Yup - they showed as much as they could live (French telly didn't broadcast the first 20k) and they normally give it the first quarter of the highlights show.
Been looking at Alaphilippe's previous record in the Tour mountains. He's certainly got climbing ability - last year he won two mountain stages (in valley towns) and several other days got in the break, hoovered up the early KoM points and then sat up. He'd fallen out of GC contention by losing 12 minutes on the cobbles to Roubaix. Injured in 2017 so didn't take part. In 2016 he got in a couple of mountain moves that stuck and finished high up - on the last day to Morzine he finished 4th behind Ion Izagirre, Pantano (um) and Nibs. So there's some track record there. Question is as to how much remains in reserve, he's not been conserving energy this first couple of weeks.
Been looking at Alaphilippe's previous record in the Tour mountains. He's certainly got climbing ability - last year he won two mountain stages (in valley towns) and several other days got in the break, hoovered up the early KoM points and then sat up. He'd fallen out of GC contention by losing 12 minutes on the cobbles to Roubaix. Injured in 2017 so didn't take part. In 2016 he got in a couple of mountain moves that stuck and finished high up - on the last day to Morzine he finished 4th behind Ion Izagirre, Pantano (um) and Nibs. So there's some track record there. Question is as to how much remains in reserve, he's not been conserving energy this first couple of weeks.
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