TDF 2023: Stage 12: - Roanne to Belleville-en-Beaujolais 169km ***Spoilers***

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Pinot needs to go long ..he can't hold them.off on the flat without a decent lead
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Not a done deal this break makes it at all
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    MvdP thumping up the climb
    "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
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,057
    Group berhind MvdP breaking up on the climb, Mads and JA among those dropped.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    That's quite a big gear
    "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
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,656
    edited July 2023
    Wout Wouted, now Van Der Poel is Van Der Poeling
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    MvdP is obviously not feeling so ill anymore.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    MvdP holding them.off well
    "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: 28,166
    MVDP needs a decent lead going into the next climb to have any chance.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,728
    Boulting clueless.
    Meintjes bridging, not being dropped
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Meintjes bridges from.o conne group ...good effort
    "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
  • gweeds
    gweeds Posts: 2,613
    O'Connor is having a shocking tour thus far
    Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,166
    kingstongraham said:

    MVDP needs a decent lead going into the next climb to have any chance.

    And Pinot probably needs a decent lead by the top of the climb to have any chance.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Millar agrees
    "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
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    MvdP blowing already.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    MvdP is not making it easy
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Pinot has to go
    "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: 28,166
    mididoctors said:

    Pinot has to go

    He needs to distance MVDP for sure.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Pfft, when they race in bike races it's bloody fun isn't it.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Hasn't got it
    "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
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,057
    edited July 2023
    All coming back together at the front ahead of peleton, MvdP not being dropped so far.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,166
    Steepest part of the climb coming, so someone needs to go.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    MvdP shouldn't have tried to follow, almost blows himself up trying to follow.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Decent gap but it's a long way to go.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Izagirre riding MVDP off his wheel but I suspect he'll get back on the descent / flat. Surely he would win a sprint from this group?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Go on MvdP
    "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: 28,166
    Going to rely on his descending now. Tried to bluff the others that he could stay with them but noone was buying.
  • davebradswmb
    davebradswmb Posts: 548
    He's gone
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    MVDP blows himself up trying to follow on the climb. Not sure why he did that.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    davebradswmb said:

    He's gone

    Long way to go if the group is organised
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