roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
I am not surprised Movistar win the team classification …...nobody else gives a feck 
Tour de France 2019 **SPOILERS**
- Thread starter rich p
- Start date
-
- Tags
- tour de france
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
Starchivore
I don't know much about Cinco de Mayo
- Location
- Halifax, West Yorkshire
That's what I think too - surely Thomas has to leave if he has any ambition to win Le tour again in his career?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Not just Thomas though... The plan of bringing Bernal on to replace Thomas and Froome in a couple of years time will have to be drastically revised!
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
- Location
- The Red Enclave
I'd be surprised if Froome ever returns to Grand Tour-winning form after the injuries he's had, and at his age.
Thomas seems happy enough being the lieutenant, and he's not getting any younger either.
Bernal is the future. He's already pretty much the best stage racer in the world - at the age of 22. He's going to smash all kinds of records.
Indeed - only the top two places on the podium. Must try harder.
With the benefit of hindsight, I think it's safe to say it was always going to turn out this way... more or less. Stages 18-20 were designed to be decisive. Bernal made it so on stage 18. Just a shame that stages 19 and 20 didn't quite turn out as the organisers planned. We haven't seen the mountain train in action so much but those two have been gravitating towards the top of the GC since the TTT on stage 2.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Sagan continues his photobombing
View: https://mobile.twitter.com/CyclingAlmanack/status/1155515779883982849
View: https://mobile.twitter.com/CyclingAlmanack/status/1155515779883982849
roadrash
cycle chatterer
- Location
- sitting on the edge of wigan pier
ewan takes the sprint
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Yee haa. Very pleased for Ewan.
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
I did enjoy EBH's long range attempt too - that forced everyone else to react, and he still ended up in 5th, so not a bad attempt from a guy who is far from a pure sprinter. Both Groenwegen and Ewan took really circuitous pathways to the line too, which made it interesting.
andrew_s
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gloucester
Rumour would have it that Ineos signed Carapaz too (before he won the Giro, apparently).
I guess we find out on Thursday.
StuAff
Silencing his legs regularly
- Location
- Portsmouth
Froome, Thomas, Bernal and Carapaz on one team? That's only a problem for the competition. Froomey's recovery seems to be going very well, but his GT-winning days are probably over (at 35, he'd be the oldest winner since Lambot in 1922). G isn't much younger (only four winners aged 34 or older, three before 1948- Cadel Evans being the exception). But they can still do a job as road captain/enforcer/elder statesman/Plan B. And surely the next target has to be a clean sweep of the three GTs…
david k
Hi
- Location
- North West
I do t think he looked to happy
Is it because he came second and sees it as a missed opportunity or because he knows it's probably his last chance?
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Surely entering grand tours with three or four leaders is a proven tactic for winning the team classification? So that must be the next target for team fracky placky!
