Tour de France Tour de France 2024, Stage 1: Florence (Firenze) - Rimini, 206.0k

[AnotherArmChair]

Some woman on ES crying for Mark Cavandish...puuuuullllllsssseee

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Astana starting the lead out for champ Elysee from very early and very far back

 

[Salvarani]

Thing that makes them faster on descends is getting towed by the cars

Nah.

Most of these sprinter guys are pretty good at descending.

Groves, the most recent example I can think of, was very good in the Giro and impressed.

You just dont usually get to watch these guys descend from the gruppetto in the mountain stages and I doubt the cars are infront of them going downhill...

 

[Peyroteo94]

Ok, Cav is sick. He is not coming back... puff, this Tour is already disappoiting

 

[Boehmand]

Even being British I don’t want this. If would not be good to see the Merckx record broken by a 1 trick pony no matter how elite he is at that trick.

Save the outright record for Pogacar in a few years time.

Being a "1 trick pony" is what makes it cooler.

He has had far fewer stages he could potentially win.

 

[Salvarani]

Cav is sick

Sick because of the heat and being out of shape. That he is exhausted.

Or that he is actually sick?

Well, he probably not gonna admit to being out of shape so probably a stomach bug + heat or something will be it.

 

[RobertCrawley]

This is hard to watch.

 

[Gigs_98]

Wonder how long it will take my brain to realize I'm not watching Van Aert every f*cking time I'm seeing an RB rider.

 

[Boehmand]

Shouldn't Astana send Lutsenko back to help Cav? This is Cavendish we're talking about. They're going to need a stretcher to get him to the finish line.

Being more riders doesn't help him, he already has four guys who can shield him from wind and get him supplies, and they are pedalling lightly to not drop him.

 

[AmRacer]

Wonder how long it will take my brain to realize I'm not watching Van Aert every f*cking time I'm seeing an RB rider.

No no, it's Pidcock

 

[Salvarani]

Wonder how long it will take my brain to realize I'm not watching Van Aert every f*cking time I'm seeing an RB rider.

Their kits being close to the same colours doesnt make it easier.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Sick because of the heat and being out of shape. That he is exhausted.

Or that he is actually sick?

Well, he probably not gonna admit to being out of shape so probably a stomach bug + heat or something will be it.

He got over multi mountain stages in Suisse that were far harder than this stage has been so far, which was mostly flat with a shallow rise. They're pouring water over him and hes puking, it's illness, or heatstroke.

 

[RedheadDane]

Astana starting the lead out for champ Elysee from very early and very far back

You think he'll post-pone his retirement (again) so he can get the record next year?

 

[tobydawq]

Cav won't join the peloton again.

No shιt.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Bobke calculates the time limit at 40 minutes. Cav might be able to suffer and make it but there are some tough climbs coming up.

 

[Boehmand]

That's this thing that's held as a self evident truth when there's no particular reason to believe it.

Bigger riders will actually be less likely to race many mountainious races, and should therefor be less experienced descenders, and the amount of situations you have to bomb a descent to make a time cut represent a huge minority of descents raced.

Are you disputing the basic principle in physics that heavier things descend faster?

 

[tobydawq]

Wonder how long it will take my brain to realize I'm not watching Van Aert every f*cking time I'm seeing an RB rider.

Yeah, I'm with you on that one.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

He got over multi mountain stages in Suisse that were far harder than this stage has been so far, which was mostly flat with a shallow rise. They're pouring water over him and hes puking, it's illness, or heatstroke.

Eisel said that he expected him to throw up , because of drinking to much water because of the heat. So might also be that.
But if it's the heat or a sickness doesn't matter that much I guess, he looks toast.

 

[tobydawq]

Are you disputing the basic principle in physics that heavier things descend faster?

That is not how things work...

 

[Izzyeviel]

I wasn't expecting be doing the whole Cav watch thing again stage 1...

 

[veganrob]

Are you disputing the basic principle in physics that heavier things descend faster?

In a straight line, yes. But the best descender are because of bike handling skills. Nibali and now Pidcock. Can has had a problem the last several years staying on his bike.

 

[Boehmand]

For people speculating if Cavendish can survive the day, let's remind ourselves they've only done 1 of 7 categorised climbs on the stage

 

[RobertCrawley]

Is anyone else having trouble hearing race radio on letour.com? I'm logged in, turned it on, but no sound.

 

[tobydawq]

For people speculating if Cavendish can survive the day, let's remind ourselves they've only done 1 of 7 categorised climbs on the stage

 

[titan31]

I think his hope will be that there's another group of sprinters also been dropped and per PCS are about a minute ahead of him. If Astana can join up with that group, maybe he'll have a chance