Men's Road Cycling UCI Tour de France 2018

[Agger 1,662]

57 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

The Tour de Suisse is already sort of nicknamed the fourth Grand Tour  

 

Never really heard it mentioned as that... 

 

But I remember that it was discussed whether a 4th Grand Tour should be made in the US, @Olympian1010. Never happened, though

Edited July 12, 2018 by Agger

[heywoodu 15,135]

13 minutes ago, dcro said:

Yay, 231km flat stage. 

Hold your horses, there's a mountain in the middle.

[heywoodu 15,135]

By the way, odd time penalty for Dumoulin. He deserved the penalty for stayering behind the car, no doubt, but less than 20km earlier Fuglsang and half the Astana team did the exact same thing...I would suppose they got the same penalty, but strangely I've heard nothing about it..

[Dunadan 1,103]

I'm glad that cheater Dumoulin was caught. In my opinion there should be a disqualification in such cases.

[Agger 1,662]

11 hours ago, heywoodu said:

By the way, odd time penalty for Dumoulin. He deserved the penalty for stayering behind the car, no doubt, but less than 20km earlier Fuglsang and half the Astana team did the exact same thing...I would suppose they got the same penalty, but strangely I've heard nothing about it..

 

Doesn't look like it. Even Danish media think it's weird

[heywoodu 15,135]

1 hour ago, Agger said:

 

Doesn't look like it. Even Danish media think it's weird

Weird that Dumoulin got it or weird that Fuglsang didn't? Because just to clarify: basically everyone in the Netherlands, from fans to media, agrees that they are right to give Dumoulin the penalty  (which was more or less a tactical decision probably, now he lost 20 seconds with that, but without stayering he might have lost much more)

[Agger 1,662]

9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Weird that Dumoulin got it or weird that Fuglsang didn't? Because just to clarify: basically everyone in the Netherlands, from fans to media, agrees that they are right to give Dumoulin the penalty  (which was more or less a tactical decision probably, now he lost 20 seconds with that, but without stayering he might have lost much more)

 

Weird that Birdie or at least Astana didn't get some punishment. The commentators felt sure that they would get fined while it happened, but apparently not even that happened.

[heywoodu 15,135]

Oh poor Thomas Degand, went on the early attack with 230km to go and nobody joined him 

 

I'd ask Hilaire to put on some music in my earphones and make it an extra long training  

[heywoodu 15,135]

Come on guys, this is a really dangerous group with huge engines like Lampaert and Vermote 

[Agger 1,662]

Just yesterday Brian Holm was asked if it wouldn't be a good idea to send a rider into the break to force other teams to do the work in the pack. Maybe he was inspired