Tour de Suisse 2021 (June 6-13)

[Velolover2]

So the peloton goes up the cobbled tremola street today? On Pentecost it was initially said to be still closed as well!

At least that's what I read in the Blick tabloid back then!

PCS has changed the route to cobbled.

Tour de Suisse 2021 Stage 8 results

Richard Carapaz is the winner of Tour de Suisse 2021, before Rigoberto Urán and Jakob Fuglsang. Gino Mäder is the winner of the final stage.

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[roundabout]

So the peloton goes up the cobbled tremola street today? On Pentecost it was initially said to be still closed as well!

At least that's what I read in the Blick tabloid back then!

Seems so, even if the info is a bit mixed.

8. Etappe - Tour de Suisse: 6. – 13. Juin 2021

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Edit: not mixed, seems to be also in the time schedule

https://www.tourdesuisse.ch/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/8Etappe_Marschtabelle_Original.pdf

I think the turn to the old road is at 23.8km to go

 

[staubsauger]

Yeah, it was confirmed by the Tour of Switzerland organization on Instagram 2 hours ago.

I was just confused when Migels mentioned it yesterday, because like I said on Pentecost they announced something different.

Nice!

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Great to see coverage starting already, wasn't expecting that

 

[BlueRoads]

Ninja becoming Samurai today??

 

[RedheadDane]

Danish commentators making some comparrissons to Dauphine 2017, when Fuglsang entered the finale stage 1:15 behind.
But of course, a main difference was that back then he was third coming into the finale stage, and benefitted from the Froome-Porte fight.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Go for it Poels!

 

[Barnacle Bill]

'Pilot fish of Messina' looking solid...

 

[Eclipse]

This has all the makings of a great stage

 

[BlueRoads]

Move over van der Poels and Evenepoels of this world, here comes Wout Poels with a 155km solo.

 

[Eclipse]

'Pilot fish of Messina' looking solid...

After that sprint for the KoM points perhaps the flounder is even more appropriate...

 

[gregrowlerson]

Move over van der Poels and Evenepoels of this world, here comes Wout Poels with a 155km solo.

I can see another section of this forum becoming very busy if this succeeds

 

[Eclipse]

Whew those were some crazy fast shots on the descent

 

[Red Rick]

After that sprint for the KoM points perhaps the flounder is even more appropriate...

What did he do?

 

[RedheadDane]

Something tells me we're gonna see a lot of DNFs and OTLs after the stage.

 

[BlueRoads]

Are UAE working for Costa or just training for the Tour?

 

[ice&fire]

There's a battle for the KOM jersey

 

[Eclipse]

What did he do?

Aggressively went after the first KOM points on the first climb, launched a beautiful full gas sprint, only to discover the others were competing, went backwards and finished 4th

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Chris Anker (commenting on TV2) just called lil-Nibs "the porbeagle from Messina"

For those that don't know, a porbeagle is a small shark species, predominantly living off herring (in Danish its called "Herring shark").

 

[glassmoon]

Chris Anker (commenting on TV2) just called lil-Nibs "the porbeagle from Messina"

For those that don't know, a porbeagle is a small shark species, predominantly living off herring (in Danish its called "Herring shark").

and opportunistic hunter

 

[gregrowlerson]

Chris Anker (commenting on TV2) just called lil-Nibs "the porbeagle from Messina"

For those that don't know, a porbeagle is a small shark species, predominantly living off herring (in Danish its called "Herring shark").

Unsuccessful beagle boy.

 

[Eclipse]

Shame (albeit understandable) the gap didn't go as far as 5 mins. Poels setting off a la Padun from the bottom of the final climb could have got things really interesting.

Still should be plenty of fun if they team up against Carapaz in the main group (or if Richie wants to put on a show)

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Kragh keeps attacking.

Clearly the gap to the GC riders is far from big enough, and too many don't want to work.

Best case scenario is he get's 2-3 other riders to join him, that actually want to work to extend the lead.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

"Screw you guys, I'm taking a pee break"

 

[Broccolidwarf]

There is an Ag2R party going on at the back of the peloton.