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

[Ilmaestro99]

Nobody should help UAE, you help them and you lost the TDF. Today is the perfect opportunity to tire UAE and pogacar, even if it means giving WVA 10 mins.

 

[canarydan23]

Cav told Wiggins yesterday he wasn't focused on the green jersey at all. Rubbish, he just did a few seconds pulling in the break!

 

[jarvo]

Cav clearly fancies a proper assault on the green jersey

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Great to see Direct Energie finally showing their GC ambitions by trying to close this dangerous breakaway down.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Nobody should help UAE, you help them and you lost the TDF. Today is the perfect opportunity to tire UAE and pogacar, even if it means giving WVA 10 mins.

This, let them wear themself out before the mountain stages.

 

[Zoophonic]

Why are Direct Energie helping pull?

Latour is high on GC and they have nobody in the break.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Time to cancel plans for the rest of the day

 

[Billie]

Why are Direct Energie helping pull?

it's standard practice that the team that misses the break in a stage like this is forced by the DS to chase in the peloton (mostly as a punishment)

 

[Eclipse]

There is just something extra epic about seeing the yellow jersey on the front of a break hammering it <3

Meanwhile, the good thing about TDE riding is that they're completely useless. Expect the gap to hit 5 mins soon.

 

[SafeBet]

3 minutes!
This is great stuff.

 

[spalco]

Rare to see the peloton streched out to such an extent, really cool heli shots.

 

[Pinot's goat]

I hope Nibali can get a 1-2 min lead at GC on Pogacar at the end of the stage so there is 24hrs of hype before the inevitable happens.

 

[Ranagazoo]

Gonna be a lot of tired legs this weekend if we get 6 hours of this

 

[Mayomaniac]

3 minutes!
This is great stuff.

Time for the Nibali in yellow hype to start?

 

[Zoophonic]

Well any thoughts of a long leisurely day in the peloton for many of the riders blown away. Yellow in the break

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Cav to get the intermediate sprint points then ease off back, then QS to hammer the break for Ala to go for the win.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

The Vans are having fun.

 

[spalco]

Cav to get the intermediate sprint points then ease off back, then QS to hammer the break for Ala to go for the win.

Asgreen possibly has a decent chance for the win too.

 

[johnymax]

The Vans are having fun.

Vincent van Nibaert

 

[sir fly]

I suppose UAE's destiny during the coming days will depend on the Yellow jersey.
If MVdP keeps it they'll be under pressure again. With WVA in the jersey not that much.
JVT should maybe think about that.

 

[Eclipse]

Cav to get the intermediate sprint points then ease off back, then QS to hammer the break for Ala to go for the win.

Given his recent form I think it's more likely Cav solo's clear at 40k to go

Strong boys still really driving the break along

 

[JosefK]

Engines like Asgreen, WvA, and MvdP all committed up front. . . . I'm praying for an insane gap at the finish.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Engines like Asgreen, WvA, and MvdP all committed up front. . . . I'm praying for an insane gap at the finish.

Aquila comes to mind

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Cav's face - looks like he's got stuck inside fairy tale

 

[JohnWayne]

EF and Lotto guys not working in the break might lead to problems.

Lotto working now, but EF has been at the back of the breakaway the whole time? Uran afraid of WvA?