Stage 21 *spoiler*

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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Good hectic sprint. Was great that the commentary on the stage today was nice and balanced with the constant need to mention Cavendish every few seconds removed.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    mfin wrote:
    Good hectic sprint. Was great that the commentary on the stage today was nice and balanced with the constant need to mention Cavendish every few seconds removed.
    You should follow their example.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    Great ride from Froome/Sky. Sagan has to be the best rider overall.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    RichN95 wrote:
    mfin wrote:
    Good hectic sprint. Was great that the commentary on the stage today was nice and balanced with the constant need to mention Cavendish every few seconds removed.
    You should follow their example.

    I mentioned him once in that post and making a valid point.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    What's with the skis?
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Sagan's rear wheel was really losing it at the end there. Not sure it cost him the win really at all but it would have been a popular win had he done so.
  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
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  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    RichN95 wrote:
    mfin wrote:
    Good hectic sprint. Was great that the commentary on the stage today was nice and balanced with the constant need to mention Cavendish every few seconds removed.
    You should follow their example.

    Late post of the tour.


    I've enjoyed this edition very much and my man won. I'd give it an 8 out of 10.
  • zammmmo
    zammmmo Posts: 315
    Great result - pleased for Chris Froome, but that said, it's not often you see a pro sportsman with skinnier legs than any of the podium girls.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Goodie tooshoes hahaha
    _
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    I am really pleased for Bardet. And I will now admit that I no longer dislike Sagan, the boy's grown up.

    And thank god Leslie Garrett isn't here this year.

    And I feel sorry for anyone having to do this speech after Bradley's 'drawing the raffle'.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • secretsqirrel
    secretsqirrel Posts: 2,119
    Above The Cows wrote:

    And thank god Leslie Garrett isn't here this year.

    And I feel sorry for anyone having to do this speech after Bradley's 'drawing the raffle'.

    Yeah after that I prayed that a brit would never win again. One cringe after another.
  • jscl
    jscl Posts: 1,015
    J Rod keeps 7th.

    They've officially maintained the times from yesterday.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Goodie tooshoes hahaha

    Ok maybe a little premature.

    Said all the right things.
    _
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Shadowrider wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    mfin wrote:
    Good hectic sprint. Was great that the commentary on the stage today was nice and balanced with the constant need to mention Cavendish every few seconds removed.
    You should follow their example.

    Late post of the tour.


    I've enjoyed this edition very much and my man won. I'd give it an 8 out of 10.

    Seriously? I disagree with the 'most boring Tour ever' posts but an 8/10?
  • hypster
    hypster Posts: 1,229
    Time gaps abandoned apparently so GC as per the start of the stage. Great Tour, great winner in a great team.
  • kleinstroker
    kleinstroker Posts: 2,133
    superb tracking shot of the sprint, wish we could see all of them like that!
  • Shadowrider
    Shadowrider Posts: 483
    Pross wrote:
    Shadowrider wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    mfin wrote:
    Good hectic sprint. Was great that the commentary on the stage today was nice and balanced with the constant need to mention Cavendish every few seconds removed.
    You should follow their example.

    Late post of the tour.


    I've enjoyed this edition very much and my man won. I'd give it an 8 out of 10.

    Seriously? I disagree with the 'most boring Tour ever' posts but an 8/10?

    Yup it had everything:

    Cav got 4 wins, wore Yellow for the first time, became second best stage winner of all time.
    Cummings win
    Froome raced his best race of his career, and attacked a descent
    The cross winds stage
    Mont Ventoux drama
    Adam Yates and Meintjes showed they will be future Grand tour challengers
    Sagan has been great value
    Tom Dumoulin and De Gendt got wins
    Edward Thuens had a day in white




    Infact if it was only for cav's 4 wins I'd have given it 8.
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Obviously, this Tour was awful. Already I can't remember any of it. So I thought I'd do my potted history of the previous 10 years.
    2006 Tour: rubbish. Farcical dopers take chunks out of each other- result irrelevant, waste of everyone's time.
    2007 Tour: rubbish. Only entertainment coming from more farcical dopers taking chunks out of each other whilst stoic serial plodding Aussie brings up the rear.
    2008 Tour: rubbish. Late bit of entertainment comes from serial plodding Spaniard (good climber: hung on in TTs) mugging his own teammates, the Schluckle Brothers, for the win.
    2009 Tour: rubbish. Can't remember much other than famous doping Yank getting dropped and eventually removed from podium finish to be replaced by serial plodding Brit (good in TTs: hung on on climbs).
    2010 Tour: rubbish. Chain fell off- yawn!
    2011 Tour: rubbish. Serial plodding Aussie (good in TTs: hung on on climbs) finally has his plodding rewarded. Whoop-De-doo...
    2012 Tour: rubbish. Serial plodding Brit sets power meter upper and lower zones at start of race - maintains it all way to Paris.
    2013 Tour: rubbish. Serial plodding Brit(ish) Mark II tries to pull wool over eyes of traditionalists by cynically adding erratic and unmatchable speed to serial plodding.
    2014 Tour: rubbish. Awful, in fact. Victory handed to serial plodding Sicilian who carries on serial plodding when all proper GC hopes have crashed out. Travesty.
    2015 Tour: rubbish. Plucky Colombian serial plodders have a vain crack at Brit(ish) serial plodder (the cynical one) who pretends to be peeky to maintain some sort of interest. Bless 'em.

    It's an awful sport with nothing to commend it if the Tour is regarded as its pinnacle. Roll on tomorrow when we've got a full 49 weeks before this dreary bag of sh!t starts up again.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Today Haimar Zubeldia moved into the top tens of most Tour finishes and participations.

    Of course nobody noticed.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,649
    RichN95 wrote:
    Today Haimar Zubeldia moved into the top tens of most Tour finishes and participations.

    Of course nobody noticed.

    :shock:

    :lol:
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    RichN95 wrote:
    Today Haimar Zubeldia moved into the top tens of most Tour finishes and participations.

    Of course nobody noticed.

    We did actually get to see something of Zubeldia this Tour and they even interviewed him on the Cycling Podcast. I should have added Zubeldia 'presence' to my reasons why it was good.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • adr82
    adr82 Posts: 4,002
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Obviously, this Tour was awful. Already I can't remember any of it. So I thought I'd do my potted history of the previous 10 years.
    2006 Tour: rubbish. Farcical dopers take chunks out of each other- result irrelevant, waste of everyone's time.
    2007 Tour: rubbish. Only entertainment coming from more farcical dopers taking chunks out of each other whilst stoic serial plodding Aussie brings up the rear.
    2008 Tour: rubbish. Late bit of entertainment comes from serial plodding Spaniard (good climber: hung on in TTs) mugging his own teammates, the Schluckle Brothers, for the win.
    2009 Tour: rubbish. Can't remember much other than famous doping Yank getting dropped and eventually removed from podium finish to be replaced by serial plodding Brit (good in TTs: hung on on climbs).
    2010 Tour: rubbish. Chain fell off- yawn!
    2011 Tour: rubbish. Serial plodding Aussie (good in TTs: hung on on climbs) finally has his plodding rewarded. Whoop-De-doo...
    2012 Tour: rubbish. Serial plodding Brit sets power meter upper and lower zones at start of race - maintains it all way to Paris.
    2013 Tour: rubbish. Serial plodding Brit(ish) Mark II tries to pull wool over eyes of traditionalists by cynically adding erratic and unmatchable speed to serial plodding.
    2014 Tour: rubbish. Awful, in fact. Victory handed to serial plodding Sicilian who carries on serial plodding when all proper GC hopes have crashed out. Travesty.
    2015 Tour: rubbish. Plucky Colombian serial plodders have a vain crack at Brit(ish) serial plodder (the cynical one) who pretends to be peeky to maintain some sort of interest. Bless 'em.

    It's an awful sport with nothing to commend it if the Tour is regarded as its pinnacle. Roll on tomorrow when we've got a full 49 weeks before this dreary bag of sh!t starts up again.
    *applause*
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ^ Indeed.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Below is the top ten in terms of average stage finishing position:

    20.0 VALVERDE Alejandro
    21.0 QUINTANA Nairo
    22.0 KREUZIGER Roman
    22.4 FROOME Christopher
    25.8 MARTIN Daniel
    26.6 YATES Adam
    26.8 ARU Fabio
    27.2 PORTE Richie
    27.9 BARDET Romain
    34.3 MOLLEMA Bauke

    Not really a surprise but I just put all the stage results into a spreadsheet so I'm posting it. You're welcome.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Oh and if anyone wants to know why I just spent Sunday evening putting numbers into spreadsheets it's because I read a particularly boneheaded thread (sorry HD if you read this...) in the Cake Stop where someone asked earlier in the Tour why if Cav has won 4 stages he isn't the race leader. That lead me to wonder what the GC might look like if you did that.
  • fleshtuxedo
    fleshtuxedo Posts: 1,858
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Below is the top ten in terms of average stage finishing position:

    20.0 VALVERDE Alejandro
    21.0 QUINTANA Nairo
    22.0 KREUZIGER Roman
    22.4 FROOME Christopher
    25.8 MARTIN Daniel
    26.6 YATES Adam
    26.8 ARU Fabio
    27.2 PORTE Richie
    27.9 BARDET Romain
    34.3 MOLLEMA Bauke

    Not really a surprise but I just put all the stage results into a spreadsheet so I'm posting it. You're welcome.

    Wrong, those are their seatpost diameters. Ritchie playing the percentages with 27.2.
  • ben@31
    ben@31 Posts: 2,327
    Onboard Go-Pro footage of stage 21... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvVXCjKupwE
    kleinstroker wrote:
    superb tracking shot of the sprint, wish we could see all of them like that!

    From 0:49 on here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfARUz9ak-k


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  • keydon
    keydon Posts: 144
    mfin wrote:
    Sagan's rear wheel was really losing it at the end there. Not sure it cost him the win really at all but it would have been a popular win had he done so.

    It definately cost him the win, he had no traction for a bit and his power was still going through, it's a very similar spot to where ChavAnguish popped a rear wheelie a few years back.
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    keydon wrote:
    mfin wrote:
    Sagan's rear wheel was really losing it at the end there. Not sure it cost him the win really at all but it would have been a popular win had he done so.

    It definitely cost him the win, he had no traction for a bit and his power was still going through, it's a very similar spot to where ChavAnguish popped a rear wheelie a few years back.

    Mark Renshaw mentioned it on itv4 coverage, basically saying it's a rubbish bit of road on that side. Better, faster bit of road is in the middle.

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