Tour de Suisse 2021 *****Spoilers****

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    orraloon said:

    Yes he is riding the Tour as well. Just been post race interviewed saying that.

    Tasty.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Will he chase green and finish? There's only a 10 day turnaround (not sure what the rules will be on athletes quarantining).
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    edited June 2021
    kingstongraham said:

    There's a few stages in the first week he'll fancy, then maybe the one to Quillan. He'll win at least one, surely.

    After the ASO went to so much trouble to design a route that put Alaphilippe into yellow on day 1 and keep him in it for most of the race, too. B)
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Everyone looked good. JA is getting into Brittany grand depart shape . Carapaz looked really good . MvdP was awesome of course.... Gino mader hirshi ...all in there . Good stuff
    "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: 18,908
    Is carapaz going to the tour?
    "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: 27,253
    edited June 2021
    mididoctors said:

    Is carapaz going to the tour?

    That's the plan. With only three Grand Tour winners, two World Champions and the most successful one week rider of the last decade, they're looking a bit threadbare.
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  • robnewcastle
    robnewcastle Posts: 241
    RichN95. said:

    mididoctors said:

    Is carapaz going to the tour?

    That's the plan. With only three Grand Tour winners, two World Champions and the most successful one week rider of the last decade, they're looking a bit threadbare.
    😂
  • bm5
    bm5 Posts: 584
    Second hand as Mr Kirby would say.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    RichN95. said:

    mididoctors said:

    Is carapaz going to the tour?

    That's the plan. With only three Grand Tour winners, two World Champions and the most successful one week rider of the last decade, they're looking a bit threadbare.
    No love for Geraint's 3 rainbow jerseys or Olympic medals? :wink:
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Back to back crashes has left a number of riders with a long chase
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    Pozzovivo, Hamilton, Mader and half the EF and Lotto teams
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    MvdP attacks over the last climb and it's race on!

    Alaphilippe and Carapaz with him plus a handful of others
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    Alaphilippe clear on his own, so Ineos put Dunbar, Dennis and Sivakov to the front of the peloton.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    That didn't take long.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    edited June 2021
    kingstongraham said:

    Alaphilippe clear on his own, so Ineos put Dunbar, Dennis and Sivakov to the front of the peloton.

    @iainf72 approves
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    Well that was a fun last 30km. MvdP takes the win with a long sprint from a reduced bunch
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    He's very, very good.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    DQS rider must be so happy he put in that huge turn to pull the Movistar rider back only for MvdP to trounce him in the sprint. Wasted energy on that early move.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    Well that was a fun last 30km. MvdP takes the win with a long sprint from a reduced bunch

    Alaphilippe became a mobile chicane again.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    MvdP gets the overall because Alaphilippe didn't get second place, right?
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,652
    kingstongraham said:

    MvdP gets the overall because Alaphilippe didn't get second place, right?

    Yep. Alaphilippe didn't get second so he's second in gc by a second.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    blazing_saddles said:

    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    Well that was a fun last 30km. MvdP takes the win with a long sprint from a reduced bunch

    Alaphilippe became a mobile chicane again.

    If he wants to win he needs to be more selective about which riders he cuts up.
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  • singleton
    singleton Posts: 2,523
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    kingstongraham said:

    MvdP gets the overall because Alaphilippe didn't get second place, right?

    Yep. Alaphilippe didn't get second so he's second in gc by a second.
    Deja Vu.
  • womack
    womack Posts: 566
    Just a shame that no-one, not even Hatch, mentioned the person who came second, Laporte.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
    edited June 2021
    Judging from yesterday, it's going to be a crazy downhill finish today.




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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    womack said:

    Just a shame that no-one, not even Hatch, mentioned the person who came second, Laporte.

    As Blazing said in the other thread Hatch did mention him. I missed it at first and just checked it back. It took until the second replay but he then listed the first 5 places. Prior to that he was trying to work out the implications for the yellow jersey so was concentrating on MvdP and JA whilst speculating whether MvdP had got a gap (I still think he did but the official results obviously disagreed). I did find it surprising he needed a replay to check if JA had come second or third as it was clear he was third even on my laptop screen in realtime.
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,116
    gsk82 said:

    Lizzie D won the women's race today

    she did, indeed.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert pull whole team out after positive covid test for staff member. Don't want to gave any risk of contaminating the race bubble.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    kingstongraham said:

    Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert pull whole team out after positive covid test for staff member. Don't want to gave any risk of contaminating the race bubble.

    If it wasn't for the Giro it would have felt like they'd pulled their team out of the whole season so far!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    So which race is likely to be best to watch today - Switzerland, Belgium or Slovenia?

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