Tour de France Tour de France 2023, stage 7: Mont-de-Marsan - Bordeaux, 169.9k

[KZD]

Philipsen is the favourite but I will go with Ewan today as he has been close and the finish today is less technical.

Groenewegen needs to start getting some results too.

 

[VorstM]

Cavendish got too much already with 34 stage wins. No need for number 35.

 

[RedheadDane]

Cavendish got too much already with 34 stage wins. No need for number 35.

Didn't know there was an upper limit to how many TdF stages riders are allowed to get...

 

[dazaau]

I'm so excited.

A full night of sleep!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Didn't know there was an upper limit to how many TdF stages riders are allowed to get...

Sure there is. The upper limit for overall wins used to be 5, then it became 7, but then it went back down to 5 again, and in recent years riders have only been allowed to reach 4 (they've been compensated by being paid millions through an Israeli trust fund to NOT win again).

 

[VorstM]

Didn't know there was an upper limit to how many TdF stages riders are allowed to get...

There isn't. He just has an inflated amount of victories.

 

[RedheadDane]

There isn't. He just has an inflated amount of victories.

Because he's been darned got at winning when the route suits him.

 

[VorstM]

Because he's been darned got at winning when the route suits him.

Doesn't deflate his number in any way.

 

[RedheadDane]

Doesn't deflate his number in any way.

No, but also doesn't mean they've been somehow inflated. He's got 34 wins coz he's been the fastest in a sprint 34 times.

 

[Cookster15]

Hopefully Caleb can get this. I’ll check the result when I wake up 😴

 

[Potomac]

I'm tempted to watch the Peacock regular feed with adverts.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Finally a nice flat stage to replace the hilly nightmares of the recent days.

However, just to make up a few personal retrospective considerations of the Pyrenees.

The UAE's plans are slowly starting to surface:
Plan A: Pogi super-domestic? Didn't work.
Plan B: Adam super-domestic? Didn't work.
Plan C: Vingo super-domestic? That worked.

Cannot fathom LeTour hasn't visited Bordeaux since 2010.
If you asked me round a random corner I would've guessed quite fewer years ago since last visit.
Bordeaux being quite a cornerstone in this bike race, glad to have it back.

Though a bit worried sharpening my glasses on today's final k's.
With the exception of the avenue, apparently final slopes consists of more edgy corners not exactly of Paul Armagnac motorsports racing circuit wide corners experience.
This within the last 5k, where I assume that the 3k rule still applies. I just hope for the best for all riders!

And this one is for Alpacine, too, maybe even more than previous Philipsen stages.
Did I jinx it now?

 

[Jagartrott]

Didn't know there was an upper limit to how many TdF stages riders are allowed to get...

One less than the GOAT, obviously.

 

[RedheadDane]

Bigger fight to get in the break that on stage 4.

 

[Boehmand]

Even the guys in the break, don't want to be in the break

 

[DNP-Old]

This is pathetic.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Loooool go on Gegliemi

 

[RedheadDane]

Guglielmi: Where are you going? Okay, I'm on my own, I guess...

 

[Boehmand]

Fun fact from the Danish TV2 commentator team:

Arkea wants to be in the break today, because the route is passing the Arkea Stadium in Bordeaux.

 

[tobydawq]

Has Guglielmi forgotten to shower since the start of the Tour or why did the others not want to be in his company?

 

[Tim Cahill]

What a lovely straight road, cutting right through the forest, This is what cycling is all about.

 

[Didinho]

Pogi was dropped but just got back, exciting stage already!

 

[rallybanana]

Pet peeve here, but YOU CAN'T PUT "MONT" IN THE TITLE OF A STAGE WHERE THERE IS NO MONT.
Ok? That's just false advertising. I don't care if that's the name of the town where it starts. Find another town.

Mark Cavendish has an unusual habit of winning stages with "mont" in the name of the start or finish town.
Montereau, Montargis, Montpellier, Saint-Amand-Montrond, Mont-Saint-Michel, Utah Beach Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Montauban, Montélimar

 

[tobydawq]

Mark Cavendish has an unusual habit of winning stages with "mont" in the name of the start or finish town.
Montereau, Montargis, Montpellier, Saint-Amand-Montrond, Mont-Saint-Michel, Utah Beach Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, Montauban, Montélimar

Maybe he should prolong his career a year and school the others on the Montmartre hill at the Olympics.

 

[titan31]

These stages should just be sub 50k if we're not even going to get a decent breakaway. Peleton just treat them as rest days anyway for the majority of the stage