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peanut- posted:Cav made the time cut with 90 seconds to spare. That's called sprinting to the finish line baby 
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I sometimes wish they kept a camera bike with the grupetto for a stages like yesterday. I want to see just how batshit those sprinters went down that mountain.
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Nic Dlamini rode all the way in 40 minutes outside time after crashing because he didn't want to just climb into a car and stop riding the Tour de France
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A lot of the broomwagon guys get pushed up the climbs by fans too, when i was at the tour a line of dutch fans pushed kenny van hummel almost all the way through multiple switchbacks at verbier, he barely made the time cut iirc
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That owns.
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Kenny van Hummel made Cipollini look like Fausto Coppi, he owned
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serious gaylord posted:I sometimes wish they kept a camera bike with the grupetto for a stages like yesterday. Imagine Ventoux 
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Enric Mass posted:He didn't go all-out, as he can do at times. We [his rivals] were all thinking about the podium, and he just moved away as if we didn't exist. We made a mistake of not trying to follow, we shouldn't have let him get more time, but we were a bit scared that he would do what he did the day before https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mas-pogacar-rode-away-from-us-at-the-tour-de-france-as-if-we-didnt-exist/ De Gendt posted:I rode one of my best ten-minute efforts ever at the start [of stage 8]. Those values have been recorded since 2013," De Gendt told Sporza before setting off for a grim day in the saddle towards Tignes. De Gendt and Mass just being pretty brutal.
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Dang, TdG pulling no punches.
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I do find it interesting that TDG is talking about the whole peloton and not just Pogacar/Bahrain. Things really seemed to get wacky last year (the tour, Ineos at the Giro, probably some other crap I'm forgetting)
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A handful more TT and classics riders suddenly became high grade mountain domestiques. But that's been happening for years now.
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serious gaylord posted:https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mas-pogacar-rode-away-from-us-at-the-tour-de-france-as-if-we-didnt-exist/ I’m trying to think of a joke about Mas’ mass but I’m coming up short.
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Watching the Movistar Netflix doc makes me almost believe in Sky/Ineos pulling 5% performance improvements out of ‘marginal gains’ with the amount of disfunction and amateurishness on show there. I guess now on top of more professionalism in teams we’re also seeing the result of years of people digging around and measuring the capacities in the youth ranks for kids with mad vo2 max and recovery etc. Or it’s just a fantastic new Slovenian doping programme. (Also funny moment in the Movistar doc when they’re in the team bus and riders are coming in end of the stage and they all find out Pog put 2mins into Roglic in the time trial and the looks they all give each other)
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That TdG quote is really something. It's obvious what he's saying in the first few paras but then in the last one he basically yells it.
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StarkingBarfish posted:That TdG quote is really something. It's obvious what he's saying in the first few paras but then in the last one he basically yells it. Stage 8 was a De Gendt stage, so much so that he was one of the favourites to win it at the bookies and several commentators picks. I remember watching him try to attack, get a tiny gap and absolutely drill it. Then he got caught, tried 2 or so more times then went out the back. He's right that it wasn't long ago that if he went into the break the GC teams would just let it go because they knew they'd kill themselves bringing him back.
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It is not easy to age gracefully.
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Xabi posted:It is not easy to age gracefully. I don't think it's age unless his PM is broken
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Vando posted:I don't think it's age unless his PM is broken It's a real possibility. Power meters have quite a bit of variability especially if you are going 10 years back. He should post the actual numbers. In other news pogacar revealed that he had three doping controls the day of his big mountain stage. Edit. I guess TDG did post the numbers: https://www.strava.com/activities/5569043643/power-curve/600 461 watts for 10 minutes is impressive for a 155lb rider, but is it going to ride the pro peleton 'to pieces' 
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Cav was interviewed by ITV just now and he's just great  Was saying he's in awe of these young riders and how lucky they are to be coming up together, and how he's not built for climbing and hates every second of it.e: Pog saying he had 3 controls, 2 before and one after. StarkingBarfish fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Jul 6, 2021 |
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lol how did he not know that in advance?
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Oh Pierre. Best some of those Pog samples go into the long term storage locker. Just to be sure.
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ITV commentators pretending they know about wine
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His photographic memory of every stage he's ridden and what everyone else was doing is super impressive.
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StarkingBarfish posted:His photographic memory of every stage he's ridden and what everyone else was doing is super impressive. The fact he lives in essex with his former page 3 model wife makes you think he's a bit thick but he's actually a very sweet cycling autist who cries every tiem
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He's a cycling wolverine. A small man who's the best at what he does, and what he does isn't very nice.
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I hope the weather gets nicer as they get further south, I'm bored of looking at grey and raining France.
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peanut- posted:I hope the weather gets nicer as they get further south, I'm bored of looking at grey and raining France. Apparently 30 degrees for deux ventoux.
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Much calmer today.
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Rip Pedersen
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I think he's crashed more days than he hasn't.
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Jul 6, 2021 14:14
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Every few stages I am reminded that Simon Yates is in the race and am surprised again.
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Jul 6, 2021 14:14
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Happy birthday now go loving kill yourself on the climb
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I am enjoying the daily ritual of Colbrelli making Michael Matthews look poo poo.
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They pushed for that. I don't think Cav gave a poo poo.
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Jul 6, 2021 14:20
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Bahrain’s got a new nutrition sponsor so that explains everything
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It must be great paying Sagan €5m a year to not even try and sprint
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Maybe this is the year he slumps out of all contention. I thought it was going to be last year.
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