Dutch cycling dominated the first weekend of the Tour. After the glorious sprint victory by Mike Teunissen, Jumbo-Visma has destroyed the field in the TTT, completely BTFOing the bad guys of Team INEOS. Today we leave Belgium with a hilly stage, an opportunity for the puncheurs. The final 500m in Épernay will be climbing at 8%, probably too much for the fastest guys.
Jersey wearers
Yellow: Mike Teunissen Green: Mike Teunissen (worn by Peter Sagan) Polkadot: Greg van Avermaet White: Wout van Aert
Contenders today
Sagan, Peter 4.50 Alaphilippe, Julian 5.50 Van Aert, Wout 6.00 Ewan, Caleb 9.00 Matthews, Michael 12.00 Colbrelli, Sonny 18.00 Teunissen, Mike 23.00 Valverde, Alejandro 23.00 Van Avermaet, Greg 26.00 Trentin, Matteo 41.00
I honestly want the Tour to start in Norway sometime.
The tunnels through the fjords would make for meme climbs.
Julian Smith
can't wait for our Giro to start from Moscow
Cooper Jenkins
Could you imagine the tour starting with three mountain stages in Norway? I doubt they would ever start like that but it could be great to watch.
Blake Moore
Hot take from Slovenia. Roglič to sign for ICA and Tom Dumoulin to replace him at Jumbo. Any truth to this? If it is true does that mean ICA will be a world tour team?
Wyatt Young
>national tour this year there will be a new try after 10 years. and it's literally nothing, see pic related.
>this year ehh, last year. not that it matters somehow
Oliver Phillips
Could be true, Roglic seems like a guy who is interested in a lot of shekels, shitty team or not. And Tom is unhappy at Sunweb
Easton Brown
Didn't the Giro start in fucking Israel last year?
Ian Ortiz
Yeah it sucks, Deutschland Tour could be glorious
Easton Jackson
finally we outta b*lgium today
Gabriel Powell
Needs higher mountain stages. Any big mountains in Bavaria? Maybe team up with Austria and have some kino stages there too.
Isaac Gray
I remember reading somewhere that people in Germany stopped caring about cycling because of all the doping scandals. Is that true?
Rude and uncalled for. Belgium is nice.
Charles Mitchell
DEPART
Jason Peterson
yes
Ryan Brooks
IIRC the German media stopped covering the Tour outright
Lucas Clark
The opinion here is that Jumbo didn't think he would be this good when they signed him. Everyone was shitting on the team at the Giro saying Roglič deserved better. So if Israelis mean business then at least I hope they give him a team with which he can compete. He said that he wants to win the TdF next year.
Aaron Baker
i'd pay for (((jewrosportplayer))) but sadly they force nordic language commentary on you without english option for some fucking retarded reason
Julian Hughes
>I remember reading somewhere that people in Germany stopped caring about cycling because of all the doping scandals. Is that true? Yes, kind of. And the whole Ulle shit. The old Deutschland Tour were cancelled, and public broadcasters stopped tdf live coverage.
It should be named- Tour of Historical Nazi Germany. Have the stages finish at areas where there were significant Nazi happenings. Like the wolf's lair or Hitler's holiday chalet in Bavaria and have the last stage finish at the Berlin bunker. It's a shame Hitler and Nazis are seen as villains, it would be glorious.
James Sanders
Going from a meme team full of shitters to a competitive GC team in 1 year is never going to happen. Probably just another case of some guys who know nothing about cycling, just throw some money at it and hope it will be allright
Alexander Garcia
(You)
Charles Robinson
With how many WT riders from Denmark currently, and with us being a "cycling" nation it's a bit dissapointing that our biggest race is the Tour of Denmark which is mainly just PCT and national conti teams
The look of annoyance on those smug Ineos twats when they came second on the TTT will be tough to beat as a highlight.
John Cook
Our country is too small and way too flat to have any interesting stage races. But you could bribe someone in UCI to put GP Herning on the world tour lol.
Jonathan Evans
Yeah of course no huge stage races, but a one day race would be more than possible
Only rider besides Merckx to win the Triple Crown, and fathered current rider Nickels Roach
Logan Brooks
>tfw I live in Reims right next to a street that today's stage use >still going to watch it on TV instead of going outside >will do the same tomorrow for the stage start instead of walking 10 minutes This is the most patrician feeling.
I don't have eurosport. What's wiggins doing on the back of a motorbike?
Ayden Turner
too fat to ride regular bike
Ayden Morales
is he actually on the motorbike during the race?
Mason Green
yeah
Kayden Fisher
I think he might win the stage giving him 10 bonification seconds, but as long as Teunissen finishes within the first 15 (as WVA was 16th in the opening stage), he'll keep the jersey
Eli Bell
Yeah he's interviewing the teams in the cars and talking shite.
Camden Williams
Dreaming about Orla.
Isaac Morgan
Christ, he's embarrassing.
Do any of the teams, apart from ineos, tell him to fuck off?.
Quintana is currently 40 minutes ahead on a spectacular solo breakaway attack
Leo Brooks
hello incel
Ayden Hughes
Rest day for me.
Owen Murphy
>Jumbo-Visma: Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo – say Yumbo – is family owned and growing fast across the Netherlands to become one of the leading food retailers. It’s now expanding into Belgium. The supermarket’s payroll had been managed by a firm which was recently taken over by a Norwegian software and services firm called Visma… which has now come on board with the cycling team too after the connection was made at work.
Cycling must be the best value advertising you can get. >spending billions every year on ads for zoomers Just spend 20m on a cycling team pham
That is how much they spend in the US alone on advertising
Jace Turner
sure but i only have a mountain bike
where do you live
(no homo)
Mason Walker
mild chute
Kayden Taylor
CHUTE
Jonathan Martinez
All of what said
Lucas Anderson
>Team Ineos: after Sky was taken over by Comcast last year, the takeover led to a review and sponsor pulled out and the search was on for a new sponsor and ended with Ineos, a privately-owned British petrochemicals firm, buying the team. First created by Jim Ratcliffe mortgaging his house to buy up unloved chemicals factories from oil companies like BP and improving them to the point that the company is now involved in oil and gas extraction as it needs its own energy to power its plants around the world. Unless you’re in the market for a bulk delivery of, say, polyethylene, you can’t buy Ineos yourself and the sponsorship seems to be more about Ratcliffe, a sports fanatic and Britain’s third richest man, enjoying himself rather than a disciplined corporate marketing project.
Angel Smith
My bike doesn't have a pedal
Best region of the country to cycle, also god-tier accent
Hunter Jackson
*concernedly checks trips*
Chase Ortiz
based neetbro
Gavin Collins
wagie cope
Noah Jones
Who /n/ here? Got myself a Madone 4.5 a few years bike. Going to ride it this weekend again until the temperature reaches 100°+
Isaiah Cook
>wagie cope This isn't a real thing. Just a meme used by NEETs who are likely struggling to cope themselves.
Jonathan Scott
Probably because fat americans dont watch cycling
Eli Evans
one pint of beer at table 4, quick
James Martinez
That`s a classic beauty, very nice, I like.
Jordan Lopez
there are rumors that Quintana will attack today, is this true?
jealous of all my neet niggas out here living their best lives
James Scott
Any day now
Xavier Ramirez
>Deceuninck-Quickstep: Deceuninck is a Belgian maker of PVC windows and cladding, mainly for industrial and office buildings and has sales across Europe and North America, it’s on the Euronext stock exchange with a market value of €280 million today. Co-sponsor QuickStep may seem quintessentially Flemish but belongs to a company founded in Amsterdam… Amsterdam, New York called Mohawk Industries, a giant supplier of commercial and residential flooring. It all vibes construction sites which might explains the blue overalls team kit but Zdeněk Bakala is the majority owner and the Czech billionaire tops up the funding the team as well giving them a white collar touch.
The only thing he's going to attack is Wiggins on his moto trying to interview him.
Jace Cox
Nice 100 mile warmup before the hills. This is a good finish
>The final climb is out of the valley to Mutigny and a sharp ramp, just 900m but 12% and narrow too and with the 8-5-2 seconds time bonus. From the top there’s 16km to go, a quick descent through the vineyards before things calm down with wide and flat roads into Epernay
>with 5km to go there’s a stinker of a climb, it flicks off the main road into town to tackle a small lane that drags up before 700 of 8% which steepens just before the top and then chased by a steep and narrow descent into town. Here there’s 3km to go on boulevards as they circle town and, instead of finishing outside any of the elegant champagne houses, they head for a residential housing estate. It’s not as swank but it’s there’s logic, the road drags up under the flamme rouge before kicking up one last time to the line, first with a straight ramp of 6% and then after a right hand bend the road goes up then eases off, up then eases off, then up again like some infernal interval session with the final 300m at over 10%.
Retarded booking, sleep is important and Astana has enough money to choose a better location. At one point his roomate even had to sleep on a couch some months ago. I feel like there is still so much optimization potential in pro cycling compared to other sports
>Add a few hills >Countryside's immediately 10 times more charming
Crazy how nature does that
Oliver Rivera
>nietens
Noah Walker
Please explain, I don't understand
Joshua Foster
>aus commentary telling us not to sit on the top tube
lmao
Noah Kelly
I'm scared guys, I think Wellens can win
Jayden Davis
mountainlets will never know this feel
Logan James
There are many ways to keep it up. Put something under a locked pedal in the 6 o'clock position for the cleanest look. You can put a wheel stand at the front wheel if it doesn't need to be in the shot, etc.
And dropped out of the top 10 general classification table. I`ve given up on him years ago, he makes me want to rage. How can a top rider like him keep making the same mistakes year after year. I just don't get that guy at all. Anyway, Tejay is my new hero, he will win this Tour.
please does anyone know where i can download the stages of this year's tour? the guy who always uploads it on TPB uploaded the giro this year but has gone dark so far on the tour. help greatly appreciated, i need my daily stage!
Owen Williams
autism is no-one's fault. No bully pls
Asher Jones
is he ded?
Cameron Sanchez
Rev up your google translate and try this rutracker.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=262 Beware they have like 8 million stickies so the recent threads are below the fold.
