Tour de Romandie 2023, April 25-30

[Devil's Elbow]

Cavendish apparently already dropped.

 

[Rob5091]

Ineos of late have the habit of being good at setting up other team's riders. Cav's gone already I see.

 

[Samamba]

I mean it's pretty logical that Cav and probably other sprinters would drop on this climb. It's a pretty hard one. Question is can Ineos keep going. Still 100k to go after the top.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Doesn't look like that many riders hace been dropped...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1651210834767478786

 

[Samamba]

But Vernon is also dropped and he's not super bad uphill.

Obviously it's never going to be a lot of riders as unlike a GT the riders riding here are mostly guys who can climb a bit.

 

[johnymax]

Doesn't look like that many riders hace been dropped...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1651210834767478786

I counted 143 riders. How many did you count?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Cort apparently dropped too, falling ill as well or simply on bad form?

 

[Salvarani]

Bernal in trouble according to PCS.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

GC hope Cerny also dropped

 

[Devil's Elbow]

GC hope Cerny also dropped

@Ilmaestro99 rejoices.

Until Masnada gets dropped, that is.

 

[Samamba]

Yeah no way that video was at the top of the climb as all those riders were still in it on the video.
I think that was before the 2nd part of the climb.

 

[Samamba]

Think guys like Cerny and Vernon will come back tho, but Ineos willl try to drop them again later today.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Bernal fourth through the KOM, so pulling in the peloton rather than in trouble.

 

[Salvarani]

Bernal fourth through the KOM, so pulling in the peloton rather than in trouble.

PCS removed that he was struggling from their live feed, as well.

 

[SafeBet]

Bernal fourth through the KOM, so pulling in the peloton rather than in trouble.

My day just got better.

 

[Samamba]

But Bernal and Castroviejo pulling the peloton says a lot about the pace lmao. Rip sprinters. They hate that Ineos has become such a bad GC team, all they're left with is trying to win stages with Hayter.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Černy is back according to PCS

 

[search]

Cort apparently dropped too, falling ill as well or simply on bad form?

he is doing Giro + Tour, so a bit of a slow build-up probably makes sense

 

[Mayomaniac]

Ineos of late have the habit of being good at setting up other team's riders. Cav's gone already I see.

I mean, on this kind of stage riding hard to set up Hayter actually makes sense for them.

 

[Samamba]

Abandon Simon Yates......

 

[Devil's Elbow]

But Bernal and Castroviejo pulling the peloton says a lot about the pace lmao. Rip sprinters. They hate that Ineos has become such a bad GC team, all they're left with is trying to win stages with Hayter.

But it also tells us that Ineos won't have many riders left after they push hard up the final climb. They were already down to five at the bottom of the second KOM. And I don't know who's going to help them if the likes of Gaviria are gone too after the final KOM, which suggests that most of the sprinters not named Cavendish should be fine in the end.

 

[Escarabajo]

From race radio:

YATES Simon (Team Jayco AlUla) abandoned the race.

 

[Samamba]

But it also tells us that Ineos won't have many riders left after they push hard up the final climb. They were already down to five at the bottom of the second KOM. And I don't know who's going to help them if the likes of Gaviria are gone too after the final KOM, which suggests that most of the sprinters not named Cavendish should be fine in the end.

Yeah if there's sprinters in a group together like 1min behind max. and they all have teammates, they can come back. Thinking about QS for Vernon, Lotto for Menten, Movistar for Gaviria, ...

 

[search]

From race radio:

YATES Simon (Team Jayco AlUla) abandoned the race.

another one of those who fell sick after Itzulia

 

[Samamba]

Definitely a group back in the peloton. Vernon is at the front of it already.