Tour De France 2018

When Sagan is beating a "pure" sprinter by multi bike lengths on a 4km flat straight finish in TDF?

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@youramericanlover :'(

Obviously Kittel not helped by Katusha concentrating on Zakarin for GC who is now squints 1 second ahead of Mark Cavendish for GC.

That's nice but Peter Sagan's son Marlon is 8 months old so state your case?

Those are also Saxo-Bank bottles so um yeah. You do you!

Dads can't sprint

Couldn't find a pic with his actual kid!

Speaking from exactly zero experience, as a new dad pro cyclist you probably have done next to no proper parenting with your only, sub-one year old child because your partner is doing some heavy fucking lifting. Cavendish is not a new dad any more. And he knows he is mortal.

And he has nice house in Tuscany. And pays fuck all tax cos Isle of Man. And has a WC jersey and green jerseys etc. etc. And Merckx was a doper who liked a TT win :)

Benoot had a day out

Reports that Matthews is sick this morning and may not start today’s stage (which suits him perfectly).

Hope not. I'd love to see him wipe away that doper's record.

Sagan almost got there and that's after he had to come around Gavi and whoever else it was up there. He's a father.

Dad Power.

Zakarin

Fucking cheat >>>

Fucksake

Now confirmed by the team, unable to start today.

Double fucksake

Unsurprisingly, Benoot is also a non-starter this morning too.

Predictions for today's stage? I'd like to see some one day specialists/ punchy climbers animate things.

What happened to Benoot? I didn't see that.

Was he in the crash with Astana?

Alaphilippe

Had a thought during the night, I think that Sago must actually like this challenge from Gavi; until now he bitches and whines that all the teams target him and he can’t get away. Now the focus might shift a little and having lost a couple sprints may actually work to his advantage.

That is, if he can actually beat the guy in a sprint that hasn’t had a crash prior to the run in.

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/tour-de-france/whos-abandoned-tour-de-france-338353

separate crash.

Brian Smith did a great analysis of the sprint on eurosport. From the heli, it looked like Renshaw lost that sprint for Cav, and Richeze won it for Gaviria.

In the interview Cav gave he copped to getting stuck behind Renshaw.

"The thing is that [Soren] Kragh Andersen came in and pushed me out of [Mark] Renshaw's wheel, and it was better to go on his wheel than be in the wind. So I thought, 'OK, he'll go', then he started to go round Renshaw, then Renshaw started to lead out, and I thought the left would be closed, so he came over the right and the gap opened on the left.

"Quick-Step went on the left, and I'm blocked by my own lead-out man. That's going to look shit on paper, but you know what I mean. It was my own fault, I shouldn't have really been there. It's luck of the draw, but like I said, it was going to be hard to beat [Quick-Step]. They've got another stage win, and I'm left holding a baby."