The Tour Of France 2021
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David Clapson
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Three riders injured in the second crash have abandoned this evening. Ignatas Konovalovas (Groupama-FDJ) had a head trauma, Cyril Lemoine (B&B Hotels-KTM) has four broken ribs, a moderate pneumothorax and a head wound, Marc Soler (Movistar) finished the stage just in front of the broomwagon but with both elbows fractured. Plus Jasha Sütterlin (Team DSM) abandoned with an injured hand at the scene of the accident I think.
Masses of other riders were injured. Maybe some will decide not to start in the morning. Many went for scans, including Froome.
Masses of other riders were injured. Maybe some will decide not to start in the morning. Many went for scans, including Froome.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Dammit, Movistar got hurt today. Lopez lost 1:41 to the other GC contenders.
Season 3 of The Least Expected Day will be a sad watch.
Btw has anyone else been watching that on Netflix?
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Yes, it’s great.
As opening days go, that was pretty brutal. Will see how many line up tomorrow morning…
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
Didn't know there was more than 1 series
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Yeah the second season came out about a month ago. The episode with the fucked-up attempt at an echelon had me in stitches.
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Lachlan Morton from EF is doing the original 1903 route as an unsupported Endurance challenge https://alttour.ef.com/
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Team Fracking have ditched their Lightweight Meilensteins in favour of the Princeton Carbonworks 4550. Better braking and handling apparently.
That's funny. Those things are about $500/set on Aliexpress.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
It’s this years route he’s doing, but he’s riding all the transfers by bike too, solo and unsupported
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David Clapson
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I just heard 'bonification'! Happy days. Surely this calls for a slug of Pelforth. Do people play Sean Kelly bingo? They really should.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
David Clapson
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Excellent...but where is Classment??
David Clapson
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I am so fucked off with Carlton Kirby already. Simpering twat.
David Clapson
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Somebody just said for the millionth time that Merckx was forever adjusting his saddle height by a millimetre. This apparently shows what a perfectionist he was about bike setup, blah blah. Cobblers. It's because he was in constant pain from a back injury. Eddy Merckx: this much I know
David Clapson
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SRAM is suing Princeton Carbonworks for patent infringement. SRAM sues Princeton Carbon Works for patent infringement on aero wheels But the patent says the wavy edge was inspired by the flippers of humpback whales. Shouldn't the royalties go to the whales?
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Boom. That was impressive.
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Nuclear MvdPoels. Outdoes the entire field convincingly.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
Great finish. A whole stage on a single 2km slope! Right chuffed he made yellow too. 
Can't believe how many kicks (and "failed" attacks) he made. Superhuman stuff.
Can't believe how many kicks (and "failed" attacks) he made. Superhuman stuff.
David Clapson
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Savage finish, with all those climbs. But van der Poel, 6 feet tall doing all that work on the front, then an instant recovery and blasting away from the whole field, seemingly in a different class....son of Adri van der Poel, who blamed a failed test on pigeon pie.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
He clearly had a plan and knew he was in good form. I thought when he went on the first ascent he was showing his lack of experience again, but he clearly knew he needed the extra bonus seconds if he was going to get yellow. Superb ride.
David Clapson
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Plans succeed more often when you're juiced. I'm not buying it. The margin between him and other people, also the best in the world and also in good form, was comically large. And think how bad his aerodynamics are!
Ned Boulting and David Millar on ITV4 are a lot easier on my ear than Carlton and Sean.
sleaterkinney
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Nice that he's in yellow with the history of his grandad.
Cid
Proper break this time
Why would he have access to a special doping programme that's better than all the other doping programmes that the likes of Ineos might be running? And getting stage wins, along with the run up to the Olympics isn't great if you're trying to avoid doping control I imagine. It will also probably turn out to be a very inconsistent doping programme that only keeps him in the yellow jersey a few days, and doesn't work in time trials.
