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Tour de France 2018 | Stage 7
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 13-07-2018 11:40
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Stage 7: Fougères - Chartres
We're back on flat terrain for the longest stage of this year's race. 231 kilometers from Fougères to Chartres end with a bit of a slope of up to 4%.
Fernando Gaviria (QuickStep)
Marcel Kittel (Katusha)
Peter Sagan (Bora)
Andre Greipel (Lotto-Soudal)
Arnaud Demare (Groupama-FDJ)
Same riders as in previous flat stages mentioned here, in addition to the likes of Groenewegen, Colbrelli, Laporte or Kristoff.
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Possibly the longest day of racing, possibly not the most exciting one. First finish in a somewhat bigger city I think, so maybe some nice images in the final kilometers. What do you think about this stage?
Edited by cunego59 on 13-07-2018 11:48
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 13-07-2018 11:46
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I know Latour impressed yesterday, but I wouldn't call him a favourite for today's stage 
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Selwink |
Posted on 13-07-2018 11:47
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Degand got away on his own, decided he didn't want to breakaway alone, decided to drop back. Peloton slows down in order to not catch Degand 
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 13-07-2018 11:48
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Ollfardh wrote:
I know Latour impressed yesterday, but I wouldn't call him a favourite for today's stage
He must've meant Laporte, who we all know is going to win despite his ailments from that stage 2 crash.
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| cunego59 |
Posted on 13-07-2018 11:50
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trekbmc wrote:
Ollfardh wrote:
I know Latour impressed yesterday, but I wouldn't call him a favourite for today's stage
He must've meant Laporte, who we all know is going to win despite his ailments from that stage 2 crash.
Laporte is indeed who I meant. Didn't have the crash in mind either, but share the unrestrained confidence in his abilities nonetheless 
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 13-07-2018 11:52
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I'm not expecting a good sprint by Sagan after last 2 stages where was much more committed than other sprinters...but you can never say, he is Sagan 
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| Kirchen_75 |
Posted on 13-07-2018 17:06
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Great win by Groenewegen. Sagan's camping on Nando's wheel is hilarious |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 13-07-2018 17:07
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They better give this boy a full team next year.
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 13-07-2018 17:11
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Holy.. What a massive sprint by Groenewegen. Simply just sprinted Gaviria out of his wheel. At first I thought he was too far behind, but he came to the front after he took Kristoff's wheel, which was a smart move. Great to see him winning with all the sprinters present, because at the Champs Elysees last year half of the sprinters already left the Tour.
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| df_Trek |
Posted on 13-07-2018 17:34
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Shape level for most of sprinters is really disappointing, at almost the end of first week someone has not reached yet
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| ruben |
Posted on 13-07-2018 17:49
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I'm not surprised. Groenewegen has been the fastest sprinter all year. It's just that he doesn't have the support other sprinters have and to place yourself then is hard.
I knew if he had 1 free air sprint he'd win, easily. And that was this. Hopefully for the others he won't get the opportunity more because then he'll just keep winning, easily. |
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| Kirchen_75 |
Posted on 13-07-2018 18:15
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Groenewegen had a perfect leadout in Kristoff. Wont happen again too. |
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| Shonak |
Posted on 13-07-2018 19:05
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Kirchen_75 wrote:
Great win by Groenewegen. Sagan's camping on Nando's wheel is hilarious
I am more surprised that Sagan can take it so easy. They all seem to be disinterested in it. 
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| Shonak |
Posted on 13-07-2018 22:07
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I know Kittel has been shit all year long but seeing how awful he is, any explanation for that? Is it just that he is off the quick step, did he have an injury, off-year? For a guy who won 7 stages last year, he sure is nowhere to be found.
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Posted on 13-07-2018 22:29
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Off year I guess.. 2015 was similar, after an year with tons of success he just had a blank year, 1 victory only (against 13 in 2014, 6 of them in GT's). Leadout never seemed an issue, he could use that excuse in his first race but Katusha have had excellent leadout for at least these two years he just lacked something big.. I find likely that he doesn't have that risk required to be up there, doesnt trust his leadout much too
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 13-07-2018 22:29
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ruben wrote:
I'm not surprised. Groenewegen has been the fastest sprinter all year. It's just that he doesn't have the support other sprinters have and to place yourself then is hard.
I knew if he had 1 free air sprint he'd win, easily. And that was this. Hopefully for the others he won't get the opportunity more because then he'll just keep winning, easily.
I can smell the dutch bias over here. According to PCS, only looking at the 2018 season, he loses out narrowly to Demare and quite clearly to Viviani, easily.
Groenewegen had a great day and thats nice to see, but he wasn't the fastest all the time in the tour even. Stage 1 he wasn't, stage 2, 4 or 5. He was today.
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| MrUfo87 |
Posted on 13-07-2018 23:03
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Paul23 wrote:
ruben wrote:
I'm not surprised. Groenewegen has been the fastest sprinter all year. It's just that he doesn't have the support other sprinters have and to place yourself then is hard.
I knew if he had 1 free air sprint he'd win, easily. And that was this. Hopefully for the others he won't get the opportunity more because then he'll just keep winning, easily.
I can smell the dutch bias over here. According to PCS, only looking at the 2018 season, he loses out narrowly to Demare and quite clearly to Viviani, easily.
Groenewegen had a great day and thats nice to see, but he wasn't the fastest all the time in the tour even. Stage 1 he wasn't, stage 2, 4 or 5. He was today.
I think he was fastest in stage 4, but he was too far back to even have a shot on victory. But if you see how fast he came to the front he could've won it if he were more to the front.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 13-07-2018 23:27
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Paul23 wrote:
ruben wrote:
I'm not surprised. Groenewegen has been the fastest sprinter all year. It's just that he doesn't have the support other sprinters have and to place yourself then is hard.
I knew if he had 1 free air sprint he'd win, easily. And that was this. Hopefully for the others he won't get the opportunity more because then he'll just keep winning, easily.
I can smell the dutch bias over here. According to PCS, only looking at the 2018 season, he loses out narrowly to Demare and quite clearly to Viviani, easily.
Groenewegen had a great day and thats nice to see, but he wasn't the fastest all the time in the tour even. Stage 1 he wasn't, stage 2, 4 or 5. He was today.
I get the Viviani argument but Demare? 
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| Shonak |
Posted on 14-07-2018 10:42
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What a shit stage for a Saturday.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 14-07-2018 10:44
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Amen
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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