Today’s finish has a bit of an incline, ~2.5%, is this enough to level the playing for Sagan? Can he come around a Greipel or a Cavendish at full gallop?
Apparently not
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Apparently not
uhh
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right, it’s hard to contest a sprint when sitting on the ground.
Best save of the day goes to AG avoiding Tyler. Very impressive finish.
edit: I’m assuming the title includes an implicit spoiler alert.
Seems to be a common issue this year for a lot of riders
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Hate to say it but Farrar has a lot of work to do. sprinting always has an element of luck in the final run up, but if farrar couldn’t beat Greipel after that crash where Farrar was’t effected and greipel lost a bunch of places it isn’t going to happen.
Best save of the day goes to AG avoiding Tyler. Very impressive finish.
Unbelievable!
What stage are you talking about?
Hate to say it but Farrar has a lot of work to do. sprinting always has an element of luck in the final run up, but if farrar couldn’t beat Greipel after that crash where Farrar was’t effected and greipel lost a bunch of places it isn’t going to happen.
Maybe we watched a different race. I saw Farrar sitting on the road, then rolling in 7 minutes after the finish bloodied.
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Also, it looked like the crash was totally Farrar’s fault. He tried to stick his front wheel where it didn’t belong, when he wasn’t able to muscle Sagan over, his poor position was exposed. Better luck next time.
Might of been mistaken, who was the guy near Greipel that was bumped and rode on. I thought it was Farrar, but it sounds like he went down. Still greipel made an amazing recovery.
Hate to say it but Farrar has a lot of work to do. sprinting always has an element of luck in the final run up, but if farrar couldn’t beat Greipel after that crash where Farrar was’t effected and greipel lost a bunch of places it isn’t going to happen.
Maybe we watched a different race. I saw Farrar sitting on the road, then rolling in 7 minutes after the finish bloodied.
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Also, it looked like the crash was totally Farrar’s fault. He tried to stick his front wheel where it didn’t belong, when he wasn’t able to muscle Sagan over, his poor position was exposed. Better luck next time.It looked to me like his front wheel got chopped by the rider in front moving to the right. Tyler appeared to be holding his line. That’s what happens when you have no support.
"Asked about his muscles, Greipel says he doesn’t do any weight training, "
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Compared to the other sprinters he looks like a Gorilla but he’s the same weight as me at 165lbs. He might have less fat than me though 
Compared to the other sprinters he looks like a Gorilla but he’s the same weight as me at 165lbs. He might have less fat than me though
His quads are the size of my torso.
Yet I bet many of the components on his bike are “not stiff enough” for many triathlete who “like to grind up the hills pretty hard”
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Pettachi (or another Lampre, but I think it was Petacchi) moved over on Farrar and took him down.
Unlucky, but he’s unlucky a lot. I think he’s timid demeanor invites getting pushed around. Do you think Pettachi would have moved in on Cavendish?
or maybe he isn’t timid enough?
or maybe just not quick enough with the reflexes.
who knows, I can never make sense of those mad men =)
Pettachi (or another Lampre, but I think it was Petacchi) moved over on Farrar and took him down.
Unlucky, but he’s unlucky a lot. I think he’s timid demeanor invites getting pushed around. Do you think Pettachi would have moved in on Cavendish?
My thoughts:
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Why were the commentators not mentioning the rider who moved right and took out Tyler? Tyler and someone else were rubbing elbows but that wasn’t what caused the accident.
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AG going around Tyler was incredible. However, in doing so he took two other riders out of the race! What’s race etiquette say here? It’s OK to swerve to avoid a crash and save your race even if it means taking out others?
EDIT: And yeah I think Sagan might have one if he hadn’t been busy eating pavement.
- AG going around Tyler was incredible. However, in doing so he took two other riders out of the race! What’s race etiquette say here? It’s OK to swerve to avoid a crash and save your race even if it means taking out others? //
You cannot be serious…That or you have never ridden in a group and had to avoid a crash. Tyler caused the crash because he was leaning towards someone that was not giving him his body to support him fully. While in that lean, he was unable to control his bike in this high speed lead up, and just the light touch of his wheel sent him to the ground instantly. He had no control of his bars because of this lean. Now AG was right behind and next to all this, had to react in a split second without thought,(it is instinct at this point) and you somehow think he should have just plowed straight into the crash and take it like a man?? He did exactly what anyone would do, you swerve to avoid as much as you can, he got thrown onto another guy, used his years of experience as a sprinter to keep the bike upright, had to pull both feet out to keep that balance, and then was strong enough to clip both back in, ride to the front, and then win the sprint against the best sprinters in the world.
It was the greatest recovery and eventual win i have ever witnessed or heard about. He did exactly what anyone should have done, or could have done. Questioning him riding for his own survival is just silly, he had no choice whatsoever.