TDF, Stae 8: He Might Get Yellow

Despite Tadej Pogacar being up the road, it was entirely possible that Wout Van Aerts (Jumbo-Visma) would be the new Maillot Jaune.  Van Aerts had started the day with roughly two minutes on the young rider from Slovenia.  All Van Aerts has to do is get home within two minutes of the time of Pogacar.  Spoiler alert, he didn't make it.  Joining Van Aerts was Jonathan Castroviejo (Ineos-Grenadiers) who had done what he could for his team leader Carapaz.  Unfortuantely for Van Aerts, he was going to get any help from Castroviejo, his team leader was gaining time on the Belgium champion in hopes of taking over second place for himself.

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TDF, Stage 8: Together Now

Today's stage was an easy one to get confused on.  With riders spread all up and down the mountains, there was even a group over 16 minutes behind the race at this point, it is no wonder I got this painting a little wrong.  Michael Woods (Israel Start Up Nation) had managed to chase down the loan guy up the road and he did ride for Bahrain-Victorious.  However, this is Dylan Teuns (Bahrain-Victorious) who was not the guy sucking up the King of the Mountian points on the day.  That was his teammate Wout Poels.  Teuns has just done what Woods did before.  Teuns had left the chasing group and gone up the road in search of the leader on the road, but in this case it was Woods who was the prey, just as Woods had been the hunter on the Col de Romme.

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Tour, Stage 10: Down the Other Side

Julian Alaphilippe (Quick Step) had been attacking the stage in hopes of claiming the Maillot a Pois of best climber in the Tour.  He achieved that goal when he went first over three of the four high climbs of the day.  As he crested the final climb, the Col de la Colombiere, he had over a minute on the closest chaser, another Frenchman, Lilian Calmejane (Direct Energie).  Alaphilippe is a good climber (obviously) but he is a brilliant descender.  He knew he could use that skill to open up a greater lead on the entire peloton chasing in shattered pieces behind.  As he dropped off the mountain he was being told by his race radio that he was gaining more and more time.  He knew that stage was his and as an early title foretold, "he was back in the action."  Had he not lost time on the way to Roubaix, he may have been racing for yellow, but then the peloton probably wouln't have let him go either.

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Tour, Stage 10: No Clowning Around

I couldn't resist this one.  I just couldn't.  I am looking forward to seeing the Devil in the coming days, but this clown seemed like a great metaphor for what everyone expected to happen to Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) today.  Van Avermaet wasn't clowning around in the Maillot Jaune today, even if the cycling fans in yellow was.  As he climbed the fabled Col de la Colombiere he was still more than three minutes ahead of the peloton, so instead of losing his jersey, he will end the day gaining another 3 minutes on all of the general classification guys.  He may be reliving the Frenchman, Thomas Voeckler's defiance of expectation in the Pyrennes when he helf of Lance Armstrong for three days in the mountains.  Voekler held the jersey for 12 days that year, let's see if Van Avermaet can do the same.  Regardless, he is not joking about just how good of a bike racer he is. 

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Tour: Stage 20: One for You, One for Me

Reaching out and grabbing a musette, Luke Rowe (Team Sky) came away with two instead.  Simplifying things, he kept one and passed it to the hero of stage 19, Geraint Thomas.  Team Sky was riding tempo up the penultimate climb of the Tour, the Col de la Colombiere.  None of the men up the road were any threat to the Maillot Jaune of Chris Froome, so the team wasn't in the mood to chase.  Sky figured that the teams who were being challenged by Romain Kreuziger's (Tinkoff) presence in the break away, would eventually be the ones to commit to the chase.  You know they were right...

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