TDF 2021: Stage 13, Nîmes > Carcassonne 219.9 km **Spoilers**

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  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 12,035
    andyp said:

    daniel_b said:

    Lloydy taking about Blythe "Our sometime colleague, and current traitor"

    Is he commentating\presenting for someone else then?

    NBC for the US. He's doing the same role for them as Wiggins is doing for GCN/Eurosport. By all accounts he's very good. Which doesn't surprise me, but I still struggle to believe that a US audience would understand his accent.
    What a shame, he is missed on ES, I hope he returns.
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    I see that the greatest cyclist of the age finished 15th today, behind such luminaries as B&Bs Cyril Barthe.
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    edited July 2021
    Just realised why Cavendish and Morkov were cycling so hard. Every second counts:


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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    So I replanted some geraniums and started a lemon and poppyseed loaf in the last 20k to avoid the old squeaky bum while watching malarkey, and...

    My superstition isn't silly. Honestly it isn't. It works.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    above_the_cows said:

    So I replanted some geraniums and started a lemon and poppyseed loaf...

    And I think this might be the most middle aged, middle class thing anyone has ever posted on an internet forum.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    Hang on, this is important news - what type of geraniums?
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    I've got a huge man crush on Mørkøv. To have never won a tour stage, but to look over and make sure you don't take the win from your teammate, who's won 33, before you throw your bike ...That's dedication to your art, that's supreme teammateship. Mørkøv, you beautiful beautiful man.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    edited July 2021
    Lanterne_Rogue said:

    Hang on, this is important news - what type of geraniums?

    Tiny monsters. Quite fitting actually.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    Ooh, nice. Geraniums are one of the few things that don't get chomped by the slugs in my garden, so we've got loads. Don't think I've got any geraniums with a cycling angle, although I've got plenty of climbers...
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,459
    ITV 4 highlights show discovering an earnest enthusiasm for discussing if we can believe *this* winner given the history of the Tour. Presumably a history which doesn't include a decade of success for British riders and a British team.

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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,025
    tailwindhome said:

    ITV 4 highlights show discovering an earnest enthusiasm for discussing if we can believe *this* winner given the history of the Tour. Presumably a history which doesn't include a decade of success for British riders and a British team.

    I thought the bit with the academic was interesting.
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,313
    dabber said:

    What a combo....Morkov and Cav....just brilliant

    Before that it was Renshaw. Lucky to find those riders.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    amrushton said:

    dabber said:

    What a combo....Morkov and Cav....just brilliant

    Before that it was Renshaw. Lucky to find those riders.
    Was going to say earlier which is the better lead out man, Renshaw or Morkow?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    I don't get the point in changing the 3km point today. Seems to make no sense unless you take the GC time at that point otherwise the GC riders are still fighting to make sure they don't let a gap go.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,025
    Pross said:

    amrushton said:

    dabber said:

    What a combo....Morkov and Cav....just brilliant

    Before that it was Renshaw. Lucky to find those riders.
    Was going to say earlier which is the better lead out man, Renshaw or Morkow?
    Renshaw's reviews of the sprint stages are quite interesting.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Lanterne_Rogue said:

    Ooh, nice. Geraniums are one of the few things that don't get chomped by the slugs in my garden, so we've got loads. Don't think I've got any geraniums with a cycling angle, although I've got plenty of climbers...

    You need some Escar-Go. The only thing that's been got in my garden is one hosta where the fokkers launched an aerial attack via some ornamental nettles.

    Aaaaaand, back to the cycling... wow, still can't believe Cav this Tour, damn boring stage, marred with abandons (RIP Kluge and your hopes for the Lanterne) ended in making hisotry.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    daniel_b said:

    andyp said:

    daniel_b said:

    Lloydy taking about Blythe "Our sometime colleague, and current traitor"

    Is he commentating\presenting for someone else then?

    NBC for the US. He's doing the same role for them as Wiggins is doing for GCN/Eurosport. By all accounts he's very good. Which doesn't surprise me, but I still struggle to believe that a US audience would understand his accent.
    What a shame, he is missed on ES, I hope he returns.
    Very Adam Blythe thing to do thou ... LOL
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    I remember when we called him more kov not merku
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Never realised how few Tours Merckx rode
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,593
    Seeing the highlights Ballerini did a good job in forcing the other sprinters to open up quite early. Garcia did a very good long sprint
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    The crash from the point of view of the DSM mechanic

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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    Somewhat heartened by watching him punch that saddle back into approximately the correct orientation. Glad to know that I've been applying a professional technique for years.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Avondettape has Marcel Kittel on, the respect he is showing is really lovely to see.

    As an aside he's totally fluent in Dutch.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • notquite6foot
    notquite6foot Posts: 248
    Equals Merckx record in stage 13 - during his 13th Tour - 13 years to the day after his first stage win

    The stars really have aligned, haven't they?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    For all the talk of him matching Eddy Merckx, comparison to other sprinters is ludicrous. It's an outlier to match Don Bradman's Test batting average

    34 Cavendish
    22 Darrigade
    15 Maertens (includes 3 TTs)
    14 Kittel
    12 McEwen, Zabel, Sagan
    11 Greipel
    10 Hushovd

    And most of them were his rivals
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    RichN95. said:

    For all the talk of him matching Eddy Merckx, comparison to other sprinters is ludicrous.

    Won't stop some (internet forum people) from trying though...
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    edited July 2021
    Coda to speculation that Mørkøv had to brake to let Cavendish win:



    https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lefevere-mark-cavendish-is-the-same-rider-as-before-but-less-stressed/
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  • andyrac
    andyrac Posts: 1,205
    Lanterne_Rogue said:

    Ooh, nice. Geraniums are one of the few things that don't get chomped by the slugs in my garden, so we've got loads. Don't think I've got any geraniums with a cycling angle, although I've got plenty of climbers...

    Weird..... this was on Gardeners World tonight......
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    dabber said:

    Morkov comes across and a really classy and nice guy.


    He also comes across someone who knows his excellence and gently reminds you of it in a quite passive way.
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