Brilliant ride from Alaphilippe there and that'll give him the yellow jersey.
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Ah, that was brilliant. First bit I've watched live this Tour and very exciting.Last edited by Ray de Galles; 08-07-2019, 15:04.
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He laid the foundations of his win last year by gaining small chunks of time over Froome in the opening week, so he'll know about the potential implications of conceding that time.
That said, he was still the third GC rider to cross the line with only Pinot and Bernal ahead. Movistar's highest finisher today was Landa in 29th.
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Yeah, that was by no means a disaster for Thomas. It just gives Bernal even more momentum which, as the Tour de Suisse winner, he already had rather a lot of.
Not a lot going on today at the moment except to note that the guy doing the live text updates for CyclingNews keeps referring to QuckStep. Old habits die hard but you'd expect a website dedicated to one sport to be able to get the lead sponsor of a franchise right...
Also I love saying 'Deceuninck'.
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It's CyclingNews, so, no, I wouldn't. The most exciting thing to happen was two blokes jumping into a paddling pool.
Think Groenewegen will struggle with that last climb today - he was one of the first to be dropped yesterday and looks to be still struggling from the crash on the first day. They had a finish in Nancy in 2014 and used this climb followed by another 4th cat that isn't in use today. That was all hard enough for all the pure sprinters to be dropped (some of them lost 12 minutes) and Trentin won on that occasion.
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Can I ask a dumb question - the race radios allow communication between individual riders on a team and between riders and the team car, yes? Would they allow communication with someone in a central base watching TV pictures too?
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Team cars contain small screen TVs, although the quality of the picture can vary depending on geography. They wouldn't be able to contact a central location on the radio - they have a frequency over too short a range. Riders disappear out of network in mountain stages - you occasionally see pictures of riders in the gruppetto with their earpieces out as they're no longer in broadcast range. There's nothing to stop the team car phoning someone watching the pictures on the team bus / at the team headquarters.
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