TDF 2023: Stage 2:– Vitoria-Gasteiz to San Sebastian, 209km ***Spoilers***

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Will Pidcock try to go on the descent?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Yates shredding it, drops WVA.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    2-0 Pog as he takes the time bonus from Jonas and the pair press on. Suspect they’ll sit up.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,572
    What is it about Jumbo leaders being wheelsuckers who won't work?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463

    What is it about Jumbo leaders being wheelsuckers who won't work?


    Wout just behind for stage win.
  • zest28
    zest28 Posts: 403
    edited July 2023
    Pogacar should stop working for Jonas really.

    Guess Jonas will just sit on Pogacar his wheel all week and conserve his energy for the final week.

    Jonas will never do any pulling.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655

    What is it about Jumbo leaders being wheelsuckers who won't work?

    Pretty simple tactics in not getting mugged for bonus seconds by the best gc sprinter here
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,572
    edited July 2023
    Pross said:

    What is it about Jumbo leaders being wheelsuckers who won't work?


    Wout just behind for stage win.
    Whilst that is true, Jonas had the chance to fight for the stage win.
    Wout won't hold back for Jonas if roles reversed.
    But it's not just been today.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    Forgot he was in the polka dots, didn't I

    But he's been good value for his pick


    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Bilbao stressing out WVA
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463

    Pross said:

    What is it about Jumbo leaders being wheelsuckers who won't work?


    Wout just behind for stage win.
    Whilst that is true, Jonas had the chance to fight for the stage win.
    Wout won't hold back for Jonas if roles reversed.
    But it's not just been today.
    Risk / reward not really falling right though. Higher chance of Wout winning the sprint from a group that size that Jonas staying away with Pog and beating him in a sprint with the extra matches burnt.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Meh
    Jumbo Sky
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,438
    Bilbao getting a good moto assist
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Bilbao to do it a day late?
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436

    Forgot he was in the polka dots, didn't I

    But he's been good value for his pick


    Just realised I'm 20 odd minutes behind.

    It's probably all over by now
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Nope
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Why do they keep going back to the Alaphillipe group?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Pidcock not fancying his sprint chances and tries to go early but shut down straight away.

    Wout having to do all the chasing here.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Vingegaard not prepared to do a tap for WVA.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    JV asleep as Lefay takes a flier.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Nail biting WOW
    "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
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Jumbo fluck it up.
    Brilliant by Lafay.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,572
    Ha, ha, ha, Jumbo and WvA mugged!
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Proper ekimov
    "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
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    edited July 2023
    The first Cofidis stage win for over 50 years
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • zest28
    zest28 Posts: 403
    WTF was TJV doing?
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Lafay holds on and Cofidis finally get a stage win. Well deserved that, just held on. Graphics must have been off as they were suggesting nearly 100m to go when the line came. Very well taken.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Actually this could cause a rift in the Jumbo camp….
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,572
    Finish line really not clearly marked judging from the TV piccies
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Wout pips Pog for second. Pidcock 5th?