Tour de l’Ain and Critérium du Dauphiné 2020 *Spoilers*

Kauto5

Kirby absolutely ruins everything with his inane drivel. Really does spoil the spectacle, he needs to just be quiet for a few seconds every now and again, that would be an improvement.

Sorry, I know it's a boring topic but it really is frustrating hearing Stephens trying to get a sensible word in and having to wait until Kirby takes a breath once every 5 minutes.

rick_chasey

Preaching to the choir my friend, he’s abysmal - I literally won’t watch it if he’s on.


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Dumoulin kicking off about the descent that did for so many big names today.

blazing_saddles

NOS.

His leader Primoz Roglic was also involved in a crash. The Slovenian apparently rode to the finish without any problems, but stumbled off his bike. According to sports director Grischa Niermann, Roglic has been hit harder than expected. The question is whether he will leave for the final stage on Sunday.

bobmcstuff

Kauto5 said:

Kirby absolutely ruins everything with his inane drivel. Really does spoil the spectacle, he needs to just be quiet for a few seconds every now and again, that would be an improvement.

Sorry, I know it's a boring topic but it really is frustrating hearing Stephens trying to get a sensible word in and having to wait until Kirby takes a breath once every 5 minutes.

As I commented yesterday Stephens just completely contradicted Kirby, Kirby was on about Roglic going on the front himself which was obviously rubbish because there were 2 yellow jerseys there and it was Kuss.

Kirby is an embarrassment to Eurosport and they should drop him. Stephens and a more recent ex pro would do a better job. Useless.

gweeds

Roglic might not start tomorrow. Finished the stage after his crash and didn’t feel well.

You do wonder when cycling is going to start doing proper head injury assessments.

RichN95.

Roglic has dropped out

50x11

Yeah Roglic out, due to injuries in crash

pblakeney

Pinot in yellow, and a tight race behind.
Just shows, never give up hope.

bobmcstuff

RichN95. said:

Roglic has dropped out

I'll extend the deadline by 30 minutes if anyone wants to change PTP from Roglic today... given I have only just seen this!

blazing_saddles

pblakeney said:

Pinot in yellow, and a tight race behind.
Just shows, never give up hope.

He will probably crack under the weight of expectation.

DeadCalm

Bonkers start by the sound of it.

blazing_saddles

DeadCalm said:

Bonkers start by the sound of it.

Indeed.

Looks as if Dumoulin is trying to salvage Jumbo's GC grip.
Currently Lutsenko, Sivakov, Alaphilippe, Dumoulin, Kuss, Bardet, De la Cruz and Pogacar have opened a small gap on the Col de Romme.

A pity the second half of the stage is naf compared to the first half.

rick_chasey

bobmcstuff said:

RichN95. said:

Roglic has dropped out

I'll extend the deadline by 30 minutes if anyone wants to change PTP from Roglic today... given I have only just seen this!

Absolutely outrageous flex

bobmcstuff

rick_chasey said:

bobmcstuff said:

RichN95. said:

Roglic has dropped out

I'll extend the deadline by 30 minutes if anyone wants to change PTP from Roglic today... given I have only just seen this!

Absolutely outrageous flex

Nobody took up on it anyway...

blazing_saddles

Quite a surprise.

Mikel Landa (Bahrain-McLaren) has been dropped: +2'40''

Alaphilippe and Sivakov hold a slender 1 minute lead.

josame

fook had him at 40/1 at the tour - cramp apparently

blazing_saddles

Over the good stuff only the rubbish left.
13 riders including all the GC men chasing 2 as we wait for Eurosport to get their lazy butts into gear.

blazing_saddles

Sivakov wrecks it.

gweeds

That’s going to be sore in the morning.

But it’s another head impact with no apparent assessment.

blazing_saddles

gweeds said:

That’s going to be sore in the morning.

But it’s another head impact with no apparent assessment.

How can you carry that out though?

Automatic abandons for any questionable contact?

ddraver

Kirby & Stephens going on about it but didn't look too horrible to me. Lost it crossing a damp white line.

Biggest bruise will be to the ego.

Allaphillipe waiting/Sivakov powering back up

blazing_saddles

Pinot throws a tantrum.
Cooked.

ddraver

Main group fractures

Pog & Sup-air-man almost across

gweeds

blazing_saddles said:

gweeds said:

That’s going to be sore in the morning.

But it’s another head impact with no apparent assessment.

How can you carry that out though?

Automatic abandons for any questionable contact?

I honestly don’t know. But that was quite an impact and as a sport we just ignore it.

I don’t know what the answer is but Roglic shouldn’t have been back on the bike yesterday.

ddraver

Pog away with Alla & a nervous Pav

josame

'It's opened a can of Pandora's box' wtaf

ddraver

Pav dangling on descentes but straight back in on the climb

Alla
Pog
Supairman
Martinez
Kiss

Now tête de la course

Pog and Pav go

Things happening faster than I can type

Barret with a Hail Mary from the chase group who be playin'

Sinkoff goes again, distancing Martinez

blazing_saddles

When Roglic went out the dominating train went with him and now it's every man for himself.

TheBigBean

blazing_saddles said:

gweeds said:

That’s going to be sore in the morning.

But it’s another head impact with no apparent assessment.

How can you carry that out though?

Automatic abandons for any questionable contact?

Last summer in the cricket, they proudly carried out the new concussion protocol and took Smith off the field. He passed the fancy new test and went back out to play. I doubt anyone who watched him play afterwards thought he should have passed. He was quite clearly concussed.

My conclusion was that it is not that easy to come up with a magic test.

blazing_saddles

LOL Kuss lights the after burners.