TDF 2019, Stage 21: Rambouillet > Paris Champs-Élysées 28/07/2019 - 128 km *Spoilers*

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    The sheer speed of Ewan and Groenewegen compared to the others.
  • ShutupJens
    ShutupJens Posts: 1,373
    Greipel gets a top 10
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Now Bernal has a million quid minder.
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  • FocusZing
    FocusZing Posts: 4,373
    You could see Ewan keeping his weight on the back wheel.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Groenewegen and Ewan a clear class above the others there.

    Paris looked lovely.

    My flight is 45 mins delayed which gave me just enough time to watch the sprint!
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    Cummings sounds like retiring is on his mind from that ITV interview
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,649
    Did I miss the team classification presentation? Damn!
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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,115
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Did I miss the team classification presentation? Damn!

    Didn't see it yet.

    Bardet for the Giro next year maybe.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Did I miss the team classification presentation? Damn!

    They couldn't do it.
    Half the team were at the podium, but the other half had gone up the road.
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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,598
    davidof wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Did I miss the team classification presentation? Damn!

    Didn't see it yet.

    Bardet for the Giro next year maybe.

    He needs to seriously target some 1 week races when the big boys aren't fully on it. He needs to learn how to win.
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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,115
    Well that beats the British national anthem anyway
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  • slim_boy_fat
    slim_boy_fat Posts: 1,810
    22 years old, just won the tour and without batting an eyelid thanks various people in four different languages. Chapeau Egan!
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    davidof wrote:
    Well that beats the British national anthem anyway
    Dead right !
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,649
    Poor lad. People keep asking him to hold stuff when he's already got his hands full.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,649
    Blazing Saddles wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    Did I miss the team classification presentation? Damn!

    They couldn't do it.
    Half the team were at the podium, but the other half had gone up the road.

    :lol:
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  • richard_t._biscuit
    richard_t._biscuit Posts: 246
    knedlicky wrote:
    davidof wrote:
    Well that beats the British national anthem anyway
    Dead right !
    Low bar :)
  • hypster
    hypster Posts: 1,229
    Acceptance speech in English, Italian, Spanish and French is just showing off now.

    He'll be hosting the Eurovision Song Contest next!
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    team presentation was just after the GC podium presentation, was shown a bit on Le Tours live instagram feed.
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,598
    hypster wrote:
    Acceptance speech in English, Italian, Spanish and French is just showing off now.

    He'll be hosting the Eurovision Song Contest next!

    There'll be a tweet from him with his real voice soon... and he'll be a manc.
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  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,814
    Matt Rendell has enormous ears. BFG like.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    **** me, I've just started updating the Lanterne thread and seen that Aru is listed amongst the finishers of today's stage. When did he join this year's tour, and since when were subs allowed?
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Great stage. Really interesting commentary from someone on the importance of EB win in Colombia. Likened it to USA putting a man on the moon, such is the significance of someone from a small village winning the TdF.

    Loved the route past the Louvre (was that the skeleton of Notre Dame they went past?).

    Not a fan of Millars voice but insight is interesting.

    Evening light down the Champs looked epic.

    All over till next year. Massive thank you from me to all the posts on these threads and especially to the thread starter.
    Didn't get to watch much live but following it here is better than most live tickers. Hoping for similar levels of commitment for the Vuelta, too!

    Tomorrow will feel like an anticlimax, that's for sure.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Not a race to get forgotten that one.

    Thanks to bs for threads.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Just seen social media pics of one of my old club mates dishing out the post race Ineos beers. Never used to get them in for me when I took him out drinking!
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    Shirley Basso wrote:
    Massive thank you from me to all the posts on these threads and especially to the thread starter.
    Seconded - thanks everyone. I'd stupidly forgotten to check the calendar when agreeing holidays (I'd like to claim it's my vast experience telling me the third week is always crap, but...) so this has largely been my way of keeping in touch with all the things we love and not just the final result of each stage.

    Don't flatter yourselves too much mind. It's still better on telly.!
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    So who wants to be hear a song about Egan Bernal: https://youtu.be/22bNzpHTEcI
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  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    Just curious, I thought they normally neutralised the GC race on arriving in Paris, or maybe with 1 or two laps to go so that they get the GC winning team to finish in formation - did that not happen on Sunday, looked like they were very carefully making sure Bernal got the finish in the main group?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    larkim wrote:
    Just curious, I thought they normally neutralised the GC race on arriving in Paris, or maybe with 1 or two laps to go so that they get the GC winning team to finish in formation - did that not happen on Sunday, looked like they were very carefully making sure Bernal got the finish in the main group?

    Only when it's wet.
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  • hypster
    hypster Posts: 1,229
    I always get a bit nervous about the last stage in Paris for all sorts of riders and if it's just a celebratory procession why don't they just neutralise the GC race? There were a couple of late mechanicals in the stage yesterday and imagine if that happened to Bernal or Thomas in the last part of the last lap with no chance of getting back on?

    What would be the outcome there if one or both of them finished a minute down?
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,104
    hypster wrote:
    I always get a bit nervous about the last stage in Paris for all sorts of riders and if it's just a celebratory procession why don't they just neutralise the GC race? There were a couple of late mechanicals in the stage yesterday and imagine if that happened to Bernal or Thomas in the last part of the last lap with no chance of getting back on?

    What would be the outcome there if one or both of them finished a minute down?

    I know what you mean, sooner or later someone will lose the tour because of a touch of wheels in Paris.
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