Tour de France 2021

Still slower than Are Dan on Colombiere

The largest margin, by comparison, remains that of the first Tour in 1903: 2h 49m 45s between Maurice Garin and Lucien Pothier.

go for it pog u coward

surprised all these cycling clubs don't make anyone use mudguards, the road spray must be awful

Hah.

DB initiated NoFap at Ineos after a protracted YouTube spiral last year. Look at them now, eh. #FreeG

Pog makes it harder to suspend your disbelief when he hugs Matxin after crossing the finish line. It is well worth racing for second though, because it might be first in a few years time.

wow what a break, I think they will win

Is Ballerini trying to get up the road to help Cav at the intermediate? Seems kind of pointless otherwise.

Skinny - I think the Tour will have been happy to have van der Poel there if only for a week, he certainly added to the spectacle and dragging himself round for another 2 weeks wouldn't have added anything. It's also the case, not for the stars like van der Poel but many others, that finishing the Tour, even when you are injured or shattered, is nothing to do with honour and everything to do with not having a DNF on your palmares when it comes to finding your next contract. As James Shaw said, the World Tour is an industry, not a sport.

Come on Tao you coward.

Oh for sure, amazing to have him there. Made great racing and spectacle.

pog is hornier

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He’s racing the mountain bike World Cup in Megeve today.

Ironically today the Tour goes right past the chalet in Tignes where Roglic was based for the last few weeks.

Is it not rather that Roglič was based there because the Tour was going to use roads in that area?

I don't think so, he was there last year as well. It's a very nice place to live with plenty of climbs around.

Ah, fair enough.

Apologies if this was asked already, but on stages like today and yesterday is every rider using disc’s? Feels like a given with the improvement in braking in the wet.

Fuck it. Fair weather cycling is where it's at.

Aren't Ineos still on rim brakes? They were in the Giro even on the stages when it was chucking it down.

Enric Más down a few minutes ago, looks like he may have hit his hip on the kerb as his bibs were ripped at the front.

Matthews sprinting like a cunt in that intermediate. I hope he gets relegated by the jury.

That was a case of cheating that you can see with your own eyes, btw.

Always hate this part of the Saises. Way back, when blood vector doping was a thing in pro cycling, I did most of this route today. Was staying in Notre Dame de Bellecombe and I could see a nasty looking, steep road as I came down the descent from Megeve, and thought, "I hope I don't have to go up that!". I did.

Went up it a couple of years ago, very tough. Almost spilled my tea.

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Aren't Ineos still on rim brakes? They were in the Giro even on the stages when it was chucking it down.

They worked out it gives them a competitive advantage in wet conditions. Other teams will notice the rim brakes and think twice about playing too aggressively near them.

something sad about poels going for polkadot