Tour De France 2020

Yates in yellow tomorrow as Juala got a penalty for taking a bottle in the last 20k, supposedly.

Back stage pass will be interesting . Last minute of it anyway.

Commissaires penalising French rider in Tour De France shock

I saw someone grab a bottle from one of the overhead shots and didn't think anything of it...

We truly are in End Times. I'm going to keep an eye out for those horsemen and wheels of fire.

Putting a helper on the road under 20km when you have team mates about and race isn’t popping makes no sense

Maybe its time to look at last years 20k to go finish videos and see if it was done then ?

After Evenepoel and his mystery package at Lombardy, maybe DQS have moved to handing up the secret (and undetectable) drug via a finishing bottle instead.

Taps nose.

Froome got done for a gel in 2013 but that was due to the Sky car having a mechanical earlier so he missed a feed and was bonking.

Quickstep DS says it was the only place for JA to take a feed where the road was flat enough for speed to reduce a bit

Looked like it was on a bend as well👃

Quickstep DS says it was the only place for JA to take a feed where the road was flat enough for speed to reduce a bit

I'm sure they checked with the commissaires in advance that it would be OK in that place. Or maybe they just assumed that they'd get away with it.

Or the Instructions were ‘go park up at the big tree by the yellow sign’ and there was one at 21k and one at 17k?

Not saying a theme is developing but Sepp Kuss’s grandad Dolph was a Colorado Nordic skiing legend and the family apparently have Slovenian roots

Luckily they ran through it again at the start of the ITV4 "highlights" tonight, in case there was still anyone who didn't know.

Van Aert looks like he can win when he wants.

Sunweb might want to plan their time better than practicing lead-out trains on airfields, Kaasbal doesn't seem to be able to compete with the nippier riders who surf wheels instead. Perhaps on the Champs-Elysee it will finally come together.

Sunweb might want to plan their time better than practicing lead-out trains on airfields

I'm not sure it's the way they've spent their time that's the problem. The lead out was impeccably implemented. The problem is they just don't have riders with the legs to get the results.

Having said that, after yesterday's mountain finish I was deeply impressed with Van Aert. After today's finish I'm swooning like a hormonal teenager. What a racer.

Sunweb might want to plan their time better than practicing lead-out trains on airfields, Kaasbal doesn't seem to be able to compete with the nippier riders who surf wheels instead. Perhaps on the Champs-Elysee it will finally come together.

Before the Tour if you told me Bol would be third, seventh and second in the first three bunch finishes, I'd have said he was having an excellent Tour. He's performing at a level he hasn't demonstrated before and I think Sunweb, who I slagged off on here a week or so ago for their Tour team selection, have exceeded expectations so far.

That's what I mean - they put a huge amount of effort into working for a sprinter who doesn't seem to be at that level yet.

Am seeing comments about DQS losing the jersey purposefully in order to conserve efforts to defend it.

Never really buy any of that but I guess, assuming JuJu could have won it at all last year, they could have learnt something.

If it were true, I’d expect that the offending incident wasn’t the only thing they did to try and make it so. Unless it’s so obvious and blatant that it would be picked up, in which case it gives the theory more weight.

It’s always the most boringest days that give rise to this sort of sillyness.

It takes some level to beat WVA... Theo Bos' analysis was that he missed about two full power pedal strokes before going around the last leadout man.

Looks like a day for the break today. Then Roglic to grab a handful of seconds from the group of favourites.

2019's MVDP is crying, don't forget about me.

Perhaps if he was supported by a better team, he'd be doing better? Also doing the bigger races like Dauphine, grand tours?

I get the impression that Van Aert is a more tactically astute road racer, whereas MVDP had more watts at his disposal. Maybe only because Van Aert has been doing more high level road races with Jumbo Visma.

We'll see how things go in the wet autumn classics season, super excited to see!

Perhaps if he had fully committed to the road and not to win the MTB Gold in the 2020 olympics

This is his issue as I understand it. The postponement / cancellation of the 2020 olympics has totally fucked him.

That his old nemesis from cyclocross is now winning everything left right and centre must be the shit icing on the shit cake.

Based on the Dauphine and Tour so far, this seems to be Jumbo-Visma’s game plan- go as slow as you reasonably can, then get Roglic to nab the time bonuses.

curious to see it play out in the high mountains in week 3. bernal has looked isolated and off the pace in both races (so far)

Between Kuss and Dumoulin, it is hard to see Roglic being isolated. Sivakov, assuming he doesnt fully recover, is a big loss