Tour De France 2021 with spoilers

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T4tomo

Legendary Member
Unless of course if he happened to be the team's #2 sprinter, standing in at late notice for the main sprinter, and wasn't expecting to ride the tour so consequently "hasn't ridden an alpine pass for 3 years". ;)
Or one that knew he was a reserve rider for the Tour so was in pretty decent shape already....its not like he was smoking fags on he beach in the the couple of months pre tour
 

T4tomo

Legendary Member
should be a fast start today - down hill off the mountain top with a break trying to get away. What could possibly go wrong.....stay safe chaps.
 

rich p

ridiculous old lush
Location
Brighton
Carlton Kirby thinks he's in a comedy double act - about as funny as Mike and Berniw Winters...for those of a certain vintage:whistle:
I might have to mute the twat.
 

T4tomo

Legendary Member
Some are wearing leg warmers. Must be a bit nippy
start above 2000m in crap weather. read that they all stopped 0.5km before the depart real to strip off the "keep warm during the pre depart procession" layers.

My mate posted on FB that he went out for ride yday and came across the BoraHans team out for a rest day legs stretch. They humoured him riding and chatting with them for 20 mins and gave him a blast of "Italia Italia!" as they parted ways.
 
I can't help wondering if Alaphillipe is a bit pissed off, deep down by expending so much energy working for Cav when he could have conceivably collected a couple of more stages if he hadn't been knackered.
This is just IMHO; he put *such* big efforts into the leadouts, that must have been way above what was required from him by management. So I think he's happy to serve.
 

yello

Guest
This is just IMHO; he put *such* big efforts into the leadouts, that must have been way above what was required from him by management. So I think he's happy to serve.
He does indeed, knocks himself out. He's team leader isn't he? Don't know. Whatever. Lead by example anyway. As a team, they are defending the green jersey even when it's perhaps less glamorous to do so (i.e. making sure it finishes in time) It's actually a great reminder of what cycling can be about sometimes. It's not Cavendish they're defending per se, it's the jersey. Cavendish just happens to be wearing it!
 

MikeonaBike

Senior Member
Yes, they're all domestiques!
I can see how some might find helping a GC contender at/near the front more "glamorous" than crawling in on the time limit with some fat sprinter who didn't train for the mountains.

Is that a serious comment? Fat? Dear me………
 
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