TDF 2021:- Stage 2, Perros-Guirec > Mûr-de-Bretagne Guerlédan 183.5 km **Spoilers**

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,534
    DQS clearly operating a max 4 in the break rule today. Schelling very unhappy with them.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,146
    Surely Bora would be better just pulling the break back than leaving Schelling to keep trying to bridge?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,146
    Schelling finally makes it with yet another Direct Energie rider sucking his wheel for some reason.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,146
    That looks it for now. Not sure why Direct Energie didn't help Schelling get across rather than just keep following him.
  • lettingthedaysgoby
    lettingthedaysgoby Posts: 1,732
    Man I love this part of France. Could happily live there.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,534
    Was all a bit weird.
    There were only 20" or so to bridge though. Perez really didn't want Schelling with him though :smiley:
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,325
    Just seen this - Hirschi has wonky levers to try and make life a little more comfortable.

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  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    Lanterne_Rogue said:

    Just seen this - Hirschi has wonky levers to try and make life a little more comfortable.

    He'll get DQ's for letting his forearm rest on the tops if he's not careful.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,701
    Just what a bruised and battered peloton needs: rain.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,325
    Tim Declerq on the front. Nature is healing.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,146
    Who took the first KoM?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    rick_chasey said:

    How can you see past JA for this after yesterday?

    I guess positioning going into the Climb is the variable but I tend to agree
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,534
    Pross said:

    Who took the first KoM?

    They haven't had one yet.
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,325
    Pross said:

    Who took the first KoM?

    Not there yet - first one's at something like 110km to go
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Pross said:

    Who took the first KoM?


    They haven't got there yet
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,701
    Something is amiss.
    Kirby arrived way too soon.
    ITV 4 to the rescue
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310




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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    That's a trvia question to keep me occupied. Merckx, Hinault, Indurain, Froome, Anquetil, Bobet. Does Armstrong count I wonder? Also the Yellow Jersey didn't exist until 1919
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  • flite
    flite Posts: 225
    Cippolini?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    RichN95. said:

    That's a trvia question to keep me occupied. Merckx, Hinault, Indurain, Froome, Anquetil, Bobet. Does Armstrong count I wonder? Also the Yellow Jersey didn't exist until 1919

    Must be few sprinters . Chipo?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,146
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    Pross said:

    Who took the first KoM?

    They haven't had one yet.
    Didn't think I'd missed it but they showed a profile with the arrow further forward than the first climb. Just trying to confuse me obviously.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    edited June 2021
    There's no-one else from the 21st Century. The others are LeMond, Zoetemelk, Knetemann, Darrigade, Wagtmans, Frantz and Bottechia. Also Francois Faber who predates the Jersey itself

    So only three who never won the Tour.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,146
    RichN95. said:

    That's a trvia question to keep me occupied. Merckx, Hinault, Indurain, Froome, Anquetil, Bobet. Does Armstrong count I wonder? Also the Yellow Jersey didn't exist until 1919

    Any TT specialists?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    RichN95. said:

    There's no-one else from the 21st Century. The others are LeMond, Zoetemelk, Knetemann, Darrigade, Wagtmans, Frantz and Bottechia. Also Francois Faber who predates the Jersey itself

    So only three who never won the Tour.

    That is a odd club
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    Most consecutive yellow jerseys without a win?
    "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
  • diplodicus
    diplodicus Posts: 721
    Switched to itv4 because I can't stand Kirby, but the adverts!! Peloton covered 3km during the show followed by 3km during the ad break...
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,146
    diplodicus said:

    Switched to itv4 because I can't stand Kirby, but the adverts!! Peloton covered 3km during the show followed by 3km during the ad break...

    I'm not a fan of CK but he's been fairly tolerable in this mid stage slot. Probably preferable to ITV who get all their advert committments in ahead of the action.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,146
    De Clerq needs to calm down or they'll have to contend with counter attacks or riders trying to bridge.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    mididoctors said:

    Most consecutive yellow jerseys without a win?


    Andre Darrigade: Four 1956-1959 (also1961 & 1962)
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,790
    I have itv on TV and Eurosport on the phone .
    "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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