Tour de France Tour de France Stage 6, Mâcon-Dijon, 162.5k

[Berniece]

I thought the new UCI rules had effect now?

Not yet. Officially it will start in 2025. Test case will be held starting from 1st August 2024.

 

[Netserk]

Thanks, both.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

If I was in quickstep I would have made remco watch stage 3 of giro 2017 last night as bedtime entertainment

 

[RobertCrawley]

Magnus Cort's mustache.

 

[Danskebjerge]

People are still talking more about the brilliance of Pogacar avoiding a crash yesterday than about his role in causing it. I guess that's the benifit of being the leader in a competition.

 

[Mayomaniac]

So far all the sprint stages have started with a coffee ride pace.
Is this the result of having scripted stage results for Netflix?

 

[scribers]

*** course with tight roads + poorly indicated road furniture . Organizers fault primarily. Pogi was pinched into the hazard. To go much beyond that is desperation to pin something on the golden boy

 

[RobertCrawley]

People are still talking more about the brilliance of Pogacar avoiding a crash yesterday than about his role in causing it. I guess that's the benifit of being the leader in a competition.

Yep. It was a moment of inattention by him and/or his team car. Yes, there was a rider in front of him that blocked his view, and the hazard should have been better marked (maybe a gendarme with a flag). But a prepared team knows the route and knows what to avoid.

 

[Rob5091]

Big Mads made it to the start then so hope he can continue in the race.
As for Pogi's zig zagging yesterday, I don't think he could be held responsible for what happend behind him.

 

[Netserk]

Updated Green Jersey standings:

 

[RobertCrawley]

Updated Green Jersey standings:

Go Bini!

 

[Boehmand]

Mads P is too stubborn to take it easy

 

[RobertCrawley]

 

[Peter von]

Mads P is too stubborn to take it easy

Mads Pedersen for taking it easy: don't try and force a break away with 180 k to go

 

[Sciatic]

Good morning, chaps!

It's Independence Day in the US.

Time to once again celebrate the “Tyler Farrar wins a Tour stage on the 4th of July” legacy . I was in France then (in fact I was at the Mur de Bretagne finish the following day) and the French press made a big deal of the “American wins on national Independence Day” thing. But apparently when asked about it afterwards he didn’t even realize it was the 4th . But that makes sense: when they’re in the Tour bubble I’m sure the stage number is more relevant than the date.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Time to once again celebrate the “Tyler Farrar wins a Tour stage on the 4th of July” legacy . I was in France then (in fact I was at the Mur de Bretagne finish the following day) and the French press made a big deal of the “American wins on national Independence Day” thing. But apparently when asked about it afterwards he didn’t even realize it was the 4th . But that makes sense: when they’re in the Tour bubble I’m sure the stage number is more relevant than the date.

That was a great day! I didn't know he was unaware it was the 4th.

 

[Netserk]

Nothing happens today, not strong enough wind.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Breakaways have gone out of fashion.

 

[Netserk]

Lotto tries!

 

[Sciatic]

I don’t like watching sports on my phone and typically avoid it. Of course the one time I want to—while waiting on a delayed flight—Peacock tells me I can’t access their content if my device is in another country (even though it’s a U.S. number). And the bars in the international terminal of the Helsinki airport don’t have TVs, never mind showing the Tour.

 

[Samamba]

Lotto trying something but there doesn't seem to be enough wind

And no idea why they tried it just before they came into a covered area

 

[Gigs_98]

Right as they go into a village. Brilliant timing.

 

[Netserk]

Weird place to shoot first, just as the first open section ended.

 

[RobertCrawley]

The "s" is silent, Steve Porino (pronouncing "Alexandre Dumas").

 

[RobertCrawley]

I don’t like watching sports on my phone and typically avoid it. Of course the one time I want to—while waiting on a delayed flight—Peacock tells me I can’t access their content if my device is in another country (even though it’s a U.S. number). And the bars in the international terminal of the Helsinki airport don’t have TVs, never mind showing the Tour.

VPN is the answer.