2024 TDF Stage 1:- Florence - Rimini 206km ***Spoilers***

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463

    Others including Jakobsen dropping back to the Cav group now which should help. Losing time quite fast though.

  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 909

    Loving the inset windows beneath the appropriate time gap. More of that please.

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651

    Visma have taken the front for the descent here, which is probably good for Cav. I doubt they want to push it here, just keep it nice and easy as Jonas eases back into racing.

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463

    It doesn’t seem to be helping, now 15 minutes down and 10 behind the peloton with 90km left. He should be OK, especially if more drop back to form a proper bus but not an ideal start. Apparently not ill just being affected by the heat.

  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 909

    #TuneDeFrance - it's a no from me. Pointless filler causing Ned to drift into accidental Partridge.

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463

    Too much for Gazzoli who abandons

  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293

    Slight panic when you see a Astana rider abandoning. Not Cav thank fully.

    Not yet at least...

  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651

    Astana lose a rider - Michele Gazzoli. Looking more like there could well be some illness in the team

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  • evil_breakfast
    evil_breakfast Posts: 465

    Following the Gazzoli abandonment; I'm left wondering if it's some kind of dodgy meal issue at Astana?

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  • wakemalcolm
    wakemalcolm Posts: 909

    They went too early with #TuneDeFrance. Surely: Broom broom broom lets go back to my room?

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  • Lanterne_Rogue
    Lanterne_Rogue Posts: 4,332

    Suspicion already falling on Astana's new catering team...



  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    Illness in the team?

    "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: 18,908

    Guess we all think the same thing

    "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: 18,908

    I idea of riding while ill ,.... Despite all the tech and data bike racing is still suffering on a bike

    "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: 18,908

    Why are jayco riding in the ineos kit

    "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: 18,908

    Tough stage really

    "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: 22,725

    UAE have arrived at the front…

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    Jonas doesn't look too bad

    "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: 22,725

    Lenny Martinez surprisingly in trouble.

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    pressure from UAE

    "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: 22,725

    Gaudu dropped as well.

    So to Izagirre from the break.

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651

    Gaudu getting dropped, Madiot will love that, there's far more romance to sell in pointless suffering

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    Is this wise by UAE

    "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
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651

    Jesus, Abrahamsen is brutal

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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    MvDP dropped

    "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: 22,725
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    Vingegaard looking ominously good, sitting right on Pogacar’s wheel.

    It seems as if Bernard Hinault might not know anything about bike racing any more.

    Pedersen makes it back to the peloton.

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651

    Mads P dropped but gets back

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  • gsk82
    gsk82 Posts: 3,599

    Dodgy meal at Astana? That's a change from dodgy blood bags.

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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821

    I count around 65 riders left in the peloton at this stage after UAE worked hard on that climb

  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463

    Yeah dodgy stomach for me would be 2 days off altogether and then a day or two of horrible crampy legs.