Tour De France 2021 with spoilers

[Adam4868]

Bernie's fur coat might keep them warm today!

Brad knows the score with coats...love his Welsh accent 😂

View: https://twitter.com/Eurosport_UK/status/1414940757694287875?s=19

 

[yello]

A little late I think 🙄

Must admit, I did wonder why. Valuable seconds?

 

[yello]

Matthews roughly halves his deficit on Cavendish. He's now on 242, 37 behind Cavendish on 279

Not a good day for Cavendish at all. Colbrelli picked up a good haul of points too.

 

[Adam4868]

Must admit, I did wonder why. Valuable seconds?

Because Wout can !

 

[roadrash]

I just love the way sean kelly says .... pog..... a ....car

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

Anyone else noticed that rim brakes are virtually absent now? All now seem to be on discs.

 

[Adam4868]

Froome swapped his discs for rim....see the difference its made 😁

 

[matticus]

I think Cobrelli earned his 2nd place. A good and gutsy ride.

I must admit I know bu99er-all about him. Not sure I've even seen an interview, like ever.

He's certainly taking the fight to Cav and not just sitting back, so for now I'll back him in the race for 2nd :P

 

[T4tomo]

Expect bit of a dust up at the intermediate sprint today, if a break hasn't gone up the road by then, Cav hinted at it yesterday, he needs to make sure neither rival gains too many more points on him.

The next 2 stages are HC summit finishes, one would hope that neither Matthews nor Colbrelli will be at the sharp end of the finish of either one, I know they can climb reasonably well, but surely both days for pure climbers, and there is a lot still to settle in the GC minor placings and some vital KoM points out there to be won.

 

[mjr]

The Cav to Sky thing is/was baffling. At the time I thought it was utterly stupid, but assumed that there must be some deeper reason or plan that I didn't understand. There wasn't. It was stupid. It failed. That would mean I was right, which I find hard to accept.

The deeper plan was Sky allowed Cav time to train for a shot at the Olympic gold he wanted, while the Mega Farmers reportedly wouldn't and I don't remember if other teams were chasing him as HTC ended. Sky also fancied having the rainbow jersey and lots of Olympians on their squad in 2012. For one season, Sky weren't obsessing only about the Tour.

 

[matticus]

Quality breakaway. Consists of some people whose names I just about recognise, but don't know much or anything about. And some people whose names I don't recognise. And Danny van Poppel.

Let battle commence!

Sounds good for Cav 👍

<goes into stealth mode until watching Highlights>

 

[T4tomo]

Yes - Break should sweep up most of the inter sprint points

i got excited as thought I had D vP in my fantasy team, tuns out I've got Boy vP

 

[Beebo]

Cav didn’t seem to go full beans for the intermediate sprint despite a good set up by the team. Only lost 1 point to his main rival. All other points went to riders with no hope of winning.

 

[roadrash]

Ineos riders dropping like flies..

 

[Beebo]

That moment when you suddenly realise the pig costume was a waste of time and it would have been easier to just wear normal clothes. And you still have to get home