Tour de France stage 4: Redon to Fougères (150.4km)

mr spuckler

Another one for the remaining sprinters today. Would be good to see a fully contested sprint and no crashes :rolleyes:







Odds from Bet365
Tim Merlier 5/2
Mark Cavendish 4/1
Arnaud Demare 4/1
Jasper Philpsen 7/1
Wout Van Aert 11/1
Mads Pedersen 12/1
Peter Sagan 14/1

Tim76

Carnage yesterday. Hopefully drama of a safer kind today.

retalivity

Cav 2nd favourite is crazy

Tim76

retalivity wrote: »

Cav 2nd favourite is crazy

The bookies must be watching too much Eurosport/GCN

dahat

Demare for me once he is okay after yesterday’s crash.

mr spuckler

Weepsie wrote: »

Much better preview. Last 2 were sh!te

:pac:

mr spuckler

retalivity wrote: »

Cav 2nd favourite is crazy

The Eurosport mid-stage fan poll had him as favourite yesterday too! I expect him to compete today but would be surprised to see him win, although less-so than if Ewan had remained upright yesterday.

retalivity

Roglic in tight shape but on the start line

Tim76

retalivity wrote: »

Roglic in tight shape but on the start line

Jaysus. Looks bad alright. Hopefully he can get through the next few stages without shipping too much time and come back stronger. Would like to see him win it after what happened last year.

retalivity

Tim76 wrote: »

Jaysus. Looks bad alright. Hopefully he can get through the next few stages without shipping too much time and come back stronger. Would like to see him win it after what happened last year.

TT tomorrow may be a problem if he is still sore. Although Thomas will be in the same boat

breezy1985

Tim76 wrote: »

Jaysus. Looks bad alright. Hopefully he can get through the next few stages without shipping too much time and come back stronger. Would like to see him win it after what happened last year.

Even if its not sore it will be so annoying cycling with all that stuck to you

I think it's a good sign for him mentally at least if he can post up that picture and still have a sense of humour after the crash. "The mummy will be on the start today" he says :pac:

He might not need padded bibs today either.

marvin80

Greipel taking no sh*t there - making sure they stop as part of the protest

mr spuckler

https://twitter.com/DeGendtThomas/status/1409803971896778757?s=20

mr spuckler

Commentators at the start were saying that Philipsen is the preferred sprinter for Alpecin Fenix today - I had wondered how that would play out after he led Merlier out in yesterday's sprint.

Darkglasses

10 out of 10 for Carlton Kirby's Carrick on Suir jokes.

Morris Garren

OK, whose turn is it go to the fridge?
Wake me up when a race breaks out..

CrowdedHouse

Folks - is the GCN app more stable than the Eurosport one?

It's back to stuttering and stalling today, was fine yesterday. I cancelled the auto renew during the Giro as it was almost unwatchable. Sub runs out shortly.

paddydriver

Jayzus the Cavendish love in is insufferable today.. would Sean Kelly not just get in and tell them to STFU

Dr. Bre

Ireland needs a velodrome! according to Carlton and Eurosport .

CramCycle

Tim76 wrote: »

The bookies must be watching too much Eurosport/GCN

Its just the money on him, nothing else. Thanks to the likes of GCN he is getting heavy backing but that is all it is

eeeee

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Ireland needs a velodrome! according to Carlton and Eurosport .

They're right! We need an indoor one. Sundrive is great though.

Dodge

It isn’t just that. I know not everyone has gone for the intermediates but some have and Cav has beaten everyone but Ewan

If Demare took a heavy fall yesterday and is injured it’s down to Cav versus Alpecin Fenix

I’d love someone like Mads Pedersen to get involved but he seems to pick and choose his sprints. WVA mightn’t be allowed go for it by Jumbo. The likes of Matthews and Sagan can’t really compete to win bunch sprints but who knows how they’re all feeling

Cav winning wouldn’t surprise me now

Darkglasses

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

Folks - is the GCN app more stable than the Eurosport one?

It's back to stuttering and stalling today, was fine yesterday. I cancelled the auto renew during the Giro as it was almost unwatchable. Sub runs out shortly.

In my experience the GCN one is better yes. Not perfect but definitely better

De Bhál

Dodge wrote: »

It isn’t just that. I know not everyone has gone for the intermediates but some have and Cav has beaten everyone but Ewan

If Demare took a heavy fall yesterday and is injured it’s down to Cav versus Alpecin Fenix

I’d love someone like Mads Pedersen to get involved but he seems to pick and choose his sprints. WVA mightn’t be allowed go for it by Jumbo. The likes of Matthews and Sagan can’t really compete to win bunch sprints but who knows how they’re all feeling

Cav winning wouldn’t surprise me now

Me either, DQS train leading him to the line will be some bonus for him

odyssey06

Can someone wake me when there's about 10 km to go... tis soporific stuff with the heat... zzzzz

Reality_Check1

The break has been given much less leash compared to the Giro. I think the max I’ve seen so far is 4 minutes

mr spuckler

paddydriver wrote: »

Jayzus the Cavendish love in is insufferable today.. would Sean Kelly not just get in and tell them to STFU

56% of viewers favour Cav today, 7% for Merlier!

Tim76

paddydriver wrote: »

Jayzus the Cavendish love in is insufferable today.. would Sean Kelly not just get in and tell them to STFU

Brian Smith sticking the boot in and calling him English

Reality_Check1

Calling it now - cav won’t get top 10

breezy1985

Reality_Check1 wrote: »

Calling it now - cav won’t get top 10

I hope he gets absolutely hammered but it has to be in a fair way with no talk of getting held up in a crash. Im sick to death of Hatch talking about nothing else

Dcully

Morkov looked to be waiting on cav to overtake him for that intermediate.

I changed over to itv4 sick of hatch and co now.

CramCycle

Dear lord, Cav got the intermediate and we shall hear of nothing else for the next 45 minutes. And another pronunciation of Morkov, nicely mispronouncing both his first and second name now, with the same announcer changing how they pronounce it within a minute.

Heraclius

Dcully wrote: »

Morkov looked to be waiting on cav to overtake him for that intermediate.

I changed over to itv4 sick of hatch and co now.

TG4 is better. ITV4 is mainly ad breaks.

De Bhál

It's non-stop Cavandish talk.
Carlton Kirby has asked the question "is it going to be his day today?" around 60 times at this stage.

I like Cavandish but this would turn you off

lennymc

Is it going to be his day today?

Dcully

Heraclius wrote: »

TG4 is better. ITV4 is mainly ad breaks.

Yeah good call.

Tim76

Beautiful to see all those French school kids out to support Cav.

lennymc

i really really really really hope cav wins, not out of any desire to see him win, but to see the reactions on here. LOL

Heraclius

Heraclius wrote: »

TG4 is better. ITV4 is mainly ad breaks.

Watched the highlights on TG4 the other night. For my shame my Irish is terrible but I could understand enough to get by and as bad as my Irish is even I could tell the two lads live for these 3 weeks every year and have a ball doing it.

I know full well why they call it in Irish but I'd love to hear them call a stage in English sometime.

CramCycle

lennymc wrote: »

i really really really really hope cav wins, not out of any desire to see him win, but to see the reactions on here. LOL

I have the salt out to flavour my casquette.

Dodge

lennymc wrote: »

i really really really really hope cav wins, not out of any desire to see him win, but to see the reactions on here. LOL

I genuinely like Cav but the Eurosport lads are tough to listen to when in full cheerleader mode

Reality_Check1

A reminder to everyone that before the stage Cav was 4/1 and Segan was 14/1……

Doc07

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Watched the highlights on TG4 the other night. For my shame my Irish is terrible but I could understand enough to get by and as bad as my Irish is even I could tell the two lads live for these 3 weeks every year and have a ball doing it.

I know full well why they call it in Irish but I'd love to hear them call a stage in English sometime.

I watch it every year on TG4 the days when I get a few minutes to catch it live.
Settled on couch for last 20km today.
Should be no major surprise of Cav wins as Ewan out but Démare/Bouhanni or few others could do it.
Not feeling the bitterness for Cav, he’s the greatest sprinter ever having a bonus swan song Tour and he didn’t injure Sam’s knee!

Eamonnator

odyssey06 wrote: »

Can someone wake me when there's about 10 km to go... tis soporific stuff with the heat... zzzzz

WAKE UP

10km to go have they got this wrong ???? I hope so

De Bhál

Deleted User wrote: »

10km to go have they got this wrong ???? I hope so

DQS in a bad position, well within the middle, leaving it late to get up front

breezy1985

De Bhál wrote: »

It's non-stop Cavandish talk.
Carlton Kirby has asked the question "is it going to be his day today?" around 60 times at this stage.

I like Cavandish but this would turn you off

He got a tiny mention but why does no one care if Griepel can turn back time or have a late career win

Remember this is the young lad who took that wrong turn in the finale of a race a few weeks back before the Dauphine and had his redemption there.

Reality_Check1

Team Lotto doing a great job just being annoying breaking up the chase

Darkglasses

Gwan Brent!