Tour de France 2019 **SPOILERS**

[nickyboy]

Ridiculous, race should have moved finish line to Val d'Isere, not just stopped half way down, Froggies will riot at JA being conned when he would have made time back on descent.

Can only be moved to somewhere that has the timing system in place. The last place before the Tignes climb (where the problem is) was the top of the Isoard

JA was lucky. Yes he'd made up a few seconds on the descent but he would have shipped more on the Tignes climb. He's still in second, he wouldn't have been in second had the race finished in the planned location

 

[alicat]

Ridiculous, race should have moved finish line to Val d'Isere, not just stopped half way down, Froggies will riot at JA being conned when he would have made time back on descent.

I wouldn't have liked to make that call on the fly.

 

[simon the viking]

My bets blown!

 

[iandg]

Can only be moved to somewhere that has the timing system in place. The last place before the Tignes climb (where the problem is) was the top of the Isoard

JA was lucky. Yes he'd made up a few seconds on the descent but he would have shipped more on the Tignes climb. He's still in second, he wouldn't have been in second had the race finished in the planned location

I like a positive spin - and apparently helps Bardet in the mountain competition.

 

[BrumJim]

Can only be moved to somewhere that has the timing system in place. The last place before the Tignes climb (where the problem is) was the top of the Isoard

JA was lucky. Yes he'd made up a few seconds on the descent but he would have shipped more on the Tignes climb. He's still in second, he wouldn't have been in second had the race finished in the planned location

Unless he was saving some energy, knowing he could make back a lot of time on the descent, and then go full gas on the Cat 1 climb up to Tignes.

 

[roadrash]

a lot of unhappy riders but as said above safety first
as david millar just said , the riders wanted extreme weather protocols put in place yesterday , surely once they see the pics of the icy road then they should understand.

 

[iandg]

That last question to Brailsford was probably the stupidest thing I've heard.

For those not watching ITV4 it was something like - how do you feel about a natural disaster helping you win the Tour?

 

[MasterDabber]

That last question to Brailsford was probably the stupidest thing I've heard.

Pretty typical of many crap journalists.

 

[Rezillo]

Blimey!


View: https://twitter.com/trondiversen/status/1154771153736671232

 

[MasterDabber]

Unless he was saving some energy, knowing he could make back a lot of time on the descent, and then go full gas on the Cat 1 climb up to Tignes.

Saving energy ... LOL

 

[Dogtrousers]

Marginal rains



(Stolen from twitter)

 

[iandg]

Unless he was saving some energy, knowing he could make back a lot of time on the descent, and then go full gas on the Cat 1 climb up to Tignes.

Aye, a different type of climb altogether - shorter and a flat last few km. Way Bernal was going I don't doubt he wouldn't be in yellow, but can't be certain of the GT/JA time gap

 

[oldfatfool]

Blimey!


View: https://twitter.com/trondiversen/status/1154771153736671232

Argh, they could have bunny hopped that, no worse than some if the cattle grids round here

 

[Rezillo]

Argh, they could have bunny hopped that, no worse than some if the cattle grids round here

I think I might have been in trouble for the second hop

 

[Foghat]

@Foghat was right

Well I'm glad I didn't go through with my plan to ride up to view the race near the foot of the Tignes climb (this spot itself being a hefty climb up from Bourg St Maurice). I aborted that as I didn't fancy descending my ski station road, given how much rock debris was deposited in last night's storm....even on 4Season tyres! Hopefully by tomorrow it'll be fully cleared.

Tomorrow, there's heavy rain forecast for the time the Cormet de Roselend will be traversed. That descent is fairly prone to mudslides and temporary storm-induced over-the-road rivers, being in a ravine and having some serious hairpinage getting down some of the steeper drops in the valley.

So there could be more disruption tomorrow. I've never done Val Thorens, but believe it's more of an open/motorway-type grind-climb, but who knows what the weather has in store.