Tour de France Tour de France 2021, Stage 7: Vierzon – Le Creusot, 249.1 km

[burning]

Where the hell is Van Baarle to help Carapaz?

 

[jarvo]

Carapaz, Ineos Grenadiers PR team's best friend

 

[glassmoon]

LoL Nibs trying to react to Vans

 

[woodburn]

Van Aert now attacks down two minutes to Mohoric? Weird tactics.

 

[Pirazziattacks]

LOL
Only about half an hour too late.

 

[Red Rick]

Nibali with no legs and all pride

 

[luckyboy]

Far too late...

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Inseperable since birth. Almost.

 

[HelloDolly]

I think Nibali looks good...bearing in mind he doesnt have the power of WVA and MvdP

 

[jarvo]

Mahoric must be turning a massive gear as the gap keeps going out and he has no cadence whatsoever

 

[burning]

I do not understand Wout's tactics tbh, it is clear that MVDP wants to keep his jersey and he's doing it.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Van Aert and Van der Poel are doing a mid-mountain version of Gent-Wevelgem last year...

 

[Leinster]

Carapaz is probably the only one that can remotely challenge Pogacar, and he has the team to do it too.

I can't understand why Pog wasn't straight on his wheel as soon as he moved.

 

[Eclipse]

EF and Movistar chasing

 

[Netserk]

EF and Movistar chasing Carapaz.

 

[titan31]

WVA and VDP need to learn to work together cos both of them will lose countless races with their just looking at each other tactics. This ain't cyclo-cross with no one else who can win.

 

[burning]

Pogacar is sitting at the back of the group, maybe he's not feeling too well?

 

[woodburn]

Carapaz with 40 seconds already? UAE must have nobody left for Pogacar.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

It's really quite impossible to understand what the *** is going on without checking PCS or race center or something.

Well, that was part of the fun of the legendary l'Aquila stage. You didn't know where people were and in the end the guy that won the stage wasn't on most of the lists of the people that had made it into the breakaway! Similarly, I think Roche's epic comeback to La Plagne would have been far less epic if we'd known he was close at hand rather than just emerging from the fog. This is great tension because the direction is so poor, we think we know what's going on, and then it turns out something else is completely wrong, and because GC gaps aren't huge yet it's hard to tell what moves are relevant and which aren't. 2011's epic Rifugio Gardeccia stage was quite something with Garzelli, Nieve, Hoogerland and the duo di Luca/Sella all around the climb ahead of the bunch but we had no idea where until they caught either each other or were caught by the Contador group.

The Tour is better served to cover this than most, though, and can get coverage with every group on the road, but then we've moaned about too many motos for years, we can't have it both ways.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Asgreen currently taking nearly 50s on the VDP group if the tracker is correct.

counted 32s

 

[Eclipse]

Richie is absolutely smashing this

 

[Leinster]

Mahoric must be turning a massive gear as the gap keeps going out and he has no cadence whatsoever

The graphic was showing an 8% slope at the time.

 

[perico]

I can't understand why Pog wasn't straight on his wheel as soon as he moved.

Risk vs Reward.

somebody has to chase as Pogacar is isolated.

 

[Red Rick]

Pogacar getting outclimbed by Mohoric after a 70km 4 man breakaway and a 200km 30 man breakaway

 

[burning]

Carapaz's attack looks like what he did in his Giro victory. However, where the hell is Van Baarle? Ineos is again pissing seconds for no reason.