83rd Paris-Nice, March 9th-16th 2025. ***Spoilers***

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 44,204

    Highlights on ITV apparently (advertised on the rugby coverage earlier). I assume ITV4 as their normal cycling channel.

  • flite
    flite Posts: 231
    edited March 9

    Yes ITV4 Highlights at 7pm every day

    "Gary Imlach presents action from stage one, a 156.5km route starting and finishing in Le Perray-en-Yvelines.

    With commentary from Ned Boulting and David Millar, and reports by Daniel Freibe"

  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,951
    edited March 9

    Half of Ineos down after an altercation with a roadworks barrier.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,951

    Tarling, Watson and Sheffield over a minute behind the bunch.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • hommelbier
    hommelbier Posts: 1,576

    Ineos riders have since rejoined the peloton. Alaphillip attacks on climb at 22km to enliven the race

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 19,269

    MERLIER leaves it late but times it well... Clean sprint by all on a slightly curving finishing straight which tends to cause drifts into rivals

    "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
  • hommelbier
    hommelbier Posts: 1,576
    edited March 9

    Unsurprisingly, Tim Merlier takes the bunch sprint ahead of Arnaud Demare.

    Followed on FR3 via TNT SAT

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 19,269
    "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
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 19,269
    edited March 9

    Jorgensen tried for the time bonus on the line after picking up a few on the course

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 19,269

    Wasn't Jorgensen...bad graphic I think

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,951

    Live now with 81kms remaining.

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  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,951
    edited March 10

    A big pile up, with a few riders badly knocked about.

    Florian Senechal’s classics season is over before it began.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,951

    Now a crash in the finishing town takes out Luke Durbridge. Another broken CB by the looks.

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 19,269

    Bit chaotic...another series of crashes

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 19,269

    Reduced bunch

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,788

    Bit crashy, split peloton by 15"

    Skjelmose is on the wrong side of the split

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 19,269

    Romeo caught behind

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 19,269

    Ceasefire I. Thr bunch ...coming back together

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 19,269

    Small roads ..tougher than it looks on paper

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 19,269
    edited March 10

    Gritty sprint ..no crashes ..... hulk like MERLIER thumps the pedals for the win

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 19,269

    Everyone on the left went too early and died

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,788

    It's the funky individual times TTT today. I think I quite like the format. There's a simple logic to it: get your leader over the line as fast as possible, however it makes sense to do so.

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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,629

    It’s also the format that will be used in the opening stage of the 2026 Tour, so possibly a chance to experiment for some teams.

  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,788

    Yeah, it's been heading to the Tour for a while imo, they tried it last year in P-N as well. Don't think it made a huge difference to how people rode except for the last few hundred metres, but fun all the same.

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  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,493
    edited March 11

    Interesting to see how teams with multiple leaders play it e.g. Visma LAB with Jorgenson and Vingegaard

  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 19,269

    What's the team time taken on ? Like a normal stage 3rd man or what?

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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,629

    Each rider gets the time they cross the line at. So teams can end with as many, or as few, riders as they choose.

  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,788

    I want to see a TTT in this format with a huge "you need to change bike" climb tacked on the end, just for the chaos 😅

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 19,269

    For the team classification it's combined first three riders like a road stage ?

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 19,269

    Riders everywhere in ttt

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