TDF 2017: 23rd July - Montgeron / Paris Champs-Élysées - 103Kms *Spoilers*

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,327
    Woah, Greipel or Groenwegen?
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Well done Dylan.
    Rick will be stoked.

    Not the usual Sky over the line celebration.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,327
    Well in Rick's man!
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Wow Groenwegen by the look of it. Did well to hold off Greipel.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,327
    Bloody hell, he took that long.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Congrats Ricky!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • milton50
    milton50 Posts: 3,856
    Bouhanni proving again that he's a tier 3 sprinter with a tier 1 mouth.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,327
    Rick, Rick, you OK? Anyone got a defibrilator?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,711
    DYLAAAAAAAAAAAN
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,327
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    DYLAAAAAAAAAAAN

    Phew. You had me worried there.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Pierre Latour has parked up in the tunnel for the next 3 hours......
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Pierre Latour has parked up in the tunnel for the next 3 hours......

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  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    Clever from Groenewegen getting between Kristoff and his lead-man, I wonder if the lead-man knew Groenewegen, not Kristoff, was behind before he pulled off.
    And what a long sprint, 300 m?
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Well held sprint, all looked quite comfortable.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Chris Froome's 4th fluffed audition for a job on Jackanory there. Why doesn't he just give talking a go, he obviously finds it difficult when he has to read words at the same time.
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Knees has a smile straight out of the Aardman Animation book of facial expression
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,711
    knedlicky wrote:
    Clever from Groenewegen getting between Kristoff and his lead-man, I wonder if the lead-man knew Groenewegen, not Kristoff, was behind before he pulled off.
    And what a long sprint, 300 m?

    He got brought there to #2 spot and then chose the Katusha wheel as it came to the front - spent a good 200m in the wind and playing argy bargy wit Kristoff.

    It's the first sprint he's done in the Tour where he didn't have to stop pedalling at some point.

    He also seems to do better in the rain....


    The Dutch were quite excited for today - lots of chat about having a real sparkle in his eyes after yesterday's TT.
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    I'm curious what Rigo said to Froome - It looked like congrats to a level that took Froome back a bit.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    An Amsterdammer win!

    Yes!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,157
    yourpaceormine wrote:
    Knees has a smile straight out of the Aardman Animation book of facial expression
    And the stare of a man who has experienced great trauma. (Probably the kits at Milram)
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Well at least now the Lotto-Jumbo team car that parks around the corner from my apartment will be back and I can look at it and feel happy rather than a vague sense of disappointment.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Landa smiles. Stand down outraged social media scandal merchants.

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    Correlation is not causation.
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    mfin wrote:
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    Pierre Latour has parked up in the tunnel for the next 3 hours......
    He finished last, 6-02 down (but only 11 secs behind the next-to-last and only a minute or so behind a group of half-a-dozen which included the likes of Cummings, Roglic and Geshke).

    He did wait a long time for a new wheel, the mechanic concerned looked so incompetent, he has probably risked his job.
  • hypster
    hypster Posts: 1,229
    Interesting that Froome needed yet another bike change. Don't the Sky mechanics know how to charge Di2 batteries? :)

    Amazing that they had a spare yellow Pinarello on the car as well!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,711
    I'm so pleased for Dylan.

    I do think lotto need to get better at putting him in the right place - something the guys at DD do exceptionally well (look how flattering it is to third row sprinter EBH).

    With fewer teams to battle the plan worked out for lotto for once. He can wrestle and bang about a bit (though I noticed he consistently lost out to both Demare and Bouhani in week one) and he has the speed - we saw that in last year's Tour.

    His positioning in the final 1500 does need work though.

    In reality he was in the wrong spot again but had the legs to make up for it.

    He has absolutely the proper sprinter mentality. He's been very hungry for a win in the Tour and that has never really died down.

    Takes a lot of mental strength at 24 to be consistently beaten and still doing it on the final day.

    Though he would admit himself Kittel crashing has a lot to do with it. Think he even said a few days ago on Kittel's exit "yeah it's bad for him and bad for the race, so I feel for him; it's good for me though."
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  • secretsqirrel
    secretsqirrel Posts: 1,759
    i'm pleased for Dylan, anyone with a Welsh name is ok with me.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,711
    Lotto certainly picked two big stages for their wins; couldn't be more different.
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  • john1967
    john1967 Posts: 366
    mfin wrote:
    Chris Froome's 4th fluffed audition for a job on Jackanory there. Why doesn't he just give talking a go, he obviously finds it difficult when he has to read words at the same time.


    A bit unfair.How many other sports people are expected to make a speech to the crowd and world media in 2 languages half an hour after winning a major sports event. Granted it would be far better if he was interviewed on the podium.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,112
    SecretSqirrel wrote:
    i'm pleased for Dylan, anyone with a Welsh name is ok with me.

    I could sit and say "Dylan Groenewagen" out loud all day.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,711
    Wegen.

    Green roads, literally.

    Nominative determinism innit.
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