Tour de France Tour de France 2022: Stage 10 (Morzine Les Portes du Soleil – Megève, 148.1k)

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[bizzmane89]

not really, no. On the flat Bauer did most of the work in the group, and on the climb Kämna never really tried to keep the pace up. He attackes a couple of times (same as most others), but never set the pace for a longer while, as far as I could see. All in all, he just didn't look good enough today - normally he should have been able to finish with the best (and take yellow)

I would disagree, i think he did far more work than usual. He had to keep up the tempo for most of the last climb and closed 3+ gaps . Nobody in the group helped on the last climb. He also surged multiple times to attack or close. He would have been better of accepting that he cant win the stage if 10 riders look at him and set a steady pase up the climb for yellow, instead of stopping, tempo, closing, stopping, tempo, closing ...

 

[red_flanders]

After Opi-Omi, surely these people will receive serious punishment for their disgraceful conduct?

This is in no way like Omi - Opi, there was no danger to the riders and no utter lack of awareness. I respect their protest and their cause. It's a bike race, and was little troubled. Cops hauled them out of there, as they should have. All seems good to me.

 

[red_flanders]

It's easy to talk about stupidity with hindsight but how could they know in advance who was going to be in a breakaway on stage 5 before it formed. Cort targetting to win that stage in advance would be a veeery long shot. I bet that if anything, they planned to go for Bettiol on that stage, even Rutsch or Bissegger seemed more suited for this kind of cobbles.
Cort going on so many breakaways early on was good publicity to the team that usually struggles to take stage wins so they needed to be relevant in some way.

It doesn't matter what any rider does, someone here will call it stupid, boring, or bad tactics. It's a teeming nest of armchair quarterbacks.

EF have had a good Tour mostly due to Cort and his rides.

 

[Red Rick]

Isn't stage 11 more difficult than stage 12?

Climbing starts earlier on stage 12, which is the most relevant metric for the time limit.

For sprinters stage 12 is the hardest likely, for GC riders it's stage 11.

Mostly time limits are just based on speed projections that themselves are pretty far off the mark I think.

 

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[gregrowlerson]

Boring stage for GC. Interesting stage for the breakaway.

I'm torn on the type of rider this will suit. When Kamna won on this final climb at the 2020 Dauphine he rode away from a really strong group of climbers with 4km to go, which would suggest the Bettiol, Matthews type riders might find it a bit too tough. On the other hand, that stage was a lot harder before the final climb than this one.

Assuming it is tough enough, Nick Schultz was pretty impressive on Stage 9. I hope he can get into the break.

Incredibly good/close call!

 

[Danskebjerge]

Cort remains so incredibly strong on those uphill finishes, coming fast from behind. Here is one of my favourites from 2016 (the slowmo from above):

View: https://youtu.be/UkvzIhSaukA?t=323

 

[Jungle Cycle]

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[Danskebjerge]

Stage 3 was boring.

In some respects, but it still doesn't correspond to the criteria I mentioned.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Im gratefull that I watched the stages in Denmark live. I absolutely do hate these GTs-abroad-starts under normal circumstances, especially since everybody seemed to giving up on racing the first couple of days when the days are flat. And these starts in NL, Hungary, Isreal etc. are most often just 2 complete snoozes. Since that, I think this has been the best first week I have watched in TdF, or at least close to it.

 

[Lequack]

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[movingtarget]

Well looks like Ewan made it, wasn't even that close; Not a good sign that his team left him tho, plus don't think he'll make the timecut in the 2 next stages.



I agree, I don't like it either, definitely with him also focussing on a WC he can't win. Let's not forget he was going to ride MSR, De Panne and G-W tho but then he got sick (but him not riding Frankfurt for example is just dumb). Well it's just De Buyst, he never had a super leadout because he didn't need it at all.

Wouldn't surprise me if Ewan moved on from Lotto. Hopefully he can bounce back next season.

 

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[Sciatic]

I really hope they used the glue from emulsion-patch tube repair kits to make it an authentic cycling protest.

Then again, if they’re like my patch kits, the glue probably already dried up by the time they tried to use it