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

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Has impy retired
    "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: 14,655
    edited July 2023

    Pinot with a plan

    They've heard @jimmyjams say something about free beer at a cycling event finish - Plugge was right
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    edited July 2023

    Has impy retired

    Not yet, but his last season I think
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,553

    Has impy retired

    Not yet, no. He wasn't selected by IPT to ride the Tour, hence the commentary stint. I think he's retiring at the end of the season though.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Kuss looks in a bit of trouble. Hopefully he can drag himself through to finish.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    Pinot has bridged

    Ciccone will take the 5 pts and put himself 21 ahead of Gall with 23 left
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Madous has to give everything he has now
    "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
    Wallonie starts today and for the first time, all the stages have live coverage.
    Used to be only the last two, after the tour had finished.
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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,601

    UAE controlling at the front, they want something from the stage

    2nd behind Vingergaard obviously
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Madous give it some
    "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
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,438
    Peanut love in on comms is getting a bit much
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    Ciccone takes the 3cat kom and that's the jersey done
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Took a big team effort to win that jersey
    "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
  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,601

    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
    He's a dick.
    "Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    edited July 2023
    Ciccone never going to be winning any Italian fashion awards though
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Is it just me that prefers these sawtooth medium mountain stages to the big Alpine and Pyrenean stages?
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Harper there for the plateau to drag Simon if he gets away ?
    "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 said:

    Is it just me that prefers these sawtooth medium mountain stages to the big Alpine and Pyrenean stages?

    Always - usually get much more dynamic racing
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    r0bh said:

    Peanut love in on comms is getting a bit much

    Both channels are in hyper fawning mode over him.
    You would think he was a multiple GT winner.
    Quite vomit inducing
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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Breakaway in tatters as Eurosport talk to fans about goat boy.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    It's a shared cultural experience.
    "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
    edited July 2023
    If these front 4 stay away and Pidcock wins he won’t be popular!
  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933
    Pinot all in. Pidcock on his wheel
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Pinot Moto assist..... Go for 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
  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933
    Pross said:

    Is it just me that prefers these sawtooth medium mountain stages to the big Alpine and Pyrenean stages?

    Agree, much more aggressive racing
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  • r0bh said:

    Peanut love in on comms is getting a bit much

    Both channels are in hyper fawning mode over him.
    You would think he was a multiple GT winner.
    Quite vomit inducing
    Think I’d actually prefer Carlton to Hatch’s big book of superlatives
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Really don’t want the GC group to catch the break but it looks inevitable.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    If only this race had still be close this stage could have been a cracker.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    UAE are coming .... One mountain early
    "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
    Pinot forced into going long