TDF 2023:- Stage 20:- Belfort to Le Markstein, 133km ***Spoilers***

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    Gonna be concussion questions about this
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Big problems for Ineos.
    Rodriguez has a nasty cut above his eye and his left arm is a mess.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Thanks @jimmyjams we’ll probably go camping in France next summer and I’ve had permission to go around the time of the Tour as we’re now able to go away outside school holidays. Hopefully the Tour route will be back in this area and we can tie it all up. Looks like it will be good for a bit of running and hopefully a bit of fishing.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    Meanwhile, Vingegaard in a front group of 25ish...UAE chasing

    He shoud probably just drop back and let the break go

    Kuss was also taken down in the chute
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Rodriguez shouldn’t be riding until he gets looked at, face is bashed up.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Sep Kuss has also been on the deck
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    Kuss also bleeding from his face
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Kuss is also cut to the head.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Kuss too
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463

    Meanwhile, Vingegaard in a front group of 25ish...UAE chasing

    He shoud probably just drop back and let the break go

    Kuss was also taken down in the chute

    Yep, he needs to sit up or he won’t make himself popular.

    Kuss also has facial injuries.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Mads Pedersen suggesting to Vingegaard that he leaves the break?
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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,438
    TBH Rodriguez looks less bashed up than Kuss
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Pross said:

    Rodriguez shouldn’t be riding until he gets looked at, face is bashed up.

    It's such a tough call to make with riders on GC ..the protocol need a re injection into the bunch clause so riders stop for the check and pressure on all the officials is safety only
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Carlton thinks UAE are pushing on to protect Yates podium from Rodriguez!
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Imagine if that was Jonas !
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Barguil telling JV to flip off! :D
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655

    Mads Pedersen suggesting to Vingegaard that he leaves the break?

    Barguil was pretty definite about it.
    All very strange, no idea what he was trying to acheive
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Here comes UAE
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463

    Mads Pedersen suggesting to Vingegaard that he leaves the break?

    He’s lacking a bit of awareness. There was another Jumbo rider up there who could have stayed but Jonas is just getting them chased. Looks like a break has now gone and left him.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Uno X trying to get their whole team across again.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Control falling apart
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Hindley and Adam Yates on the move
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Everyman for himself tactics
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    This is going to get very silly
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    They should make the 20 th stage the cobbles
    "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
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    This feels like a very good lead group for this terrain.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Neilands deserves a win
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    Pross said:

    This feels like a very good lead group for this terrain.

    Definitely, though they could probably do with a couple more riders (and minutes)
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Pinot with a plan
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    5 more points to Ciccone in the KOM.
    There's got to be an argument that Skjelmose is the luxury domestique of the Tour this year, the shifts he's put in for Ciccone and Mads P have been incredible


    And we now have a Pinot/Küng/Madouas/Uran+++ attack to try and bridge
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