Tour de France Tour de France 2021, Stage 19: Mourenx – Libourne, 207.0 km

[titan31]

Considering they have Ballerini there, wonder will DQS actually go and work if the gap is low. He'd be one of the favourites in that front group.

 

[Netserk]

Recap of the front group:

Mike Teunissen (Jumbo-Visma)
Julien Bernard, Jasper Stuvyen, Edward Theuns (Trek-Segafredo)
Davide Ballerini (DQS)
Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe)
Christophe Laporte (Cofidis)
Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Fenix)
Michael Valgren, Jonas Rutsch (EF Education-Nippo)
Elie Gesbert (Arkea-Samsic)
Casper Pedersen (DSM)
Brent Van Moer (Lotto-Soudal)
Ion Izagirre (Astana)
Simon Clarke, Max Walscheid (Qhubeka-NextHash)
Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies)
Franck Bonnamour (B&B-KTM)
Georg Zimmermann (Intermarché-Wanty Gobert)
Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious)

Trek has looked really good so far, Politt now knows how to finish this off, several other candidates for a victory in the group.

The peloton is now losing time at a much quicker rate, this is pretty much over -- well done, breakaway.

 

[memyselfandI]

Any idea how open area last 20k is? It looks to be bit of a sidewind and cross headwind..

 

[Red Rick]

Recap of the front group:

Mike Teunissen (Jumbo-Visma)
Julien Bernard, Jasper Stuvyen, Edward Theuns (Trek-Segafredo)
Davide Ballerini (DQS)
Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe)
Christophe Laporte (Cofidis)
Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Fenix)
Michael Valgren, Jonas Rutsch (EF Education-Nippo)
Elie Gesbert (Arkea-Samsic)
Casper Pedersen (DSM)
Brent Van Moer (Lotto-Soudal)
Ion Izagirre (Astana)
Simon Clarke, Max Walscheid (Qhubeka-NextHash)
Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies)
Franck Bonnamour (B&B-KTM)
Georg Zimmermann (Intermarché-Wanty Gobert)
Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious)

Trek has looked really good so far, Politt now knows how to finish this off, several other candidates for a victory in the group.

The peloton is now losing time at a much quicker rate, this is pretty much over -- well done, breakaway.

I really like how Trek has approached this Tour.

 

[Netserk]

The fight is over, the peloton has finally surrendered.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Big fail by those 6 that dropped from the big chase group. Golden Greg, the two Astana riders and 3 Movistar...

 

[Netserk]

Big fail by those 6 that dropped from the big chase group. Golden Greg, the two Astana riders and 3 Movistar...

I think they were on the limit. Stuyven really put the hammer down there.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

I think they were on the limit. Stuyven really put the hammer down there.

I refuse to believe Valverde, Cortina, Fraile and Greg were on the limit already there. The Movi guys didn't even pace much in the group before the selection. And at this point the peloton were only like 20s behind, so to me it looked like they gave up.

 

[Red Rick]

Big fail by those 6 that dropped from the big chase group. Golden Greg, the two Astana riders and 3 Movistar...

"It is in the history of Movistar"

 

[T-Nielsen]

Big fail by those 6 that dropped from the big chase group. Golden Greg, the two Astana riders and 3 Movistar...

The Movistar riders were told to stay together.

 

[SafeBet]

The Movistar riders were told to stay together.

Easier to film them for the Netflix documentary's director.

 

[spalco]

I do something else for a moment and now it's 7 minutes suddenly, wtf?

 

[glassmoon]

No chance for birthday boy Greipel then...

 

[sir fly]

I do something else for a moment and now it's 7 minutes suddenly, wtf?

It's you, man.
Don't ask us.

 

[75Driver]

So no Cav this stage. Should make for a very fun battle on the Champs'

 

[JosefK]

Kelderman leading in the new Crashed Rider points classification. With the camera time, however, his Zubeldia Ninja status may be hampered.

 

[Leinster]

No chance for birthday boy Greipel then...

He's won on the Champs before...

 

[dgodave]

Weird flattened bell tower on that eglise.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

No chance for birthday boy Greipel then...

I think ISN were mostly riding to protect Froome's 135th place against Walscheid

 

[Oliver]

Ballerini for the win

 

[Breezy1985]

The Movistar riders were told to stay together.

They are not worried about the break they are riding against each other for the King of the Movistar classification

 

[BIgwheels]

Can anyone give me a breakdown on why Quickstep and Alpecin let this breakaway succeed?

It was held below 1 minute for ages without Quickstep doing much up front, I go make a cup of tea, come back and it's six minutes and the peloton, including entire quickstep team, has sat up. Wtf?

Even assuming they had to do it on their own couldn't quickstep have bridged 50 seconds with line of sight like that? And why did they let it get away in the first place? Is there something wrong with Cavendish and Van Der Poel?

 

[75Driver]

I think ISN were mostly riding to protect Froome's 144th place against Walscheid

Outside of this year can you imagine at any point Cav could say "I'm only 8min down to Froome" on stage 20?

 

[luckyboy]

Yeah Ballerini is looking good in that group if he sticks with attacks

 

[sir fly]

In 10 or so kilometers someone might start showing cards.