Tour de France 2022 with SPOILERS

[Dogtrousers]

are there really 5 ?

Yellow, Green, Spotty and White surely ?

Well, there used to be a "Combined" jersey but I thought that was replaced by the white. So off to Wikipedia ...

Wikipedia tells me 1980s the Young rider jersey coexisted with the Combination classification and there was also an intermediate sprints classification (red jersey) which coexisted with both combined and young rider for a while. So that's six jerseys!

So I'm going to take a stab at Greg LeMond. Because he's the first name that sprang to my mind.

 

[Martinsnos]

You’d have thought by now they’d have sorted that knocking noise on one of the camera motorbikes?!
[heat reduces tolerance!!!].

 

[Aravis]

Well, there used to be a "Combined" jersey but I thought that was replaced by the white. So off to Wikipedia ...

Wikipedia tells me 1980s the Young rider jersey coexisted with the Combination classification and there was also an intermediate sprints classification (red jersey) which coexisted with both combined and young rider for a while. So that's six jerseys!

So I'm going to take a stab at Greg LeMond. Because he's the first name that sprang to my mind.

Good research as far as it goes. The number of editions where one rider could have held five jerseys is not large.

I'm not sure what connection Lemond could have had to anything that happened today. 🍁

 

[Dogtrousers]

Good research as far as it goes. The number of editions where one rider could have held five jerseys is not large.

I'm not sure what connection Lemond could have had to anything that happened today. 🍁

My thinking was: Stage won by a Canadian. Think of a Canadian cyclist of that era. I can't. LeMond will have to do, as he's American, and America is next door to Canada. And an American came fourth so it will have to do.

 

[Martinsnos]

I actually felt for Jorgenson went he went down...for a few minutes anyway.
Bring back Landa now !

I am wondering if the interview for joining Movistar includes a - ‘and are you likely to muck up a fighting chance’ question as a positive because they seem to make a habit of being within grasp and then…

 

[iandg]

My thinking was: Stage won by a Canadian. Think of a Canadian cyclist of that era. I can't. LeMond will have to do, as he's American, and America is next door to Canada. And an American came fourth so it will have to do.

A quiz question with some relevance to today's events:

Which rider once held five different TDF leader's jerseys simultaneously?

I believe there is only one. Two other riders have held five but not at the same time.

Alex Stieda was Canadian - led 5 classifications on the 2nd day of the 1986 TdF

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Stieda

edit: Steve Bauer and Gordon Singleton were the only other 2 1980s Canadian cyclists I could think of.

Singleton was a track sprinter and first Canadian to win a world championship. Bauer won Silver in Olympic RR and Bronze in World RR in 1984 - was he the last Canadian to win a stage of the TdF?

 

[Aravis]

Alex Stieda was Canadian - led 5 classifications on the 2nd day of the 1986 TdF

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Stieda

edit: Steve Bauer and Gordon Singleton were the only other 2 1980s Canadian cyclists I could think of.

Absolutely right. When Boulting and Millar were getting so terribly excited for Canada this afternoon, I was desperately hoping someone would tell them that a Canadian rider holds a distinction which for the time being can't be equalled.

As a postscript, the 7-11 team had a calamitous TTT that afternoon, so Stieda's tenure in yellow was one of the shortest on record. Also he was knackered after the morning's effort - he had to secure the intermediate time bonus and be in the winning break - and was in danger of being outside the time limit wearing the yellow jersey.

 

[Adam4868]

I am wondering if the interview for joining Movistar includes a - ‘and are you likely to muck up a fighting chance’ question as a positive because they seem to make a habit of being within grasp and then…

Although Movistar must be looking at Ineos and thinking WTF.......how come they can take three leaders,target winning the team classification and get away with it 🙄

 

[T4tomo]

Very exciting couple of days coming up I hope..

Pog seems determined to attack at any opportunity which is good, he does need to gain back time on Vin, who in turn looks very hard to drop so far on the big climbs.

Anyone like to speculate how much in hand Vin will need over a 40km flat TT?

I think i'd back Pog to bring back 30 seconds, but much more might be a stretch?

 

[Shadow]

Steve Bauer and Gordon Singleton were the only other 2 1980s Canadian cyclists I could think of.

The same Steve Bauer who is now DS at IPT. And the last canuck to win a stage of Le Tour.

 

[Adam4868]

Anyone like to speculate how much in hand Vin will need over a 40km flat TT?

Two minutes twenty two.😁

 

[matticus]

These two do seem to be in a class of their own. Thomas doing well for Ineos but not quite on the same page. I'd quite like to see Ineos attack at some point with both Yates & Thomas high on GC.

I think their problem is that neither Yates nor Pidcock had the legs to attack. I can't see that changing today - and Pidcock is now too far down for Pog or TJV to be concerned if he goes on the attack today/tomorrow.

 

[matticus]

I think i'd back Pog to bring back 30 seconds, but much more might be a stretch?

He might be capable of putting time into Vingo, but Slovenians have a habit of cracking under the pressure of a final TT ...

 

[Peter Salt]

What I find utterly confusing is how fresh Pog looks in the interviews after these killer stages. Is it just the way he looks all the time, always? Or is he really fresh and just playing games, waiting for the right moment to pounce properly on his opponent and take all the time back? This uncertainty is really exciting.

 

[Milzy]

I want Jonas to win but think Pog is going break his heart with too many damaging attacks. Going to the wire on the TT I reckon.