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

[OlympicsFan 860]

4 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Kämna really is in awesome shape this year, finally  

He was trash until yesterday and still isn’t at his best (from the Dauphine). Hopefully he will be able to take Buchmann‘s place in a couple of years.

[OlympicsFan 860]

4 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Brilliant long-term chess strategy, masterful use of their pawns & the ones that look like horses.

They are playing 4d chess while the rest is playing checkers ... just like Johnson with his Brexit strategy.

[OlympicsFan 860]

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

Maybe he was modeling what not to do for the younger riders 

If that was the idea ... then his teammates didn’t do a very good job. They seem to have imitated him too well by doing absolutely nothing for the last 2 weeks.

 

Edit: This also reminds me of a question Someone asked on german Television a couple of days ago after Buchmann lost a lot of time:

“So will Buchmann just ride along like a tourist from on?“

Answer by the German tv expert:

“Maybe you should try to ride a stage like that before you call him a tourist“

It was quite funny, you almost got the impression that the guy (on his couch at home) saw it as a personal insult that Buchmann wasn’t able to do any better.

[hckošice 16,583]

Stage 15

Sunday - September 13th, 2020

h. 12:50 (GMT +2)

 

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    Lyon - Grand Colombier 

174.5km - Mountain (Uphill Finish)

 

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[Grassmarket 4,261]

Bob Jungels couldn’t have taken Higuita out more effectively if he’d used a samurai sword.  

[heywoodu 16,443]

23 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Bob Jungels couldn’t have taken Higuita out more effectively if he’d used a samurai sword.  

Although one can hardly say it's Jungels fault. If anything, it's Higuita's own fault, but I'd rather say it's a 'race incident' or just bad luck.

 

 

[Grassmarket 4,261]

And that’s it for Higuita, Docs put their foot down.

[dcro 10,211]

Interesting... So it's that easy to take a rival out of the race and get away with it?

[heywoodu 16,443]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

Interesting... So it's that easy to take a rival out of the race and get away with it?

Just ask Cavendish, Bouhanni, Sagan, Bouhanni, Groenewegen, Bouhanni, Renshaw or Bouhanni  

[Agger 1,841]

14 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Just ask Cavendish, Bouhanni, Sagan, Bouhanni, Groenewegen, Bouhanni, Renshaw or Bouhanni  

I feel like you're missing Bouhanni...