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

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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,042
    Pinot badly beaten up but on his feet
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,700
    Sagan looks good
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,565
    Boom. Wattage Cottage from Kristoff.
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    That was unexpected.
    "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
  • Guess who won?
    :D
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,551
    Oh well, after my criticism of Kristoff being given favourite by BS he rolls back the years with a superb sprint.
  • alan_a
    alan_a Posts: 1,550

    Alexander Kristoff - for a rider who doesn't win a lot he's featured in a lot of preview star ratings....

    ERM.... Yellow
  • Ooooof.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,700
    Scandis love the rain don’t they?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,700

    Sagan looks good

    Did not look good
  • Matti66
    Matti66 Posts: 190
    It suited His type of long hard sprint
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    Dogs dinner of a stage
    "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
    davidof Posts: 3,042

    Guess who won?
    :D

    Bien vu
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,938
    LOL @ me
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,551
    DQS did a poor job looking after Bennett on the run in.
  • Well that was a hot mess wasn't it?

    Thoroughly enjoyed it.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,551
    Weather ruined that one. Would have been nice to have seen what sprinters could have held on if the final climb and descent had been ridden hard.
  • Sagan looks good

    Did not look good
    When can we expect your analysis of the straightness of that sprint? ;)



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  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,042
    It's put me off Nice
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Ahhhh, I so bloody nearly stopped my feed to post a Kristoff prediction!!

    Good on 'im. Always seems like a nice boy
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,560
    Yay! MY MAN!

    Maybe he didn't win KBK but he's got another tour stage and the yellow jersey!

    And some Nizzollo points for ptp I think.

    Rough day for many, it's gonna be a long tough tour...
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,565
    Riders like Kristoff give hope to the big lads
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,551
    Rowe giving Astana a bit of stick and indulging in a bit of schadenfreude. From the TV pictures there were a few others sharing that feeling at the time too, they really don't seem very popular.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,551
    Anyone else finding it hard to spot riders with there having been so little racing this season, riders having changed teams at the end of last season, new team kits etc.?
  • Harry182
    Harry182 Posts: 1,169
    Didn't see that coming!

    Nice to Mads right up there too. WC jersey represent!
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,327
    My Man Rainbow Mads getting 2nd place on a "sprint stage" in the rain
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,154
    Everyone finished. Sivakov thirteen minutes down with two others.
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  • A battered Sivakov home, 13 minutes down in a group of 4.
    John Degenkolb was the only DNF, which won't help the Flying Dwarf's chances.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,327

    A battered Sivakov home, 13 minutes down in a group of 4.
    John Degenkolb was the only DNF, which won't help the Flying Dwarf's chances.

    Ah shit, I like Degenkolb. Didn't see what happened to him
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Good on ya Pav...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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