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With the overall either wide open (if you listen to the press) or an internal battle at Ineos, there is still a lot of intrigue and unknowns on a stacked team of 140. Tbough I probably shouldn't be able to pick alaphillipe, groan-wagen and SAGAN!!!, in addition to van art and some stud GC guys. But like MLB, let us play on the juice. Everyone loves a towering grand slam.
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1/ Bonus points for jerseys will be multiplied by 5 for stage 21. So if Bernal is in yellow and white, he earns 350 points that day.
2/ Remember your road captain selections each day, as it's worth double points for the stage.
3/ Intermediate sprints are worth 15 points for first and score down to 10th. This means breakaway artists (and arguably polka dot jersey chasers) can score a lot of points if played right.
4/ Stage 9 falls on Bastille Day, and as Phil would say, "It's a cracker." Lumpy, steep downhill finish, crazy French fans.
5/ Stage 6 is inhuman.
6/ Stage 14 is going to be won by Nairo Quintana or Romain Bardet. Both will be non-factors on GC by then, and this is a pretty nice stage to have on your palmares.
7/ Why the hell is Poels worth 17 points ? He'll never finish top 10 on a stage unless both of his leaders are the victims of an unfortunate Stuffed Lion tossing incident in week 1.
8/ There are quite a few boooorrring stages - I'm looking at you stages 10 and 11 - but not nearly as many as the Giro this year.
9/ On the flipside, there are a number of short (<140km) stages with huge mountains. Clearly the TdF organizers are aiming for more explosive finishes, and for stages that can be won by athletes that don't spend their mornings eating Fruit Loops with an infusion bag feeding them with fresh red cells. Kudos, even if the Ineos power meter crew will have figured out exactly how many watts they can drive for that shorter period of time to stave off attacks.
7) Poels could lead 19 other teams and finish top-5 if the support roles flipped. He's expensive for a domestique, but not for his talent.
This has got to be the WORST layout/UI I've ever seen.
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- Eddy Mercx is bigger than Jesus in Belgium. I swear there were more signs and pictures of him in the landscape than churches.
- Belgians attack from the gun. GVA takes max points on the cat 3 securing the polka dots for at least a couple of days. That might be all we hear from CCC for the next three weeks, so good on them.
- A crash in the last couple of km of an early Tour stage? THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE!
- Just kidding. It happens every single year.
- I really thought Ewan was going to mini-cannonball through there. He's either going to win a stage this year or cause a humongous crash. No guts, no glory.
- Apparently Jumbo's third fastest sprinter is the best sprinter in the field right now. (He's not a nobody - regular high placings, a couple of wins in second-tier events.) And the Dutch have gone something like 30 years without the Yellow Jersey? Good on Teunissen.
- What's the over-under on Sagan 2nd place finishes this year? I'm pegging it at 4.5.
- Crash casualties of note: Fuglsgang, Groenwengen.
Side note: The classification on letour.fr is showing huge gaps. Because the crash happened inside the last 3km, the times should be reset, so if you have Nibali as your yellow jersey hope and figure he just took a minute or three on the rest of the field, don't e-mail @AaronWebstey with your shirt size just yet.
Stage 2 Preview
Team Time Trial - Expect average speeds over 55km/h. Probably closer to 58 km/h on this course.
- Powerhouse teams: Sunweb, Ineos, QSD
- Sleepers: Mitchelton-Scott, Astana, Bora-Hansgrohe
- At risk of missing the time cut: All the French teams
- My pick for the day: Bora.
Two of my picks. Poor guys. I feel like I jinxed them.
Less than two minutes separated the best from the least best today. As expected, the French teams brought up the rear with one significant exception: Groupama FDJ was a huge surprise today.
- Any result that doesn't involve Moscon in yellow can't be all bad. That was a clinic by Jumbo. I guess Tony Martin still has a bit in his legs.
- - Uran allegedly riding a 62-tooth pizza up-front was awesome. Cue the ST forum going crazy.
- Katusha and Groupama FDJ were the surprises of the day. That's a big day for Pinot and Zakarin.
- Mitchelton dropping one of the Yates was a shocker. I know it was all for Adam, but having Simon on equal time going into the mountains at least gave them a 1-2 punch. Having him three minutes down is weird.
- The Trek-Segafredo Retirement Home for Aging Professional Cyclists was the disappointment of the day. Porte was a longshot at best, but losing 1 minute to the other favourites is not going to help.
Winners: Jumbo-Visma, Ineos, Nibbles (Bahrain-Meridia), Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), Zakarin (Katusha), Alaphilippe
Losers: Trek-Segafredo, Mitchelton (sort of), Movistar (sort of)
Stage 3
The TTT probably put a nail in the coffin of any hope Sagan might have had of sneaking into yellow, barring him grabbing the extra bonus seconds on offer 15 km out and surviving the 15% drag to the finish, but this little finish has Alaphillipe-Dan Martin-Michael Woods-Alejandro Valverde written all over it.
Jersey predictions:
Yellow: Kruijswijk or Alaphillipe
Green: Sagan
Polka Dots: Eight Ball keeps saying "Concentrate and ask again."
White: Wout or Moscon