Tour de France 2021

Haven’t seen the stage yet but great to see Cav make it in inside the time cut, when a lot of others didn’t.

🤝 An emotional @MarkCavendish after the @deceuninck_qst "Wolfpack" pulls together to finish within the time limit.

🤝 Le "Wolfpack" se mobilise pour finir, ensemble, une étape difficile et rentrer dans les délais !#TDF2021 pic.twitter.com/3vdWv8tj3c

— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 4, 2021

back from camping trip, now deep in catchup mode

phwoar stage 8 holy cats!!! pogacar performance was wild, glad i opted for the whole replay vs highlights
incredible

now on to the stage 9 replay :)

stage 10 caught up

not to be gauche but
Aussie Aussie Aussie OI OI OI
XD

Awesome ride by O’Connor

Also looooooooooool
Quintana never not gonna Quintana
wtf
can we finally stop talking about him

stage 9 i mean oops

Cav did it! 33 down, 1 to go.

*nervous Merckx noises*

Proper stuff of dreams, this - it’s such a great story. Though today was proper goal-hanging, he only had to turn the pedals 14 times after Mørkøw peeled off!

yeah damn that was some cool handling
to paraphrase what the kids all say, i am loving this for Cav

and tbh i am enjoying more bc of THIS cav that we get! humbled, smiling, but genuinely appreciative. he has lost the caged animal quality where it seemed like he was always needing to aggressively prove himself
here now fully swaddled in a team he clearly trusts & who perform for each other AND him
in the interview he didnt even really take the win for himself, instead namechecking the accomplishments of everyone who got him there
its cool to see it at this stage in his career after everything

rotten luck for cobrelli w that flat tho :/

A beautiful sight, that Cavendish win. Almost clinical in the best way.

tomorrow sounds fkn bonkers
obv here for it

I know what, guys, let’s make them climb the deadly mountain, twice.

Wondering about staying up for it but I also have an 8:15 meeting across town.

I know what, guys, let’s make them climb the deadly mountain, twice.

Wondering about staying up for it but I also have an 8:15 meeting across town.

that descent finish is going to be nuts

Whatever do you mean, this is surely TOTALLY normal:

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I like how the setup is (now) 'watch Cavendish aim for all the points and then mysteriously disappear'

Bonus time awarded for whichever rider making the loudest Wilhelm scream on the way down to the end.

it’s like the cycling version of this

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"And the winner of the stage, the flaming tire that crossed ahead of the bike itself..."

the ultimate venn diagram:
Tour De France/Saw movie franchise

That was stage 3

true :/

Does anyone have a link to the expected timings for today's stage? Thinking of scheduling my afternoon around watching some of it live for once but not sure when will be best.

Wild stage today for sure. van Aert seems like he can do lots of things damn well individually — once he stitches it all together look out GC.

Wouty! I love this kid <3

Bummed that Julian went out when he did but he hit SO hard from the start, I dont know how he could have kept that level sustained

lmao

When you try to wink at the camera after climbing Mont Ventoux twice 😑#TdF2021 @INEOSGrenadiers
🎥 @Eurosport pic.twitter.com/sroQF6R42G

— Michał Kwiatkowski (@kwiato) July 7, 2021

Haha. Surprised he’s still functioning!

he’ll have more on his plate now- Luke Rowe didnt make the timecut!

Second in a bunch sprint on Tuesday, first on Double Ventoux on Wednesday. Phew!

Nils Politt is a goddamn legend

What ride, what a finish. Love it. His interview was really lovely & heartfelt too.

Hear what first-time stage winner 🇩🇪 Nils Politt had to say after his break win ⬇️#TDF2021 pic.twitter.com/GT0GyigqgE

— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 8, 2021

Yeah, good day for the main folks to ease back and have this happen instead. A good finish!

The lad did it, 35 seems a bit unlikely but at start of the tour I’d have said the same about him winning any stages.

There’s still two more sprint stages, one seems like it could go to a big break like yesterday, it’s the day after the Pyrenees, but the other one is Paris, and I can’t see how anyone else beats him there, if he gets there.

Yeah I mean if you’re going to take the actual record, Paris with a flourish would be pretty great. I’ll bet he does it, one way or another.

I think I can predict two things with absolute certainty.

No commissaires will see Cav hanging off a car in the Pyrenees.

Bike Exchange will complain about Cav hanging off the cars in the Pyrenees.

i skipped forward a couple hours early on bc it got kinda boring and then💥😰! i felt bad for wishing excitement on them, that crash looked so bad

but that finish! WOO!
Cav & those Quickstep leadout lads are pretty special

fkn GREAT post-race interview w cav too <3

Once he caught his breath!

yeah it kinda contained multitudes, exhaustion confusion joy nostalgia gratitude

lmao this is v good

pic.twitter.com/fORcphkVcF

— Cycling out of context (@OutOfCycling) July 9, 2021

Great ride by the winner today - very punchy aggressive stage

Touch of the Jens Voigt about that win, it was a gutsy one.

yes! def a “shut up legs” ride

call him by his name

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Bauke Mollema

lord that is a pigeon chest

anyway i watched early so was trying not to spoiler

ah sorry about that

<3

Lovely work by Mollena, Woods AND Martin. What changeups!

wild that Woods crashed & still got KOM

also v glad to see Tim declerq made it well within the time cut <3

What a win by Sepp Kuss! Lotto is going great guns with their core group of little dynamos, love watching them work their induvidual moves
Big chapeau to Valverde for a killer effort

Nairo attacking on the final climb & Valverde’s like sure go ahead nerd