Tour de France 2024 pre race discussion
With some teams being announced, and just over a week away, I thought I'd create a thread for any pre-Tour discussion
It's been prompted by finding that the Road book is now on an app on App Store and Google Play store
The username you need is "guest" and the password is "roadbook2024" (case sensitive)
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Have to say, at first look, that is excellent.
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Just installed the tried to login with an a count I newly set up - I can login ok to the tdf app but the roadbook app (on Android) repeatedly rejects me. Has anyone got in to the roadbook app OK?
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Yep, no problem for me on Android
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It seems a bit glitchy, and took a couple of attempts to log in, but working fine for me
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Cav Cav Cav Cav Cav Cav, Cav, Cav.
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Cav!
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Login with the guest account and it's fine
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Wierd, I cannot get logged in to download the roadbook despite resetting my password in the other tdf app. I've asked my daughter to try as its probably an old person thing.
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Username: guest
Password: roadbook2024
Don't use your own username from a different app 😉
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Brilliant thanks - eventually got in successfully!
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I have had a quick study of the route, as I started to knock up the stages. TBH, I am not sure what the fuss is about. Sure, it has a tough final weekend, but by my reckoning, there are nine sprint stages and only four "proper" mountain stages. I am not sure some gravel and a few medium mountain visits mark this edition as being extra tough. Aside the lack of a traditional Paris finish, it looks a pretty bog standard edition.
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
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I definitely agree with this. Stage 20 looks tough on paper, but there is no monster in there i don’t think. Some of those of climbs were used on stage 2 in 2020 and that wasnt especially selective. Depends on how it’s raced. It might be a very tight race. Not outside the bounds of possibility that you’ll have 3 or 4 riders with a chance on the final day.
That final day TT looks like a 45 minute effort. Quite sizeable. You can see after 3 weeks some possibly key gaps between people of 1 min. Maybe more. It’ll probably neutralise stage 20.
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Would love to know the ninth sprint stage.
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That's TP doubled up in Crans Montana with the Olympic distance race. A solid 3 week training block in France should leave him in great condition for his main season's objective.
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Would love to know how you define a sprint stage.
There aren’t 9 for Jakobsen, Groenewegen and Cav, but most of the sprinters at the Tour are classics riders.
Besides, it all depends upon how they race
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For a modern day ITT in a grand tour. I should have added.
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8 pure sprints max ....
The final tt has the potential to cause a bit of gc movement
"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 pm0 -
There's some odd stages . How hard is the gravel ....sector 8 attack
"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 pm0 -
The key word there is pure.
I am not clear as to how tough stage 8 is, or why the likes of WVA, MvDP, Mads Pedersen, Bling, Coquard etc would necessarily get dropped on these parcour.
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Stage 8 is a sprint stage on paper.
I've got the following stages classified as sprint stages; Stage 3, Stage 5, Stage 6, Stage 8, Stage 10, Stage 12, Stage 13 and Stage 16.
Stage 18 could be, but that late in the race I think it'll be a breakaway day.
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Astana: Sir Cav, Morkov, Lutsenko, Federov, Bol, Tejada, Ballerini, Gazzoli
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Ineos: Bernal, Castro, De Plus, Kwiatkowski, Pidders, Carlos Rodriguez, Thomas, Ben Turner
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They're coming thick and fast now.
Movistar: Mas, Lazkano, Oliveira, Formolo, Aranburu, Gaviria, Romo, Muhlberger
Decathlon AG2R: Gall, Bennet, Armirail, Lapeira, Godon, Peters, Naesen, Prodhomme
(Is Cosnefroy injured or something? Thought he'd be guaranteed for AG2R?)
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He's focused on one day races and shorter stage races these days, as he found doing GTs doesn't suit him.
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I have stage 9 down as a possible sprint between the suspects mentioned above. Could also suit Philipsen and De Lie.
Of course this is a grand tour stage rather than a classic, so we have to assume the likes of WVA will be on babysitting duty, so it’s much more of an unknown quantity.
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Any good ...I like it down there
"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 pm0
