TDF 2018, Stage 1: Noirmoutier-en-l'Île > Fontenay-le-Comte 07/07/2018 - 201 km *Spoilers*
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I didn't see the race. What happened to Sky? 21st in the team competition. Thomas the only Sky rider to make it with the leading group. Froome on his own in the Porte / Yates group.Did they all get caught behind crashes, work super hard for Froome and then sit up, or what?Team My Man 2022:
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DeadCalm wrote:I didn't see the race. What happened to Sky? 21st in the team competition. Thomas the only Sky rider to make it with the leading group. Froome on his own in the Porte / Yates group.Did they all get caught behind crashes, work super hard for Froome and then sit up, or what?
Good question, Is that Kwia dodging him in the screenshot above? Did the Bernal crash split Sky up and leave Froome without any protection, leading to the second accident? Would be interesting to see it picked apart.
(eta - to dodge my own question, of course it isn't Kwia - he's not Polish champ, is he? mea culpa - in which case it looks like Froome was totally isolated and moving up alone. Suggestive.)0 -
Bernal random crash.
FROOME touched a wheel and unluckily went flying.
Team waited for Froome except G as it's joint leadership0 -
Shirley Basso wrote:Bernal random crash.
FROOME touched a wheel and unluckily went flying.
Team waited for Froome except G as it's joint leadership
Not sure this is true though, as why would they end up split up behind Froome in that scenario? Sure, they might have waited, but you'd expect them to roll in as a bloc. Something's gone wrong (I mean, more wrong than two of their riders crashing)0 -
Kwaitkowski is indeed the Polish champion. However, the rider in the picture is Lukas Postlberger of Bora, the Austrian champion.underlayunderlay wrote:Good question, Is that Kwia dodging him in the screenshot above? Did the Bernal crash split Sky up and leave Froome without any protection, leading to the second accident? Would be interesting to see it picked apart.
(eta - to dodge my own question, of course it isn't Kwia - he's not Polish champ, is he? mea culpa - in which case it looks like Froome was totally isolated and moving up alone. Suggestive.)Twitter: @RichN950 -
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Poels was caught up in the same crash as bernal before Froome crashed. The rest of sky were in front of Froome, but he lost them a bit and crashed trying to go through a non existent gap to get back to them."Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago0
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They rode as hard as they could to get Froome into the Porte/Yates group, contributed what they had left and then dropped back. Most of BMC/Mitchelton also dropped off at the end.underlayunderlay wrote:Shirley Basso wrote:Bernal random crash.
FROOME touched a wheel and unluckily went flying.
Team waited for Froome except G as it's joint leadership
Not sure this is true though, as why would they end up split up behind Froome in that scenario? Sure, they might have waited, but you'd expect them to roll in as a bloc. Something's gone wrong (I mean, more wrong than two of their riders crashing)Twitter: @RichN950 -
Froome will not win the TdF
Because Stannard is not here
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