Tour '26, Stage 17: Suffering Together

Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) had dropped off the back of the peloton not long after the grupetto had caught back on.  He seemed to be sick.  He was certainly suffering.  After a chat with his team car that ended with him shaking his head and riding off.  Earlier in the stage as the TV Moto went by Anders Johannessen (Uno X-Mobility) he had made the gesture of cutting his throat, the universal symbol of "I'm dead."  He was eventually joined off the back by Yates.  The two rode along together until UAE Team Emirates sent Tim Wellens back to help make sure that these two made it to the finish inside of the time limit.  They did come in all together twenty-six minutes after the stage winner, there was one guy a few minutes behind them, but all were in well within the time limit of thirty-nine minutes.

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Tour '25, Stage 12: The Broom Wagon Lurks

As Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) road through the sprint point in Benejacq he had hoped to be sprinting for maximum points with the other sprinters in the early break.  Instead, he was riding alone behind the peloton with on the Voiture Balai to keep him company.  I am not sure exactly what happened, but he had pulled off the side of the road while in the break to seek medical help.  Since the doctor's car was behind the peloton, he was assisted by the medical moto, but couldn't be treated while rolling along as we have seen happening earlier.  Once his fingers had been taped together, he got back on the bike and rolled on.  I'm guessing he dislocated a finger grabbing his musette in the feed zone.  I did see him asking the medic to pull on his fingers.  And no, he didn't fart when they did.  I will tell you that he finished the stage inside of the time limit, just over forty-four minutes after the eventual stage winner.

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Tour de France Femmes 23, Stage 3: Dangling

I am always hesitant to come off as mean, so I debated this title before writing it down.  Rachel Neylan (Cofidis) was just off the back of the long tail of the peloton was they rolled down one of the many climbs on the day.  I was thinking she might lose big time since there was another 64 kilometers yet to race.  I shouldn't have worried, it wasn't to much longer before she could be seen on the front of the peloton driving the pace.

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TDF, Stage 18: Collateral Damage

Do I need to defind collateral damage?  Ineos-Grenadiers have spent countless Tours de France setting a relentless pace on the front of the peloton slowly eliminating their competition on climb after climb.  They are doing the same this Tour, but with much different results.  Yes, there pace on the front cracked Rigoberto Uran (EF Education-Nippo) on the climb of the Col du Tourmalet.  However, they also cracked the guy who has one the Tour for them in the past, Geraint Thomas.  He has suffered this Tour after dislocating his shoulder in the early crashes in the early stages of the Tour, but the whole team (with two notable exceptions) just aren't living up to what is normally expected of them.  Perhaps they just aren't having any fun on their bikes anymore.  I am sure they were all riding hoping to move their newly designated leader, Richard Carapaz into at least second place on the GC.  I suspect they felt he could get that fugitive stage victory for the team today as well.

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TDF, Stage 16: Another Tough Day

Chris Froome (Israel Start Up Nation) has had some good days in this Tour, but today wasn't looking like it was going to be one of them.  He finished twenty-three minutes behind the stage winner today, but then the Maillot Jaune along with the main peloton was sixteen minutes behind as well.  Froome is still on his way back from injuries that looked like he may never walk again.  He is doing much better than half of the men in the Tour.  I liked what Mark Cavendish had to say about Froome, "Don't count him out, he will be back," those are important words from someone who had been written off themselves.  Look what Cav has accomplished this Tour when it looked like he wouldn't have a team at the end of last year.

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