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

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Can't believe UAE potentially aren't nuking this because they have to protect precious boy Ayuso. Show no merci Pogi and flog your damn horses to death ffs.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

What is the time limit percentage today?

 

[perico]

How does Ayuso suffer in heat? He grew up between Spain and the south. It’s 90 degrees Fahrenheit every freaking day in the summer.

 

[Jack_89]

Visma alone will never catch Bardet.

 

[snipeheem]

Boring

 

[Netserk]

Blistering pace by Wilco, let's go!!

 

[Peyroteo94]

UAE is riding perfectly. If Ayuso is this bad, they simply can't put Almeida to work for almost no gains from Pogacar. We have to see tomorrow's stage.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

I'm not gonna lie, expected a bit more from Emirates and Pogacar today. He is not going to try something. The hype was big.

Saving for party mode tomorrow.

 

[perico]

Ayuso is the most overrated gc rider in the world. He isn't even a top10 climber

He’s 21 years old and has 2 GT Top 10s in 2 attempts and crashed out of the Dauphine.

 

[Medvind]

If van Aert is going to win this he needs help from other teams with the chase. Jorgenson and Vinge will of course not contribute.

 

[topcat]

DSM having Bardet winning but condemning Jakobsen to OTL would be one of the most bizarre anomalies in results ever at the Tour.

You'd say they're more likely to get wins out of Jakobsen than Bardet on any given day, but Bardet in the MJ would probably be more popular.

Well, my mother would be cheering at least, she loves Romain Bardet.

Proof that Bardet is a house wife's favourite

 

[Samamba]

At this point EF gotta make the decision to drop back Healy. I don't see him catching up. They can still make it a sprint for Van den Berg (or Bettiol).

Ofcourse Trek will help with 2 guys after the climb, but it's only 15ish km flat-ish (slightly downhill honestly).

Van Gils and Aranburu still there too as "faster" guys, but Aranburu only Mas with him I think and Van Gils only Campenaerts and they know he can't beat Van Aert or Pedersen ofcourse;

 

[RobertCrawley]

Visma alone will never catch Bardet.

Bardet doesn't look that great. But hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things.

 

[fbjim]

so when is EF going to chase down their own guy to try and fail to get Bettiol the stage

 

[red_flanders]

Yeah, it's been a bit dissapointing, but the heat is the heat. Killing everyone.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

You can be a great rider but a sh** Dom

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

Healy going full Virenque. Did not expect that hair from him.

 

[Medvind]

Saving for party mode tomorrow.

Probably, but putting more hurt into Vinge's legs today would make him more vunerable tomorrow.

 

[fbjim]

big rom bardet has dropped a 2 minute GC bomb and everyone is like, "boring" "bad tour", meanwhile I am saying "french cycling is back it's good again awooooo"

 

[tobydawq]

Roglic taking down a soigneur.

 

[Sciatic]

Didn’t get the full somersault like the bottle handler in the Giro

 

[AnotherArmChair]

If van Aert is going to win this he needs help from other teams with the chase. Jorgenson and Vinge will of course not contribute.

Visma have a role to ease Vinge into the race and control things...no more

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Blistering pace by Wilco, let's go!!

Yeah, even Cav stopped losing time!

 

[AmRacer]

Remco, Landa, Ian in the Peleton?

 

[slim charles]

This is a bit underwhelming, I guess, but on the other hand, it perhaps wasn't realistic to expect GC fireworks on the first stage.

It seems that Vingegaard is suffering a bit. Don't think it is dramatic enough that he would lose time at this point, but doesn't look all that comfortable [then again, who knows]