TDF 2024:- Stage 16: Gruissan – Nimes, 188.6km ***Spoilers***

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  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293

    Is it as slow as PCS seems to be indicating? There's mention of them dong a whole 20km/hr...

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711

    It’ll have to go some to beat stage 10 to that title.

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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,958

    They were doing 20kmh when trying to persuade the one rider from TE to stay out on his own. He wasn't having it.

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356

    Blythe talking about how hot it is but the weather data is showing it around 30 degrees, whilst that's warm it really doesn't feel much higher than you would expect in the South of France in mif July. Mind you, he also claimed it was blowing a gale before the start.

  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,630

    Clown playing a trombone klaxon

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,630

    Intemarche radio saying the wind is picking up and they should move up before the other teams err... get wind of it

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356

    Yeah, looking more breezy now but the direction doesn't appear suitable

  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,049
    edited July 16

    Could easily stop riders hiding it by making TDF organisers sorting out the daily swabs, along the lines of the PCR centres the UK had.

    I'll never know if me continuing to do VO2 efforts up the lovely rolling hills near Longleat, when I thought I simply had developed a sore throat over first holiday night and dead legs from some intense sessions just before the hol in late Septemeber '22, was how I ended up with long covid. I took ill health retirement from being a postie ten months ago and I'm still in no state to try and find a new job... It was only once we got home I thought of doing a covid test.

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,512

    I'm enjoying Warbasse ripping the p!ss out of Blythe.

  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 27,958

    Anything happening?

  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,512

    It's like a bike race version of Waiting for Godot.

  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,512

    "Nothing happens. Twice."

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356

    Get ready

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356

    Wind speeds are picking up and we've just had the bonus sprint (Girmay just marked Philipsen) so now may be the time for anyone with ambition to try something although I don't know what the wind direction is. Total Energies haven't learned from their rider previously getting left solo off the front and send another lamb to the slaughter.

  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,329

    Claiming Gachignard has "animated the race" seems slightly hyperbolic, to judge by the complete disinterest behind.


    I'm not saying it's slow, but for a second I thought this graphic meant they'd been overtaken by the broom wagon.


  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,049

    Looks like a finish around 1700 BST, one of the later ones this year so far.

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  • blazing_saddles
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356

    Someone is getting a fine tonight

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711

    Uno X certainly doing their best to liven up proceedings.

    Keystone Kop stuff.

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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,512

    The team cars crashing into each other would’ve been the cherry on the cake.

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,900

    Taking forever

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  • larkim
    larkim Posts: 2,485

    Has there ever been any analysis of who wins sprint stages on boring slow days vs who wins them on days where there's been chaos along the way?

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,900

    Looks a tad sluggish

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711

    Green jersey on the deck

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711

    Philipsen from Kristoff.

    Cav nowhere.

    Green jersey competition back on.

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,356

    Be interesting to see if Philipsen gets penalised for that sprint, they clamped down on less obvious changes in direction than that in the race already. Cav unable to hold his leadout again.

  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,717

    Philipsen wins. Cav didn't contest again. Think he is definitely much worse at that bit of sprinting.

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,900

    Girmay may be injured

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