Grand Départ Covid Countdown: General Chat and Info thread.
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Connor swift appears to have made the Arkéa Samsic team meaning 4 British riders in the Tour. It's not the riches of some recent years but a big improvement on when I first started following cycling in the 80s.0
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We'll always have yellow leading out rainbow on the Champs Elysee...DeadCalm said:Connor swift appears to have made the Arkéa Samsic team meaning 4 British riders in the Tour. It's not the riches of some recent years but a big improvement on when I first started following cycling in the 80s.
DK will have rainbow in the break being chased by the Dannebrog of Asgreen
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Apparently UAE have now confirmed their line up.
ARU Fabio Italy
DE LA CRUZ MELGAREJO David Spain
FORMOLO Davide Italy
KRISTOFF Alexander Norway
LAENGEN Vegard Stake Norway
MARCATO Marco Italy
POGACAR Tadej Slovenia
POLANC Jan Slovenia"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
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Some good climbers in there...blazing_saddles said:Apparently UAE have now confirmed their line up.
ARU Fabio Italy
DE LA CRUZ MELGAREJO David Spain
FORMOLO Davide Italy
KRISTOFF Alexander Norway
LAENGEN Vegard Stake Norway
MARCATO Marco Italy
POGACAR Tadej Slovenia
POLANC Jan Slovenia0 -
Dan Martin?RichN95. said:DeadCalm said:Connor swift appears to have made the Arkéa Samsic team meaning 4 British riders in the Tour. It's not the riches of some recent years but a big improvement on when I first started following cycling in the 80s.
Yates, Swift, Rowe. Who's the fourth?
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Could be worse.No_Ta_Doctor said:
Dan Martin?RichN95. said:DeadCalm said:Connor swift appears to have made the Arkéa Samsic team meaning 4 British riders in the Tour. It's not the riches of some recent years but a big improvement on when I first started following cycling in the 80s.
Yates, Swift, Rowe. Who's the fourth?
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Only a matter of time before y'all claim Dunbar“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Has quickstep confirmed a team?“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0
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Alaphillipe, Sam Bennett, Morkov, Asgreen, Tim De Clerq, Devenyns, Jungels, Stybartailwindhome said:Has quickstep confirmed a team?
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If anyone can face watching.....takethehighroad said:
Alaphillipe, Sam Bennett, Morkov, Asgreen, Tim De Clerq, Devenyns, Jungels, Stybartailwindhome said:Has quickstep confirmed a team?
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
nickice: The classics seem like they'll be more manageable.
Nah you haven't thought that through I mean how can hauling 22 teams around a whole country for three weeks be more manageable than some one day cross country traipse along roads only beloved by farmers
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...'Do not compare your bike to others, for always there will be greater and lesser bikes'0
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Yes.tailwindhome said:Has quickstep confirmed a team?
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I don't know, Trek-Segafredo - who could that masked man in the rainbow bands possibly be? #LeastConvincingDisguiseSinceSuperman
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Hugo Houle was false positive for Covid as well, and is now back on the Tour team for Astana.
If it's only getting 50% right, does the test pass?"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
In fairness, no. But what are they going to do? Is this not a classic 'rock and a hard place' scenario for the organisers?blazing_saddles said:Hugo Houle was false positive for Covid as well, and is now back on the Tour team for Astana.
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Now confirmed.
AG2R LA MONDIALE
BARDET Romain France
CHEREL Mickaël France
COSNEFROY Benoit France
LATOUR Pierre France
NAESEN Oliver Belgium
PETERS Nans France
VENTURINI Clément France
VUILLERMOZ Alexis France
ASTANA PRO TEAM
FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar Basque Country
HOULE Hugo Canada
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka Basque Country
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Ion Basque Country
LÓPEZ MORENO Miguel Ángel Colombia
LUTSENKO Alexey Kazahkstan
SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon Spain
TEJADA CANACUE Harold Colombia
COFIDIS
CONSONNI Simone Italy
EDET Nicolas France
HERRADA LOPEZ Jesús Spain
LAPORTE Christophe France
MARTIN Guillaume France
PEREZ Anthony France
PERICHON Pierre-Luc France
VIVIANI Elia Italy
DECEUNINCK - QUICK-STEP
ALAPHILIPPE Julian France
ASGREEN Kasper Denmark
BENNETT Sam Ireland
DECLERCQ Tim Belgium
DEVENYNS Dries Belgium
JUNGELS Bob Luxembourg
MORKOV Michael Denmark
STYBAR Zdenek Czech Republic
TOTAL DIRECT ENERGIE
BONIFAZIO Niccolo Italy
BURGAUDEAU Mathieu France
CALMEJANE Lilian France
COUSIN Jerome France
GRELLIER Fabien France
SICARD Romain Basque Country
SOUPE Geoffrey France
TURGIS Anthony France
TREK - SEGAFREDO
EG Niklas Denmark
ELISSONDE Kenny France
MOLLEMA Bauke Netherlands
PEDERSEN Mads Denmark
PORTE Richie Australia
SKUJINS Toms Latvia
STUYVEN Jasper Belgium
THEUNS Edward Belgium"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
A false positive rate of 1% is still likely to pick up at least a couple of riders even if they only get tested once, and presumably they're already being tested semi-regularly?blazing_saddles said:Hugo Houle was false positive for Covid as well, and is now back on the Tour team for Astana.
If it's only getting 50% right, does the test pass?
Might well be possible that teams are more likely to be knocked out of the tour by two false positives than by two people actually contracting Covid19 though - I've always found probability quite hard so I'll let somebody else play with the possible numbers. At the least you'd hope the protocols for testing (and confirming them) are as tight as they can be.0 -
This wasn't particularly droll when I posted it but, for some reason, it needed to be approved by a moderator and took several hours to appear, so is even less amusing. Doh!DeadCalm said:
Yes.tailwindhome said:Has quickstep confirmed a team?
Alaphilippe
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I'm assuming that this was a cut and paste job from somewhere, but since when was Basque Country separate from Spain...blazing_saddles said:
ASTANA PRO TEAM
FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar Basque Country
HOULE Hugo Canada
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka Basque Country
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Ion Basque Country
LÓPEZ MORENO Miguel Ángel Colombia
LUTSENKO Alexey Kazahkstan
SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon Spain
TEJADA CANACUE Harold Colombia
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Don't they also have Basque flags rather than Spanish? I guess the team announce based on what the rider wants but doubt it will show that way in any official results.dish_dash said:
I'm assuming that this was a cut and paste job from somewhere, but since when was Basque Country separate from Spain...blazing_saddles said:
ASTANA PRO TEAM
FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar Basque Country
HOULE Hugo Canada
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka Basque Country
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Ion Basque Country
LÓPEZ MORENO Miguel Ángel Colombia
LUTSENKO Alexey Kazahkstan
SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon Spain
TEJADA CANACUE Harold Colombia0 -
A surprising number of tub thumpers get wound up by Thomas having a Welsh flag next to his name.dish_dash said:
I'm assuming that this was a cut and paste job from somewhere, but since when was Basque Country separate from Spain...blazing_saddles said:
ASTANA PRO TEAM
FRAILE MATARRANZ Omar Basque Country
HOULE Hugo Canada
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka Basque Country
IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Ion Basque Country
LÓPEZ MORENO Miguel Ángel Colombia
LUTSENKO Alexey Kazahkstan
SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon Spain
TEJADA CANACUE Harold Colombia0 -
TBH I only asked about quickstep's team as, 'Is Sam Bennett' riding seemed a bit parochialDeadCalm said:
This wasn't particularly droll when I posted it but, for some reason, it needed to be approved by a moderator and took several hours to appear, so is even less amusing. Doh!DeadCalm said:
Yes.tailwindhome said:Has quickstep confirmed a team?
Alaphilippe
A. N. Other
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False negatives are much more likely with the current PCR swab test - I was told 25-30% by my GP (who won't let me in for a blood test even though I have a negative swab test).Lanterne_Rogue said:
A false positive rate of 1% is still likely to pick up at least a couple of riders even if they only get tested once, and presumably they're already being tested semi-regularly?blazing_saddles said:Hugo Houle was false positive for Covid as well, and is now back on the Tour team for Astana.
If it's only getting 50% right, does the test pass?
Might well be possible that teams are more likely to be knocked out of the tour by two false positives than by two people actually contracting Covid19 though - I've always found probability quite hard so I'll let somebody else play with the possible numbers. At the least you'd hope the protocols for testing (and confirming them) are as tight as they can be.
As I understand it's due to how the test is taken (it's fairly unpleasant and a lot of people get it wrong) and if you take it too late or too early in the illness for it to be detected.1 -
Not only is your man riding, he's been given equal status to Alaphilippe by DQS.tailwindhome said:
TBH I only asked about quickstep's team as, 'Is Sam Bennett' riding seemed a bit parochialDeadCalm said:
This wasn't particularly droll when I posted it but, for some reason, it needed to be approved by a moderator and took several hours to appear, so is even less amusing. Doh!DeadCalm said:
Yes.tailwindhome said:Has quickstep confirmed a team?
Alaphilippe
Sam Bennett
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Yes, it looked pretty painful.rick_chasey said:The main question to me anyawy is how badly beaten up Roglic was in the crash.
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(wouldn't be unlike Equipe to over-egg that pudding though...)We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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