TDF 2021: Stage 14, Carcassonne > Quillan 183.7 km **Spoilers**

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,805
    Bit patronising to not have your GC challenge taken seriously .
    "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
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 21,812
    Some serious under estimating of Guilluame Martin going on.
    Sure he will lose a packet to Vingegaard in the TT, but Carapaz?
    It's complacent to think he won't hang around on the climbs.
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 18,932


    Sound up.

    Contains Dutch swearing.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 16,805
    Canny hard ride by mollema
    "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: 16,805
    blazing_saddles said:

    Some serious under estimating of Guilluame Martin going on.
    Sure he will lose a packet to Vingegaard in the TT, but Carapaz?
    It's complacent to think he won't hang around on the climbs.

    Guess we are going to find out .
    "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
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    Hup Bauke!
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Gefeliciteerd Bauke. My favourite out of the Dutch pros.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,388
    A stunning reclaiming of the crown from Amund Jansen today after the usurper Declercq stole it in the mountains...

    Pure class under pressure
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    tailwindhome said:



    Sound up.

    Contains Dutch swearing.
    This is when I really warmed to him.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,490
    edited July 2021
    blazing_saddles said:

    Some serious under estimating of Guilluame Martin going on.
    Sure he will lose a packet to Vingegaard in the TT, but Carapaz?
    It's complacent to think he won't hang around on the climbs.

    Either he's not in form and Ineos just can't be bothered or he's waiting for one of the big climbs to try again at making a move.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,104
    tailwindhome said:



    Sound up.

    Contains Dutch swearing.
    Someone at SRAM has a sense of humour.

  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,193
    blazing_saddles said:

    Some serious under estimating of Guilluame Martin going on.
    Sure he will lose a packet to Vingegaard in the TT, but Carapaz?
    It's complacent to think he won't hang around on the climbs.

    Everyone would have slagged off Ineos for riding like idiots if they'd ridden today...
  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    G Martin much more developed rider than two years ago. I am sure good recovery into week 3. A bad day is always a possibility. The 31 km tt a problem but as all climbers know you can make a lot of time in the mountains
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,150
    Carapaz beat him by 1.34 in the first TT. The others were ahead of him. He lost another 2.27 on the Ventoux stage. Maybe he'll find something, but I'm guessing the others have judged him correctly
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  • specialgueststar
    specialgueststar Posts: 3,418
    I think that's right but good development nonetheless. He certainly needs to develop in areas. Wanty must be miffed. They never supported him fully and it was in his contract he could go up to WT. Cofidis moved up to WT and got him but now Wanty are WT also

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