Tour de France 2024 pre race discussion
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Like MvdP?
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Hope I’m wrong but I agree with what Robbie said on The Breakaway that Cav is unlikely to win a stage. I think there now just too many guys faster than him in various scenarios and they won’t all have an issue on the same stage. Feels very unlikely to happen but would love to see it.
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I think he's still pretty quick, but if he takes a stage it will be brains that wins it for him rather than pure speed. But he'll need to get over the lumps first....
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These things were known weeks before today. Plenty thought he’d get a stage, the only thing that’s changed is how he performed today.
I think a stage win is still going to happen.
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Comment was from before the stage started.
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Which comment?
Yours or McEwen’s?
I’m away, on catch up so my timeline’s a bit skewed.
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McEwan’s was during The Breakaway. Pretty sure mine was before Cav went out the back though not long before.
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Imlach you cool fcuker!
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What did Imlach do?
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Introduced the highlights show sipping an espresso looking cool
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Annual telling of my only encounter with Imlach. Was walking around soho and I saw him going around soho with a huge bin bag, handing out hot meals in styrofoam bowls to homeless people.
Not performative, not showy, was just doing it.
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Re Cav, a win has to be a long shot I'd have thought, not because of yesterday but just because he's 39 and has no real recent form to suggest he can beat the best sprinters. He also seems to lose position too often too so doesn't get to sprint - that might be a lack of watts or he's become more risk averse.
All that said the Tour he equalled the record was unexpected and I'm hoping he can prove me wrong.
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Hello, is this Chris Horner??
Winning World Cups and World Championships is hardly 'dicking around'. Yet another ignorant 'roadie' methinks....
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And it's not so much ignorance as pure bigotry really 😅
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Can't the case be made for gravel taking market share from the road at an accelerating pace?
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Speaking of which I saw some photos on Strava from someone I used to race who leads a ride of the Tour route a few days ahead of the race and he did the gravel stage yesterday. It looked pretty tricky, rougher than Strade Bianchi and not helped by some pretty grim looking weather.
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If he wants to be a GC rider and Ineos think he can be, he needs to focus 100% on GC.
Seeing him being spat out on climbs on a regular basis is not great.
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Stage 6 is what I suspect Cav might be looking to go all in on.
Stage 5 for a bit of a leg loosener/warm up effort perhaps.
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I might be being unfair but I've just got a feeling Cav is going to struggle with positioning. I'm not convinced he still has that fearlessness and the horse power required to be where he needs to be.
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It's a distinct possibility. MvdP and Philipsen were seriously reckless last year, and stage 3 this year we saw some dicey bumping between De Lie and Groenewegen and that was a slimmed down bunch. That said, if Cav wins it will be brain over brawn, and with Mørkøv leading out and Renshaw in the team car they have three of the very best in the business.
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I'll provide more tips in the coming weeks.
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Surely you've learnt by now that the one thing you never, ever do with Mark Cavendish is write him off?
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I’ve heard their asking you to support Mark Renshaw in the team car.🤣🤣🤣
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Post of the tour !
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