TDF 2024:-Stage 4: Pinerolo – Valloire, 139.6km ***Spoilers***
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WvA trying to get up the road
"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 pm0 -
Van Aert getting involved. Poor @rick_chasey if he gets away
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Active start ....green jersey tactics in play
"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 pm1 -
Mad Mads is off up the road
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I love that nutter
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He’s got himself a nice little group.
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Alpecin really don't want Mads up there for the intermediate, they've got 6km to close him down
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This looks hard, the sprinters must be hating it. MVDP is now riding off to bridge.
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MvdP trying to bridge solo, it's only a handful of seconds
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Intermarche close it down
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Sestriere's ~40km at 3.7% average is mental compared to UK climbs, when Road To Hell is one of the biggest at ~11Km ~3.2%.
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Not good having a mechanical at that point.
I can't be the only one that has done club runs that feel like this with long, draggy climbs and someone on the front pushing the pace leaving you desperately trying to hang on as you know you're done if you lose the wheel.
Gaviria hanging off the back and looks like a bus might be starting to form already including the latest Great French Hope. All back together at the front.
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Lidl train to the front
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Gaviria out the back already. Alpecin riders paying the price too.
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Philipsen didn’t have the legs. Pedersen’s points.
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Jesus Mads is strong.
Takes the sprint from the front, Philipsen sits down almost immediately, Girmay 2nd
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Ironically it is some sprinters and their teams driving it up teh climb and some climbers struggling to hang on.
Mads takes the sprint from Girmay.
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Yeah but Road To Hell has a long section at 15% so hardly comparable!
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There’s two grupettos. One with the sprinters, the other with half the peloton!
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Hatch is catching a touch of the Kirbys and not realising what group is what.
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Bernal off the back.
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That steep section on RTH is only ~2km and it's a fun climb with lots of gradient variations, but it's dwarfed by Sestriere, just over quarter of the length averaging over 3%.
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Could Cav miss the time limit or is the stage too short?
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The drop is huge on sestriere ... Starts on po valley catchment which is not that much above sea level
"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 pm0 -
Roglic also apparently struggling at the back.
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Coverage is a bit shite.
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Roglic too apparently
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Roglic off the back?
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Van Aert having a tough day itt seems
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Van Aert not in his usual spot on a mountain stage. Bernal and Roglic trying to bridge by the sound of it.
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