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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX7/2/23 11:17 AM |
best 2 first stages TDF ever? [No Spoiler]
2nd especially, massive cheek wins the day.
Fun!
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RCoapman
Joined: 09 Feb 2005
Posts: 5141
Location: Back in the snowy homeland7/2/23 11:21 AM |
hard to say much else since you put the no spoilers tag in. Phil and Bob were saying the format of the first week (hilly/hard stages right from the start, no prologue or TT) was designed for this type of excitement...mission accomplished, I guess.
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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5101
Location: Nashua, NH7/4/23 6:23 AM |
Yeah, RIP to the stupid, old-school practice of boring prologues and tedious processions to sprints in the first week. This is the way stage races should be run.
Unfortunately, so far today's stage is a snoozer that's making up for the excitement of the previous days. Too bad you can't fast-forward live coverage to the sprint at the end.
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RCoapman
Joined: 09 Feb 2005
Posts: 5141
Location: Back in the snowy homeland7/4/23 10:00 AM |
Lol, not a snoozer at the end, though!
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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5101
Location: Nashua, NH7/4/23 11:26 AM |
No, decidedly not!, It's just a shame that only the last 8K was worth watching (and that's being generous).
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KerryIrons
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 3236
Location: Midland, MI7/4/23 2:24 PM |
DVR
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Too bad you can't fast-forward live coverage to the sprint at the end.
It's what DVRs were made for. I can't imagine watching a stage like to day "live" except for the last 10 km.
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Nick Payne
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 2626
Location: Canberra, Australia7/4/23 3:20 PM |
TdF stages 3 and 4, I watched the first few minutes and then switched to the women's
Giro instead, which was much more exciting racing. Stage five in particular...
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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5101
Location: Nashua, NH7/6/23 4:33 AM |
"Watching" it live is sort of a misnomer for me. I have it going on a laptop off to the side while I work, so I can catch anything interesting, but I'm not actually watching most of the time.
Wednesday's stage was definitely an interesting one and we now have a real race on our hands!
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greglepore
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 1724
Location: SE Pa, USA7/7/23 8:56 AM |
Reminds me of a late 80's/early 90's tour-tough first week, more riders have a shot.
At least until today and Jumbo did the train thing. Dunno about that. How does Wout climb like he does? He's a big guy.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX7/7/23 9:10 AM |
Wout, yeah. They were saying he had 20 lb on the next heaviest rider going up climbs on front of break away,. Then pulled on the front when the Vingo/Pog group caught up. Not for long granted.
But when he pulled off, I thought he was going to just topple over. ;)
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