Tour de France Tour de France 2022: Stage 3 (Vejle – Sønderborg, 182k)

[Lequack]

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[gunara]

The last move into the gap is top class from Groenewagen.

And Sagan being all of a sudden up there with the bests again makes me happy.

 

[ij74]

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Absolutely. It´s joke if he´s not.

 

[RobertCrawley]

So, after the third Danish stage: great landscapes, feeling very summer, incredible enthusiasm among crowds, but, not totally unexpected, pretty boring racing.

That is the nature of flat stages in the Tour de France.

 

[movingtarget]

I think Ewan lacks a confidence, he’s around it but can’t work out how to land it

He's getting frustrated, couldn't do anything there. Once he went to the inside and WVA and Sagan moved across there was nowhere to go. I think Ewan just needs to get to the outside and find some clean air. His acceleration is so good, that he doesn't always need to come off wheels to win but of course he still has to time it right and not be too far back.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Absolutely. It´s joke if he´s not.

The commissars might relegate WVA as a message to the sprinters to hold their lines.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Absolutely. It´s joke if he´s not.

Sagan has had to use his incredible handling skills 2 days in a row to avoid crashing after riders have swerved into him. Wasting energy when he should be sprinting for the win. What we saw today was almost as bad as that fateful finish in Tour of Poland

 

[Faserr]

They have to relegate him. It wasn't a really really bad move, but rules are rules. If he would have been clearly in front of Sagan it's another story, but Sagan was trying to pass him at his side.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Sagan has had to use his incredible handling skills 2 days in a row to avoid crashing after riders have swerved into him. Wasting energy when he should be sprinting for the win. What we saw today was almost as bad as that fateful finish in Tour of Poland

Yep. I thought about that too.

 

[Extinction]

Absolutely. It´s joke if he´s not.

The RAI commentators, Stefano Garzelli and Francesco Panchani, doen't agree, but I think they are wrong.

 

[75Driver]

The commissars might relegate WVA as a message to the sprinters to hold their lines.

I had to finish watching on delay but WVA did NOT keep his line at all. He moved what, a meter or more to the right? Too much IMHO

 

[Lequack]

GC Riders who lost time:
Haig: +39"
Caruso: +39"
Urán: +39"
Pinot: +39"

 

[yaco]

Groenewegen was undoubtedly the strongest rider when you consider he was held up by the crash with 9kms to go and the team had to work hard to get back to the reduced peleton.

 

[RobertCrawley]

I think I saw Sagan pat WVA on the back a little further up the road after the finish, so there are no hard feelings from Sagan. He's the best.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Disastrous few days for Bahrain

 

[Red Rick]

Disastrous few days for Bahrain

Do you mean this weekend or the days they decided to select Haig as their leader?

 

[movingtarget]

Groenewegen was undoubtedly the strongest rider when you consider he was held up by the crash with 9kms to go and the team had to work hard to get back to the reduced peleton.

BEX needed that win. Groenewegen was a great signing for them.

 

[Red Rick]

BEX needed that win. Groenewegen was a great signing for them.

Uh depends on what they pay for him. But so far I think he's not reliable enough at all to be a sole TdF team leader.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Do you mean this weekend or the days they decided to select Haig as their leader?

Losing time, police raids, having Haig as leader, not having Mader here

 

[Faserr]

Its possible that the next big group sprint is stage 19 oder stage 20. Stage 19 isn't really safe, too, because its the last chance for some breakaway riders.

 

[Billie]

Van Aert should def be dsq here. Textbook closing the door

 

[memyselfandI]

Feeling sorry for Sagan as idiot WVA not keeping his line, hopefully DE's DS challenges that to the comms. Not necessarily meaning Peto was a winning horse but the rules are them rules.

DG very humble at the interview. Was not actually jumping high from joy. I kinda see what it can be inside young man, when he's a truly fearsome warrior, then again not planning to kill anyone in his game, but somehow almost managed to get into that situation. And took all the hate this sport can give you, inside his head for a moment.

 

[Red Rick]

Its possible that the next big group sprint is stage 19 oder stage 20. Stage 19 isn't really safe, too, because its the last chance for some breakaway riders.

Stage 19 has 0 reason to be a breakaway chance.

 

[dutchdescent]

SQUEEEEZZZZEEEEE

 

[movingtarget]

Uh depends on what they pay for him. But so far I think he's not reliable enough at all to be a sole TdF team leader.

Don't know what other option they had. Stage hunting doesn't seem to be their thing except for Yates who rode the Giro and Matthews isn't the answer.