Velogames Tour de France 2021 🇫🇷 🇫🇷🚴🏻 - (May Contain Spoilers )
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dooderooni
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Looking forward to catching up on the highlights after I've seen the footy.
Super pleased though
Edit: Just seen the race highlights and that is the second time I've welled up today.
Super pleased though
Edit: Just seen the race highlights and that is the second time I've welled up today.
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pierrequiroule
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When watching it live the emotion was even greater as at 4k to go it looked like the breakaway rider was going to stay away til the finish. The emotion amongst his teammates was palpable.
dooderooni
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That chase down was brutal, not only for the lad from Lotto, but for those at the head of it. It'd be fascinating to see some of the power figures over those last few km's.
pierrequiroule
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I've no particular love or dislike for Froome, but the haters just love to hate. He's clearly using the TT as a recovery ride after his bad crash the other day.
pierrequiroule
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Of course he is, he admitted before the start that he had no chance of winning and everybody knew that. He'll do what he can for the team and hope it all helps towards improving next season. Like most people I think his time has passed, but you can't blame him for trying.
hendrieswondergoal
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Considering sprint stages are generally the boring ones, Stage 4 was absolutely one of the greatest stages in TdF history. Loved it. I thought they'd blown it from 15-20km out. But it was just perfect.
As for today -- the look on Kung's face was interesting.
As for today -- the look on Kung's face was interesting.
WoodallServices
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That’s what I thought.
Zoophonic
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I didn’t see the look. What do you think?
Abel Tasman
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I suspect Zoo it was the look of shock of a TT specialist on the top of his form beaten by 19 seconds on a relatively flat course.
The latest table. Chorlton still leads.
Cardiffdaffs
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I think I know what we all thought. Days like today and Day 3 could make me fall out of love with professional cycling. I thought the going on in the 90s and early 00s would have sorted this all out but how naive is that thought.
WoodallServices
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Err……I don’t think it was Abel.
Abel Tasman
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Was trying to be diplomatic Woodall.
Abel Tasman
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Well after yesterday’s crazy stage in the Alps we have probably our TdF winner sorted already. And we havent hit the end of week 1 yet. The first man to win a stage by over 3 mins against his GC rivals since 1999 (and we know who that was!).
There are only 14 riders left within 10 minutes of Pogacar, after just one mountain stage. Out of these 14, only maybe 6 or 7 would even be considered GC riders before this race, so by the end of the race the gaps could be, well, startling.
A day when Cavendish on a mountain stage beat 3 GT winners - Froome, Roglic, Thomas.
Our comp is far from over however. Chorlton still leads.
There are only 14 riders left within 10 minutes of Pogacar, after just one mountain stage. Out of these 14, only maybe 6 or 7 would even be considered GC riders before this race, so by the end of the race the gaps could be, well, startling.
A day when Cavendish on a mountain stage beat 3 GT winners - Froome, Roglic, Thomas.
Our comp is far from over however. Chorlton still leads.