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

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,538
    Bennett easy in the end.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    Classy by dqs
    "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
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    G'waaan Sam!!!!

    Outstanding by QS
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 7,202
    Wow what a way to win the Green.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,326
    Daaaamn another 2nd for Mads P

    Bloody good sprint from Bennet, Mads forced him to go long
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  • Harry182
    Harry182 Posts: 1,169
    SAM!!
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Great ride by Mads Peterson too.....

    Bike lift from Sam 🥲
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    Bennet ..hats off ..

    "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
  • dabber
    dabber Posts: 1,926
    That's how to finish off the GREEN
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,538
    No silver lining for JV. Being given a train and the chance to go for it WVA seemed to have his worst sprint of the race.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    edited September 2020
    More tears from Sam 😋

    Class from Sagan
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  • Harry182
    Harry182 Posts: 1,169
    Fairy tale ending for Bennett.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,538
    So no crowd but the VIPs can hang out shoulder to shoulder on the finish line?
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 7,202
    edited September 2020

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    Well next year then I guess . That's over
    "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
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Great to see Green win on the Champs. Chapeau Sam.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,153
    David Millar: "Sam Bennett and Pogacar. The new generation have arrived"

    Sam Bennett was born in the same year as Peter Sagan FFS
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    Bennett played that very, very cool to drop back to fourth wheel and wait.
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  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Superb end to a superb tour.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    Pross said:

    No silver lining for JV. Being given a train and the chance to go for it WVA seemed to have his worst sprint of the race.

    Collapse in morale I suspect ... Most bitter 2nd step ever
    "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
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,153
    Remember last year when we expected Trentin to outsprint Pedersen
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,538
    Bennett got stronger and stronger after getting the pressure of his first stage win off his back.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,938
    Bennett and DQS pick a fine time for everything to click into place.

    Week 1 it looked as if it wasn't going to happen.

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Pross said:

    No silver lining for JV. Being given a train and the chance to go for it WVA seemed to have his worst sprint of the race.

    Yes, he was pretty mediocre there.

    When JV revert to type, they don't mess about.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,538
    RichN95. said:

    David Millar: "Sam Bennett and Pogacar. The new generation have arrived"

    Sam Bennett was born in the same year as Peter Sagan FFS

    I assume he just meant a new winner after Sagan's domination. I'd assumed Bennett was a relative youngster though.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,091
    edited September 2020
    Lovely snapshot of Bennett watching it back:

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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,770
    Is it just me that felt a little sorry for Carapaz having to wear the polka today?

    Stage went pretty much as expected, and that's a good thing.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,153
    Pross said:

    RichN95. said:

    David Millar: "Sam Bennett and Pogacar. The new generation have arrived"

    Sam Bennett was born in the same year as Peter Sagan FFS

    I assume he just meant a new winner after Sagan's domination. I'd assumed Bennett was a relative youngster though.

    Bennett's got one more good year, then he'll have the nerve to ask Lefevere for a pay rise and he'll be replaced
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    pblakeney said:

    Is it just me that felt a little sorry for Carapaz having to wear the polka today?

    Stage went pretty much as expected, and that's a good thing.

    I felt sorry for him too.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,860
    Proper Belgium team ...it's not all nu skool
    "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

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