2022 Tour de Francis

[Knoxtnhorn 5971]

Honored to get to start a thread.

Watching the time trial right now.  Pouring rain.  I'm lucky because, as a teacher, I'm always off this time of year and have plenty of time to enjoy the race.

7 Americans in this year.  I'm not sure if any of them are anything other than domestiques, but I'm curious as to if Jumbo would designate Kuss as the leader if something happened to Roglic.

[mdmost 42997]

The Tour gets me through the dogs days of summer. Can't wait for the hilly and mountain stages starting on 7/5. 

[DCLonghorn 244]

The first day of the tour is always a great day. 

Vingegaard is their other gc contender. They'd both have to go down for kuss to get the love. 

[clapclapclap 9000]

Looking forward to cobblestones and Allez opi omi.

[G650 14229]

Congratulations on the three weeks everyone else will pay attention to cycling

[clapclapclap 9000]

Wasn't clear on the broadcast, did Uran's group catch back up down the bridge totally on their own, or did the peloton slow to allow them back in?

Got a Talladega, but bummed that we won't have Adam Blythe's humor on the motorbike.

[G650 14229]

Rigo had to have Bisseger pace him back on full tilt.

[G650 14229]

[G650 14229]

Looooolll Cipo

 

 

 

[G650 14229]

Goddamn this is wholesome as fuck. Love Magnus

[Whitewater Horn 968]

[Whitewater Horn 968]

Got damn, Wout!  Well done, JV. 

[Captain Ron 12862]

1 minute ago, Whitewater Horn said:

Got damn, Wout!  Well done, JV. 

I was just coming to post the same thing. That was a hell of a finish by him. So good.

[tx ind 7006]

Wout is a beast, that was an amazing effort.

[G650 14229]

Way to honor the jersey

[Napoleon 8659]

On 7/1/2022 at 6:59 PM, mdmost said:

The Tour gets me through the dogs days of summer.

Can't wait for the hilly and mountain stages starting on 7/5. 

What about baseball?

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😂🤣😅

Edited July 5, 2022 by Napoleon

[mdmost 42997]

16 minutes ago, Napoleon said:

What about baseball?

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😂🤣😅

Rangers fan. Baseball kills my will to live during July as we're already 30 games out. 

[Napoleon 8659]

50 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Rangers fan. Baseball kills my will to live during July as we're already 30 games out. 

Rangers fan (I guess) as well. Saw Nolan’s 7th no-hitter from start to finish from the front 10 rows of the outfield and watched Juan González hit 4 dingers in a ~20-4 first home night game of the season back in ‘91 or so…

But baseball is mind-numbingly boring until the playoffs. 162 fucking games just to get to the games that actually matter…

[clapclapclap 9000]

Was a hoping a trailing domestique would stop and go all Joey Chestnut on those idiot fans that released that cloud of yellow dust into the peloton.

Can't understand Nicolas Roche half the time with his low mumbling.

[mdmost 42997]

This route seems really terrible. Cobbles in one part, dirt path on the other. Spectators get a face full of dirt. 

Edited July 6, 2022 by mdmost

[tx ind 7006]

love these cobbles, but has to be murder on these guys

[G650 14229]

12 minutes ago, mdmost said:

This route seems really terrible. Cobbles in one part, dirt path on the other. Spectators get a face full of dirt. 

By terrible I assume you mean awesome.

[G650 14229]

Roglic is fucked

[Hornius Emeritus 12449]

Thank God for the tour de France. I pity the people who have to go through July sportsless.

[TexPx 2322]

Epically Chaotic stage

[mdmost 42997]

Pogacar is just right there, lurking. Hopefully we get some good mountain finishes on Friday and Sunday like we had last year. 

[CycleTex87 2965]

Pogacar is just toying with folks.  At the appropriate time, he will simply ride off from the group.

[Captain Ron 12862]

Yesterday’s stage was so good. I watched the replay last night. Absolute chaos for everyone but Pogacar. And a terrible day for Jumbo-Vism.

Really sucks for Roglic, dislocated shoulder.

https://www.velonews.com/events/tour-de-france/tour-de-france-primoz-roglic-suffers-dislocated-shoulder/

[tx ind 7006]

Just flipped it on...here goes Wout again, freak.

[Captain Ron 12862]

I was just coming to ask if he can hang on to this lead today. RIght now 55 second lead with 21.7 KM to go.

[tx ind 7006]

Not sure if he can hang on, but the end of this stage has  3 or 4 climbs in a row, so who knows.

Edited July 7, 2022 by tx ind

[Captain Ron 12862]

We'll see. It's down to 30 seconds with 17.4 KM to go. Not looking good.

[Captain Ron 12862]

Nah, he's not going to do it. It's starting to get touchy out there now. Let's see if we can see Powless take Yellow today.

[Captain Ron 12862]

Damn. Not sure I see Pogacar being out of yellow the rest of the way.

[tx ind 7006]

Lulz, Roglic tried to take it and then looked like he was standing still when Pogacar blew by him.

[mdmost 42997]

Pogacar with that final burst is always fun to watch. 

[TexPx 2322]

Damn. Not sure I see Pogacar being out of yellow the rest of the way.

Me neither.

[Litig8r 414]

39 minutes ago, TexPx said:

Me neither.

Yep, barring a disaster of some sort, the Tour is over.  

[Hornius Emeritus 12449]

Hard to understand what Van Aert was thinking. He should have stayed with the peloton. He'd still be in yellow. He lost more than seven minutes today. Mad respect for Roglic out there with a dislocated shoulder. Holy crap that's got to hurt.

Edited July 7, 2022 by Hornius Emeritus

[G650 14229]

3 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Hard to understand what Van Aert was thinking. He should have stayed with the peloton. He'd still be in yellow. He lost more than seven minutes today. Mad respect for Roglic out there with a dislocated shoulder. Holy crap that's got to hurt.

He dropped on purposed to give TJV tactical flexibility going forward. He wasn't going to be in yellow up Planche de Belles Filles

[clapclapclap 9000]

Another good day for Neilson Powless.  I can see why Beano Cook predicted he'd win 2 TdF's.

[Horn Dogg 3868]

10 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Hard to understand what Van Aert was thinking. He should have stayed with the peloton. He'd still be in yellow. He lost more than seven minutes today. Mad respect for Roglic out there with a dislocated shoulder. Holy crap that's got to hurt.

Pogacar humiliated Jumbo today.  I think the Van Aert side show will always cost Jumbo any chance at the yellow jersey.  What the fuck is Jumbo thinking coming in trying to protect 2 riders AND chase the green jersey…..AND spend all their energy trying to get WVA into that pointless break today.  

Jumbo needs to focus the strongest team in the world on one thing if they want to win the tour - beating Pogacar.  They still might not be able to because Pogacar is one of the best talents ever to come along, but they sure won’t be able to with the poor team management.  
 

Jumbo must have realized they can’t beat Pogacar, so now they are just using WVA for all the exposure they can get.  

[Horn Dogg 3868]

44 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Another good day for Neilson Powless.  I can see why Beano Cook predicted he'd win 2 TdF's.

LOL - Nielson is great, but he’s not winning 2 tours anytime soon.  UAE may “give” him the jersey tomorrow just so that they don’t have to deal with it, but it will be taken back in cruel fashion later on in the race.

[G650 14229]

6 hours ago, Horn Dogg said:

Jumbo needs to focus the strongest team in the world on one thing if they want to win the tour - beating Pogacar.  They still might not be able to because Pogacar is one of the best talents ever to come along, but they sure won’t be able to with the poor team management.  

I mean that's all great in theory, but it requires being able to have someone crack Pog. The fundamentals really haven't changed for Jumbo. Either Vinegaard can break him in the high mountains or he can't, that's basically it. Jumbo driving a train up the mountain isn't going to do anything because it won't stretch Pog in the least.

[G650 14229]

Kamna lol. I love that dude

[mdmost 42997]

I can't tell if he let up to let Pogacar win or if Pogacar just muscled his way through. 

[G650 14229]

Aww poor Kamna.

 

Vinegaard looked better than I anticipated. Yates much worse.

 

Bummed for Nairoman.

[mdmost 42997]

Ah poor guy. He almost had it but couldn't push that final couple of seconds. 

[Captain Ron 12862]

3 minutes ago, mdmost said:

I can't tell if he let up to let Pogacar win or if Pogacar just muscled his way through. 

Pogacar muscled his way to the win. Vingegaard wanted and needed that time bonus.

[tx ind 7006]

9 hours ago, Horn Dogg said:

Pogacar humiliated Jumbo today.  

and it happened again