Velogames Tour de France 2021 🇫🇷 🇫🇷🚴🏻 - (May Contain Spoilers )

Also interesting to see this table stat.

No of riders within 5 30 of the leader after Week 1 of the TdF

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dooderooni said:
I went for MvP despite knowing he would pull out. I just had the feeling he was going to go big at least once.
I've also got my first points from Cosnefouy courtesy of O'Connor winning the stage :)
If you don't have Pog then you are knackered.
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Ive got Pogacar and im still second bottom. Saying that ive got Tao Geoghegan Hart on 6 points and Boassen Hagan on zero. :(
 
I was away over the weekend, so have missed out on seeing the coverage. The race for the Yellow jersey looks like it will be the least exciting one for a very long time.

I also have the same concerns that lots of overs have. I love the TDF but it's hard to not be skeptical with this sport.

Anyway, can Cav keep hold of the green jersey - can he finish the race?
 
The rest day might have come at a good time for Cav after 2 very hard stages.
Like Sagan, he'll have to manage those days in the mountains timewise, but I think he can make it to Paris which will mean he's in contention.
That's why I tend to stick to Sagan in the Tour as he might not be as fast as others, but he can survive the big climbs.
Overall, I see the winner having Pog and the best of those who take the opportunity for stage wins rather than those that just hang in on GC with little chance of making the podium. It could be exciting watching the battle for stage wins.
 
dooderooni said:
The rest day might have come at a good time for Cav after 2 very hard stages.
Like Sagan, he'll have to manage those days in the mountains timewise, but I think he can make it to Paris which will mean he's in contention.
That's why I tend to stick to Sagan in the Tour as he might not be as fast as others, but he can survive the big climbs.
Overall, I see the winner having Pog and the best of those who take the opportunity for stage wins rather than those that just hang in on GC with little chance of making the podium. It could be exciting watching the battle for stage wins.
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Cav wins again. (y)
 
If he can get through the Pyrenees, but first there's the little matter of a double ascension of the Ventoux tomorrow - and the weather forecast is bad.
 
It's a big test today for Cav. He's already been out the back with a fairly frantic start to create the break. Losing so many sprinters might work against him today, there could be a smaller autobus. Keeping fingers crossed.
 
Several abandons already and some with the heat. Voekler hasn't said that Cav's one of those suffering badly, yet, but another brit Dan McClay is in a bad way.
EDIT Voeckler does the motorbike job on FR3s coverage.
 
Personally I'd rather he just equal it. As much as I love Cav, Merckx was such an exceptional athlete, and I'm old enough to have been around in his prime that I'd like his name to be still up there.
 
pierrequiroule said:
Personally I'd rather he just equal it. As much as I love Cav, Merckx was such an exceptional athlete, and I'm old enough to have been around in his prime that I'd like his name to be still up there.
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I appreciate that view although my romantic leaning towards Mercx is tempered by the fact that he tested positive at least 4 times... He got kicked out of a Giro d'Italia (while leading for 16 stages in '69), after winning Lombardia in '73, at Fleche Wallone in '75, then in '77 for amphetamines.

So four positives tests over 8 years, in a time when testing was in its infancy.
 
In his defence, everybody took amphetamines in those days including our beloved Tom Simpson. They needed them just to survive as they had none of the care and relative pampering of today's riders.
 
Sagan abandons as a result of an injury sustained in the crash with Ewan. Not the best news to get as I drag myself out of bed following night shift
😞
 
The loss of Sagan was softened for me by the Nils Politt win. And the fact that I am 31st overall in the Velogames Tripple Crown competition
 
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