Tour de France Tour de France 2021, Stage 2: Perros-Guirec - Mûr-de-Bretagne Guerlédan, 183.5 km

[TourOfSardinia]

Road Captain

 

[luckyboy]

Waste of energy

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Road Captain

Not really fair to be doing this after he crashed yesterday.

 

[Samamba]

Like why? This is just throwing away the stage. You can't do this in the Tour.

 

[The pet snake of Froome]

Road Captain

Yes let’s ignore his injuries from yesterday

 

[Leinster]

Surprising. He doesn't need the seconds (8-5-2). So does he want to do 16 km solo?

8+10 + time gap seconds would get him into yellow, if Alaf takes nothing

 

[bigcog]

Road Captain

What did you expect after his crash yesterday ?

 

[Pantani_lives]

Mvdp-Pog-Rog-Alaf.

What a top 4 for a bonus sprint!

 

[Tim Cahill]

Brilliant from VDP, he doesn't give a toss

 

[RedheadDane]

Hopefully that bottle was a legal one!

 

[Leinster]

Phil & Bob were on about crosswinds over the Mur, but that appears to have added up to nothing.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Ineos deploying their 'new' strategy.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Nice warm-up, next ascent is going to be tasty

 

[TMP402]

Are Alpecin-Fenix wearing a different kit to their one yesterday?

 

[Breezy1985]

Are Alpecin-Fenix wearing a different kit to their one yesterday?

They are back to the normal kit the PouPou kit was for one day only. Sadly

 

[Pantani_lives]

Are Alpecin-Fenix wearing a different kit to their one yesterday?

Yes, they had permission to wear the retro Mercier outfit for one day, as a tribute to Poulidor.

 

[RedheadDane]

Are Alpecin-Fenix wearing a different kit to their one yesterday?

Yes. The one they wore yesterday - by a special permission, they were originally only planning on wearing it during the team presentation - was a homage to Poulidor.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Two stages in and still no French combativity winner, that must be a new record.

 

[TMP402]

They are back to the normal kit the PouPou kit was for one day only. Sadly

Yes, they had permission to wear the retro Mercier outfit for one day, as a tribute to Poulidor.

Yes. The one they wore yesterday - by a special permission, they were originally only planning on wearing it during the team presentation - was a homage to Poulidor.

Thanks!

 

[Devil's Elbow]

As we just saw, the traffic island on the right-hander into the Mur is still there this time so the peloton will be even more strung out than usual.

 

[Red Rick]

Now was VdP just that roflstrong or just not very clever today

 

[CTQ]

Road Captain

there are people who consider Luke Rowe a very good road captain, maybe you should go and read his results at the TDF. that doesn't mean to be the last man with his leader.

 

[Sciatic]

There will be some GC time gaps given they ridden hard these last kilometers

 

[Red Rick]

Nibali duking for positions on his own lol.

 

[The pet snake of Froome]

Porte with the sex face