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A Slovenian, a Dane and an Ecuadorian on the podium. If you predicted this 5 years ago, you would have been laughed at.
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Ha hah... Unfortunately I had to miss all the Paris parts of todays stage. Sliver lining: no mansard roofs to upset me.Did you stay safe from seeing any roofs today?
What about roglic on last year vuelta?I'd imagine their initials are EM...
Wasn't a sprint on the Champs that year, it was a two-up sprint two minutes ahead of the field between 1st and 2nd on GC. However, he won a flat sprint the day before.In fact in 1979, Hinault won the TT to Superbagneres, a breakaway, a flat TT, and the sprint on the Champs.
I don't think it is one which will go into the annals of history and be replayed ad nauseaum like 1979, 1989 and even 2005 though, as the undoubtedly impressive stat which van Aert achieved here (first in 42 years to win sprint, mountain stage and ITT in the same tour, and especially doing two of them back to back at the end of the race) is a bit more obscure and less immediate than "most stage wins". If Cav broke the record here, we'd never forget that moment because it would be played in Tour packages forever, whereas if Cav now doesn't break the record, or if he does but it's in some random midweek transitional stage, it would not be part of the iconography of the Tour.I think Wout winning on the Champs the day after winning a TT in the same race where he won the Mont Ventoux stage qualifies as a truly special moment.
Ha hah... Unfortunately I had to miss all the Paris parts of todays stage. Sliver lining: no mansard roofs to upset me.
No French winner in 36 years.
Pogacar absolutely dominant, some would say there is little hope for the next 10 years.
But maybe not... it's like when the protagonist hasn't been seen all season, and returns amidst mass chaos to restore order. 2022. Get Hyped.
Alaphilippe stage one?
Pretty obvious it's about the GC. Been plenty of French stage winners in the last 36 years.
My bad! I thought he meant no French stage win for the first time in 36 years.
1999 was the last one. Virenque won KOM at least, though.Has there ever actually been a Tour with no French stage wins?
What about roglic on last year vuelta?
Last to do it in the Tour was Hinault. He won the mountain stage 3 from Luchon to Pau, the sprint stage 23 to Nogent-Sur-Marne, and 4(!) ITT stages, and rounded the whole thing off by winning the 2-up sprint v Zoetemelk on the Champs-Elysees to finish the whole thing off and put the gap to 3rd place up to nearly a half hour.I am curious who is the last rider to win a mountain, sprint, and time trial stage in a GT?
Depends what you mean by leadout. Protecting Cavendish, controlling the break, and leading out with 1.5 km to go they were just like the other stages. They’re not the end all be all like HTC or Shimano in the final kms with Kittel.It seems like Quick-Step's leadout wasn't as strong as it had been in previous stages and Cavendish just didn't have the legs.
If Cavendish was feeling it he would have moved up early and opened up a bike length in the last 200 meters.
No #35 but 4 stages and the Points Classification is a successful Tour even by prime Cav standards.
I feel it should be pointed out that Bol finished 21st on the stage.
He was behind 2 of Sagan's leadout men (Postlberger and Oss).
Well done, DSM. Great tour, guys.
It's all Alaphilippe's fault for throwing off the count on stage 1.Bol was trying to achieve something completely different. He finished 6th on stage 6, 10th on stage 10, then he mixed up stages 19 and 20, where he finished 120th and 119th, before he got 21st in Paris.