Tour de France Tour de France 2024, Stage 3: Plaisance (Piacenza) > Turin (Torino), 230.8 km

[Samamba]

Gonna be total chaos in the end if it starts raining.

 

[Juan Pelota]

How will yellow be decided if Pog/Remco/Carapaz all on same time? Is it lowest total placings?

 

[Samamba]

Who are the teams with real leadouts? Biniam for Thijssen could be interesting. Alpecin, UNO-X, Trek maybe.

Girmay is gonna sprint on his own.

 

[RobertCrawley]

How will yellow be decided if Pog/Remco/Carapaz all on same time? Is it lowest total placings?

Pogi keeps it since he's already wearing it. He won it because he finished ahead of Jonas on stage 2 but they got the same time.

 

[Rob5091]

Considering how easy they've riden today, it should be a really fast finish.

 

[Peyroteo94]

What Carapaz has to do to wear yellow?

 

[Warhawk]

I hope Kristoff wins just because all the NBC guys have been razzing Tejay for picking him and it would be funny.

 

[Finn84]

What Carapaz has to do to wear yellow?

Top four combined stage positions.

Pogacar 18
Evenepoel 20
Vingegaard 29
Carapaz 32

 

[Tricycle Rider]

I hope Kristoff wins just because all the NBC guys have been razzing Tejay for picking him and it would be funny.

I thought that was an awkward exchange between Tejay and Phil regarding Kristoff... Phil just can't shut up about Cav.

 

[red_flanders]

What Carapaz has to do to wear yellow?

If they all finish in the same time (the 4 at 0:00) then it's cumulative placings. He'd have to finish high and the other 3 would have to finish well back. Could easily happen for any of them.

 

[RobertCrawley]

I thought that was an awkward exchange between Tejay and Phil regarding Kristoff... Phil just can't shut up about Cav.

Commentators filling air time.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Why are people talking about Cavandish and kristoff? You do realise there are actually fast sprinters in the race right?

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Commentators filling air time.

Touche, another 32km to go.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

i swear i saw the km counter go up instead of down

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Back again after some good hours at the bike.
First personal notes: OK so in fact I jinxed it....vaguely

 

[red_flanders]

Why are people talking about Cavandish and kristoff? You do realise there are actually fast sprinters in the race right?

Because Phil is senile and can't shut up about the story he thinks all his viewers have tuned in to see. He is gonna push Cav the whole Tour, win or lose.

It's American cycling coverage. Gotta find a story that's beyond the race, in this case the English-speaking guy going to break the all-time Tour stage win record. So we get to watch a guy save energy and ride as slow as the data allows, while the guy whose record he might "break" went full gas on every stage he won, winning stages that mattered to the overall.

The whole thing is so freaking dumb it makes me want to pull my hair out.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Cav is 39. His poisson pilote is 39 also. Not seeing a victory this year unless something crazy happens in the final Ks.

 

[red_flanders]

Now Phil rambling about Remco getting top 3 in this stage as if that's what he needs to do for yellow. Bobke literally laughing at him.

Lawd, help me.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Imagine the Tour not being decided by seconds but by...places count. It takes Pogi, Vingo and Remco having the same time in the TTs (to 0.01 s) and being inseparable in the mountains and then...boom they are sprinting against Philipsen, Jacobsen and co on every flat stage!

 

[RobertCrawley]

25k

 

[rallybanana]

Cav is 39. His poisson pilote is 39 also. Not seeing a victory this year unless something crazy happens in the final Ks.

Pino Cerami in 1963 would be the only older stage winner.

 

[tobydawq]

Gonna be total chaos in the end if it starts raining.

It will also be that if a cow stands on the road.

 

[tobydawq]

It will also be that if a cow stands on the road.

Or if a team bus is stuck under the finish line portal.

 

[Berniece]

Cav is 39. His poisson pilote is 39 also. Not seeing a victory this year unless something crazy happens in the final Ks.

I never heard of this term until I was at a bar that had it as a name

 

[Tricycle Rider]

17km left, things should go pretty quickly now