TDF 2020: Stage 6: Le Teil > Mont Aigoual 191 km *Spoilers*

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,645
    Gesink off the back
    "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
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,230

    Ineos being a bit defensive

    are they hoping the break takes the bonifications so the racing is neutralised? Feels that way.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,551
    davidof said:

    Herrera having a shower with a coke bottle

    Just a red bidon, non?
  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,099
    Could Bernal be on a bad day?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,230

    Gesink off the back

    MMM he's not looking great is he?
  • I think Ineos have just conned Jumbo out of a big opportunity.
    Clearly playing a straight bat until week 3.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,645
    dish_dash said:

    It's a nice looking climb eh?

    It is
    "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
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    Lots of bottles been taken, so it's OK up to 10k today?
  • davidof
    davidof Posts: 3,032
    dish_dash said:

    davidof said:

    Herrera having a shower with a coke bottle

    Just a red bidon, non?
    No doubt but you wouldn't want to get it wrong
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,230

    I think Ineos have just conned Jumbo out of a big opportunity.
    Clearly playing a straight bat until week 3.

    It's not that long - is it really that big an opportunity?
  • 50x11
    50x11 Posts: 408
    Lotto rider just took a feed after Millar said it'd been stopped.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,645

    I think Ineos have just conned Jumbo out of a big opportunity.
    Clearly playing a straight bat until week 3.

    It was a defensive ride .
    "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: 16,645
    Aru going back
    "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
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    Aru's effort fizzles out
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 20,508

    Ineos being a bit defensive

    are they hoping the break takes the bonifications so the racing is neutralised? Feels that way.
    Have you been listening to Kelly too much?
  • Even Gaudu manages to regain the peloton.
    Unlike the Higuita hype wagon.

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  • Forgotten quite how awkward Aru looks on a bike
  • Classic Aru
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,786
    not sure it was Gaudu
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,645

    I think Ineos have just conned Jumbo out of a big opportunity.
    Clearly playing a straight bat until week 3.

    It's not that long - is it really that big an opportunity?
    8 sec by bonus worth having and 10 at stage end
    "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: 16,645
    edited September 2020
    Roglic s stratergy is based on these summit sprints so blunting them is effective
    "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: 16,645
    Podgar mechanical
    "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
  • inseine said:

    not sure it was Gaudu

    Must have been somebody else wearing his number then.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,645
    Lutshenko is flying
    "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
  • Great ride by Herrada
  • The front of the peloton now resembles a Sky: past, present and future gathering.
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  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,099

    inseine said:

    not sure it was Gaudu

    Must have been somebody else wearing his number then.
    Gaudu may have got back in but the rider they showed rejoining was Madouas.
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  • Vino reminding him how much this win has cost
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,645
    Lol
    "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
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,230
    I preferred the book...