TdF 2021 - Stage 3 - Lorient-Pointivy

Weepsie · 28-06-2021 9:10am #1

First flat stage and one for the sprinters with no GC action you'd think.

Last 2.5 km has 3 tight turns, but nothing much after 1.5km. Weather is due to be absolute cack though. Rain and Thunderstorms

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Ewan is the favourite, with Demare up there too and Cavendish hoping to p!ss on all our chips, Merlier too, but his team may just want to keep VdP safe for a few days in yellow

Again, a crap lazy preview.

Tim76 · 28-06-2021 9:28am

Flat days just aren't the same without Sammy

happytramp · 28-06-2021 9:34am

Tim76 wrote: »

Flat days just aren't the same without Sammy

Yeah, I've sort of tuned out from the tour this year because of it.... At least we have the euro's and the lion's tour (if you're into them) to distract us.

retalivity · 28-06-2021 9:38am

Ewan to demolish everyone.

28-06-2021 9:38am

Alpecin Fenix have brought two sprinters that have been assigned different stages. Merlier will be pissed if they don't go all in for him today. The team would fully expected to have been in yellow today anyway.

Macy0161 · 28-06-2021 9:49am

happytramp wrote: »

Yeah, I've sort of tuned out from the tour this year because of it....

Definitely taken the edge off it for me. And the youngest who got really into the sprints last year.

Mefistofelino · 28-06-2021 9:53am

The section from 5.5 km to 2.5km to the finish will be fun. Not very wide (5-6m in parts), a few twists & turns and around 4-5% downhill. Add in a little rain and DQS & Lotto driving it on. I'd be amazed if there isn't another bunch crash.

An absolute dragstrip of a finishing straight - I don't think Morkov's pilot-fish skills will be of much use, its going to be down to Watts. Plus Cav is probably going to fall off anyway.

28-06-2021 11:13am

Macy0161 wrote: »

Definitely taken the edge off it for me. And the youngest who got really into the sprints last year.

Mine are the same but they really just like seeing someone put their arms in the at the end and get a new jersey. They think the idea of getting a jersey is the business.

I had to explain to the 3y/o that Sam wasn't there this year, she just wanted know if Sam's mammy put a plaster on his sore knee

Thankfully she didn't see the crashes on Saturday or I'd still be explaining, why? how did they fall? why? Did they get a plaster and on and on and on

Macy0161 · 28-06-2021 11:16am

Mine are old enough that they had seen the crashes all over tictok and instagram.

Dodge · 28-06-2021 11:17am

red_ken wrote: »

Alpecin Fenix have brought two sprinters that have been assigned different stages. Merlier will be pissed if they don't go all in for him today. The team would fully expected to have been in yellow today anyway.

I think Philipsen is a better sprinter than Merlier on that team tbh

Neither of them can touch Ewan unless he has a mechanical etc

I’m with the majority fwiw. I’ll watch the ending but last year I was making sure I saw the intermediates and break formation etc. Sprint stages hold little appeal now

fat bloke · 28-06-2021 11:45am

Ah, don't be so quick to pull the rug out from under it. If pro cycling has taught us anything it's that the script often goes out the window!

Let's at least see what Schelling the Jester has planned for us!

mr spuckler · 28-06-2021 11:50am

Dodge wrote: »

I think Philipsen is a better sprinter than Merlier on that team tbh

Neither of them can touch Ewan unless he has a mechanical etc

I’m with the majority fwiw. I’ll watch the ending but last year I was making sure I saw the intermediates and break formation etc. Sprint stages hold little appeal now

I'll have it on in the background while I work, same as I did with the Giro. One advantage is my heart rate will be lower during the sprints this time around!

retalivity · 28-06-2021 11:56am

MVDP going all out today

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fat bloke · 28-06-2021 12:00pm

Ah DEADLY!!!

I was thinking yesterday, and wondered aloud to the mrs if they'd have a yellow aeroad for him for today!!

Gosh I wonder how that works at all - would they have had that ready to rock on the off-chance or would it have been a panic-stations all-nighter prep job from the end of the stage yesterday?!

Mefistofelino · 28-06-2021 12:04pm

GCN Fashion Watch: Today, Bradley will be mostly wearing a rollneck sweater from his "Open University Pure Mathematics Lecturer" collection.

Dodge · 28-06-2021 12:04pm

fat bloke wrote: »

Ah DEADLY!!!

I was thinking yesterday, and wondered aloud to the mrs if they'd have a yellow aeroad for him for today!!

Gosh I wonder how that works at all - would they have had that ready to rock on the off-chance or would it have been a panic-stations all-nighter prep job from the end of the stage yesterday?!

Maybe that’s why he was so crestfallen after stage one. He knew they had spent all that time preparing the bike for him

Mefistofelino · 28-06-2021 12:05pm

fat bloke wrote: »

Ah DEADLY!!!

I was thinking yesterday, and wondered aloud to the mrs if they'd have a yellow aeroad for him for today!!

Gosh I wonder how that works at all - would they have had that ready to rock on the off-chance or would it have been a panic-stations all-nighter prep job from the end of the stage yesterday?!

I think the odds were reasonably high that VDP would have gone into yellow over the weekend so the frame was probably already prepped and in the truck

28-06-2021 12:24pm

Schelling looking around one of the Lotto lads giving him a nod to say "go on, away you go"

retalivity · 28-06-2021 12:25pm

Schelling is going to be shagged by Week 3

REBELSAFC · 28-06-2021 12:39pm

retalivity wrote: »

Schelling is going to be shagged by Week 3Friday

Fixed there for you

mr spuckler · 28-06-2021 1:10pm

G looks like he might be done for :eek:

Tony Martin down again too

De Bhál · 28-06-2021 1:12pm

hard man, battling on there

AxleAddict · 28-06-2021 1:12pm

He does seem to have gotten back on the bike though..... but he really didn't look good when he was sat on the road....

breezy1985 · 28-06-2021 1:13pm

mr spuckler wrote: »

G looks like he might be done for :eek:

Tony Martin down again too

Surprised he got back on.

Poor Tony Martin not having a good tour so far either

mr spuckler · 28-06-2021 1:14pm

3 mins behind the peloton and nobody coming back to bring him up by the look of things.

mossym · 28-06-2021 1:14pm

back on the bike. tony martin down as well.

GT and crashes. hand in hand

28-06-2021 1:14pm

Luke Rowe was down in that crash aswell.

mossym · 28-06-2021 1:15pm

put his right hand down there to tighten the shoe. might be hope

retalivity · 28-06-2021 1:16pm

Gesink abandons.
Thomas looks like he's just riding up to a point to jump in the car

Mefistofelino · 28-06-2021 1:17pm

That's the INEOS leadership sorted

mr spuckler · 28-06-2021 1:17pm

mossym wrote: »

put his right hand down there to tighten the shoe. might be hope

Yeah right arm seems ok but he's not gaining any time on the peloton. Interesting comments from Bernie Eisel, that Luke Rowe initially signaled G was out.

edit...now Luke Rowe is back to help him so they must fancy his chances of getting back

TdF 2021 - Stage 3 - Lorient-Pointivy

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