Tour de France Tour de France 2022: Stage 9 (Aigle – Châtel Les Portes du Soleil, 192.9k)

[RedheadDane]

If riders are already testing positive before the rest day I fear what will happen tomorrow during the mandatory testing day...

If the UCI doesn't stop with this testing obsession stage racing as we know it could be in danger.

From what I understand, they're only required to drop out if they're actually feeling sick, and of course if a rider is feeling sick he's probably more likely to get a test outside of the required times.

 

[hayneplane]

Stage 5 at the 2020 Vuelta and stage 4 at 2020 Tour.

Stage 5 Vuelta yes but the Tour stage you cite was from a selection of the GC riders not a breakaway/attack.

 

[carolina]

Guerreiro said he was feeling very sick and couldn't continue.

 

[RedheadDane]

Asgreen DNS. Knee still bothering him.

 

[DrSahl]

I think either Fuglsang or Mollema will take this stage.. unless the breakaway fails and a large group finish together, if that happens I think Pogimon wins

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Simon geschke

 

[roundabout]

Guillaume Martin seems to be out as well

Tour de France. Revivez l'épopée solitaire de Jungels, vainqueur de la 9ème étape malgré le retour de Pinot

Parti au sein d'une échappée d'une vingtaine de coureurs, Bob Jungels s'est extirpé à plus de 60 kilomètres de Châtel pour tenter un numéro de soliste. Pari réussi pour le Luxembourgeois, qui est parvenu à résister au retour de Thibaut Pinot et remporte sa première étape sur la Grande Boucle.

www.dna.fr

 

[Frankschleck]

Anyone fancies Luis Leon Sanchez to go for yellow?

 

[Faserr]

Guillaume Martin seems to be out as well

Tour de France. Revivez l'épopée solitaire de Jungels, vainqueur de la 9ème étape malgré le retour de Pinot

Parti au sein d'une échappée d'une vingtaine de coureurs, Bob Jungels s'est extirpé à plus de 60 kilomètres de Châtel pour tenter un numéro de soliste. Pari réussi pour le Luxembourgeois, qui est parvenu à résister au retour de Thibaut Pinot et remporte sa première étape sur la Grande Boucle.

www.dna.fr

On this rate 1/3 of the bunch will be out with Covid at the end...

 

[Eclipse]

Really gutted for G. Martin

On the plus side at least the Vuelta breaks may have a higher chance of being interesting.

 

[roundabout]

On this rate 1/3 of the bunch will be out with Covid at the end...

TdS 2022 showed empirically that the half-life of the peloton is 8 days in Covid conditions so it can be 2/3 or more out from those who did not get Covid recently.

 

[DrSahl]

Asgreen out of the tour as well.

Source (In Danish)

 

[Pinot's goat]

Guerreiro is not covid.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Guillaume Martin seems to be out as well

Tour de France. Revivez l'épopée solitaire de Jungels, vainqueur de la 9ème étape malgré le retour de Pinot

Parti au sein d'une échappée d'une vingtaine de coureurs, Bob Jungels s'est extirpé à plus de 60 kilomètres de Châtel pour tenter un numéro de soliste. Pari réussi pour le Luxembourgeois, qui est parvenu à résister au retour de Thibaut Pinot et remporte sa première étape sur la Grande Boucle.

www.dna.fr

Be philosophical about it, guys.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Guillaume Martin
I need 8 to 23 hugs to cope with this.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Guillaume Martin
I need between 8 to 23 hugs to cope with this.

8 hugs if it‘s from Roglic?

 

[Samamba]

Guillaume Martin also looked completely fine yesterday. Weird. I am scared for tomorrows tests.

Guerreiro was actually really sick apparantly and it isn't covid.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

8 hugs if it‘s from Roglic?

Maybe, but it was mostly based on Martin's impressive list of GT GC placings.

 

[ppanther92]

Ok guys, so the Tour will be won be someone immune, right? Vlasov had it recently.

 

[Zoef-Lightning]

My picks are Fuglsang @ 13, Storer @ 26, and Guillaume Martin @ 101 (lol).

Long odds for Martin obviously because he's only 3 minutes down on GC, but I'm hoping that no self-respecting GC team will feel threatened by The Philosopher's chances over three weeks. Unfortunately, self-respecting GC teams are a rarity in this age.

That seems to be difficult for Martin... since he didn't start this morning due to Covid.

 

[roundabout]

Martin's previous retirement from a race was in 2018, btw. Almost 4 and a half years ago to the day.

 

[staubsauger]

Ok guys, so the Tour will be won be someone immune, right? Vlasov had it recently.

You can be pretty immune by simply not being too sensitive to catch it.

 

[BR2]

Ok guys, so the Tour will be won be someone immune, right? Vlasov had it recently.

It's possible to get two different variants after each other, though.

 

[search]

Guillaume Martin also looked completely fine yesterday. Weird. I am scared for tomorrows tests.

there was an interview with Vasseur in French press this morning. Martin was feeling sick on Friday already, so they did a test, but turned out to be negative - so although he did alright result-wise, he wasn't completely fine.

 

[ppanther92]

You can be pretty immune by simply not being too sensitive to catch it.

True but no way in determining that.