July 1, 20223 yr Honored to get to start a thread. Watching the time trial right now. Pouring rain. I'm lucky because, as a teacher, I'm always off this time of year and have plenty of time to enjoy the race. 7 Americans in this year. I'm not sure if any of them are anything other than domestiques, but I'm curious as to if Jumbo would designate Kuss as the leader if something happened to Roglic.
July 1, 20223 yr The Tour gets me through the dogs days of summer. Can't wait for the hilly and mountain stages starting on 7/5.
July 1, 20223 yr The first day of the tour is always a great day. Vingegaard is their other gc contender. They'd both have to go down for kuss to get the love.
July 2, 20223 yr Wasn't clear on the broadcast, did Uran's group catch back up down the bridge totally on their own, or did the peloton slow to allow them back in? Got a Talladega, but bummed that we won't have Adam Blythe's humor on the motorbike.
July 5, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, Whitewater Horn said: Got damn, Wout! Well done, JV. I was just coming to post the same thing. That was a hell of a finish by him. So good.
July 5, 20223 yr On 7/1/2022 at 6:59 PM, mdmost said: The Tour gets me through the dogs days of summer. Can't wait for the hilly and mountain stages starting on 7/5. What about baseball? . . . 😂🤣😅 Edited July 5, 20223 yr by Napoleon
July 5, 20223 yr 16 minutes ago, Napoleon said: What about baseball? . . . 😂🤣😅 Rangers fan. Baseball kills my will to live during July as we're already 30 games out.
July 5, 20223 yr 50 minutes ago, mdmost said: Rangers fan. Baseball kills my will to live during July as we're already 30 games out. Rangers fan (I guess) as well. Saw Nolan’s 7th no-hitter from start to finish from the front 10 rows of the outfield and watched Juan González hit 4 dingers in a ~20-4 first home night game of the season back in ‘91 or so… But baseball is mind-numbingly boring until the playoffs. 162 fucking games just to get to the games that actually matter…
July 5, 20223 yr Was a hoping a trailing domestique would stop and go all Joey Chestnut on those idiot fans that released that cloud of yellow dust into the peloton. Can't understand Nicolas Roche half the time with his low mumbling.
July 6, 20223 yr This route seems really terrible. Cobbles in one part, dirt path on the other. Spectators get a face full of dirt. Edited July 6, 20223 yr by mdmost
July 6, 20223 yr 12 minutes ago, mdmost said: This route seems really terrible. Cobbles in one part, dirt path on the other. Spectators get a face full of dirt. By terrible I assume you mean awesome.
July 6, 20223 yr Thank God for the tour de France. I pity the people who have to go through July sportsless.
July 6, 20223 yr Pogacar is just right there, lurking. Hopefully we get some good mountain finishes on Friday and Sunday like we had last year.
July 6, 20223 yr Pogacar is just toying with folks. At the appropriate time, he will simply ride off from the group.
July 7, 20223 yr Yesterday’s stage was so good. I watched the replay last night. Absolute chaos for everyone but Pogacar. And a terrible day for Jumbo-Vism. Really sucks for Roglic, dislocated shoulder. https://www.velonews.com/events/tour-de-france/tour-de-france-primoz-roglic-suffers-dislocated-shoulder/
July 7, 20223 yr I was just coming to ask if he can hang on to this lead today. RIght now 55 second lead with 21.7 KM to go.
July 7, 20223 yr Not sure if he can hang on, but the end of this stage has 3 or 4 climbs in a row, so who knows. Edited July 7, 20223 yr by tx ind
July 7, 20223 yr Nah, he's not going to do it. It's starting to get touchy out there now. Let's see if we can see Powless take Yellow today.
July 7, 20223 yr Lulz, Roglic tried to take it and then looked like he was standing still when Pogacar blew by him.
July 7, 20223 yr 39 minutes ago, TexPx said: Me neither. Yep, barring a disaster of some sort, the Tour is over.
July 7, 20223 yr Hard to understand what Van Aert was thinking. He should have stayed with the peloton. He'd still be in yellow. He lost more than seven minutes today. Mad respect for Roglic out there with a dislocated shoulder. Holy crap that's got to hurt. Edited July 7, 20223 yr by Hornius Emeritus
July 7, 20223 yr 3 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said: Hard to understand what Van Aert was thinking. He should have stayed with the peloton. He'd still be in yellow. He lost more than seven minutes today. Mad respect for Roglic out there with a dislocated shoulder. Holy crap that's got to hurt. He dropped on purposed to give TJV tactical flexibility going forward. He wasn't going to be in yellow up Planche de Belles Filles
July 8, 20223 yr Another good day for Neilson Powless. I can see why Beano Cook predicted he'd win 2 TdF's.
July 8, 20223 yr 10 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said: Hard to understand what Van Aert was thinking. He should have stayed with the peloton. He'd still be in yellow. He lost more than seven minutes today. Mad respect for Roglic out there with a dislocated shoulder. Holy crap that's got to hurt. Pogacar humiliated Jumbo today. I think the Van Aert side show will always cost Jumbo any chance at the yellow jersey. What the fuck is Jumbo thinking coming in trying to protect 2 riders AND chase the green jersey…..AND spend all their energy trying to get WVA into that pointless break today. Jumbo needs to focus the strongest team in the world on one thing if they want to win the tour - beating Pogacar. They still might not be able to because Pogacar is one of the best talents ever to come along, but they sure won’t be able to with the poor team management. Jumbo must have realized they can’t beat Pogacar, so now they are just using WVA for all the exposure they can get.
July 8, 20223 yr 44 minutes ago, clapclapclap said: Another good day for Neilson Powless. I can see why Beano Cook predicted he'd win 2 TdF's. LOL - Nielson is great, but he’s not winning 2 tours anytime soon. UAE may “give” him the jersey tomorrow just so that they don’t have to deal with it, but it will be taken back in cruel fashion later on in the race.
July 8, 20223 yr 6 hours ago, Horn Dogg said: Jumbo needs to focus the strongest team in the world on one thing if they want to win the tour - beating Pogacar. They still might not be able to because Pogacar is one of the best talents ever to come along, but they sure won’t be able to with the poor team management. I mean that's all great in theory, but it requires being able to have someone crack Pog. The fundamentals really haven't changed for Jumbo. Either Vinegaard can break him in the high mountains or he can't, that's basically it. Jumbo driving a train up the mountain isn't going to do anything because it won't stretch Pog in the least.
July 8, 20223 yr I can't tell if he let up to let Pogacar win or if Pogacar just muscled his way through.
July 8, 20223 yr Aww poor Kamna. Vinegaard looked better than I anticipated. Yates much worse. Bummed for Nairoman.
July 8, 20223 yr 3 minutes ago, mdmost said: I can't tell if he let up to let Pogacar win or if Pogacar just muscled his way through. Pogacar muscled his way to the win. Vingegaard wanted and needed that time bonus.
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