UAE Tour 2021, February 21 - February 27

[Lequack]

Jumbo is not happy with the break and are chasing it back. Gap went from 3 mins to 2.

 

[sir fly]

It's very noble to put the wealth and power at architects' disposal to express their talent and knowledge.
Spirit of the renaissance.

 

[Lequack]

Seeems Jumbo just wanted to win the intermediate sprint for 4th place so they can keep David Dekker in the points jersey.

 

[RedheadDane]

Seeems Jumbo just wanted to win the intermediate sprint for 4th place so they can keep David Dekker in the points jersey.

Wouldn't be fair of Pogacar to win all* the jerseys after all!

*Or... maybe it's not all, not sure what that black jersey signifies.

 

[Lequack]

So how can they beat Sam Bennet today? Surely by not changing anything and hoping he becomes weaker by himself. Kind of seems a lot of the big teams will walk away with nothing much.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

a bit over the top thorough of them really. It’s almost impossible for him to lose green anyway.

im predicting Ackermann today. He looked fast yesterday and DQS will probably get it wrong at least once in a tour

 

[sir fly]

Wouldn't be fair of Pogacar to win all* the jerseys after all!

*Or... maybe it's not all, not sure what that black jersey signifies.

Here you are, lazy weekend Viking

Black Jersey

Intermediate Sprint Classification: worn daily, starting from Stage 2, by the rider who has gained more Intermediate Sprint Points than any other rider.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

So how can they beat Sam Bennet today? Surely by not changing anything and hoping he becomes weaker by himself. Kind of seems a lot of the big teams will walk away with nothing much.

In sprinting that works surprisingly often! It’s not like coming to the bottom of the final mountain with the strongest guy and expecting him not to be the strongest suddenly. The strongest rarely sweeps the sprints.

 

[Breezy1985]

That doesn't mean that he didn't deviate from his line, use his shoulders to barge his way out of a hole and impede another rider. He tried the same yesterday and, rightly, was shoved back into the hole he'd made for himself. The fact is that Gaviria gave up on the contest far too easily ... perhaps with his own crashes and that of Jokobsen/Sarreau at the forefront of his mind. It's immaterial that no penalty was handed out.

Ewan seems to get away with a lot of stuff that other riders don't. If it was Sagan doing it there would be war on here and if it was Also there would be a nuclear meltdown

 

[RedheadDane]

Looks like we got live images just around the time the fun is starting.

 

[fuiers]

Echelons again. Dekker in the wrong bunch already

 

[fuiers]

Almeida also in the second group

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Almeida also in the second group

Quickstep sprint team working at the front; Quickstep GC team chasing. Doh!

 

[Lequack]

So Quickstep is pushing the front and back group at the same time?

 

[TomLPC]

Etix fail, it has been far too long

 

[johnymax]

So Quickstep is pushing the front and back group at the same time?

I told you. When Qucksteppers see there's wind, they want to have fun.

 

[fuiers]

And thats that.

 

[TomLPC]

Yates down right onto his face, back up but a fair bit of blood

 

[RedheadDane]

Huge crash. Yates down, bleedy heavily from the face.

 

[happytramp]

And thats that.

Not watching... What's what?

 

[johnymax]

BTW what happened to Vingegaard on the first MTF? He lost a lot of time while he obviously won on the second one. He was also great in the ITT. Potentially another future GT contender with his climbing and TT skills.

Yates down!

 

[fuiers]

Jeez that did not look good tbh. The pace was pretty slow thankfully.

 

[johnymax]

They are waiting for him

 

[fuiers]

Not watching... What's what?

There was a group with Yates, Pogacar, Bennett, Ewan, Gaviria that got a bit of echelon action. They got about 30 second gap, but then decided to slow down.

 

[RedheadDane]

BTW what happened to Vingegaard on the first MTF? He lost a lot of time while he obviously won on the second one.

Maybe he just took it easy? After all; he was already over 8 minutes behind.