Tour de France

(18-09-2020 10:10 )Charlemagne Wrote:  Stage19 166.5kms Bourg-en-Bresse to Champanole

It's so long to the mountains as there is only a single category 1 climb.

Yesterday was a day to nearly the crown The King of the Mountains, today could see Sam Bennett with his hands on this years green jersey

I expect Bora Hansgrohe to try to make it really hard from the start to try and distance Bennett but I suspect Decuenick Quickstep will try to put Alaphillipe in the break to try and take sprint points away from Sagan.

A rider has had to abandon the race after being "bitten by a wasp"

^ I was surprised at this as the support cars would carry first aid kits (they just need some vinegar)

But he was bitten in the mouth and they think that it may have affected his breathing.

Sunweb's Soren Andersen claime his 2nd stage win of the Tour on Stage 19, with another late solo attack.
Sam Bennett has a55 point lead over Sagan in the battle for the green jersey.
Roglic maintains his 57 second GC lead.

Just love the Tour. So relaxing to watch on Eurosport, and the commentary, including the recipes and historical and architectural snippets from Jonathan Harris-Bass are just magical. Some great racing this year and such a bonus it even went ahead, given the coronavirus.

Roglic looks like a deserved winner.

The ad-free coverage on the Eurosport Player is great.... Until that prick Kirby opens his gob and starts spouting his dad jokes.

Stage20 Lure to La Planche des Belle Filles (I'm looking out for a board of beautiful girls)

36.2kms time trail. The first part of the course is flat and we then go into a hilly finish.

Roglic looked like he was crying as he came to the line. What a cruel way to go after all the effort of the past couple of weeks.

wow thats one of the best ends to the tour ever, that will be talked about for years, Pogacar turned around the 57 secs down into a 59 sec win amazing, Roglic looked like a broken man at the end,

Richie Porte finally makes the podium as 3rd in his last ever tour as a team leader, great to see the most unlucky man in cycling do well in the end