Tour De France Stage 2: Nice Haut Pays > Nice [Spoilers]

at1withmyself

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Interesting to see the early sprint, Sagan is in Green but only holding it for Kristoff so will Kristoff go for the sprint to hold the green for a few days?

I think Kristoff will loose the Yellow tomorrow but not sure if there'll be fireworks tomorrow or not, one for the punchers perhaps - Alaphilippe or possibly Dan?

at1withmyself

Non starter list so far:

Lotto Soudal
- Degenkolb
- Gilbert

Bahrain McLaren
- Rafael Valls

I'm sure it will grow before the start but hopefully not many others.

dastardly00

Live TV coverage on now. At the moment Carlton & Rob Hatch are commentating... don't think I've ever heard them on both at the same time!

Richard Hillman

I reckon it's one of those randomer winner days. An early group breakaway that nobody gets worried about but gets out of hand.

dastardly00

David Gaudu (FDJ) is already out the back and in a world of pain

EDIT: he's back in the peloton for the last while and seems to be okay

at1withmyself

Why does Sagan not drop back, with no more points on offer to the finish is it worth staying with the break? Maybe he'll drop off as the climb moves up.

retalivity

dastardly00 wrote: »

Live TV coverage on now. At the moment Carlton & Rob Hatch are commentating... don't think I've ever heard them on both at the same time!

Wheres that video of Rob giving out to Carlton live on air for talking sh1te? Its from a year or 2 ago, its hilarious

happytramp

"it's a town unified by Garibaldi in 1861, who, just for the record wasn't named Gary and had a full head of hair.... He also shares his name with a very fine rasin based biscuit"

Alan Partridge or Carlton Kirby?

lissard

Feels like high summer watching a stage like this today. Great to have the Tour back. Yesterday was ridiculous, whole stage should have been neutralised. Think all the action will be on the Col d'Etze near the end.

lissard

happytramp wrote: »

"it's a town unified by Garibaldi in 1861, who, just for the record wasn't named Gary and had a full head of hair.... He also shares his name with a very fine rasin based biscuit"

Alan Partridge or Carlton Kirby?

Kirby really can't help himself. Crazy that Rob Hatch is only getting crumbs here.

dastardly00

lissard wrote: »

Kirby really can't help himself. Crazy that Rob Hatch is only getting crumbs here.

I assume Hatch & Kelly will be back later on.

Last year they took it in turns each day. One of them would do the start and finish, and the other would do the big chunk in the middle. And they'd swap the next day. That's how I remember it anyway!

Dodge

Hatch and Kelly are defo the A team. Kirby and Smith are the warm ups. Yesterday they had technical issues

Interesting stage. Almost like a classic course

EDIT: I know there’s 2 Cat 1 climbs but the finish is a long way from them

bazermc

Didn’t know Nico had a younger brother.

Mefistofelino

Kristoff looked like a giant canary with his yellow facemask

dastardly00

The scenery and landscape is spectacular today

odyssey06

dastardly00 wrote: »

The scenery and landscape is spectacular today

Yes, will get even better with Col d'Eze and the medieval hilltop town of Eze

at1withmyself

dastardly00 wrote: »

The scenery and landscape is spectacular today

No need to rub it in! That's the etape route today

retalivity

Dan right at the very back of the peloton with the rest of his team

lissard

First ascent of Col d'Eze fairly shredded the peloton. Looks like a GC finish.

retalivity

Dani Martinez down.

Jesus, Wiggins is a tool.

Itziger

Nico right at the front!!

retalivity

retalivity wrote: »

Dani Martinez down.

Jesus, Wiggins is a tool.

I was just about to say similar, adds nothing of value to the coverage.

retalivity

That nico following??

Edit:nope

De Bhál

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I was just about to say similar, adds nothing of value to the coverage.

Big hands waving and pointing and telling us nothing.
Was more fun when he was on a motorbike annoying the peleton.

retalivity

Sneaky Ineos....

ednwireland

well done itv4 miss the alaphillipe attack with an advert break.

odyssey06

retalivity wrote: »

That nico following??

Edit:nope

Think I saw him about position 6 in the front of peloton.

Looks like Tom got away with that

Mefistofelino

"As quiet as a Zeppelin in the night"
That would be quite noisy then, Carlton

De Bhál

Nice move by Yeats to get across there.

dastardly00

Come on Alaphilippe

Dodge

dastardly00 wrote: »

Come on Alaphilippe

He’s an easy fella to root for. Great attacking win

topnotch

Ha ha have him as my road captain in the virtual tdf.

Mefistofelino

Nice ( and Nice)
Good finish by Hirschi too.

Alaphillipe's watch worth North of €100k. Must be nice to be sponsored.

Daroxtar

Great attacking cycling and a fantastic finish. I was sure they'd blown it but chapeau to JA

Ahhh I hadn't heard his dad passed away.

breezy1985

topnotch wrote: »

Ha ha have him as my road captain in the virtual tdf.

Me too. But I would be happy for him even if I didnt

dastardly00

Daniel Martinez ended up losing a whopping 3'38"

odyssey06

Nico got the 5 points for Col d'Eze as a memento for his struggles today

Dodge

Dan Martin ended up in the pack 18 minutes down. I think this is a good think for his stage chances. Too often, IMO, he hung around the top 10-15 on GC and wasn’t allowed away at all

Itziger

Dodge wrote: »

Dan Martin ended up in the pack 18 minutes down. I think this is a good think for his stage chances. Too often, IMO, he hung around the top 10-15 on GC and wasn’t allowed away at all

I'd say Dan is close enough to early retirement. I'm guessing he's not recovered from the injury.

As for Alaphillipe, I remember a GT where Dan was fancied to do well and JA didn't help him for a yard of the 20 stages. Popped up for a snakey stage win alright.

MPFGLB

odyssey06 wrote: »

Nico got the 5 points for Col d'Eze as a memento for his struggles today

NIco was going very well today ...best in awhile


He couldn't chase Allaphillipe cos Hirschi up the road.Mind you he woudn't have beaten him but still he was going well


Dan Martin does not look good tbh

Yeah Dan is still feeling the fall at the dauphine I think. I was going to say Herman might be the man for Israel but he lost a tonne of time too.

De Bhál

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Yeah Dan is still feeling the fall at the dauphine I think. I was going to say Herman might be the man for Israel but he lost a tonne of time too.

I saw an interview with Dan Martin and he said this team aren't going for a GC place with him and more individual stages

retalivity

Mefistofelino wrote: »

Nice ( and Nice)
Good finish by Hirschi too.

Alaphillipe's watch worth North of €100k. Must be nice to be sponsored.

The watch is a Richard Mille, who sponsor Bahrain-McLaren. So nots ure if they also sponsor riders, or its a personal JA thing.
It looks hideous as well.



https://cyclingtips.com/2020/09/julian-alaphilippe-is-racing-in-a-us120500-watch-because-why-not/

CantGetNoSleep

He seems to wear it on the bike which is odd?