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

[Netserk]

Unfortunately no more of the same wide road.

EDIT: But I see now that a proper big group is clear! Excellent.

 

[Netserk]

Valverde
Izaguirre insausti
Stuyven
Fraile
Politt
Valgren
Dillier
Gesbert
Van Moer
Turgis
Arcas
Teunissen
Garcia Cortina
Van Avermaet
Laporte
Gruzdev
Theuns
Ballerini
Pedersen (Casper)
Walscheid

 

[broppo]

ok no cavendish philipsen sprint

 

[titan31]

That's a proper group. No Alpecin or DQS there though I think so they'll chase still I'd say.

Dillier in there actually.

Gap is still small enough though and plenty still working at front of the peleton

 

[Tim Cahill]

Look at the road captain mowing down the break on the front! Someone get Taxus!

Put in a shift there to be fair, it came down about 20s.

 

[Netserk]

Bahrain shouldn't be worried for the Team Classification, they are ahead with 40' (to EF) and have Mohoric in front.

 

[spalco]

I don't think the poursuivants are happy with their group.

 

[Netserk]

Group sorted by team:

Mike Teunissen (Jumbo-Visma)
Jasper Stuvyen, Edward Theuns (Trek-Segafredo)
Davide Ballerini (DQS)
Jorge Arcas, Ivan García Cortina, Alejandro Valverde (Movistar)
Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe)
Christophe Laporte (Cofidis)
Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Fenix)
Michael Valgren (EF)
Greg Van Avermaet (AG2R-Citroën)
Elie Gesbert (Arkea-Samsic)
Casper Pedersen (DSM)
Brent Van Moer (Lotto-Soudal)
Omar Fraile, Dimitri Gruzdev, Ion Izagirre (Astana)
Max Walscheid (Qhubeka-NextHash)
Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies)

 

[glassmoon]

Bahrain catching Mohoric for Sonny who is banged after the crash...

 

[Netserk]

Ineos and Israel missed out and are now pulling the peloton. Good luck.

 

[titan31]

So Bahrain and now B&B chasing down their own men.

 

[spalco]

If the peloton catches this break, it's got to be one of the stupidest stages in Tour history.

 

[Tim Cahill]

This stage has actually been a good laugh tbh, was expecting a gang of 30 getting 15 minutes up the road.

 

[Netserk]

@119 km to go
Julien Bernard (Trek-Segafredo)
Jonas Rutsch (EF Education-Nippo)
Simon Clarke (Qhubeka-NextHash)
Franck Bonnamour (B&B-KTM)
Georg Zimmermann (Intermarché-Wanty Gobert)
Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious)

@ 2'00''
Mike Teunissen (Jumbo-Visma)
Jasper Stuvyen, Edward Theuns (Trek-Segafredo)
Davide Ballerini (DQS)
Jorge Arcas, Ivan García Cortina, Alejandro Valverde (Movistar)
Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe)
Christophe Laporte (Cofidis)
Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Fenix)
Michael Valgren (EF)
Greg Van Avermaet (AG2R-Citroën)
Elie Gesbert (Arkea-Samsic)
Casper Pedersen (DSM)
Brent Van Moer (Lotto-Soudal)
Omar Fraile, Dimitri Gruzdev, Ion Izagirre (Astana)
Max Walscheid (Qhubeka-NextHash)
Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies)

@ 2'30''
Israel, Bahrain(?!), and BikeExhange led peloton

 

[sir fly]

We'll see how things will go once the groups merge.
With Astana, Movi and Trek, I doubt the turns will go smooth... outside the 3 mentioned.

 

[Netserk]

Okay, Bahrain must believe that the front group will win the stage if the chasers are caught.

 

[titan31]

If the peloton catches this break, it's got to be one of the stupidest stages in Tour history.

Cav has the greatest train ever here. Every team working for him

 

[glassmoon]

ok, wtf is going on?

 

[sir fly]

What am I talking... the groups will merge in the peloton.

 

[Netserk]

ok, wtf is going on?

Last chance for many to win.

 

[Bonimenier]

Somehow DQS managed to be one of the few teams not working on this stage.

 

[Lequack]

Lol Israel and Ineos helping Qucikstep to a stage win.
Crazy, who writes strategies for these teams? "Let's bring sprinters to the line, maybe we will win somehow"

 

[spalco]

What am I talking... the groups will merge in the peloton.

Looks like it, yeah.

Maybe yet another break attempt once that happens?

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Best stage of the race by far

 

[Netserk]

Stuyven decimated the chase group, now they work well together.