TDF 2023: Stage 3:– Amorebieta-Etxano to Bayonne, 185km ***Spoilers***

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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,164
    kingstongraham said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Lafay making a move in green.

    Just clipped off the front, not really sure what he's doing or where he's going.

    If he gets 3rd at the intermediate, he's much more likely to be in green tomorrow.
    So he only doesn't keep green if Wout or Mads win the sprint finish. Not sure about Philipsen, because they'd be on same number of points. Would it be Lafay because of GC position?
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,164
    Really looks like Lafay is riding for Bora hansgrohe.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Just gone past the halfway mark
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  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,057
    rick_chasey said:

    Lafay making a move in green.

    Just clipped off the front, not really sure what he's doing or where he's going.

    He's heard rumours of another food stall. ;)

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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,164
    Everyone happy with rolling along for a bunch sprint finish.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Combativity number in a sort of off-white is not very easily spotted.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Fantastic roads
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    edited July 2023
    Going so slowly that they are having to stop.
    Fred Wright has been sampling the tarmac.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Fred had a off
    "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
  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    Tacks on the road again, it seems
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    More tacks on the road.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Feels like this will be a very late finish. I have to go to the pub in a few minutes and had thought it would be finished by then but there's at least an hour left.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Time to bail.
    It’s going to be Kirby hysterics for the finish.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Carlton is back and already harping on about city planners and their roundabouts.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Nothing to see other than it's 39km to go and the break is only 15" up the road.

    Everyone needs to chill out a bit.
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  • poweredbyidris
    poweredbyidris Posts: 848
    Take a breath Carlton

    He's just read out the entire start list with ever-increasing histrionics
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    Pross said:

    Carlton is back and already harping on about city planners and their roundabouts.

    now reading off the start list again as as potential winners
  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933
    Peleton speeding up now with a decent tail wind
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    ITV 4 reckon something is amiss with Van Aert.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Half wheeling on mass mode
    "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
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,164
    50kmh+ across the road on the flat at 32km to the finish with teams lined up - welcome to Le Tour.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    blazing_saddles said:

    ITV 4 reckon something is amiss with Van Aert.

    Any more deets? He refused interviews last night but he was back doing them this morning > words to the effect of "not sure why it's such a big deal that I really don't like losing"
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    kingstongraham said:

    50kmh+ across the road on the flat at 32km to the finish with teams lined up - welcome to Le Tour.

    last 2 days were more exciting than the first 20 stages in the Giro tbf.
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  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933
    Hopefully the 'Allez Omi-Opi' spectator is at home
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,164
    That roundabout at 2km to go could be interesting. Full speed into it, then a 180 turn and uphill out of it.
  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,334
    rick_chasey said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    ITV 4 reckon something is amiss with Van Aert.

    Any more deets? He refused interviews last night but he was back doing them this morning > words to the effect of "not sure why it's such a big deal that I really don't like losing"
    He's spent quite a bit of time at the back of the peloton, hasn't he? Eurosport similarly have been speculating that he's not fully on it today.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Oh I'm excited
    "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
    Lanterne_Rogue said:

    rick_chasey said:

    blazing_saddles said:

    ITV 4 reckon something is amiss with Van Aert.

    Any more deets? He refused interviews last night but he was back doing them this morning > words to the effect of "not sure why it's such a big deal that I really don't like losing"
    He's spent quite a bit of time at the back of the peloton, hasn't he? Eurosport similarly have been speculating that he's not fully on it today.
    Asking for ice when it’s only about 24C isn’t normal
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  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933
    Sprint trains to the fore. Tough for any freelancers if this gets strung out
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    Come on Cav, the greatest TDF rider of all time.

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