TDF 2022:- Stage 4: Dunkerque to Calais, 171.5kms ***Spoilers***

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  • Pross said:

    DeadCalm said:

    Pross said:

    DeadCalm said:

    Why are QS riding?

    To keep it under control for Jakobsen I assume?
    If Jakobsen is in with a serious shout of winning this stage, I've totally misread the profile. Always a possibility.
    Seems it was more to make everyone's life a misery for the rest of the day and generally cause chaos.
    Carlton Kirby chat's on a different thread mate...
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,592
    All calm again, I wonder if that was a bit of a test run for later in the day.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Second peloton group back on, the ten or so still left behind just about making it back.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Cows on the run!
  • Cows on the run!

    Paul MooCartney?
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,340

    Cows on the run!

    Paul MooCartney?
    Terrible pun. Give yourself a pat on the back.
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249

    Cows on the run!

    Paul MooCartney?
    Terrible pun. Give yourself a pat on the back.
    A cow pat?
  • Cows on the run!

    Paul MooCartney?
    Terrible pun. Give yourself a pat on the back.
    He needs the udder forum....
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,730
    Hatch and Lloyd beginning to sound more and more pessimistic.
    Another headwind isn't going to help matters.
    Siesta time for me.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Cows on the run!

    Paul MooCartney?
    Terrible pun. Give yourself a pat on the back.
    He needs the udder forum....
    Alright we can stop milking it now
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Come on somebody - look at those flags!
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227
    Van Aert's not 100% is he? Didn't fully sprint at the intermediate, keeps going back to the car - what do we think?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,485
    edited July 2022

    Van Aert's not 100% is he? Didn't fully sprint at the intermediate, keeps going back to the car - what do we think?

    Bored of the chat in the bunch. 😉
    Was my PTP hope.

    "Pale and pallor" doesn't sound good.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,912
    Going to bluff them selves out of this if they don't get on with it
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  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,065

    Cows on the run!

    Paul MooCartney?
    Terrible pun. Give yourself a pat on the back.
    He needs the udder forum....
    Alright we can stop milking it now
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,823
    Random question which I've never thought about before

    When they say "there's 1700m of climbing on today's stage", how is this calculated?

    Is it every metre of vertical gain, or does it have to be over a certain percentage (say 0.5%) to qualify as "climbing"?
  • Cort beginning to think 3 days in a row ambitious. I'm sure he's blowing when Perez starts putting it down
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717

    Random question which I've never thought about before

    When they say "there's 1700m of climbing on today's stage", how is this calculated?

    Is it every metre of vertical gain, or does it have to be over a certain percentage (say 0.5%) to qualify as "climbing"?

    Dull Stage eh?

    I would suspect it is more accurately described as "height gain" and that "climbing" is a commentator's poetic shorthand...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • mrfpb
    mrfpb Posts: 4,569
    edited July 2022
    one more point and Magnus will be wearing the polka dots to the top of Planche des Belles Filles, so I expect Perez will Magnus tow him to the next hill top.
    As David Millar pointed out yesterday the moustache plus the EF kit plus the polka dot jersey is a winning combination, in a bit of a daft way. It'll be a shame when he gives up the jersey.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    If anyone is feeling generous, can one of you say when it's worth turning it on?

    Gotta to do it in the office so it's gotta be worth it.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    The Happy Birthday Phil Gil from each car as he moves back up to the group is rather sweet...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,227

    This means there's gonna be a 70km MvdP rampage, right?

    RIGHT?!?!?

    Here it comes...
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    Tell you what, I hadn't appreciated ol' M.C. Nielson's facial hair.

    Kudos
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,592

    Random question which I've never thought about before

    When they say "there's 1700m of climbing on today's stage", how is this calculated?

    Is it every metre of vertical gain, or does it have to be over a certain percentage (say 0.5%) to qualify as "climbing"?

    I assume it will be everything so if it was a 160km stage with half going up at 1% and half going down at 1% you'd have 800m. However, by that measure 1700m on today's 'lumpy' stage feels a bit low.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    edited July 2022
    If you're bored you can have half an eye on the new portal to the underworld about to open up under Geneva...

    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ddraver said:

    If you're bored you can have half an eye on the new portal to the underworld about to open up under Geneva...

    Hopefully they will solve the mystery of the Boassen- Hagen
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    Pog would still trounce whatever comes out of it... 🙄
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,154
    ddraver said:

    If you're bored you can have half an eye on the new portal to the underworld about to open up under Geneva...

    Why can't they crack on and create abundant cheap electricity? That would stop a lot of World silliness. Also, I bet Cav (national champ) could beat that particle to the finish.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,154
    If two Cav's collided a complete new Universe would be created.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,154
    That is just fact!