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Will of course play a part but he also hasnt shown great form. Livyns should've been there, or Beullens if you want an extra guy for the train. Both more useful than Segaert.
Anything is better than Grignard tbh. "Excuuswaal" who actually makes it to the Tour 2 years in a row. Beyond stupid.
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Counterpoint. Sub 50 minute Ventoux would be proper hilarious. Though 51-52 is probably more likely.
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To avoid any doubts regarding climbing times the Tour organizers may soon decide that our heroes should wear 10-kg helmets during mountains stages (due to "safety reasons").
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We're going to be in France to see some of the Tour. Question: How early should we get to the route to find a place to park? When do they close the road? We want to be roadside for Stage 7. And then mingle in the town of Chinon at the start for Stage 8. Thanks!!
Note: I can't really find a good subforum here to ask this question.
Note: I can't really find a good subforum here to ask this question.
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Bla bla bla. Always the same from him.
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Liege style waffle. ...although when we were in Copenhagen my wife fell in love with their direktørsnegl .
- Apr 30, 2011
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Do you think there is no issue whatsoever? Keep in mind that the entrance of the climb is not the same as in the Olympics.
I do think it's good on net, but I also expect them to neutralise GC if it rains.
- Nov 16, 2013
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Hehe, I actually did post it to try to lure you back in. I hadn't seen you had posted earlier today, though, so I thought it worked
Perhaps, but I also suspect Pogi and Vingegaard will get their place close to the front if they're locked in a tight battle without too many teams trying to swamp them if the whole Tour is on the line. And there are plenty of other stages with lots of risks in the first week which reminds me a lot of 2021 - but I much prefer this parcours to a week of flat stages (okay, everybody does that, but some people apparently feel the need to call out potential danger in everything which is quite exasperating).
- Sep 12, 2022
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I actually really like the first week of this TDF, the only thing missing is maybe a decent mountain stage. I believe they should always start with a sprint stage, followed by punchers stage, and eventually an ITT. This gives the possibility to everyone not going for the GC to win the yellow jersey. Merlier can take it stage 1, MVDP can take it stage 2, Ganna can take it stage 5.
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If you care about small gaps, go watch 100m sprint dash. A time trial up the Ventoux would be an epic day with eternal memories and pictures.
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He's not wrong but there's a lot of hypocrisy involved because we know damn well Visma is going to hit Montmartre hard with a train on the front.
That's the thing about 'safety' in modern cycling: teams literally accelerate into danger zones because the idea is "first in line = safety" with zero concern for what happens behind them.
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ASO finally - finally - put up the interactive maps for this year's edition today. On my computer, I had to take down a bunch of security settings to get the frame to load when on the Tour site. However, you can also directly access the interactive maps in fullscreen via this link.
(for those unaware, you can access the official interactive maps for all editions since 2019, as well as download the base data, via this link)
(for those unaware, you can access the official interactive maps for all editions since 2019, as well as download the base data, via this link)
- Apr 30, 2011
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If you want to be on the Mur-de-Bretagne climb (it’s the penultimate and final climb) for Stage 7 I would plan on getting to the town of Mur-d-B (at the base of the climb) at least 4 hrs before the scheduled finish to snag a parking place (there aren’t a lot of places to park) and start walking up the hill. I think I got to the top of the course 3 hrs beforehand when I was there for a stage finish (the stage Evans won), and there weren’t many “front row” spots left. Even though it was pouring rain all day. If you do go there I would suggest not trying to get right by the finish line, because the climb flattens out at the top and you can’t see riders until they’re right on top of you. I would try to get a spot along the top of the steepest section, so you’ll be able to see the peloton coming from 2 km away. But that will also be the spot most people will choose.
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A little collection of "Danish" news after the various pressers the last 2 days:
6 Danes in the race - and interestingly we do not have a single dedicated dom amongst them (my comments in brackets):
Vingegaard:
Says his body is dramatically different from 1 year ago and that he feels confident. Since Dauphine he has worked on his ability to stay with Pogacar when he kicks in the tall mountains.
Skjelmose:
Primary objective for the Tour is a stage win, seconday is GC - but he is also open to switching the focus to polka dots if GC doesn't pan out (My guess is it depends on Hautacam).
He has zero doms dedicated to him pre-Tour, so it will be on a stage by stage basis what support he can get.
Andresen:
He is going to ride lead out for Bittner on flat finishes, and on uphill sprints he is the guy the team rides for.
His hope is his lower weight than Philipsen, Merlier and Milan gives him a shot in the uphill sprints.
Cort:
For him it's all about the break aways on puncheur stages, and he specifically mentioned stage 15 as one of his targets.
On flat stages he will be an early part of the Uno-X train for Wærenskjold (but probably not in the last 2 ahead of Wærenskjold, he's not good at rubbing shoulders with the big boys).
On GC stages he'll either take the day off or do dom work for Johannessen, situation dependent.
Asgreen:
He is targeting break aways and especially mentions stages 11, 15, 17, and 20 as targets.
He feels in top shape and does not think it is a problem riding Romandie, Giro and the Tour in a row, he still believes everyone else will be more fatigued than him in week 3, not least because he missed the entire spring with illness.
Valgreen:
Says he is in top shape, says he was nowhere near his peak at Dauphine and still ended up 40th on GC while working as a Dom all days, and 26th on Mont Cenis.
He is targeting a stage win from a break, and mentions that he hopes he and Asgreen can assist each other (which makes sense as arguably they have different types finishing skillls which complement each other well).
6 Danes in the race - and interestingly we do not have a single dedicated dom amongst them (my comments in brackets):
Vingegaard:
Says his body is dramatically different from 1 year ago and that he feels confident. Since Dauphine he has worked on his ability to stay with Pogacar when he kicks in the tall mountains.
Skjelmose:
Primary objective for the Tour is a stage win, seconday is GC - but he is also open to switching the focus to polka dots if GC doesn't pan out (My guess is it depends on Hautacam).
He has zero doms dedicated to him pre-Tour, so it will be on a stage by stage basis what support he can get.
Andresen:
He is going to ride lead out for Bittner on flat finishes, and on uphill sprints he is the guy the team rides for.
His hope is his lower weight than Philipsen, Merlier and Milan gives him a shot in the uphill sprints.
Cort:
For him it's all about the break aways on puncheur stages, and he specifically mentioned stage 15 as one of his targets.
On flat stages he will be an early part of the Uno-X train for Wærenskjold (but probably not in the last 2 ahead of Wærenskjold, he's not good at rubbing shoulders with the big boys).
On GC stages he'll either take the day off or do dom work for Johannessen, situation dependent.
Asgreen:
He is targeting break aways and especially mentions stages 11, 15, 17, and 20 as targets.
He feels in top shape and does not think it is a problem riding Romandie, Giro and the Tour in a row, he still believes everyone else will be more fatigued than him in week 3, not least because he missed the entire spring with illness.
Valgreen:
Says he is in top shape, says he was nowhere near his peak at Dauphine and still ended up 40th on GC while working as a Dom all days, and 26th on Mont Cenis.
He is targeting a stage win from a break, and mentions that he hopes he and Asgreen can assist each other (which makes sense as arguably they have different types finishing skillls which complement each other well).
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- Sep 2, 2011
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Tour website still doesn't have detailed climb profiles or am I missing something?
- Apr 8, 2023
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So who's going to be trying out the "Quad Screen coverage"?
https://www.tvbeurope.com/media-consumption/wbd-debuts-quad-screen-coverage-at-tour-de-france
https://www.tvbeurope.com/media-consumption/wbd-debuts-quad-screen-coverage-at-tour-de-france
https://media.wbdsports.com/post/warner-bros-discovery-gears-up-to-present-every-stage-of-the-tou
- Aug 6, 2010
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Happy Tour De France Starting Day Forumites.
Let the positive posting begin!
Let the positive posting begin!
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