v bad for later?

 

[BlueRoads]

Hardly anything so far makes sense for me, tactically.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

I mean is it looking v bad for later?

He's matching a podium man from the last mountain stage.

 

[spalco]

Is DQS all-in in the grupetto? If they OTL, they are (theoretically) gone from the Tour as a team? Has that ever happened?

edit: ah Ala of course.
But that would be even funnier if Ala wins the stage while everyone else has to go.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Climb starts to level off shortly

 

[Red Rick]

Is Cav is serious shít here? wrt to the OTL time?

He isn't really losing time fast now. He's also not in a super small group or anything. He should be 99% safe actually

 

[Leinster]

Is DQS all-in in the grupetto? If they OTL, they are (theoretically) gone from the Tour as a team? Has that ever happened?

edit: ah Ala of course.
But that would be even funnier if Ala wins the stage while everyone else has to go.

They have a guy in the break. It's probably his job to keep the break's pace at a level manageable for Cav to get in under the limit.


Other teams are losing riders, though; Tony Martin and Tosh vdSande have both already climbed off today.

 

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

He isn't really losing time fast now. He's also not in a super small group or anything. He should be 99% safe actually

I like Cav but a small part of me wants him out to reopen the fight for green and sprint stages

 

[titan31]

Is Cav is serious shít here? wrt to the OTL time?

Very unlikely. Large enough group, lots of help, slowish pace. If it had continued on hard when he was dropped earlier and just had Morkov, I'm not sure he'd have got through the stage but now, be very surprised if he didn't.

 

[bizzmane89]

In the grupetto is Bilbao, which apperantly saying goodbye to his top aspirations. Also de Gendt (pushing top 10 watts of this career) back in the gruppeto.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Ineos...pulling for UAE...because...well...um..........because they want to make sure that they drop Thomas early in the stage...

 

[Eclipse]

Colbrelli sandbagging so he can break Cav's spirit later in the race. Savage.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

FDJ another rider down, Scotson abandon. 4 riders left...

 

[Bolder]

Hardly anything so far makes sense for me, tactically.

I assume that Ineos are going to trying to drop/put into difficulty as many of the riders around Carapaz as possible without getting too close to the break. If that happens then see how Pogacar is going? I dunno, seems logical. GT, Hart, Kwiat, Porte etc still have a lot of collective power if they're all on a good day.

On a side note: remember when Rolland would have been climbing with the favorites?

 

[sir fly]

Exodus today.
Will be interesting to see how many abandon by the end of the day.

 

[spalco]

For a moment I thought that's a bunch of cyclists who fell into that lavender field.

 

[bizzmane89]

Ineos pulling is the GM sending a message. We know the same behavior from bad teams missing the break. For Ineos its basically the same. The GM saying "you still have to do the train all day, even if every single one of you is to slow to content the yellow. no easy way out of your traditional ineos responsibilities"

 

[Red Rick]

Ineos is just riding as if they're gonna go straightforward attack on Ventoux for 2nd place

 

[titan31]

FDJ another rider down, Scotson abandon. 4 riders left...

Them, Lotto and Jumbo getting pretty smashed alright.

 

[Stelvio]

To expand on the possible time limit. If the average speed of the winner is 33-34kph, then the time limit is around 40 minutes. If the average speed is 40 kph the time limit is around 50 minutes. And fairly linear in between.

(If my calculations are correct.)