Tour de Romandie 2023, April 25-30

[tobydawq]

Today is the last day of the race with good weather. Next day rain is coming, si It Will be bad for some riders and good for another. Today stage with bad weather would have been quite selective for GC. Today no so much. But Queen stage is really hard, with bad weather could have been lot of withdraws

Too bad. Froome doesn't like the cold, so he will probably struggle.

 

[Rob5091]

Chapeau to Ethan & QS - but former sprint leadout man, Bardet (he lead out Dainese at the Giro last year), is a sprinter in his own right it seems!
Bye bye Cav - does not look good for the GT's at this rate. He might get together one decent sprint but getting over the lumpy bits might be his biggest problem.
James Knox is another gone down "with sickness" and is a DNS today. Is this Covid going around or something else?

 

[SafeBet]

James Knox is another gone down "with sickness" and is a DNS today. Is this Covid going around or something else?

Imagine ilmaestro's disdain when QS decides to ride for Cerny's GC instead of Masnada...

 

[Rob5091]

(T)rain stops play ... smart to have a level crossing just before a sprint - what could possibly go wrong?!

 

[Samamba]

Vernon and Menten already at the back.
Hayter too, but I don't think that means anything.

I don't think any sprinter apart from maybe Hayter can survive this. Nys maybe. Could be interesting if he survives.

What is Jumbo trying tho? Do they want to win the stage?

 

[RedheadDane]

What is Jumbo trying tho? Do they want to win the stage?

They're past the sprint, so probably not trying to get non-existant bonus seconds.

 

[Samamba]

Do they want to win the sprint with Foss himself?

 

[Valv.Piti]

This is some tough racing.

 

[Red Rick]

This final is identical to stage 1 in 2019. Roglic won from a 20 man group

 

[Samamba]

Vauquelin must also be sick

 

[Escarabajo]

Higuita gone!!!

Sick probably!

 

[Samamba]

Higuita also gone

 

[JosefK]

New yellow jersey incoming.

 

[Red Rick]

We're at the stage where Froome dropping gets one mention and that's it.

 

[Samamba]

Higuita gone!!!

Sick probably!

He has been horrible in the classics too, if he was sick he shouldnt be riding here

 

[JosefK]

We're at the stage where Froome dropping gets one mention and that's it.

Back to Barloworld form.

 

[Samamba]

Still don't know what Jumbo is planning to do, but they're going hard

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Hayter, Cort, Nys, Arndt all still there.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

WTF is cavagma doing, he is only team mate to Fausto in the peloton and he sits at the back. Meanwhile fausto pushing a little bit of wind to keep his position at the front 20 . Please can they give him some support ?! They race for a WT gc win

 

[Tim Cahill]

Jumbo riding like they have peak Spilak in the group rather than young Tommy Gloag

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Jumbo win another intermediate sprint!

 

[Sciatic]

1.5 Km Climb of 8 % starts at 15 Km to go, hope to see some attacks.

 

[HelloDolly]

I dont get the Masnada obsession

 

[Sciatic]

Gorgeous

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Some nice landscape they have in Switzerland.