Tour de France Tour de France 2021, Stage 4: Redon - Fougères, 150.4 km

[Rackham]

NEXT:

Froome goes berserk on Saturday, and does a 100K attack across 5 mountains for the win

I think Andy Schleck should come out of retirement & sign for DQS.

 

[Wvv]

Lol someone send an ambulance for Kirby.

Where can I rewatch with this commentary?

 

[MrTea1976]

Where can I rewatch with this commentary?

The Kirbygasm was intense.

 

[Red Rick]

Philipsen is the more allround rider, is stronger than Merlier on such finishes and more likely to get over the mountains.

Dont think this finish was uphill enough to warrant ditching Merlier unless hes worse uphill tham Andrea Guardini

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Fortunately Cav's not English, so. . .

So what national football team, would players from Isle of Man play for? - Scotland?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Literally my exam started when they reached the one km banner and I was like damn it and my mom is texting me saying “he did it” and I’m like who Cavendish or breakaway.

Yes!!!!!!!!!!

You are allowed to read texts in an exam?

 

[DanielSong39]

Philipsen was the stronger rider than Merlier on this finish and he finished 3rd on the stage.
He did his best but two guys were faster, it happens

 

[SHAD0W93]

You are allowed to read texts in an exam?

It was in person but my teacher reused all his old quiz questions as those are key points for the NCLEX and had 5 new medication math questions. So it took like 25 minutes for the exam to be done. It just had to wait 1 more minute to start.

 

[The pet snake of Froome]

Yes Cav, for Queen and country

 

[MartinGT]

So what national football team, would players from Isle of Man play for? - Scotland?

Depends on their parents / grandparents I suppose.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The discussion must have gone something like this:

"Well, guys, what do we start with?"
"Since van der Poel does his first GT: a win for Poulidor's grandson on the first stage, Mathieu also getting the yellow Poupou never wore.. that's the story we need!"
"Okay, but don't you think we need a French win first? Alaphilippe stage winner and into yellow, surely that must be the story for the first stage?"
"True, but then let's have the Poupou-grandson story on the second."
"Agreed."
"And after that?"
"Drama. Pure drama. Oh, thinking about it, let's have some drama on the first stage already... crashes, people love crashes... drama and something to discuss. We need to be the talk of the town in these times of football and everything. Imagine that: A spectator greets her grandpa and grandma with a gigantic selfmade sign and takes out one of the riders... then maybe another crash, later on..."
"But the spectator should be German and the rider she takes out should be German as well. I don't want this to fall back on the French, they should have nothing to do with it on the day Julian wins."
"And then another German rider is the first one abandoning, fine. Move on. What about the third stage?"
"More crashes."
"Oh come on!"
"No, seriously. Let's have many crashes! With major contenders taken out."
"Oh, you're so cynical. Do you ever have any other ideas for drama?"
"Well, of course Cavendish needs to win a stage, we all know that!"
"But not the one with the many crashes. That would overshadow his win. Give the crash stage to some random pro-team."
"Alpecin?"
"Random, I said."
"Whatever."
"Fine. What's his name, Tom, or Tim... Okay, and the Cav win..."
"On stage four. But it's going to be close. The last break-away rider will almost make it. What that guy's name again, the new de Gendt..."
"De Moer."
"Right, that's him. 10m from the finish."
"Ah, make that 200. I want people to have some time to get excited about Cavendish."
"Fine."
"Fine, that's going well. Now what do we have for the first time trial?"

Who exactly had this conversation? The voices in your head?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Dont think this finish was uphill enough to warrant ditching Merlier unless hes worse uphill tham Andrea Guardini

He's noticeably worse as soon as the road goes up, and this finish was more than false flat. I don't think Merlier would have done better than Philipsen, quite the opposite actually.
It's also not "just" the sprint itself, but the final 5k that had some uphill sections. Please remember Merlier was the cyclocrosser that was used to open the race for Van Aert, to tow him along for 1 lap, and after that got dropped like a brick. Philipsen has a much bigger engine.

 

[Mayo from Mayo]

The discussion must have gone something like this:

"Well, guys, what do we start with?"
"Since van der Poel does his first GT: a win for Poulidor's grandson on the first stage, Mathieu also getting the yellow Poupou never wore.. that's the story we need!"
"Okay, but don't you think we need a French win first? Alaphilippe stage winner and into yellow, surely that must be the story for the first stage?"
"True, but then let's have the Poupou-grandson story on the second."
"Agreed."
"And after that?"
"Drama. Pure drama. Oh, thinking about it, let's have some drama on the first stage already... crashes, people love crashes... drama and something to discuss. We need to be the talk of the town in these times of football and everything. Imagine that: A spectator greets her grandpa and grandma with a gigantic selfmade sign and takes out one of the riders... then maybe another crash, later on..."
"But the spectator should be German and the rider she takes out should be German as well. I don't want this to fall back on the French, they should have nothing to do with it on the day Julian wins."
"And then another German rider is the first one abandoning, fine. Move on. What about the third stage?"
"More crashes."
"Oh come on!"
"No, seriously. Let's have many crashes! With major contenders taken out."
"Oh, you're so cynical. Do you ever have any other ideas for drama?"
"Well, of course Cavendish needs to win a stage, we all know that!"
"But not the one with the many crashes. That would overshadow his win. Give the crash stage to some random pro-team."
"Alpecin?"
"Random, I said."
"Whatever."
"Fine. What's his name, Tom, or Tim... Okay, and the Cav win..."
"On stage four. But it's going to be close. The last break-away rider will almost make it. What that guy's name again, the new de Gendt..."
"De Moer."
"Right, that's him. 10m from the finish."
"Ah, make that 200. I want people to have some time to get excited about Cavendish."
"Fine."
"Fine, that's going well. Now what do we have for the first time trial?"

''Let's leave that to the gods. What we have to decide is on what stage Froome reprises the Jafferau stage.''

 

[yaco]

As far as I can remember, van Moer came closer to winning solo from a break than anyone in the Tour since Nicolas Vogondy was caught with less than 50m remaining into Chateauroux on stage 5 in 2008. That stage is known, not only for Vogondy's heartbreaker in the French champion's jersey, but for a youngster who got his first stage win that day. Whatever became of him?

Jack Bauer was caught 15 metres from the line around 2015.

 

[Leinster]

Jack Bauer was caught 15 metres from the line around 2015.

And finished outside the top 10, iirc. Didn’t Kristoff win that one?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Jack Bauer was caught 15 metres from the line around 2015.

Should have been 24.

 

[SafeBet]

Where can I rewatch with this commentary?

I had Eurosport with the English commentary on.

 

[Andy262]

Well!

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

I had Eurosport with the English commentary on.

Here

Tour de France 2021 – Stage 04 [LAST 10 KM]

Tour de France 2021 – Stage 04 [LAST 10 KM]

tiz-cycling.io

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

So what national football team, would players from Isle of Man play for? - Scotland?

The IoM FA (like those of Jersey and Guernsey) is a county association under the English FA, but I believe that a player, like other players who might have a UK passport but no birthlink to any of the four nations, are free to choose who they would represent (or see who might pick them).

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Jack Bauer was caught 15 metres from the line around 2015.

Fair enough: I had forgotten that one. And it didn't have the same resonance with today's result to bring it to mind.

So now I am trying to think of the what might be the closest to being caught but did survive; the Iljo Keisse in Turkey of the Tour.

 

[jnormanroach]

Fair enough: I had forgotten that one. And it didn't have the same resonance with today's result to bring it to mind.

So now I am trying to think of the what might be the closest to being caught but did survive; the Iljo Keisse in Turkey of the Tour.

Taco at this year's Giro?

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Fair enough: I had forgotten that one. And it didn't have the same resonance with today's result to bring it to mind.

So now I am trying to think of the what might be the closest to being caught but did survive; the Iljo Keisse in Turkey of the Tour.

Jeez, that’s getting me worried about the health of Carlton Kirby tonight. He almost exploded that day. How’s he going to cope with a Cav victory?

 

[Hayabusa]

So happy for Cavendish after all the challenges he's been through over the last few years. A true legend of the sport who has shown it's never too late to get back to the big time!

 

[railxmig]

''Let's leave that to the gods. What we have to decide is on what stage Froome reprises the Jafferau stage.''

There are no such stages on this Tour for it to happen