Tour de France Tour de France 2022: Stage 13 (Le Bourg d’Oisans – Saint-Étienne, 193.6k)

[Savant12]

Crashes follow Caleb wherever he goes.

 

[Orbit501]

Well that's that plan over then.

Feel for Ewan. He's having a lot of these crashes lately.

 

[Samamba]

Break has this now for sure. No idea what actually happens there. Did he panic seeing Gilbert going straight or something?

 

[Amazinmets87]

Tour from hell for Ewan, sad to see

His Giro was likely worse. Quite a year he's had.

 

[frisenfruitig]

Is second place a slaughter?

For guys like Ewan or Philipsen who are still chasing that 1st win? Yes

 

[Volderke]

Gilbert missed the curve, lotto rider just in front of ewan went also wide(r), overlap with Ewan’s front wheel and crash…

maybe they should send WvA to ewan in order to tow him back?

 

[noob]

He's crashing a lot the little man. So unlucky :/

 

[Finn84]

Ewan listed almost two minutes behind the peloton.

 

[Stelvio]

The break’s chances depends on how the peloton does the cat 3. (But I don’t think the break has it.)

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Poor Ewan, feel for him. Hope he wins on Champs.

 

[frisenfruitig]

Why are you guys so sure the break has this? I don't think so

 

[yaco]

Is it that challenging? You bring riders to suit the race route.

You are disenfranchising one type of bike rider - Not every rider is Wout Van Aert - Then you wont have the story of Mark Cavendish.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Getting drag from cars is the new doping.

 

[F_Cance]

Classic dirty Quickstep

 

[noob]

What did I just watch with the team cars? Caleb getting help by Alpecin car and Alpecin getting charged for it?

 

[Samamba]

QS lol joke team

 

[Samamba]

What did I just watch with the team cars? Caleb getting help by Alpecin car and Alpecin getting charged for it?

Well yeah ofc, the Alpecin guy does it on purpose cause they need Lotto to help.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

You are disenfranchising one type of bike rider - Not every rider is Wout Van Aert - Then you wont have the story of Mark Cavendish.

You have this the wrong way round. Flat sprint stages disenfranchise everyone who isn't a sprinter when you have a wider array of riders who can win every other stage that isn't a TT. And TTs serve a purpose for GCs.

Also, Cavendish doesn't deserve to break Merckx' record.

 

[Stelvio]

What did I just watch with the team cars? Caleb getting help by Alpecin car and Alpecin getting charged for it?

Yes, they didn’t follow the commisaire’s directions. But the Lotto car was happy with Alpecin..

 

[noob]

Well yeah ofc, the Alpecin guy does it on purpose cause they need Lotto to help.

Ah, thanks That was too complicated for me to grasp on my own. Interesting tactics!

 

[Alexandre B.]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1547946106142670850

 

[Samamba]

You have this the wrong way round. Flat sprint stages disenfranchise everyone who isn't a sprinter when you have a wider array of riders who can win every other stage that isn't a TT. And TTs serve a purpose for GCs.

Only good climbers can win a mountain stage lol
Sprinting is part of cycling, it's that simple. 9 sprint stages is dumb tho, but so are 3. Riders also need easier stages. Do you really think everyone in the peloton is happy is every stage is hard?

 

[MrTea1976]

Grand Tours should be a mix of all terrains and some TT. Flat/flat(ish) sprint stages have their place. There should be a reasonable number of them. They're a spectacle and crowds love them.

 

[Orbit501]

Why are you guys so sure the break has this? I don't think so

Because of the size and composition of the break, and the parcours still to come for the pure sprinters and their teams.
Having said that, the peloton are doing a better job of pegging things than I thought they would, so you never know.
Now the Ewan crash just tips things even more in favour of the break, but that's balanced out by the Steppers now getting involved I suppose.

 

[Samamba]

How bad is Sagan btw? Being dropped on this stage. He'll come back probably because the whole Lotto team will try to get Ewan back but still