TDF 2024:- Stage 15: Loudenvielle – Plateau de Beille, 197.7km ***Spoilers***
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Denz overtook Matt Stephens on the descent when he was doing 110kph on the back of the moto
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Girmay still in the peloton
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Lots of riders getting back to the peloton.
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Girmay is back in the peloton, trying to jump up to a break attempt, a big group have a small gap
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Girmay now in a very large break that has a couple of seconds
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The breakaway is unlikely to get sorted before the Col de Mente, where carnage will ensue.
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Girmay is seriously impressive
Break now have 30"
Lenny Martinez might accidentally screw his lanterne here....
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Looks as if I was completely wrong.
25 riders breaking away?
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This break definitely has the firepower to survive if uae give it a few minutes. Depends how hard they make this next climb.
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Girmay getting relegated for that
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That was a bit ridiculous tbh.
Grimay really chopped Bling up.
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Girmay gets maximum points cutting up Matthews in the process. Would be a relegation in a sprint finish, not sure why Matthews was contending it to be honest though.
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Oh Girmay, why?
Going to be declassified and lose all those points he just rode for for sure
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Unnecessary commissar risk
"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 -
I think he simply didn’t see him and wasn’t expecting anyone to be contesting it.
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Relegating him to third would seem proportionate. Losing the points won’t make much difference in any case but he obviously worked hard to be in a position to take them.
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Thought someone had stolen Rui Costa’s jersey for a minute then as he was riding on the front.
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You sound a bit disparaging, but the french success rate on Bastille Day isn't actually bad, every 4 or 5 years on average since WW2. And sometimes this french ambition produces exciting stages, like Brochard's win in 1997, or Barguil's in 2017.
My most vivid memory is from the Fignon-Lemond year, when Fignon and Charly Mottet, competing for the stage win, formed a two-man break ahead of Lemond and the other GC contenders, this lasting for 50 kms. When they were caught, and it looked like there would be no french victory that 14 July, a small group of lower-placed riders went away, with Vincent Barteau then breaking free of the others, to ride to a rapturous solo victory in Marseille.
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Hmmm
"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 -
This break is going to have some firepower. Bora making the best of it after losing Roglic.
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Healey blasts across the last little gap
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Girmay relegated to 3rd according to PCS
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Seems fair (was my suggestion for punishment)
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Rather lenient penalty for Girmay, relegated to third, why not exclude him from that sprint and deduct further points?
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Because the rule is you get relegated to the back of the group you’re sprinting in.
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Just going to arrive at the finish teamless . Maybe go early so Both are isolated
"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 -
Well it used to be every four or five years, but Barguill in '17 is the only French win in nearly twenty years now. Moncoutie in '05 and Virenque in '04 before it. A lot has changed in that period.
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In case anyone wants it a full list of Bastille Day winners: https://www.cyclingrevealed.com/TdF/2BASTILLE%20DAY_web.htm
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My word, look at those split stages - a THREE split day in '76!
- 1976c - Gerben Karstens (Ned), Stage 18c Lacanau Ocean to Bordeaux, 70 km
- 1976b - Freddy Maertens (Bel), Stage 18b Langon to Lacanau Ocean, 123 km
- 1976a - Freddy Maertens (Bel), Stage 18a Auch to Langon, 86 km
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There used to be way more paint graffiti on the road
"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
