Tour De France 2024 Stage 8: Semur-en-Auxois – Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, 183.4k

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Jayco will ride for Matthews as its probably too hard for Groenewegen. Add Alpecin, while AG2R have options . Then you have Bahrain for Bauhaus, IPt, then you have Movistar for Aranbaru.
AG2R, Bahrain, Movistar, Israel obviously won't control. Having sprinterteams doesn't mean they will do any work. They also shouldn't as chances of them winning are really small anyways.

Also Groenewegen probably has a better shot here than Matthews. Groenewegen was pretty good in Limoges last year, that was pretty similar.
 
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AG2R, Bahrain, Movistar, Israel obviously won't control. Having sprinterteams doesn't mean they will do any work. They also shouldn't as chances of them winning are really small anyways.

Also Groenewegen probably has a better shot here than Matthews. Groenewegen was pretty good in Limoges last year, that was pretty similar.
The Limoges finale was significantly harder than this one. Given that it doesn't look like they're racing the earlier parts, even Cavendish has a shot here.
 
The Limoges finale was significantly harder than this one. Given that it doesn't look like they're racing the earlier parts, even Cavendish has a shot here.

I agree about the final yes, but was more about the final km. If Groenewegen was good there, he definitely has a chance here too. Same with Phililpsen ofcourse. It's still for sprinters, even tho guys like De Lie and Girmay will be on par now maybe.

Rain all day could make it a bit harder tho btw.
 
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Cavendish won because he made that move to the left. Mads Pedersen crashed out because of that move to the left. Cavendish didn’t do anything illegal in my opinion, but it’s still sh*t, and I would definitely have preferred Mads Pedersen being still in the race than Cavendish having won.

There was a splendid chance of winning the green jersey for Mads Pedersen. Besides, the injury diminishes his chances at the Olympics, so it’s just so 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼.

(And add to that: Another Pedersen crashed out earlier.)
 
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This is where some DS and teams get everything they deserve,they rarely think outside the box. I understand Uno X wanting mountain points but if I were EF I would tell those two to sit up - say to peloton, “if you wanna play those games, sure, play them but we are coming back and that opens you up to more attacks with no break”
 
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