TDF 2024:- Stage 15: Loudenvielle – Plateau de Beille, 197.7km ***Spoilers***

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356
    edited July 14

    Denz overtook Matt Stephens on the descent when he was doing 110kph on the back of the moto

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356

    Girmay still in the peloton

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711

    Lots of riders getting back to the peloton.

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,630

    Girmay is back in the peloton, trying to jump up to a break attempt, a big group have a small gap

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356

    Girmay now in a very large break that has a couple of seconds

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711

    The breakaway is unlikely to get sorted before the Col de Mente, where carnage will ensue.

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,630

    Girmay is seriously impressive

    Break now have 30"

    Lenny Martinez might accidentally screw his lanterne here....

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711

    Looks as if I was completely wrong.

    25 riders breaking away?

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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,963

    This break definitely has the firepower to survive if uae give it a few minutes. Depends how hard they make this next climb.

  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,057

    Girmay getting relegated for that

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711

    That was a bit ridiculous tbh.

    Grimay really chopped Bling up.

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356

    Girmay gets maximum points cutting up Matthews in the process. Would be a relegation in a sprint finish, not sure why Matthews was contending it to be honest though.

  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,630

    Oh Girmay, why?

    Going to be declassified and lose all those points he just rode for for sure

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,900

    Unnecessary commissar risk

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356

    I think he simply didn’t see him and wasn’t expecting anyone to be contesting it.

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356

    Relegating him to third would seem proportionate. Losing the points won’t make much difference in any case but he obviously worked hard to be in a position to take them.

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356

    Thought someone had stolen Rui Costa’s jersey for a minute then as he was riding on the front.

  • jimmyjams
    jimmyjams Posts: 780

    You sound a bit disparaging, but the french success rate on Bastille Day isn't actually bad, every 4 or 5 years on average since WW2. And sometimes this french ambition produces exciting stages, like Brochard's win in 1997, or Barguil's in 2017.

    My most vivid memory is from the Fignon-Lemond year, when Fignon and Charly Mottet, competing for the stage win, formed a two-man break ahead of Lemond and the other GC contenders, this lasting for 50 kms. When they were caught, and it looked like there would be no french victory that 14 July, a small group of lower-placed riders went away, with Vincent Barteau then breaking free of the others, to ride to a rapturous solo victory in Marseille.

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,900

    Hmmm

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356

    This break is going to have some firepower. Bora making the best of it after losing Roglic.

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356

    Healey blasts across the last little gap

  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293

    Girmay relegated to 3rd according to PCS

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,049

    Rather lenient penalty for Girmay, relegated to third, why not exclude him from that sprint and deduct further points?

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356

    Because the rule is you get relegated to the back of the group you’re sprinting in.

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,900

    Just going to arrive at the finish teamless . Maybe go early so Both are isolated

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,630

    Well it used to be every four or five years, but Barguill in '17 is the only French win in nearly twenty years now. Moncoutie in '05 and Virenque in '04 before it. A lot has changed in that period.

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  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293

    In case anyone wants it a full list of Bastille Day winners: https://www.cyclingrevealed.com/TdF/2BASTILLE%20DAY_web.htm

  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,630
    edited July 14

    My word, look at those split stages - a THREE split day in '76!

    • 1976c - Gerben Karstens (Ned), Stage 18c Lacanau Ocean to Bordeaux, 70 km
    • 1976b - Freddy Maertens (Bel), Stage 18b Langon to Lacanau Ocean, 123 km
    • 1976a - Freddy Maertens (Bel), Stage 18a Auch to Langon, 86 km
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,900

    There used to be way more paint graffiti on the road

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