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

[Gigs_98]

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]

I think it was very realistic. I'm pretty sure UAE was trying to set up just that, but when their pure doms couldn't make much of a difference they did not yet want to sacrifice their group of secondary leaders on a move that wasn't super likely to succeed anyway.

 

[Samamba]

DSM with their random super performance.

Frank Van Den Broeck is an insane transfer. Perfect scouting. Dude is insanely strong today. Deserves the win, but I guess they will give it to Bardet.

 

[AmRacer]

EF chasing EF?

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Come on, DSM boys!
Personally I haven't been bored today - especially keen of that initiative seems to pay off.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

UAE should have bought FvB as a Dom ...doing great and much better that many UAE top riders

 

[Salvarani]

Can you blame them? Their goal is to be as sharp as possible in the 3rd week.

It is UAE that is today's loser in my books.

I wasnt blaming anyone. It was just a statement.

I dont agree with that. There was not much to gain today. San Luca is a better opportunity tomorrow to the test the legs a bit.

 

[titan31]

Good old EF

Manage to have a crap attack that went nowhere and let Pedersen hang on by leaving Visma ride as you watched Healy go nowhere

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

It’s time to get busy living or get busy dying.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

They've been fooled by this fake pace from Visma I think, someone should've tried something but it's too late.

If teams are still being fooled by Visma fake pacing after all those years of sitting doing nothing with 15 in the lead bunch and keeping Sepp Kuss in reserve so that nobody does anything before Rogla tries to attack from the kind of distance that Joaquím Rodríguez would call "leaving it late", then they deserve to lose.

 

[Netserk]

So EF, Ineos, Trek, Lotto & Visma will chase.

 

[skippo12]

Bettiol thinking that he can win a sprint against WVA and Pedersen?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

EF chasing EF?

It looked like Healy was no longer a threat to win the stage so Vaughters needed to do something to get a microphone in front of himself.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

It’s time to get busy living or get busy dying.

Time to get busy Doming

 

[Tim Cahill]

Gap coming down now, any Lidl still there for Mads

 

[Strawberry_Jams]

So EF, Ineos, Trek, Lotto & Visma will chase.

Van gils to win if it comes back?

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

This could be tight!

 

[tobydawq]

I think they'll stay away, but only because they're teammates.

Bardet winning a stage and taking the first yellow jersey in his final Tour would be some story, I guess.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Bardet's bottle not too sticky.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Van gils to win if it comes back?

Would think there would be someone faster than him if it comes back. Pogi at least would likely be favored.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Gap is dropping quickly, pretty sure they will be caught. Headwind these last 15km will kill them.

 

[Miha81]

I dont agree with that. There was not much to gain today. San Luca is a better opportunity tomorrow to the test the legs a bit.

They did not even test the field. All we know is that Ayuso is useless. So UAE is at least getting some information from stage 1

 

[AmRacer]

DSM has two riders in the front and two in the back.

 

[Boehmand]

Would think there would be someone faster than him if it comes back. Pogi at least would likely be favored.

Van Aert, Pedersen, Bettiol - and is De Lie still there?

 

[Tim Cahill]

I quite like the Cav-cam feature, a real splitscreen feature during mountain stages like you're doing 4 player goldeneye would be good

 

[Poursuivant]

Does van de Broexke take the dots jersey?