Grand Départ 2020 - Stage 2: Nice Haut Pays - Nice 186 km *Spoilers*

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  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Pross said:

    lettingthedaysgoby said:

    Afternoon all, just got in, have I missed anything?

    Not really. Interesting KoM battle and Kristoff doing his best to hold on to the top of the second 1st cat climb but ultimately failing.
    How did Sagan end up on his own? Just hoovering up green jersey points?
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    lettingthedaysgoby said:

    Pross said:

    lettingthedaysgoby said:

    Afternoon all, just got in, have I missed anything?

    Not really. Interesting KoM battle and Kristoff doing his best to hold on to the top of the second 1st cat climb but ultimately failing.
    How did Sagan end up on his own? Just hoovering up green jersey points?
    He was in the break but got dropped on the second climb.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    He's actually in the peloton now though, they're only showing green as Kristoff is behind.
  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    lettingthedaysgoby said:

    Man I want to have a go at this descent, it looks spectacular.

    Was supposed to have done this descent back in May.

    Bl00dy covids
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Quite the bit of tarmac
    "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
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    Thought it was. I only found out recently we had one living wild in Wales but it died recently.

    Yesterday's bird shot was a vulture I think, darker plumage.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    rick_chasey said:

    Love it.

    Dull stage.

    Fireworks later.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Well I'm off to sample the climbing around Lucéram when this pandemic is over.

    https://www.google.com/maps/place/06440+Luc%C3%A9ram,+France/@43.9004402,7.3547639,4862m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x12cdb92ad96c7503:0x40819a5fd979b20!8m2!3d43.883746!4d7.360897
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,611
    poweredbyidris said:

    lettingthedaysgoby said:

    Man I want to have a go at this descent, it looks spectacular.

    Was supposed to have done this descent back in May.

    Bl00dy covids
    I did it a couple of years back. Rubber on each hairpin from the Monte Carlo rally which had been up it. Those are seriously tight hairpins. Didn't realise at the time how stunning it would look from above.
    Shame they're not doing the Col de Braus as that's another stunner.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    gweeds said:

    What happened to Mads today?

    Dropped on the second climb, hung on until about two thirds of the way up.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Love it.

    Dull stage.

    Fireworks later.
    Sceptical
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    I said baby
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    You're gonna be the one that
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    Saves me...
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    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Nasty headwind now, think the break won't last much longer
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited August 2020
    Jumbo look like they are setting this one up for van Aert.
    They might as well take the yellow jersey now as they are riding like they already have it.....

    .....well, they have, but you know what I mean.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    ddraver said:

    Ah ok, Ned & Dave didn't pick up on that...

    Maybe time for some podcasts for an hour. Unfortunately I can't mute either ITV or GCN apps to have it on in the background...

    Anyone recommend any decent TDF podcasts? I used to subscribe to the ITV one but it's become virtually unlistenable recently.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    ITV
    Cycling Podcast
    The move ( 😲 )

    ...s'about it for me
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    DeadCalm said:

    ddraver said:

    Ah ok, Ned & Dave didn't pick up on that...

    Maybe time for some podcasts for an hour. Unfortunately I can't mute either ITV or GCN apps to have it on in the background...

    Anyone recommend any decent TDF podcasts? I used to subscribe to the ITV one but it's become virtually unlistenable recently.
    What are you after?

    _
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    I enjoy Ned and the lads talking bollox ... For contrast you can check the spreads at LR or the dine out with the Tory graph at cycling podcast.. or listen to them all
    "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
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    Asgreen now leading the peloton. Beast.
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  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    rick_chasey said:

    DeadCalm said:

    ddraver said:

    Ah ok, Ned & Dave didn't pick up on that...

    Maybe time for some podcasts for an hour. Unfortunately I can't mute either ITV or GCN apps to have it on in the background...

    Anyone recommend any decent TDF podcasts? I used to subscribe to the ITV one but it's become virtually unlistenable recently.
    What are you after?

    I'm not opposed to informal but I'd like something where I can get some reasonably informed opinion rather than 4 blokes talking over each other, trying, and generally failing, to be funny.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    Carthy puts in a dig.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    Not Carthy.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    Alaphilippe fancies this.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    DeadCalm said:

    rick_chasey said:

    DeadCalm said:

    ddraver said:

    Ah ok, Ned & Dave didn't pick up on that...

    Maybe time for some podcasts for an hour. Unfortunately I can't mute either ITV or GCN apps to have it on in the background...

    Anyone recommend any decent TDF podcasts? I used to subscribe to the ITV one but it's become virtually unlistenable recently.
    What are you after?

    I'm not opposed to informal but I'd like something where I can get some reasonably informed opinion rather than 4 blokes talking over each other, trying, and generally failing, to be funny.
    If you want analysis then move is ok - with all the caveats of Armstrong et al making a point but Breukink is rarely wrong.

    Wiggins isn’t short of an opinion but again it is often about him.

    I don’t tend to listen to the cycling podcast in the Tour (no Friebe) but they are quite good with the ‘narrative’, being journos and all.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Pinot is sitting quite far back
    _
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    I could almost believe it's early July from those heli shots.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    rick_chasey said:

    Pinot is sitting quite far back

    Looking to get his balls up in early.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Anyone know why they’re setting off so late in this Tour?

    I eat with my toddler at 5:30 and it’s screwing up the routine.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    edited August 2020
    Kamna has a solo chute.
    Glad I'm on ITV 4 as Kirby will be firing off Lennies, left right and centre
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.

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