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Monday 7: 13:10β13:25 β 17:15-17:40
Another climb of Mount Cassel, but again 30 km from the finish line. Therefore it should end up with a bunch sprint, among a bunch perhaps reduced by echelons.
I find Roglitch strangely detached. I also noted this 'zen' appearance on the Giro (between two crashes). Has he planned to retire soon?
"Why not, eh?"
I see the peloton was reading my comments before the stage. Thanks for keeping it as boring as possible today chaps, I'll be drifting off to sleep in no time!
And as often on the most boring stages, there are terrible crashes.
As long as tour organisers will keep on designing stages for sprinters only, it will be so.
Seems like a decent early night stage, although the sprints could be interesting after the "drama" yesterday.
Yeah, that was fun - getting so worked up over an intermediate sprint. Didn't even seem like anyone did anything dangerous, yet two different arguments came from it.
Anyway, I also expect this to be a prette straight forward sprint finish.
Makes me think maybe some of the sprinters are still quite frustrated after the opening stage, which is why I feel like they will be desperate for a result here.
I agree, they absolutely will not let this stage get away from them. I wonder what the finish is like, if it's technical and could get dangerous.
Edit: Apparently it's a straight run-in followed by a sharp turn 1500 meters from the finish line, then softly undulating 6 m wide roads through the city and a soft curve onto the 200 meter straight flat sprint. Should be pretty safe - but sometimes those "safe" finishes end up being the most dangerous of them all because everyone wants to be in position.
Yeah, that was fun - getting so worked up over an intermediate sprint. Didnβt even seem like anyone did anything dangerous, yet two different arguments came from it.
It happened several 100 metres before, in the sprint preparation, when they were trying to get positions: Girmay went to 'hit' Milan because the latter was sitting in the former's train. But the bleeding TV director stayed for an hour on the breakaway instead of showing the bunch's sprint preparation and launching, so no viewer could see it on the main stream.
I don't know about Coquard vs PenhoΓ«t. But arguments rarely come up for no reason, and when the recipient of a barney/insults doesn't answer and keeps a low profile, it generally means that he knows he was guilty of something.