• halki@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Who had the stupid idea to turn the Green Jersey mudgreen?

    Isn’t it part of the prestige of the leader jerseys that they stick out in the peloton?

    Now the jersey almost looks like a military camouflage. They made it more difficult to find the green Jersey in the sprint train.

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      1 year ago

      Escape Collective reported that Skoda had a marketing company do a redesign for them as a company and they changed the shade of green. That change then unfortunately carried over to the Tour…

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      He’s the one at the back of the only functioning sprint train. Pretty easy to spot at the moment.

      I agree it’s not a nice or helpful colour, but kind of accept this stuff is for the sponsors at the end of the day, so meh.

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    1 year ago

    Another day for the sprinters, another day for Philipsen?

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      If Philipsen takes this one in the same fashion, expect every other sprint team to start sending people into breaks instead. Søren Kragh Andersen has a new role at Alpecin-Deceuninck, btw. He sits behind Philipsen at tries to keep other sprinters from taking his wheel, look out for that today.

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        Little bits of information like this is what makes a community like this so awesome. Did he mention that on Danish tv?

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          Yup :) Mads Pedersen also said that he was done going for green and doing sprints, let’s see if it’s true.

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      He’s on a winning streak for sure!

      Aussie bias says Caleb is getting closer with every sprint, so he’s gotta get it. JP with a MvdP lead out has just been too solid a combo this TdF though, it seems very likely to continue.

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        I picked Ewan in my fantasy TdF game, cause like you said he is getting closer and closer.

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    I’m not super happy about the way these sprints are playing out, it seems there’s always a very dangerous move involved and we’ve just been very lucky so far.

    Of course you can’t sanitize sprint finishes to the point that there is no danger, but I’m not sure this is equilibrium.

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      They need punishments to hand out lower than relegation. Even just an official sanction would help highlight that closing out to the barriers isn’t kosher so riders can’t complain when eventually someone does get punished for this dangerous stuff.

      I think it would be radically unfair to penalize jasper by taking away the win when he’s so obviously winning the sprint whatever happens, but they have to do something.

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    Have to admit, I was gutted not to see Cav get the win there. I would love him to get 1 final win before he retires. Waiting for the last stage gives the best narrative though, so perhaps that’s the plan.

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      Absolutely, wanted to see Cav win but Philipsen is a fantastic sprinter.

      Also, why does Jakobsen refuse to follow Mørkøv? Seems insane to not let him help you, he’s arguable the best in the world to get you to the sprint in the best position possible.

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      Indeed happy it was a fair sprint without any crashes makes up for the somewhat boring stage otherwise.

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        I usually don’t watch sprint stages until the last 20 km. Only read live blogs and if something happens, I can easily turn on the stream or tv

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    There’sa lot of talk about JP pushing Bini out, but IMO, there s was a little gap, JP was ahead of Bini, and that’s textbook of how you successfully take a contested wheel

    Back in r/velo, u/carpediemracing has a great post describing how to do this