Le Tour

GiantOuchMyShin wrote:

It sounds like the stage is going to be shortened tomorrow owing to the landslide

Stage 20 route change, landslide blocks the Cormet de Roselend. Route could still start in Albertville but take main valley road to Moûtiers, skipping Cormet and the Col du Tra https://t.co/qv72ccFKJ0

— the Inner Ring (@inrng) July 26, 2019

A partir d’Albertville , la course empruntera la N90 pour se rendre directement à Moutiers et reprendre le parcours final de l’étape au rond-point N90 – D915 soit à 36 km de l’arrivée.
Le départ sera donné à Albertville à 14h30 pour une distance totale de 59 km.

— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 26, 2019

 

 

Yes, only one climb to cope with tomorrow.

What a sad way to finish the race. Although Stage 21 is pretty sad in its own way.

Pretty much no chance to make a big difference now.

Dr Winston wrote:

11waterloo wrote:

Aside from the general chaos (wouldn’t be the TdF without some nonsense), the ‘Pinot Problem’ rears it’s head (if only it was as simple as Noir vs Grigio this evening!) Do we use a transfer we weren’t expecting tomorrow or just suck it up? 

Wishing I hadn’t wasted one on Nibali for the Tourmalet now…….

You absolutely use one. Pinot to a climber tomorrow or Pinot to a sprinter tomorrow. If you prefer to stick to your original plan of using what transfers you have left on the sprinters then you may as well. bring him in early and get the pts from the Green jersey rankings.

I’ll be bringing in a climber….

Thats my plan but the sprint is after 11 pretty flat km tomorrow & Viviani has to win that to have any chance…..19 points bagged early in stage is tempting 

11waterloo wrote:

11waterloo wrote:

Aside from the general chaos (wouldn’t be the TdF without some nonsense), the ‘Pinot Problem’ rears it’s head (if only it was as simple as Noir vs Grigio this evening!) Do we use a transfer we weren’t expecting tomorrow or just suck it up? 

Wishing I hadn’t wasted one on Nibali for the Tourmalet now…….

Dr Winston wrote:

Wow….never seen this before. Race finished as at the top of the last climb completed. Dear god….gonna be some really angry folk tonight.

If they keep the results the same as the provisional ones, I will be angry.

Uran and Landa passed the summit in the same group as Thomas but they have Uran 2:30 back and Landa nowhere.

No stage winners or most

No stage winners or most aggresive rider, but GC times will be taken from the top of the Col de l’Iseran.

So we’ll score the climbs as normal, including the Iseran, and the sprint, then the jerseys on top of that. No stage score, no aggresive rider or last rider, and no assist points.

jollygoodvelo wrote:

What an incredible stage.

Never mind the French broken hearts 😉 – I wanted to see Simon Yates get his hat-trick!

If there is officially a ‘no-result’ tonight and last night’s timings stand, do we get today’s transfers back?  Is there a precedent?

Still can’t see any timings so I assume if they can’t do it then surely they just rewind.  They can’t guess the gaps and being as it’s quite tight what on earth can they do?

PCS had a race finish listed but have now withdrawn it.

The latest thinking is for timings to stand but no race places and no stage winner….they just need some timings now. 

Plans to take the race finish

Plans to take the race finish at the top of the col d’Isaran in doubt as no timing device up there. May be this stage could be scratched completely.