Tour de la Provence 2021, France, February 11 - February 14

[hayneplane]

Ballerini is more a versatile domestique who has a pretty good knack for taking his chances on the relatively rare times he has the team ride for him.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Ballerini is more a versatile domestique who has a pretty good knack for taking his chances on the relatively rare times he has the team ride for him.

Exactly, which fits DQT a lot better than a sprinter who hardly wins easy sprints.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Lol at that sprint. What the hell was Demare doing? He has no reason to be going at that distance against non top tier competition. He should be totally confident of winning a normal sprint in this company. He doesn’t need to take them by surprise. A very nice win for Ballerini.

 

[Breezy1985]

I don't speak Spanish, and I don't really think I need to, because that offcial was... kind of useless!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1359889507995316224

Disgraceful gratuitous use of the supertuck by that piece of road furniture

 

[SafeBet]

Lol at that sprint. What the hell was Demare doing? He has no reason to be going at that distance against non top tier competition. He should be totally confident of winning a normal sprint in this company. He doesn’t need to take them by surprise. A very nice win for Ballerini.

I don't think he wanted to take them by surprise. Rather he was over confident.

 

[SafeBet]

It's not April 1st, so its fine.

At least one rider fell on that road furniture 700m from the finish.

It was Alessandro Covi.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

So today's stage could be very fun considering the parcours and the weather not least. Alaphilippe should be hard to beat regardless.

 

[Lequack]

Last 3km today

 

[Lequack]

Ineos new marginal gain, ride your trainer towards the bus so you can draft

 

[repre]

Easy win for Demare today.

 

[Lequack]

Feels like a Matteo Trentin day.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Feels like the rainbow will appear in the front of the bunch.

 

[fat and frantic]

How good does that long sleeve Delko winter jersey look! It just needs a string of onions around his neck and a beret for the full clichéd Frenchman on a bike look

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

It's raining a little. Five man break have 2:30 with 45 to go. Cousin, Conca, Grosu, Bleier aaaand....forgot about who the fifth is. But it doesn't matter much, does it. they willl be caught anyhow.

 

[Escarabajo]

Anybody has a workable link for the US? I just don't know where to access this race in the US.
Thanks in advance.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

tiz-cycling-live.tv

 

[Escarabajo]

Thanks.

 

[Bonimenier]

Is the leaders jersey designed by a 5 year old?

 

[Lequack]

Is the leaders jersey designed by a 5 year old?

It's just French high fashion.

 

[SafeBet]

Is the leaders jersey designed by a 5 year old?

Lol for the whole stage I thought that was Asgreen with a DQS waistcoat over his NC jersey!

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Is the leaders jersey designed by a 5 year old?

Still better than the EF duck though.

Not surprised at this heading towards a sprint, the climbs just aren't steep at all.

 

[RedheadDane]

Alaphilippe gets slightly ahead by taking the right way around a rounabout. But it seems like he changed his mind, and now two guys (Lotto and Movistar) are ahead-ish.

 

[hayneplane]

Looks a horrible day to be out on the bike. Should be a nice finale at least before the main course of the race up Ventoux.

 

[SafeBet]

Matteo on the attack!

 

[TomLPC]

Alaph and Vlasov down on the white paint

Edit: they look ok