7 Jul | 7th stage | 170 km | Mont-de-Marsan - Bordeaux | Flat | Live Tracker | Results
Who had the stupid idea to turn the Green Jersey mudgreen?
Isn’t it part of the prestige of the leader jerseys that they stick out in the peloton?
Now the jersey almost looks like a military camouflage. They made it more difficult to find the green Jersey in the sprint train.
Another day for the sprinters, another day for Philipsen?
If Philipsen takes this one in the same fashion, expect every other sprint team to start sending people into breaks instead. Søren Kragh Andersen has a new role at Alpecin-Deceuninck, btw. He sits behind Philipsen at tries to keep other sprinters from taking his wheel, look out for that today.
Little bits of information like this is what makes a community like this so awesome. Did he mention that on Danish tv?
He’s on a winning streak for sure!
Aussie bias says Caleb is getting closer with every sprint, so he’s gotta get it. JP with a MvdP lead out has just been too solid a combo this TdF though, it seems very likely to continue.
I’m not super happy about the way these sprints are playing out, it seems there’s always a very dangerous move involved and we’ve just been very lucky so far.
Of course you can’t sanitize sprint finishes to the point that there is no danger, but I’m not sure this is equilibrium.
They need punishments to hand out lower than relegation. Even just an official sanction would help highlight that closing out to the barriers isn’t kosher so riders can’t complain when eventually someone does get punished for this dangerous stuff.
I think it would be radically unfair to penalize jasper by taking away the win when he’s so obviously winning the sprint whatever happens, but they have to do something.
Have to admit, I was gutted not to see Cav get the win there. I would love him to get 1 final win before he retires. Waiting for the last stage gives the best narrative though, so perhaps that’s the plan.
There’sa lot of talk about JP pushing Bini out, but IMO, there s was a little gap, JP was ahead of Bini, and that’s textbook of how you successfully take a contested wheel
Back in r/velo, u/carpediemracing has a great post describing how to do this