Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2024 (Tour de France)

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And those emotions just made the win even better!

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22k to go, heading down to our predicted sprint.

 

Completely predictable traffic-calming crash with 10km to go.

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Roglić was caught behind the crash…..

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Girmay gets his hat-trick & Roglić is losing 2 minutes plus & was injured in the crash.

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21 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Girmay gets his hat-trick & Roglić is losing 2 minutes plus & was injured in the crash.

And it is a withdrawal for  Roglić.    Inevitably, the Vuelta looms for him.  But you’ve got to blame the organisers for choosing a corner that was an inevitable problem.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/clmy4l2e12ro

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We’ve got that windy day!

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Meanwhile, Amaury Capiot had to abandon today after about a kilometer. He caused a hard crash in yesterday's sprint and got hurt himself too, but one can assume Arkea wanted him to try it anyway today. No chance of getting anywhere though.

 

Not the first time even this year Capiot was more or less forced by his team to ride despite being injured. And if Arkea wasn't shitty enough, they just let their rider go in the organizers van, because there was no place in their own team car....due to some guest being there.

 

Now there is something Adam Hansen should look at.

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Here we go - intermediate sprint & then the Tourmalet.  The Tour de France starts now!  
 

Girmay mistook the line!  Ok, 1 point lost.

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Lordy got an  v  battle for the stage win, Adam Yates v Ben Healy.

 

And Pogačar launčes his attack & joins Yates.

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Pogačar off on his his now….Vignegaard pursues…

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