TDF 2022:- Stage 18: Lourdes - Hautacam, 143.2Km ***Spoilers***

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,656
    All back together. We go again
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,728
    All this does is confirm that there are a lot of optimistic morons in the peloton.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,927
    edited July 2022
    Pross said:

    Does anyone know if live coverage can be rewound on the ES player Android app? I got in yesterday and was expecting the watch live or watch from the start option but didn't get it and couldn't rewind (the stage had ended but coverage was still in with post-stage interviews). Out again today but would like to watch most of the stage 'as live' when I get back.

    You can usually just pick it from the schedule then when it is playing pick a point in time.
  • Jtomesgreen
    Jtomesgreen Posts: 190
    blazing_saddles said:

    All this does is confirm that there are a lot of optimistic morons in the peloton.

    Arguably a prerequisite of being a pro cyclist
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,728
    Cofidis ain’t letting Ciconne get up the road
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    blazing_saddles said:

    I can't help but think that what this stage really needed was a climb of 5-6kms at 5-6% after about 20kms, just to give the breakaway a bit of quality and a chance . I can't see anything sticking before the Aubisque, which will be far too late.

    A bummer about Froome, so late in the day. He would have been trying for that break, today.

    He sounds gutted, big shame

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Well it's not like they were doing anything else today
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  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,057
    edited July 2022
    Wva decides there is no I in team and at ~35secs off the break, decides to try and join them.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Saw that coming
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,656
    Wtf. Moto idiot 😱
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Press bike fault
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,728
    Ridiculous press bike puts Jack Bauer into the back of a team car.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Press bike fault
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    Wtf. Moto idiot 😱

    Poor call going for that gap ...the crash up front caught him out
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  • mididoctors
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    blazing_saddles said:

    Cofidis ain’t letting Ciconne get up the road

    Better plan that getting in the break
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,334
    Caused by the first bike - serves across the rider in front to pull in, punts him off, the UAE car brakes and Bauer goes a over t
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  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,057
    edited July 2022
    Not sure how rider in front of Bauer and UAE car went down, press motorbike stopped Bauer from passing the stopped UAE car, but looked like he would likely have hit the other fallen rider.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    N0bodyOfTheGoat said:

    Not sure how rider in front of Bauer and UAE car went down, press motorbike stopped Bauer from passing the stopped UAE car, but looked like he would likely have hit the other fallen rider.

    Hard to see wasn't it ....rear ended ?
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  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,057
    mididoctors said:

    N0bodyOfTheGoat said:

    Not sure how rider in front of Bauer and UAE car went down, press motorbike stopped Bauer from passing the stopped UAE car, but looked like he would likely have hit the other fallen rider.

    Hard to see wasn't it ....rear ended ?
    Or were there two press motorbikes there, one in front of UAE car?

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    That's one frantic peloton
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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,438
    When the team car slammed on because of the crash in front I think Bauer would have gone into the back of it if that moto was there or not.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Yellow jersey having a word
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    I love the new racing
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    edited July 2022
    r0bh said:

    When the team car slammed on because of the crash in front I think Bauer would have gone into the back of it if that moto was there or not.

    He may have made the gap but 50 50
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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,334
    edited July 2022
    This sort of shows what's going on. You can see the moto ahead with its indicator on, having just come into contact with the rider in front. The UAE car has slammed the brakes on and Bauer and the second press moto are headed towards a gap that isn't about to appear. I can't see any reason for the UAE car to have braked other than the incident ahead, but they seem to have pre-empted it and over-reacted meaning they come to a halt with nowhere for Bauer to go. Lots to unpick here, and I suspect a bit of culpability all round.


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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,728
    Still tootling along over tough terrain at a gentle 50kph.
    No sign of things settling down as Cofidis are closing it down again.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,656
    Van Aert underlining there are no gifts, takes the intermediate
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  • blazing_saddles
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    The breakaway has 20 seconds lead as they hit the Aubisque.

    Why is Kirby still commentating? Should have swapped out by now.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,656
    Lot of riders today desperately trying to remember what the safe word was
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  • blazing_saddles
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    Louis Meintjes attacks out of the peloton.
    Pidcock bridges
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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,438
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    Van Aert underlining there are no gifts, takes the intermediate

    Why though, he has already won the green jersey! Shouldn't he be saving energy to help Ving?

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