Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2020 (Tour de France)

[OlympicsFan 860]

3 hours ago, dcro said:

I wonder if there ever was a team who attempted to break-away with 8 riders...? You know, sort of how you usually play Pro Cycling Manager...

I always asked myself whether the following could work:

All the riders of one team ride next to each at the front of the field on a narrow road and then one of them sprints away and his teammates ride very slowly next to each other in order to block the road so that no one can go after him ...

[OlympicsFan 860]

I think Bora will go all out to win the green jersey. They realized that Buchmann won’t be able to make the podium, so they didn’t have to save energy for tomorrow and Sunday. Personally I never thought that someone like Sagan should win the green jersey because he clearly isn‘t and never has been the best sprinter, but I guess those are the rules. Once van Aert will be allowed to go for the green jersey it will be game over for Sagan.

[hckošice 15,518]

Stage 7

Friday - September 4th, 2020

h. 13:25 (GMT +2)

 

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    Millau - Lavaur   

168km - Lumpy/Flat

 

 

STAGE CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Wout VAN AERT

3:32:03

 

  Edvald BOASSON HAGEN

+0

 

  Bryan COQUARD

+0

 

Complete Standing

HERE

 

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GENERAL CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Adam YATES

30:36:00

 

  Primoz ROGLIC

+3

 

  Guillaume MARTIN

+9

 

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POINTS CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Peter SAGAN

138

 

  Sam BENNETT

129

 

  Wout VAN AERT

106

 

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CLIMBER CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Benoit COSNEFROY

25

 

  Michael GOGL

12

 

  Nicolas ROCHE

11

 

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YOUTH CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Egan BERNAL

30:36:13

 

  Enric MAS

+9

 

  Sergio Andres HIGUITA

+28

 

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LAST KILOMETER REPLAY

 

 

STAGE HIGHLIGHTS

 

[Grassmarket 4,028]

4 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

I always asked myself whether the following could work:

All the riders of one team ride next to each at the front of the field on a narrow road and then one of them sprints away and his teammates ride very slowly next to each other in order to block the road so that no one can go after him ...

It might work once, but you’d never get a chance to win a race again.   Unwritten rules.  

[hckošice 15,518]

2 hours ago, Federer91 said:

Oh Peter, you managed to fumble even todays sprint  The whole teams works out of the window, even with the few points you took today. This was a picture perfect situation for the Sagan of the past, but allez..

in his defense we must take note that he was also not very lucky today, at the beginning of the final sprint some 300m to go his chain fell off. according to him, it was a miracle that he did not fall and it did not turn out even much worse.

but Bora today was just famous. fantastic performance. Total Liquigas 2013 Albi stage copyright, sadly with unsuccessful end this time.

 

 

Anyway I still don´t get all the hate towards Sagan during this tour, I mean this guy has absolutely nothing to prove to anyone, he already achieved things which only very few riders will be able to repeat. and not sure if anyone will be even able to do it in the next decades

[heywoodu 16,000]

Just saw the full result now, pretty awesome by mostly the French B-sprinters like Coquard, Venturini and Hofstetter to make it to the finish in the main group.

[heywoodu 16,000]

7 minutes ago, hckosice said:

in his defense we must take note that he was also not very lucky today, at the beginning of the final sprint some 300m to go his chain fell off. according to him, it was a miracle that he did not fall and it did not turn out even much worse.

but Bora today was just famous. fantastic performance. Total Liquigas 2013 Albi stage copyright, sadly with unsuccessful end this time.

 

 

Anyway I still don´t get all the hate towards Sagan during this tour, I mean this guy has absolutely nothing to prove to anyone, he already achieved things which only very few riders will be able to repeat. and not sure if anyone will be even able to do it in the next decades

Where do you see hate? I just see people basically saying he's not in great shape, which is rather obvious and has nothing to do with one's personal opinion

[dcro 10,210]

Sagan takes over the green jersey with 13th (!) place today?

 

Green jersey is just bizarre at this point.

[Grassmarket 4,028]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

Sagan takes over the green jersey with 13th (!) place today?

 

 

2nd place in the intermediate won it for him

[heywoodu 16,000]

Ouch, just noticed the loss for Pogacar. I don't think it matters so much for Porte and Mollema (well for them it does, but I mean in terms of the GC in general ), but Pogacar losing that much is big...although it might mean he'll have to unleash his power early