>The rollercoaster run into Colmar begins with the second-category ascent to the spectacular, medieval Haut Koenigsbourg castle. The close combination of the second-cat Côte des Trois-Épis and the third-cat Côte des Cinq Châteaux will have more of a winnowing effect, leaving the hilly Classics specialists in the peloton's vanguard with the GC contenders tracking them closely, but holding resources back until the far tougher stage through the Vosges to the summit finish at La Planche des Belles Filles tomorrow. >Coming off the last climb, the breakaway, if it's still clear, or the lead group will have 10 kilometres to cover into the finish.
*** Maximilian Schachmann, Greg Van Avermaet, Wout Van Aert ** Peter Sagan, Michael Matthews, Niki Terpstra, Jasper Stuyven * Oliver Naesen, Alessandro de Marchi, Sonny Colbrelli, Caleb Ewan
Deceuninckwinslol. Even eternal choker Viviani can do it, his first stage win in the TDF and he joins the elite group of riders who have won stages in the three Grand Tours. Luckily he will be shit again next year, the rumors are he will be joining Cofidis. Sam Bennett will replace him at DCQ.
Today will be a very interesting stage, the peloton visits the beautiful region of Alsace, scenery will be kino. As we pass quintessential French towns as Kintzheim and Kaysersberg, Germans will seethe as always. This stage is made for a breakaway, but Alaphilippe will want to keep the yellow jersey so Deceuninck will chase. That can only be succesful if the breakaway consists of nobodys like the last few days, with a strong group there is no chance of controlling the race.
Classifications
1. Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) 14:41.39 2. Wout van Aert (Bel) 0.20 3. Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) 0.25 4. George Bennett (NZl) " 5. Michael Matthews (Aus) 0.40 6. Egan Bernal (Col) " 7. Geraint Thomas (GBr) 0.45 8. Enric Mas (Spa) 0.46 9. Greg van Avermaet (Bel) 0.51 10. Michael Woods (Can) "
Points: Peter Sagan Mountains: Tim Wellens Youth: Wout van Aert
Contenders today
Julian Alaphilippe 5.0 Peter Sagan 9.0 Michael Matthews 11.0 Maximillian Schachmann 13.0 Tim Wellens 15.0 Greg Van Avermaet 17.0 Alberto Bettiol 21.0 Wout Van Aert 23.0 Caleb Ewan 23.0 Matteo Trentin 26.0 Tiesj Benoot 26.0 Lilian Calmejane 26.0 Matej Mohoric 31.0 Alexey Lutsenko 31.0 Thomas de Gendt 31.0 Alejandro Valverde 31.0 Michael Valgren 31.0
How can you pretend to be a serious cyclist when everybody knows you're just a model used to generate money for the team. She can't even finish a race. Do w*men have no soul?
Wyatt Torres
>Who are all the nips and gooks riding for WT squads
that's a lot of DNF. does she crash or just give up? she doesn't seem too bad when she actually finishes. Also didn't realize she was only 23. she's been around for years
Brody Hernandez
Interesting stage. 2agan will be in the breakaway for points.
>be girl >have big milkers >ride with shirt open >wasp flies into your chest >gets stuck in your bra >stings your milkers Wouldn't want to experience that desu.
Dylan Robinson
Another team mate can suck her breast as quick feeding during stage
They are getting tailwind from about km 65 to 10 to go. Can imagine the average will be insane for this stage with half the bunch wanting to get in the break before that.
Logan Peterson
>Do w*men have no soul? You're finally beginning to understand.
Levi Anderson
Would have been nice with a few more riders in the tete de la course
Ryder Nelson
>wind down window >spray his face with bug repellent >wind window up
John Diaz
Würtz interview before today: >it shouldn't be some 3 rider group going, it won't last. Bora won't let them, there has to be atleast eight in the group for it to have a chance 5d chess
helicam was showing Natzweiler-Struthof camp one of the commentators went "lets hold a moment of silence for the victims"
William Hill
They rode past a concentration camp where over 20k died
William James
topkek
Eli Roberts
I like it. The tension the first 15 km and now a small breakaway which will hold until Koenigsbourg. Will be exciting to see what will happen then. Hopefully Alpha Philippe will keep the yellow
Christopher Martin
He's commenting for French tv, the guy is pretty funny.
WRONG, Armstrong had subaverage blood values so he profited more from EPO than naturally more gifted riders. Even fat Ulle would have beaten him without Doping
There is only one adbreak on TV2 because they have a short newscast halfway through the stage. I hate when I have to watch on tiz because of the constant breaks on eurosport even when they don't have any ads to show but just some awful compilation of unrelated sports. It's like they just want to harass the viewer.
Adrian Adams
also someone in the comments says that he started roiding already when he was still in high school, no wonder he had cancer this early then
Leo Bailey
Why does zoomer television always rely on b/c class celebrities? I don't care what Hjalmer thinks of the tour
What a little bitch, that room looks fine. It should be reinstated that riders have to weld their own forks and shit.
Gabriel Green
>A folk etymology, in contrast, holds that the mountain took its name from the time of the Thirty Years' War. According to legend, young women from Plancher-les-Mines fled into the mountains to escape Swedish mercenaries as they feared being raped and massacred. Rather than surrender, they decided to commit suicide and jumped into a lake far below. One of the soldiers then took a board on which, with his dagger, he engraved an epitaph for the "beautiful girls".
Ayden Bailey
Voor mij, is het de Plank van de Mooie Meisjes
Brayden Sanchez
>doing nothing and losing everything so a foreign rich bastard can enjoy your goods
Hudson Hall
This will be normal by 2050, get used to it dutchie.
I suppose we could say it's staged considering lots of effort go into preserving that appearance for tourism It's not a decoy but it's definitely made to look pretty nowadays
>comfortable bombing down mountains at +100 km/h on a bicycle with 23 mm tires wearing nothing more than spandex suit and a small helmet >scared of sitting on a large scooter at 40 km/h with proper helmet and much more clothing
Brody Thomas
Ah, the beautiful French castle of Le Chateau de Schlossberg
Juan Fisher
I saw some Les Inconnus stuff on YT like the Bioman, Terminator Jesus and Téléjournal Corse
Wiggins looked like he enjoyed it the other day compared to Contador.
Kayden Price
there's always some paperwork involved but it's not too bad
Henry Ward
When was this?
Dominic Hughes
Yes.
Michael Butler
Gruppetto time
Justin Nelson
Isn't that the point of the EU ?
Luke Lopez
i always go to alsace on holiday. so comfy bretange is also very nice
Nicholas Jackson
not much more paperwork than if you move inside your country
Joseph Gonzalez
Shame your IQ is two digits as well haha
Luis Lopez
Jewish tricks no doubt.
Kevin Brooks
2017
Gavin Long
Niederbergweyersbach
Logan Roberts
>going for polka dot in the first week low IQ move
Logan Miller
2017, I think? Same year as the smiley face and the Sagan elbow at least because they're all in that compilation
Logan Nguyen
le rasmussen face
Benjamin Williams
Ah, la Bretange...
Tyler Thompson
It depends entirely on the rider though, if I trust them then there's no problem being a passenger. If I don't then it feels like my death is imminent. I've slept for thousands of kilometers on the backseat of a motorcycle, just can't stay awake if I feel comfy with the rider and don't have to fear for my life.
Juan Bell
TOMS!!!!!!!!
Cameron Morgan
de gendt dropped
Luke Hill
oh yeah, winning easy money everyday, such a brainlet move
Nathaniel Ward
I seriously didn't knew that, have to look into that. I thought you had to live in the country.
Nicholas Sanchez
that too
Kevin James
Around 1500 euros per square meter, so not that expensive
Make sure to listen to the Johan Bruyneel podcast too. Lance is too lazy to do that one
Henry Foster
Allah-philip
Bentley Baker
based skujins potato pancakes are fucking good
Jose Lewis
Yeah, they didn't ask for a pro tour license next year and told the riders there wouldn't be contract extensions and they were free to look for another team. Right in the middle of the Tour, that's brutal news for the riders.
who here watches the tour to enjoy the landscapes? it's nice to see how real france looks like. my mother loves to watch it, she left france more than 30 years ago and this reminds her of the france she knew
Easton Jenkins
How is this legal lol?
Jaxon James
Kelderman doing a lot of work. Not going for GC at all?
Carter Gray
Absolutely smart.
Thomas Barnes
the tragedy of lance is that he would have gotten away with it if he wasn't such a huge asshole
there's a real life lesson in his story
Jackson Wood
If there is doping involved in his merch, i would buy it. Everyone does.
Gabriel Diaz
If it isn't blocked you can go
Bentley Peterson
the thing he did wrong wasn't the doping, it was so aggressively going after everyone who so much as hinted that he might be doping Plus he's just a dick in general
Jaxson Garcia
>When you've been playing too much CTR on the team bus
Luke Reyes
he absolutely bullied Simeoni
Lucas Flores
He actually got out of a FBI court case through political pull, then carried on fucking up his enemies. Pure snake.
Cameron James
you can clearly see the psychopath come through on the podcast from time to time
Jonathan Carter
The sponsors and broadcasters walking away was the real damage. Even amateur sponsors walked away because they didn't want their name connected to the sport. Every doper should be shot.
There's literally nothing to do while on the backseat. Combine with warm sunshine, constant mild wind noise and you've got conditions that are sleepy as fuck.
Jace Lewis
Beautiful French wood on those beautiful French Hansel and Gretel houses.
Logan Hughes
Imagine having this much talent and wasting your career being a domestique for climbers
You gotta chill, man. Where are these trust issues coming from?
Connor Scott
My grandmother used to watch the tour with an atlas to her side, watching the landscapes and following through the maps (she had placed stickers on the towns where we had family)
That's pretty cool. I used to watch it with my grandmother too.
She's the one who taught me to hate the Texan doper. We had no idea that our boy Ullrich was on gear as well though.
Adam Hill
*finishes 43rd in last year's Vuelta when team leader*
His bigger problem i think is that he is very good in classics season. Classics + one week stage races + helper in Tdf and vuelta imo is his ideal year planning
Jaxson Stewart
Yeah, this is kinda made for him
Ryder Morgan
someone stop this portos
Levi Lewis
*crack* *psshh* *sip* Aaaaaaaah, Rui Costa, now THAT was a World Champion
Both Pinot and Bardet are mediocre riders. The only Frenchman right now with the potential to be a Grand Tour winner is Alaphilippe, but of course he "isn't interested in the GC". If he trained for the Tour he could win it.
Planche as in plank, plank as in the gangplank or walking the plank.
Tyler Ross
I have some information that there will be a big Quintana attack tomorrow
Levi Perry
Everything in this post is wrong.
Hunter Edwards
Alaphillipe isn't interested because he knows he can't do it
wouldn't be surprised if Movistar tried some shenanigans
Jackson Gomez
Nah, he's afraid of the pressure. How can he say he "can't do it" after seeing both Big T and Geraint convert from TT specialist and domestique respectively into climbers?
Kayden Young
he has a pretty good thing going, i would be more afraid of fucking that up than the theoretical pressure of being a gc rider
James White
He's probably just saying that so he won't have to answer constant questions about it. He can and will do it.
Lincoln Allen
its like asking sagan to change to GC, why? He has dug out his niche and it works for him. why give up winning races to MAYBE have a chance to be a passable GC rider
Caleb Carter
Tommy Voeckler downplayed his chances of taking the GC despite holding the yellow for ages because he knew he wouldn't win.
I think you faggots are trying to read more into this than there actually is.
Evan Bennett
>good thing going If he wins the Tour he will go from being yet another successful cyclist à la Voeckler or Jalabert to being a national hero. Also it's not at all like Sagan. Sagan has specialised as a climber (more well-rounded than most, to be sure) who will never be able to win in the mountains any more. Alaphilippe has clearly shown on numerous occasions over the past few years that he can actually climb well, despite not even training specifically for it.
Jaxson Lewis
Voeckler had more chance than Alaphillipe ever will. Or they both had the same chance, 0%
Landon Cox
he won't win the tour though. he can climb a little bit but not day after day after day like is required from a gc guy
Kevin Torres
JA is a couple of Wiggo TUEs from being 2009 Contador imo
Juan Kelly
Bernal shall win this fuck
Kayden Brooks
imagine how wonderful it would be to have a likeable tdf winner with charisma. None of the tdf winners have been slightly liekable, apart from Geraint who has the personality of wallpaper.
The sport needs another evans, froome, "wiggo" like it needs a kick in the balls
>he can climb a little bit but not day after day after day like is required from a gc guy He totally can, he wouldn't have been able to win 2 mountain stages last year otherwise. The thing is fighting for the maillot à pois is not the same job as fighting for the maillot jaune, I think he has was it takes to secure it in mountain stages.
Owen Lee
kek
alright I missed the entire stage today, was it a good finish?
