Grand Départ 2020 - Stage 1: Nice - Moyen pays - Nice 156kms *Spoilers*

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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,095
    Bennet looking groggy
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    Or 93 ? Can't remember now
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,148

    Bashed up Bennett.
    Ineos 1 Jumbo 1

    Should be 1.5 each, Amador and Gesink have also had minor tumbles.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,625
    Ah that looks bad for Bennet ffs
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,625
    Had totally forgotten Jumbo’s wet road problems
  • I like that train
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 26,969

    I like that train

    Should've sold tickets.
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  • Wouldn't be surprised if they neutralise the GC and let the mad sprinters go for it.
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  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,941
    No sign of Sivakov anywhere on the official Tour site. They say he's still riding, but not on the live data feed at all.
  • davidof
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    Wouldn't be surprised if they neutralise the GC and let the mad sprinters go for it.

    Isn't it neutralised in the last km as normal?
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  • rick_chasey
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    phreak said:

    No sign of Sivakov anywhere on the official Tour site. They say he's still riding, but not on the live data feed at all.

    Belgian commentators getting a bit arsey with the *tech* of the race. Not impressed (they are also used to having a moto in the race to check things for them - not this year)
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 26,969
    edited August 2020
    Get ready for fireworks from here (20kms)!
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  • davidof said:

    Wouldn't be surprised if they neutralise the GC and let the mad sprinters go for it.

    Isn't it neutralised in the last km as normal?
    The last 3kms, but they can extend it there's a potential problem.

    The French can't help themselves. Cosnefoy cracks open a bottle of panache.
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  • davidof
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    phreak said:

    No sign of Sivakov anywhere on the official Tour site. They say he's still riding, but not on the live data feed at all.

    Did he change bike?
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  • Starting to line up...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,625
    Ok we’re racing thank god
  • ddraver
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    Beautiful braided fluvial system there...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,941
    davidof said:

    phreak said:

    No sign of Sivakov anywhere on the official Tour site. They say he's still riding, but not on the live data feed at all.

    Did he change bike?
    That's what I'm thinking. There are riders apparently 3min back, so you'd think given the go slow that he's perhaps with them.
  • mididoctors
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    They have to go over that zebra crossing again?
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 26,969

    They have to go over that zebra crossing again?

    I think that was after the finishing straight.
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  • rick_chasey
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    pblakeney said:

    They have to go over that zebra crossing again?

    I think that was after the finishing straight.
    Greaaat.
    GC time being taken at 3km

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    Feeling another crash coming
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • davidof
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    pblakeney said:

    They have to go over that zebra crossing again?

    I think that was after the finishing straight.
    Greaaat.
    GC time being taken at 3km

    Apparently after demand from GC hopefuls
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  • Has the 3K time been confirmed?
  • davidof
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    Crash 3km to go
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  • Bang
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,625
    Ugh looks nasty
  • Huge chute right on the 3km

    Pinot down
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  • rick_chasey
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    Pinot ffs
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,148
    Pinot down so it will definitely be within 3k