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The Vuelta is going to be great, with Pogacar and Bernal. Because the Tour and Giro were really boring from a GC standpoint
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goatface posted:They're going to sprint the last 100m and Pog will look like he's on a training ride. 
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Jul 15, 2021 16:24
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My stream is behind, I'm at 2km out but pog just looks like he hasn't a care in the world.
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i loved Mas doing a turn and Pogacar being like "what the hell was that"
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I think he could just go do ride that again at the same pace lol
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Jul 15, 2021 16:25
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Lol Mas how poo poo must he be feeling after Pog just dunks on his attack
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Jul 15, 2021 16:27
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Hah, I like Pog's celebrate no wait are they catching up? nah, celebrate.
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Jul 15, 2021 16:29
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Superior Slovenian Sauce.
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Jul 15, 2021 16:41
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Cav made it with 7 minutes to spare.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:11
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Basically an eternity.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:20
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Komet posted:The Vuelta is going to be great, with Pogacar and Bernal. Bernal struggled in the back half of the Giro, he looked tired and human - he doesn't seem like he would be a threat to T-1000 Pogacar at all based on his Giro performance.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:35
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I just want to see Roglic in top form again 
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Jul 15, 2021 17:41
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I just saw the top 3 on PCS and did an extreme double-take. It is happening again dot gif and so on
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Jul 15, 2021 17:51
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Withnail posted:Keeping an eye on Pogacar. I think he's been in the mix a lately and he was crushing it at the end of last year.
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Jul 15, 2021 20:31
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That was a pretty good call!
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Jul 15, 2021 20:51
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I really didn't predict how horrible Ineos would be tbh
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Jul 15, 2021 20:52
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Bit of a poo poo last 2 weeks given how fun the first week was tbh.
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Jul 15, 2021 21:26
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Yeah that'll happen when someone beats the field by four minutes or something. Still a fun tour, thought it was more interesting than the last one which was way too controlled.
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Jul 15, 2021 21:51
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The chateaux have been nice. And isnt that what really matters
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Jul 15, 2021 21:54
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It says a lot that I am more excited about tomorrows finish than I was todays.
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Jul 15, 2021 22:02
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Compared to tours where the gaps in the GC were closer so one team sat on the front of every mountain stage I like this one better. Compare to the Sky/Ineos train where there's 90 seconds between the top 5 but 3 and 4 were domestiques for the leader. At least a bunch of breakaways have succeeded.
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Jul 15, 2021 22:09
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Design of the last two stages was poor too. Flat start makes it harder for a quality group to get away and force a hard chase like in the Alps. Stages with an early climb in the start or at least the first half are much cooler but for some reason the Tour is obsessed with that "flat start, two HC climbs to finish" parcours
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Jul 15, 2021 22:26
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qirex posted:Compared to tours where the gaps in the GC were closer so one team sat on the front of every mountain stage I like this one better. Compare to the Sky/Ineos train where there's 90 seconds between the top 5 but 3 and 4 were domestiques for the leader. At least a bunch of breakaways have succeeded. Despite the fact that the top-10 is as wide as it's been in decades, we've had more interesting individual stages, especially throughout the earlier parts of the stages too.
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qirex posted:Compared to tours where the gaps in the GC were closer so one team sat on the front of every mountain stage I like this one better. Compare to the Sky/Ineos train where there's 90 seconds between the top 5 but 3 and 4 were domestiques for the leader. At least a bunch of breakaways have succeeded. Yeah the biggest problem imo is that when the GC is close I think people get really defensive because losing 45 seconds will drop you from 2nd to 12th or something. I like an early TT to open things up.
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Also it doesn't hurt that there's now a new young Danish GC contender that's entered the scene. 
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COME PLAY WITH US
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qirex posted:Compared to tours where the gaps in the GC were closer so one team sat on the front of every mountain stage I like this one better. Compare to the Sky/Ineos train where there's 90 seconds between the top 5 but 3 and 4 were domestiques for the leader. At least a bunch of breakaways have succeeded. Agree with this. The last few stages have been quite interesting in the final few kms because noone is competing for yellow but there's been competition for the other podium spots. It has been dull in parts but the fact that it's a different dynamic to previous years means different tactics from the teams which has kept it fresh. Feels Villeneuve posted:Design of the last two stages was poor too. Flat start makes it harder for a quality group to get away and force a hard chase like in the Alps. Stages with an early climb in the start or at least the first half are much cooler but for some reason the Tour is obsessed with that "flat start, two HC climbs to finish" parcours Also agree with this though. All the action has been happening much later in the stages giving less time for interesting chases.
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Jul 15, 2021 23:13
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I think the flat start thing was to try to get more meaningful sprints on mountain stages so Sagan couldn't get all the points but it turns out that wasn't necessary, they just needed Caleb Ewan.
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Jul 15, 2021 23:26
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They have flat starts so the publicity caravan can parade around throwing out branded poo poo
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qirex posted:I think the flat start thing was to try to get more meaningful sprints on mountain stages so Sagan couldn't get all the points but it turns out that wasn't necessary, they just needed Caleb Ewan. Misread your post but yeah you barely see this kind of sprint point anymore 
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Jul 16, 2021 03:12
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tylertfb posted:Colbrelli: "Haters abound" It was Movistar who phoned it in. They're not even top 5 on team ranking, jeez. StarkingBarfish posted:Cav made it with 7 minutes to spare. If Declercq drops out, we could see Cav be Lantern Rouge and Green Jersey and 35 wins in the same tour.
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Jul 16, 2021 11:33
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One last De Gendt breakaway, please! 
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Jul 16, 2021 11:33
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Such a tiny gap, and it's not smoothly growing.
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Jul 16, 2021 13:48
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How does he always get the hair poking out of his helmet so perfectly?
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Jul 16, 2021 14:17
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Guess Cav's not winning today with that break.
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Jul 16, 2021 14:21
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The break nicely kills off the points. Paris in green for 35 would be plenty good enough.
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Jul 16, 2021 14:35
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Jul 16, 2021 14:39
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What a dud of a stage. The commentators on the stream I'm watching are chatting about accounting.
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Jul 16, 2021 14:43
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At least it’s spicing up
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Via the guardian live feed: Following Wednesday’s stage 17, Philippe Gilbert (Lotto Soudal) was riding back down the Col de Portet, when he saw a cyclo-tourist lose it on a corner and crash into a ravine. Gilbert, along with Chris Froome and Chris Juul-Jensen, stopped to help and to raise the alarm. “I lost almost twenty minutes to help this man! We called for help because he was still badly messed up,” Gilbert told Belgian broadcaster RTBF, via cyclingnews.com. Fair play.
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