Stunning scenery today. Far greener than it can be in the furnace of July, after recent rain.
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[Other Sport] Tour de France 2020
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RandyWanger
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Very scenic route today, love the helicopter shots with the commentary tour guides. I need to go back
Stunning, we rode from Grenoble to Turin in '97 on a nearby route, past Huez through Briancon. one of the more memorable scooter rallies!
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We’ve been on the roads in yesterday’s and today’s stages en route to ski holidays, it’s beautiful.
Regarding the cycling, a mountain top finish today
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pb21
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We’ve been on the roads in yesterday’s and today’s stages en route to ski holidays, it’s beautiful.
Regarding the cycling, a mountain top finish today
Its shaping up for some potential fireworks, although this early on will probably turn out to be a couple of riders going off with 500 m to go...
Eurosport doing an ITV4 and suggesting Alaphilippe today all the way.
Purely to upset the oh so predictable script, I’d like anyone else.
RandyWanger
Je suis rôti de boeuf
Can you imagine crashing at speed into a guard rail, snapping your bike in half, getting up, grabbing a new bike and carrying on
Normal Rob
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Can you imagine crashing at speed into a guard rail, snapping your bike in half, getting up, grabbing a new bike and carrying on
Naaah. I'm better than that.
pb21
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I'm going for the old dog, Valverde.
This final climb.
Another great day ahead, the Cevennes is stunning. The Peloton should break up in the final 30km.
Poor Sam Bennett will lose the Green Jersey today, his Deceuninck team relatively ambling along.
Handing it to Sagan who’s in a group powering ahead kms in front, with his full team.
Handing it to Sagan who’s in a group powering ahead kms in front, with his full team.
Harsh on Deceuninck. Bora absolutely drilled it up the first climb then did not let up for 70km. Fact is Sagan can climb well enough for this pace up climbs, all the other sprinters cannot and were not attentive enough.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Nothing like a bit of cross wind to terrify a peloton.
As ever, an unpredictable race, Sagan didn‘t have it his own way in the sprint finish.
Until recently unassailable, is he now in decline in mass sprint finishes? We saw this with Cavendish and Cipolini, for example, in the end.
Didn't he ship his chain after bumping with another rider?
Watching it live on Eurosport, they felt there was a bump with and words exchanged with (I think) Alaphilippe.
Machiavelli
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A cracking stage of the Tour. And now for the Pyrenees.
Today’s race might be a brutal GC classic.
Then the week after next, this year’s crazy Tour route revisits The Alps.