Tour de France Tour de France 2022: Stage 1 (Copenhagen – Copenhagen, 13.2k/ITT)

[wheresmybrakes]

Wonder how many people fell for the sore knee BS from WVA. lol

 

[roundabout]

Pogacar wih a terrible corner

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Ganna 5th halfway through...

 

[roundabout]

Let's see how they do the second half

 

[Tim Cahill]

WVA 4th ad T1, Ganna 6th

VDP could be winning this but looking at the past few big times the wind has changed a little

 

[Devil's Elbow]

And Van Aert 4th. Van der Poel is going to win, isn't he?

 

[Red Rick]

I think everyone expected Bauke Mollema to be faster than Ganna at the intermediate

 

[johnymax]

Marc Soler to win the TT

 

[roundabout]

Pogi oki at T1

 

[GroupDK]

Vingegaard = Wingfarm (english)
Vinge = wing
gaard = farm
Useally how it is with these surnames.
all these "gaard" ending surnames.like Kirkegaard, Østergaard, Nørregaard, Vingegaard etc etc.
"gaard" = "gård" meaning farm in danish, so more or less means a person from that farm (old danish)

same with "sen" ending surnames like Madsen, Rasmussen, Olsen, Christensen, Kristiansen, Andersen, Nielsen, Sorensen, Larsen, Jorgensen, Pedersen, Petersen, Kristensen, Poulsen, Mortensen, Johansen, Carlsen, Frederiksen and you can add like many many more, useally danish firstnames with an added "sen"
is down to the aspect of danish "søn/sen" or in English "son" = "sen" so Nielsen is referring to the "son" of Niels.

Quite old nation, also the oldest on the globe, when it comes to national flags, where the flag of Denmark is the oldest on the globe..
also, the oldest kingdom, dating back to the year 500. (Cosmography Revanna Italy) but a huge part of Europe was part of the kingdom of Denmark a millennium back, also most part of England, back when England was called Danelaw.

wicked that we now have 6 man inside 2 sec. / tight in these conditions.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Roglic is taking time on Pogacar. This is good

 

[Red Rick]

And Van Aert 4th. Van der Poel is going to win, isn't he?

Red Rick Reverse jynxed it

 

[glassmoon]

tibopino already making a gap to be allowed into breaks...

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I think everyone expected Bauke Mollema to be faster than Ganna at the intermediate

Will actually retain the fastest time there once everyone's finished probably. Conditions helped but that's still crazy.

 

[Salvarani]

Solid time

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

And Van Aert 4th. Van der Poel is going to win, isn't he?

I think conditions now suit the second part of the course, so I expect Ganna and WVA to overtake him still.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Caruso, pretty renowned tter actually, 40 seconds down.

I wonder if Froome will beat him

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I think conditions now suit the second part of the course, so I expect Ganna and WVA to overtake him still.

I don't expect them to go through the narrow bit as quickly though.

 

[roundabout]

I think Ganna is very close to best time through the castle

 

[AlfaLum]

Ganna and van Aert will both beat van der Poels time at the finish I think.

 

[titan31]

That statue at the end of Kastellet is actually great. Shame it's raining so can't see it properly. Way better than The Little Mermaid.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Pog looked really good over that bridge.

 

[roundabout]

Pogi looks faster than Ganna

 

[Billie]

Pogi is faster than Ganna. 5 secs lead on that bridge

 

[Devil's Elbow]

That statue at the end of Kastellet is actually great. Shame it's raining so can't see it properly. Way better than The Little Mermaid.

Every statue is better than the Little Mermaid.

Well, except Manneken Pis, but technically that's a fountain and not a statue.