TdF - Stage 2 - Perros-Guirec to Mûr-de-Bretagne - 183.5km

Reality_Check1 · 27-06-2021 4:49pm

MVDP in yellow with the bonus seconds?

ednwireland · 27-06-2021 4:50pm

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Carapaz is the guy at Ineos. Absolutely no doubt it now.

certainly looks like it

Mefistofelino · 27-06-2021 4:50pm

Dan finished 40th @ 36 seconds. Never featured at all

odyssey06 · 27-06-2021 4:51pm

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Yeah, I like Carlton but it was a poor call today. Didn't even know about the bonus seconds at the first until the graphics came up and then at the end, I worked out well before they did that he could have been in Yellow.

Carlton really needs to tone down the shrieking at the stage finishes... It's not Brazillian football!

breezy1985 · 27-06-2021 4:52pm

Mefistofelino wrote: »

Dan finished 40th @ 36 seconds. Never featured at all

I get the feeling that ISN might be useless. The new CCC

breezy1985 · 27-06-2021 4:52pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

Carlton really needs to tone down the shrieking at the stage finishes...

Its the only thing I like from him. Clearly taking influence from horse racing

27-06-2021 4:53pm

Only 10 seconds on GC between Carapaz and Thomas.

Reality_Check1 · 27-06-2021 4:53pm

Mefistofelino wrote: »

Dan finished 40th @ 36 seconds. Never featured at all

He was saying in an article for the Sunday Independednt his legs didn’t feel great yesterday’s because he hasn’t raced since the Giro. So might take him a few stages to warm up

mewso · 27-06-2021 4:54pm

Eurosport are starting to annoy me with the differences at the end of the stage. If you are on the ad free stream you don't get the discussion in the studio. Did it for the Giro too. Both streams should be identical one with ads, one without.

Mefistofelino · 27-06-2021 4:55pm

Wiggo rocking the "disgraced geography teacher" look today

De Bhál · 27-06-2021 4:56pm

mewso wrote: »

Eurosport are starting to annoy me with the differences at the end of the stage. If you are on the ad free stream you don't get the discussion in the studio. Did it for the Giro too. Both streams should be identical one with ads, one without.

GCN app is easily the best money i spent this year

breezy1985 · 27-06-2021 5:00pm

Reality_Check1 wrote: »

He was saying in an article for the Sunday Independednt his legs didn’t feel great yesterday’s because he hasn’t raced since the Giro. So might take him a few stages to warm up

Orla is looking good in yellow today. Probably about as it's gonna get from an Irish point of view this year

mewso · 27-06-2021 5:01pm

De Bhál wrote: »

GCN app is easily the best money i spent this year

I'm on desktop PC and they make it very complicated to sign up to GCN outside of an app on your phone. Last time I looked anyway so subsequently signed up with Eurosport player instead which in general is fine although you don't get the docs.

breezy1985 · 27-06-2021 5:02pm

Mefistofelino wrote: »

Wiggo rocking the "disgraced geography teacher" look today

Sleazy old musician who still cracks onto young wans down the local pub was my thinking

retalivity · 27-06-2021 5:07pm

De Bhál wrote: »

GCN app is easily the best money i spent this year

Its flaky enough for me, wouldn't be signing up for it again next year, would just use a dodgy stream instead

Richard Hillman · 27-06-2021 5:18pm

mewso wrote: »

Eurosport are starting to annoy me with the differences at the end of the stage. If you are on the ad free stream you don't get the discussion in the studio. Did it for the Giro too. Both streams should be identical one with ads, one without.

I think there are 2 GCN streams. There's the regular one and the one with "Live Show". Yesterday,I watched the regular one waiting for the live show. I watched the live show one today and they went straight to studio after the MVDP interview

REBELSAFC · 27-06-2021 5:32pm

Reality_Check1 wrote: »

He was saying in an article for the Sunday Independednt his legs didn’t feel great yesterday’s because he hasn’t raced since the Giro. So might take him a few stages to warm up

RTE news : Martin targeting mountain triumph in Tour de France

http://www.rte.ie/sport/cycling/2021/0624/1231194-martin-targeting-mountain-triumph-in-tour-de-france/

He's basically discarding the first week in this interview.He specifically stated that he wouldn't be ready for today.

eagle eye · 27-06-2021 5:51pm

De BhÃ&#161 wrote: »

GCN app is easily the best money i spent this year

How much did it cost?

De Bhál · 27-06-2021 5:56pm

eagle eye wrote: »

How much did it cost?

Can't exactly remember but less than 40 i think for the year

kenmc · 27-06-2021 6:16pm

eagle eye wrote: »

How much did it cost?

Pretty sure it was 20 Quid for me

retalivity · 27-06-2021 6:20pm

They had a half price offer for a while of 20€ for the year, which is what I got as well.
Normal price is €40 for the year, which is fantastic if it worked reasonably. Too many times for me it doesnt load, or just gives the red GCN screen when a race is supposed to be on.

Reality_Check1 · 27-06-2021 7:57pm

Why is the internet saying Carapaz is now the only man for Ineos? Thomas is only 5 seconds behind? Seems a bit mad to write a lad off completely because of a bad ending to a stage

Weepsie · 27-06-2021 8:12pm

Reality_Check1 wrote: »

Why is the internet saying Carapaz is now the only man for Ineos? Thomas is only 5 seconds behind? Seems a bit mad to write a lad off completely because of a bad ending to a stage

Because he had a bit of a grimace crossing the line, along with about half the peleton.

Mefistofelino · 27-06-2021 8:24pm

He lost about 17 seconds to Pog and Rog on the final ascent and couldn't stay with his own train. Carapaz had no such issue.

retalivity · 27-06-2021 8:41pm

Mefistofelino wrote: »

He lost about 17 seconds to Pog and Rog on the final ascent and couldn't stay with his own train. Carapaz had no such issue.

Thomas will put 90s+ into Carapaz in the TT

deise08 · 27-06-2021 8:57pm

Chris Froome said in an interview he was in the hospital/with the doctors til half one. How do they keep going? Keep their concentration?

Their mechanics pulled an all nighter.
I'd say most of the teams got little sleep last night.

Must have been hard work today for them all.

It's easy to forget about behind the scenes.

eagle eye · 27-06-2021 9:26pm

Mefistofelino wrote:

He lost about 17 seconds to Pog and Rog on the final ascent and couldn't stay with his own train. Carapaz had no such issue.

Very early days in the tour. There's a train of thought now that winding up your fitness over the first week is the best way to go about a grand tour. We'll see over the next three weeks if it works or not.

27-06-2021 9:58pm

deise08 wrote: »

Chris Froome said in an interview he was in the hospital/with the doctors til half one. How do they keep going? Keep their concentration?

Their mechanics pulled an all nighter.
I'd say most of the teams got little sleep last night.

Must have been hard work today for them all.

It's easy to forget about behind the scenes.

Fair play to Brian Smith he gave the mechanics and their work a mention today during commentary.

Froome had a video up earlier. I'm sure there was more than just himself in that situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_VU0FoAjFQ

Can't find it now but there was also a video of Matt While shouting at a mechanic from the car as he'd run passed them, missing them in the chaos yesterday.

EDIT: it's at the end of this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha03WHJLIbk

Macy0161 · 28-06-2021 9:54am

My main complaint with GCN was not having the Suisse rights for Ireland. Since they've had the firetv app, I've ditched eurosport player.

I've watched a couple of the legend shows, but not many of the documentaries, but I can see those being regular winter turbo base training fair.

TdF - Stage 2 - Perros-Guirec to Mûr-de-Bretagne - 183.5km

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