TDF 2020 - Stage 21: Mantes-la-Jolie - Paris Champs-Élysées 122 km *Spoilers*

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Swift has come through his first GT very well.

    Theuns badly ripped up in a fall and looking a bit annoyed.
  • Harry182
    Harry182 Posts: 1,170
    The lack of spectators is eerie; like the TdF version of 28 Days Later.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Well weird
    "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
    How are they preventing spectators? I assume there's a cordon on all the approach streets.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    THE DONKEY ADVERT IS HARROWING!!!😳😳😳
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • cq20
    cq20 Posts: 207
    The new barriers and road furniture is a bit intrusive
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Pross said:

    How are they preventing spectators? I assume there's a cordon on all the approach streets.

    Told people and they obeyed?
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    edited September 2020
    ddraver said:

    THE DONKEY ADVERT IS HARROWING!!!😳😳😳

    Donkeys carrying abused cats being trained as blind dogs
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    edited September 2020
    Charity is no substitute for social justice or animal justice ...
    "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 said:

    How are they preventing spectators? I assume there's a cordon on all the approach streets.

    Told people and they obeyed?
    Completely pointless though seeing all the packed crowds along the route.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Great news for Movistar.
    Covid meant no champers and beer along the route.
    Result? they have been fair barrelling along and will finish very early.
    Meaning tv won't have gone off air by the time they mount the podium. :D
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Like the way they now go around the Arc de Triomphe; in the past they did a switch-back just short of it.
    Maybe disadvantageous, though, to the break, because the field behind doesn't have to slow down as much as at a switch-back.
  • 10km for Porte to still have a whoopsie...
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912

    10km for Porte to still have a whoopsie...

    Don't you dare
    "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
    edited September 2020
    British pro doing well in city centre crit ;)
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,491
    WvA to go over the top of the breakaway?
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Lots of teams trying to get in on the chase and not doing it very well.

    Swift dropped.

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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    Time to switch on if you haven't yet....
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    edited September 2020
    Little Flower goes!

    Edit: for about 10 secs
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Headwind on the finish straight? It seems to bunch up every time they go that direction.

  • That was the best day ever on this forum after the ECHELONS!!!!!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!!!! stage.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • 10km for Porte to still have a whoopsie...

    Don't you dare
    2km...
    Correlation is not causation.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    Pross said:

    Headwind on the finish straight? It seems to bunch up every time they go that direction.

    Lead put man has to take you to the final corner,and then it's just GO! innit?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Was starting to wonder if they could hold it off then. 15 seconds with everyone at terminal velocity might have made a tricky chase.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    This is going to be a messy one.
  • Ewan cheating the wind.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    QS in control/least amount of lack of control...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • They're making a mess of this.
  • And Toblerone Boy is safe!!!!!! :)B)
    Correlation is not causation.