Tour de France 2021

[Hot Flatus]

Fucking hell!

[andyoxon]

   Bad one.

[quixoticgeek]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

J

[andyoxon]

What a finish!   

[quixoticgeek]

I wonder how many people won't be on the start line tomorrow...

J

[Mr Larrington]

I'll be surprised if Froome is there.

[Hot Flatus]

He finished the stage though

[Beardy]

I missed the crash. And the finish. Crash because I’d stepped away for domestique duties and finish because I had to go and get the Mighty Mo from hospital. 

[Mr Larrington]

He finished the stage though

14 minutes down and looking a bit part-worn though.

[Hot Flatus]

Yes, but somehow I don't think he turned up to win

[Mr Larrington]

I wonder how many people won't be on the start line tomorrow...

J

Tour webby SCIENCE is showing Ignatas Konovalovas, Jasha Sütterlin and Cyril Lemoine as having abandoned today.

[sizbut]

He finished the stage though

Can't work out why though. He's already achieved his objective of denying someone else a place. Only some contractual deal and absolute disregard for other teammates can explain why he thought he would be any value to the team.

[Salvatore]

I wonder how many people won't be on the start line tomorrow...

J

Tour webby SCIENCE is showing Ignatas Konovalovas, Jasha Sütterlin and Cyril Lemoine as having abandoned today.

Add Marc Soler to the list

Selon le média espagnol Cope, fracture de la main pour Marc Soler, arrivé dernier de l'étape du jour. Pas d'opération mais il ne prendra pas le départ de la deuxième étape du Tour de France demain et laissera son équipe Movistar à 7. Déjà un quatrième abandon.

[spesh]

Starts with a bang too

Several, as it turned out.

[giropaul]

A couple of ex-riders are of the opinion that disc brakes don’t help in situations like this - riders grab a handful of brake and go over the bars.
The film might seem to bear this out.

[Solocle]

A couple of ex-riders are of the opinion that disc brakes don’t help in situations like this - riders grab a handful of brake and go over the bars.
The film might seem to bear this out.

You can grab a handful and go over the bars just as easily with rim brakes. I'm generally pretty good st modulating my disc braking- e.g the pedestrian who stepped out into the cycle lane from in front of a bus in the traffic lane - I stopped right at her feet, but now vertically positioned above my front wheel.

Sometimes a crash is inevitable.

[andyoxon]

I hope she is held to account for that.

Being sued...  https://today.rtl.lu/sport/international/a/1745122.html

[rafletcher]

He finished the stage though

Can't work out why though. He's already achieved his objective of denying someone else a place. Only some contractual deal and absolute disregard for other teammates can explain why he thought he would be any value to the team.

So, what’s your issue with Froome?

[Mrs Pingu]

I hope she is held to account for that.

Being sued...  https://today.rtl.lu/sport/international/a/1745122.html

I'm not sure that is going to help.
Sure, these types of people need a bit of reeducating with a clue x 4 but I don't think a giant organisation suing a punter is the way to go.

[Mr Larrington]

I hope she is held to account for that.

Being sued...  https://today.rtl.lu/sport/international/a/1745122.html

From that it seems Hirschi, who did plenty of good Stuffs last year, also got banged up quite badly.  He finished 18 minutes down, on his own and ahead only of Soler.

[bobb]

A couple of ex-riders are of the opinion that disc brakes don’t help in situations like this - riders grab a handful of brake and go over the bars.
The film might seem to bear this out.

Ex-riders would say that though wouldn't they? Obviously everything was better in their day 

[quixoticgeek]

Marc Soler broke both arms today. And finished the stage.

https://twitter.com/lauracwinter/status/1408893659727208450

J

[Pingu]

Ouch. That's more than the average number of arms 

[spesh]

Ouchie...

DNF: Jasha Sütterlin (Team DSM) - hematoma to the hand
DNF: Ignatas Konovalovas (Groupama-FDJ) - head trauma
DNF: Cyril Lemoine (B&B Hotels-KTM) - broken ribs, punctured lung, cut on scalp
DNS stage 2: Marc Soler (Movistar) - fractured radius, left and right, fractured ulna
Aurelien Paret-Peintre (AG2R Citroën) - contusion to left knee
Ben O'Connor (AG2R Citroën) - 10 stitches on left forearm
Dorion Godon (AG2R Citroën) - road rash
Benoit Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroën) - road rash, stitches on right arm
Nans Peters (AG2R Citroën) - bruised shoulder, road rash
Michaël Schär (AG2R Citroën) - neck pain
Kristian Sbaragli (Alpecin-Fenix) - stitches on lower lip
Tim Merlier (Alpecin-Fenix) - contusions on knees
Dan McLay (Arkea-Samsic) - back pain
Clément Russo (Arkea-Samsic) - thoracic trauma
Amund Grøndahl Jansen (BikeExchange) - lumbar trauma, stitches on right elbow
Jesús Herrada (Cofidis) - contusion to hip
Pierre-Luc Périchon (Cofidis) - contusion to right calf
Dries Devenyns (Deceuninck-Quickstep)
Søren Kragh Andersen (DSM)
Casper Pedersen (DSM) - stitches
Chris Froome (Israel Start-Up Nation) - hip and thoracic trauma
Reto Hollenstein (Israel Start-Up Nation) - thoracic trauma
Mike Teunissen (Jumbo-Visma) - road rash, trauma to elbow, hip
Marc Hirschi (UAE Team Emirates) - separated shoulder

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/21-riders-injured-in-tour-de-france-opening-stage-crashes/

Kruijswijk got to the finish minus a seat stay: https://twitter.com/thijszonneveld/status/1408807349649874946

[Mr Larrington]

Paret-Peintre crashed on his own much earlier in the stage.  If he got caught up in one or more of the big ones too that might be accounted unfortunate.