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

[Grassmarket 4,261]

23 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I did find out that Powless’ mother was a Olympian in 1992 today. She ran for Guam in the marathon. So there’s your fun fact of the day courtesy of the peeps over at Olympedia. 

Father is an Iron Man triathlete also.

[dcro 10,211]

37 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I did find out that Powless’ mother was a Olympian in 1992 today. She ran for Guam in the marathon. So there’s your fun fact of the day courtesy of the peeps over at Olympedia. 

Ah, those innocent times when Guam was allowed to enter a squad for team pursuit at the Olympics.

[hckošice 16,583]

Stage 13

Friday - September 11th, 2020

h. 12:05 (GMT +2)

 

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    Chatel-Guyon - Puy Mary (Pas de Peyrol) 

191.5km - Mountain (Uphill Finish)

 

 

STAGE CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Daniel Felipe MARTINEZ

5:01:47

 

  Lennard KAMNA

+4

 

  Maximilian SCHACHMANN

+51

 

Complete Standing

HERE

 

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GENERAL CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Primoz ROGLIC

56:34:35

 

  Tadej POGACAR

+44

 

  Egan BERNAL

+59

 

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POINTS CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Sam BENNETT

252

 

  Peter SAGAN

186

 

  Bryan COQUARD

162

 

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CLIMBER CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Benoit COSNEFROY

36

 

  Nans PETERS

31

 

  Marc HIRSCHI

31

 

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YOUTH CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Tadej POGACAR

56:35:19

 

  Egan BERNAL

+15

 

  Enric MAS

+2:10

 

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LAST KILOMETER REPLAY

 

 

STAGE HIGHLIGHTS

 

[justony 509]

Tour de Slovenie continues, make it last, till Paris, please. ???

[OlympicsFan 860]

3 hours ago, dcro said:

Yeah, Slovenia is not poor. At all.

It always depends on the point of reference. I guess compared to Croatia no country is poor, but compared to most of Western and Northern Europe Slovenia certainly is poor(er). I don’t no anything about their sports system, but I very much doubt that they invest nearly as much in cycling as Spain/Italy/Germany/GB/France/Netherlands or even Switzerland/Belgium/Austria, still all those countries combined can’t manage to produce a single contender for the yellow jersey this year while Slovenia produced 2. No French, belgian, dutch, german, swiss or danish rider has won the Tour in the last 20 years, yet Slovenia is able to produce two guys in one year who are both superior to everyone else.

[hckošice 16,583]

Stage 14

Saturday - September 12th, 2020

h. 13:20 (GMT +2)

 

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    Clermont Ferrand - Lyon 

194km - Hilly

 

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[Bohemia 1,540]

There will be no spectators allowed at the Grand Colombier and Biche passes on Sunday, not surprising. (same for the finish in Lyon tomorrow)

[justony 509]

And yeah, like you said, Slovenia is not poor country. We might be small, but we are not poor. Also, those cycling results did not came in one year.

 

Slovenia has very good cycling tradition, but main problem was our cyclists were always working for someone else.

 

I am very pleased that a Dutch team recognized hard effort and talent, put by Roglič, to work him over home athletes, such as Dumoulin and Kruijswijk. 

 

In UAE, there was always too much burden put on Aru, finally Pogačar got the chance, though let's be honest, it is going to be very tough third week for him, relying constantly only on Polanc. 

[Grassmarket 4,261]

These things happen, it is no mystery.
 

 Ireland had no great cyclists, ever - then two at once, Steven Roche & Sean Kelly.

 

Then nothing for 35 years and the new generation are

1. Steven Roche’s son
2. Steven Roche’s nephew
3. From the very same small town where Sean Kelly lives.

 

[Grassmarket 4,261]

Roman Bardet DNS this morning - concussion.