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

  • 29-06-2021 10:27am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭


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

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    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


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  • Registered Users Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Tim76


    Carnage yesterday. Hopefully drama of a safer kind today.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,506 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Cav 2nd favourite is crazy


  • Registered Users Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Tim76


    retalivity wrote: »
    Cav 2nd favourite is crazy

    The bookies must be watching too much Eurosport/GCN


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,826 ✭✭✭✭dahat


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


  • Site Banned Posts: 20,686 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Much better preview. Last 2 were sh!te


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Much better preview. Last 2 were sh!te

    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,506 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Roglic in tight shape but on the start line

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  • Registered Users Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Tim76


    retalivity wrote: »
    Roglic in tight shape but on the start line

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    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,506 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,029 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭marvin80


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭mr spuckler




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 673 ✭✭✭Morris Garren


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,868 ✭✭✭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.

    Seven Worlds will Collide



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,085 ✭✭✭paddydriver


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,741 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Ireland needs a velodrome! according to Carlton and Eurosport .


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭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


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


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

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    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!


  • Registered Users Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Tim76


    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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭Reality_Check1


    Calling it now - cav won’t get top 10


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,029 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    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


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,715 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,458 ✭✭✭lennymc


    Is it going to be his day today?


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,715 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dcully


    Heraclius wrote: »
    TG4 is better. ITV4 is mainly ad breaks.

    Yeah good call.


  • Registered Users Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Tim76


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,458 ✭✭✭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


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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.


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭Reality_Check1


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭Doc07


    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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Can someone wake me when there's about 10 km to go... tis soporific stuff with the heat... zzzzz

    WAKE UP


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭De Bhál


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

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,029 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭Reality_Check1


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


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