Paris Nice 2021 ***Spoilers***

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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    It's difficult to say it's under-rated - maybe under-rated by the raver household - but it is rather lovely...

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Live arrives with the race on the Cote de Brouilly
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    edited March 2021
    KOM Doubey spectacularly pops out of the break. Looses the jersy.

    DSM send Casper Pederson up the road for...reasons. gets a gap over the bunch

    Biggesser looks to be dropping out the back in yellow

    50 to go
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    blazing_saddles said:

    I can't recall quite such a punishing stage turning up as early as this in Paris-Nice.
    They actually tackle the finishing climb twice by the looks and the first time around it isn't even catagorised.
    That would make it 8 first or second cat climbs.

    Did I hear them say this current climb is uncategorised? It's a bit of a beast!

    Not a part of France I'm familiar with but really tough racings roads from the little I've seen so far.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    Distracted by Bouhani going out the back with a mechanical...he's got some sock like overshoes on that look like they'd take the edge off cold feet for the current weather. What are they?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Hearing them mention Lennard Hoffstede confused me, I was thinking of Leonard Hofstadter from Big Bang Theory.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Grippy
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    25 to go.

    GC teams the woken up. Seems to have been fairly relaxed up to now.

    Break has lost a minute and the gap, which had been steady, begins to tumble
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,320
    Random insignificant question. Should TGH not get a bigger helmet?
    His seems to be sitting on top of his head instead of him wearing it. 🤔
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    edited March 2021
    Bennett, G tearing the peloton apart. Very clear who is in form now and who has goals later in the season

    J. Bernard (and his snazzy beard) - on home roads - all that's left of the break at 44s

    20 to go
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Lutsenko getting dropped is a bit of a shock.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Tao toppled
    Gaudu?
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    edited March 2021
    Tao Down on a corner but back up. Gaudu also affected.

    Seems to have just been egos that were bruised

    Edit - hmm, not so much actually. Tao not looking good. Unclear why.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Noooooo Tao!
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Ineos having a bit of a mare at Paris-Nice.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    edited March 2021
    Cavagna attacks...

    Bernard has 1 min after the chaos behind

    14 to go

    Edit - suddenly lots of attacks out of the front. Magnus Kort, LLS. Only LLS makes it across to Cavagna tho
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    edited March 2021
    10 to go

    Race suddenly looks rather different

    Barnard
    Cavagna & LLS at ~30
    Peloton ~1.00

    AG2R on the front with BEx, LJ and Ineos nowhere to be seen
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    edited March 2021
    7 to go and the last climb

    LLS & RC are 10s behind Bernard

    Peloton at 1 min

    Di2 Fail for RC :(

    Gutting for RC just has to watch the whole bunch ride past and the yellow jersey disappear for the second day in a row
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Another electronic gear malfunction redefining the race
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    edited March 2021
    George Bennett and Jai Hindley both looking good. Taking chunks out of the time gap.

    Up the road, LLS has caught Bernard but gap is crumbling.

    Small attacks out of the group. Shedding some big names out the back on the early, steeper, part of the climb
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    4 to go

    LLS drops Bernard :(

    Tao Abandons :(
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    Running out of screens to do any work on here.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    edited March 2021
    Luckily today is a quiet day in Brexitland.

    3 to go

    ROGLIC GOES - looks on a different level. Izzaguere attempts to go with but is swept away along with LLS.

    Roglic takes 3s on the 'sprint' and carries on.

    Bling makes a valiant attempt to salvage a day in yellow but... Proper GC Riders vs Hilly Sprinters only has one result
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    Roglic has just disappeared...
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Roglic rides away while the rest play after you Claude
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    edited March 2021
    2 to go,
    As LR says, Rog has just gone. Everyone else behind just looking at each other


    1.5 to go
    Ok, now some response from Jai Hindley

    MM trying to arrange something but no one wants to work with him.

    1 to go
    Vlasov makes an attempt followed by Benoot
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    edited March 2021
    Roglic takes 13 s on the road.

    They did pull back a chunk of time. Quite a lot of bonuses around. 13s to Roglic

    MM totally sat up, or had a problem...has lost over 2 mins in the last km
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  • gregster04
    gregster04 Posts: 1,756
    That was impressive by Rog. From a mental POV as much as anything.

    Looked like nobody else believed they could stay with him.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332
    gregster04 said:

    That was impressive by Rog. From a mental POV as much as anything.

    Looked like nobody else believed they could stay with him.

    No, although the on-screen times suggest that they did claw back quite a bit of the gap he'd gained at one point. I don't think he went at the wrong point - he needed to go somewhere he could snap the elastic quickly, and it gave him the intermediate - but it felt like it was further out than perhaps suited him.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,697
    edited March 2021

    GC

    1 Primoz Roglic (Slo) Jumbo-Visma 13:26:40
    2 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 00:00:35
    3 Brandon McNulty (USA) UAE Team Emirates 00:00:37
    4 Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) Astana-Premier Tech 00:00:41
    5 Ion Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana-Premier Tech 00:00:43
    6 Matteo Jorgenson (USA) Movistar Team 00:00:58
    7 Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Team DSM 00:01:05
    8 Lucas Hamilton (Aus) Team BikeExchange 00:01:09
    9 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa) Astana-Premier Tech 00:01:11
    10 Pierre Latour (Fra) Total Direct Energie 00:01:12
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