Will Cav make it too Paris?

JimD666
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Just wondering what everyone else thinks.
Heart say of course he will. Head says no chance in hell.
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,379
    Hard two say.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    Noo

    (hope I'm wrong though)
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Stage by stage:

    14 - No problem. Danger rating *
    15 - A problem with three big climbs, but not HC, and a small unclassified climb to start with that will mean a manic start. Get over that in the bunch and he should be OK. DR *****
    16 - Quite an early cat 2, but long stretches between climbs and a long run in. DR ***
    17 - A long flat 110km run-in to the first climb for 176km stage. DR **
    18 - Again a long run in to the first climb. Then Two HCs. Fatigue an issue for everyone at this stage. DR ****
    19 - Flat DR *
    20 - Time trial DR *
    21 - Flat DR *
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  • darkhairedlord
    darkhairedlord Posts: 7,180
    He's riding better than he ever has.
    He'll roll in too Paris and win the sprint down the Champs-Elysees on one wheel.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,479
    Peace off cake.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,691
    Know problem imo.
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  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933
    Should doo. Sincerely hope he does. Sunday probably the biggest banana skin, especially if a major GC battle kicks off, but this doesn't seem likely, given the lead Pog has
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  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    over all, why knot?
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • dannbodge
    dannbodge Posts: 1,152
    Yeah. They've managed the other hard days to perfection, getting in the time cut without giving too much time away
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    He's done it quite a few times before so I would have fought that he and his DS staff would know what they were doing to get him their.
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,313
    That team are all in now. Unless he gets sick or injured he's done it before enough times. On stage 19 when Evans won the tour, Cav did AdH in 55 mins. Thats a good time for anyone. Ok few yrs ago but why not. Get him to Paris in green, just that is a fairytale ending. To win there? Legendary. To stand on the podium, in green, look out and say I did it must be the way to bow out. The Gods have smiled on him so far but he is better being Daedalus than Icarus.
  • johnboy183
    johnboy183 Posts: 832
    Abso-bloody-lutely
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,587
    Stage 18 is probably the big risk due to its length meaning the cutoff will be quite short. The plus point is that all of the bigger mountain stages seem to be back loaded. A fast pace early on where it is quite flat could be helpful as it will push up the stage average speed and therefore increase the percentage of winners time allowed.

    Those medium mountain stages could possibly be tricky if the likes of Bike Exchange, JV or Bahrain push it hard early on.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    amrushton said:

    That team are all in now. Unless he gets sick or injured he's done it before enough times. On stage 19 when Evans won the tour, Cav did AdH in 55 mins. Thats a good time for anyone. Ok few yrs ago but why not. Get him to Paris in green, just that is a fairytale ending. To win there? Legendary. To stand on the podium, in green, look out and say I did it must be the way to bow out. The Gods have smiled on him so far but he is better being Daedalus than Icarus.

    After having already done the Télégraphe almost from the gun and the Galibier on that stage, and the Agnel, Izoard and Galibier the day before.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,479
    above_the_cows said:

    amrushton said:

    That team are all in now. Unless he gets sick or injured he's done it before enough times. On stage 19 when Evans won the tour, Cav did AdH in 55 mins. Thats a good time for anyone. Ok few yrs ago but why not. Get him to Paris in green, just that is a fairytale ending. To win there? Legendary. To stand on the podium, in green, look out and say I did it must be the way to bow out. The Gods have smiled on him so far but he is better being Daedalus than Icarus.

    After having already done the Télégraphe almost from the gun and the Galibier on that stage, and the Agnel, Izoard and Galibier the day before.
    That's quite the collection of climbs.
    I can't get people's obsession with AdH. Dutch Corner aside all it has going for it is that it is short enough to race up.
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    pblakeney said:

    above_the_cows said:

    amrushton said:

    That team are all in now. Unless he gets sick or injured he's done it before enough times. On stage 19 when Evans won the tour, Cav did AdH in 55 mins. Thats a good time for anyone. Ok few yrs ago but why not. Get him to Paris in green, just that is a fairytale ending. To win there? Legendary. To stand on the podium, in green, look out and say I did it must be the way to bow out. The Gods have smiled on him so far but he is better being Daedalus than Icarus.

    After having already done the Télégraphe almost from the gun and the Galibier on that stage, and the Agnel, Izoard and Galibier the day before.
    That's quite the collection of climbs.
    I can't get people's obsession with AdH. Dutch Corner aside all it has going for it is that it is short enough to race up.
    Me neither to be honest... I mean it's a hard climb but there are other hard climbs around there e.g. Granon which is much higher, plus there are too many trees meaning crap views when riding up and too much undergrowth for large things to die in and cause an almighty stink for six hairpins (yes I am still haunted by the smell so rank that I could taste it because there was no way I was able to regulate my breathing by breathing in through my nose).
    Correlation is not causation.
  • flite
    flite Posts: 227
    DQS will need Declerq to recover from todays crash and help control the race?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    edited July 2021
    pblakeney said:



    That's quite the collection of climbs.
    I can't get people's obsession with AdH. Dutch Corner aside all it has going for it is that it is short enough to race up.

    And even then the crowds are too dense for a lot of it to allow actual racing.

    (Dense has two meanings)

    I think the multiple hairpins make it quite good for photos which will have added to its mythology
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    flite said:

    DQS will need Declerq to recover from todays crash and help control the race?

    JA has drawn the short straw I think as a stand in
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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,379
    I don't think heel bough too the presser. Two much hat steak.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    One thing for sure, if he does get to Paris, he will be the first rider to finish the 2021 Tour de France.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    blazing_saddles said:

    One thing for sure, if he does get to Paris, he will be the first rider to finish the 2021 Tour de France.


    For the archives back in 2009.

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  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485
    Didn't Declerque miss the cut off?
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,268
    Not according to PCS.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    larkim said:

    Didn't Declerque miss the cut off?

    No, had something around two and a half minutes in hand. What shape he's in for toomorrow is the big unknown.
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  • davidof
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    above_the_cows said:



    After having already done the Télégraphe almost from the gun and the Galibier on that stage, and the Agnel, Izoard and Galibier the day before.

    From memory he was outside the time limit on that stage after some of the punchers decided to put him to the sword.

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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    There should be a special dispensation for riders like DeClerq that sit on the front for stage after stage.
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340
    RichN95. said:

    There should be a special dispensation for riders like DeClerq that sit on the front for stage after stage.

    I don't know about that, but for the last few years I've wondered if the time limits aren't a bit harsh, especially with the trend towards shorter mountain stages that are raced harder from the start. Where's the fun in sprint stages when most of the sprinters have already been sent home?
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  • RichN95.
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    Lanterne_Rogue said:

    RichN95. said:

    There should be a special dispensation for riders like DeClerq that sit on the front for stage after stage.

    I don't know about that, but for the last few years I've wondered if the time limits aren't a bit harsh, especially with the trend towards shorter mountain stages that are raced harder from the start. Where's the fun in sprint stages when most of the sprinters have already been sent home?

    If you go and find the Formigal thread from the 2016 Vuelta, I think you will find there was a big debate as to whether half the field should be sent home (including all but one of Sky). Now that stage is just remembered for the GC implications of Froome losing time. Nobody lost anything from keeping riders in the race.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Course he’ll get there.

    Honestly.

    You guys to know the TV plays up the jeopardy to make it more exciting, right?
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