Tour de France 2020

[Mr Larrington]

Team DQS directeur sportif Tom Steels, of all people, should know what you can and can’t do with bottles near the end of a stage

[fd3]

Intentional shedding of yellow to save the team?

[Nick H.]

Now that Yates has yellow, Mitchelton-Scott should round up some Covid sufferers and send them to all the team hotels.

[Mr Larrington]

Sam Bennett says that DQS “could” be concentrating on the points competition.  Yeah, right.

[Nick H.]

Whoever has yellow needs to cling on to it - there's a very real chance the Tour won't make it to Paris.

[slugbait]

Whoever has yellow needs to cling on to it - there's a very real chance the Tour won't make it to Paris.

Unless the yellow has a commanding lead when the Tour is cancelled, he will never be seen as a proper Tour winner. Personally, I think they have to make it at least until Planche des Belles Filles before a winner can be declared.

[Mr Larrington]

Bora Hansgrohe doing their best to liven up what might otherwise have been a rather dull day

[spesh]

Bora Hansgrohe doing their best to brighten an otherwise dull afternoon

.. by re-enacting the Harvard Bard's "In Old Mexico" via the medium of interpretative dance.



The above may contain traces of LIE and FTFY.



Sorrynotsorry, but the original wording was just close enough that I couldn't resist.

[benborp]

Makes me wonder what is in Sandy Casar's trophy cabinet.

[slope]

Today's otherwise exciting stage up the Peyresourde must have been very scary for all the riders, with the manic dense crowds aggressively spreading any potential virus directly in the riders' faces

[Karla]

I suspect they were more worried about the crowds knocking them off.

[Mr Larrington]

They seemed fairly subdued by normal TdF mountain stage standards, or at least they didn’t appear to be lobbing distress flares or cups of piss.  Still, it's good* to see that the French gammonariat is just as thick as its rosbif counterpart.

* FSVO “good”

[Hot Flatus]

Pogacar set a new record for climbing the Peyresourde yesterday, apparently.

Beating Vino and Mayo's time 

Another early fail for Pinot. At least he is consistent. Bernal looked under pressure, Roglic looked in control.

[T42]

Pinot, yes. He went down in the wet during the first stage and someone ran into his lower back.  Not much fun.

[Mr Larrington]

At least we should be spared the Alaphilippe fanboism from the colemantators for a day or two.  Won't we?

[slope]

At least we should be spared the Alaphilippe fanboism from the colemantators for a day or two.  Won't we?

But Julian has such an entertaining dancing devil twitch, bien sur, surelize?

Anyway, Wout van Aert is the current fave pet of Mrs Millar and Boulting, who now call him WOW! van Aert.

[spesh]

At least we should be spared the Alaphilippe fanboism from the colemantators for a day or two.  Won't we?

Depends whether or not Begbie had a word.

"Keep singin' ma praises, else ya get a wee dose o' ma chib..."

[drgannet]

The end of the stage 9 yesterday was pretty exciting. Hirschi's descent is one of the best bits of racing I have seen in a long time.

[Mr Larrington]

TV's G Imlach said in tonight's highlights that Ineos and Astana have all tested negative for C19 but other teams, and the Tourganisation itself, have had some positive results

[Beardy]

TV's G Imlach said in tonight's highlights that Ineos and Astana have all tested negative for C19 but other teams, and the Tourganisation itself, have had some positive results

So the tour is done for another year then?

[T42]

The end of the stage 9 yesterday was pretty exciting. Hirschi's descent is one of the best bits of racing I have seen in a long time.

Helluva lot better than a bunch of thugs sprinting at the end of a long, flat, deadly stage.

[Mr Larrington]

TV's G Imlach said in tonight's highlights that Ineos and Astana have all tested negative for C19 but other teams, and the Tourganisation itself, have had some positive results

So the tour is done for another year then?

Still waiting for the results.  Nowt on letour.fr, but then it's a steaming pile of cack at the best of times.

[Salvatore]

From cyclingnews.com

L'Equipe has reported that no rider has tested positive for COVID-19 during the rest day of the Tour, but we are still awaiting official confirmation of that news from the UCI and ASO. The report does not specify whether any staff members returned positive tests.

Deceuninck-QuickStep have responded to reports that there had been a positive case among their staff. "As you will have seen, it has been reported that a member of our team staff was collected from our team hotel this morning. An error was made in the laboratory with the sample that the individual gave yesterday, meaning they were taken for restesting this morning. The result of this second test has been returned as negative and we will continue to race as normal."

[Beardy]

TV's G Imlach said in tonight's highlights that Ineos and Astana have all tested negative for C19 but other teams, and the Tourganisation itself, have had some positive results

So the tour is done for another year then?

Still waiting for the results.  Nowt on letour.fr, but then it's a steaming pile of cack at the best of times.

And the Skoda app has been ‘improved’ to iPhone only scale as well as the content being streamlined. Tour Tracker wants money. So I’m stuck with the steaming pile.. 

[LittleWheelsandBig]

Some reports that Prudhomme tested positive yesterday.