death tribble Posted July 14, 2023 Report Share Posted July 14, 2023 (edited) Michel Kwiatkowski wins stage 13 on the Grand Colombier. First win for Ineos this tour https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/66205097 Edited July 14, 2023 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted July 14, 2023 Report Share Posted July 14, 2023 Interesting. In the GC, Pogacar takes 3rd, Vingegaard 4 seconds behind in 4th. That matters...because 3rd place gets a 4 second time bonus. So Pogacar cut the deficit today from 17 seconds, down to 9. By comparison? Hindley is almost 3 minutes back of Vingegaard, and Rodriguez Cano almost 5 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 15, 2023 Report Share Posted July 15, 2023 (edited) We had a crash at the Tour de France soon after the race began once the neutralised rollout had ended. The race was delayed for half an hour as a number of people were checked for concussion. One rider was immediately out but since then four others have withdrawn. The main contenders were not affected and are still racing. The cause was supposedly a bit of rain on the road which caused one rider to skid leading to other skids amongst the peloton taking down the field. They shut the race down very quickly and made sure all was ok before they started off again. The biggest casualty has been Romain Bardet. Two others have since abandoned Edited July 15, 2023 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 15, 2023 Report Share Posted July 15, 2023 (edited) Marketa Vondrousova beats Ons Jabour in the Wimbledon Women's final. First unseeded player to win in the Open Era https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/66212165 Edited July 15, 2023 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted July 15, 2023 Report Share Posted July 15, 2023 Mmm...would've been a good day for a Back to the Future bet...IIRC Vondrousova was like 80-1 at the start of the tournament. Little expansion on the TdF crash... Reuters says the crash was on a descent section, only about 5 km into the race. Riders are on the last climb. It's Pogacar vs. Vingegaard, about 2 minutes ahead of Yates and Bilbao Lopez. Pogacar is attacking, and is opening up a small margin leading up to the top. That B means it's a time bonus point, so if he crosses first there, he'll grab a couple more seconds back. Big KoM points today, too. EDIT: Vingegaard catches up, then takes Pogacar for first to summit...and picks up 3 seconds due to the bonus time differences. And takes over the lead in the KoM, according to the live reporting. Points say Vingegaard and Powless are tied. Pogacar is only slightly behind. Downhill to the finish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 15, 2023 Report Share Posted July 15, 2023 (edited) Carlos Rodriguez wins stage 14 of the Tour de France. Pogcar was second and Vingegaard was third. But Pogcar was second to Vingegaard for the bonus seconds so Vingegaard increases his lead to 10 seconds. A press bike may have cost Pogacar the bonus seconds on the run in. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/66211521 The Red Devil appeared for the 2nd time on the Tour. Edited July 16, 2023 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted July 15, 2023 Report Share Posted July 15, 2023 This stage also largely shut the door on anyone but Pogacar or Vingegaard, if there was any real doubt. Hindley lost about a minute and a half to drop to 4th, and the gap between the 2 leaders and 3rd and 4th is now 4:30. Yates is over 5 minutes back, and no one else is within 8 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 16, 2023 Report Share Posted July 16, 2023 (edited) Wout Poels wins stage 15 of the Tour de France. I remember the name as he was part of Team Sky with Chris Froome. Turns out this is his first Grand Tour stage win. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/66216893 And the Red Devil was on the mountains for the 2nd day in a row. Edited July 16, 2023 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted July 16, 2023 Report Share Posted July 16, 2023 Blowout win at that. Van Aert was 2nd...over 2 minutes back. Another minute to 3rd. And another MORONIC spectator interferes with the race. Someone taking a selfie...arm extended, either hits a rider, or the rider can't help but hit them. Stories are saying it wasn't as bad as the cretin with the sign 2 years ago, but that's just good fortune. From Velo: Quote Alaphilippe and Lustenko attacked with approximately 140km to go and got 30 seconds on the group they were with. The peloton was just 10 seconds behind that chase group at that point but the momentum went out of the main bunch when a spectator holding a mobile phone caused a crash of approximately 20 riders. Jumbo-Visma pair Nathan Van Hooydonck and American climber Sepp Kuss were amongst those going down, as well as 2019 Tour champ Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers). All the fallers were able to get back on their bikes, while Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) had a near miss and clattered off riders to his left and right but stayed upright. So it was much too close to being a massive impact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 16, 2023 Report Share Posted July 16, 2023 The peloton basically shut down to let those who were injured and being attended to get back on. That let those ahead get the win. This worked for Jumbo Visma as it meant the bonus seconds for the first three would not go to Pogacar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted July 16, 2023 Report Share Posted July 16, 2023 With the King of Spain watching from the Royal Box, Carlos Alcaraz takes down Novak Djokovic in 5 sets for the Wimbledon title in an epic match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted July 17, 2023 Report Share Posted July 17, 2023 It's a great ad, but Spoiler it's still for soccer so I won't be watching either way. slikmar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted July 17, 2023 Report Share Posted July 17, 2023 Here are the final results for the Wimbledon tournaments: https://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/news/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 17, 2023 Report Share Posted July 17, 2023 Henry Searle who won the Boy's Singles Final ended a 61 year drought for a British winner https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/66220744 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 18, 2023 Report Share Posted July 18, 2023 (edited) Jonas Vingegaard wins stage 16 of the Tour de France and this was a time trial. He and Pogacar beat the next best time which was by Wout Van Aert which was some doing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/66237675 Edited July 18, 2023 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted July 18, 2023 Report Share Posted July 18, 2023 29 minutes ago, death tribble said: Jonas Vingegaarde wins stage 16 of the Tour de France and this was a time trial. He and Pogacar beat the next best time which was by Wout Van Aert which was some doing. WOW. Short TT...35-36 minutes for much of the field, the climbers and such more like 40. The time difference between 9th and 20th was 31 seconds. Pogacar blew the field away by more than 70 seconds. Vingegaard scalped Pogacar by almost 100 seconds. The GC just went from close to not close at all. Vingegaard hasn't won it; Bad Things are always possible. There are 2 more nasty climbing stages left, as well...but Vingegaard is the overwhelming favorite now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted July 18, 2023 Report Share Posted July 18, 2023 1 hour ago, unclevlad said: WOW. Short TT...35-36 minutes for much of the field, the climbers and such more like 40. The time difference between 9th and 20th was 31 seconds. Pogacar blew the field away by more than 70 seconds. Vingegaard scalped Pogacar by almost 100 seconds. The GC just went from close to not close at all. Vingegaard hasn't won it; Bad Things are always possible. There are 2 more nasty climbing stages left, as well...but Vingegaard is the overwhelming favorite now. So what your saying, barring crazy fan/idiotic paparrazzi/or drunk spectator... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted July 18, 2023 Report Share Posted July 18, 2023 Or something like that. Rain shower, making a treacherous descent. Mechanical issue at the wrong time/place, altho the peloton might wait for that, depending.... But mostly...yeah, an idiot. The crowds on the climbs that pack the roadsides are barely controlled, and I'm always amazed there aren't MORE incidents. It really creeps me out when they do the long up-the-road shots over the shoulders of a rider going through those crowds, when you just don't know when some git's gonna not get out of the way in time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slikmar Posted July 18, 2023 Report Share Posted July 18, 2023 My thought was that someone once attacked Monica Seles because she was winning against Martina Hengis, and I fear that the fans of riders might be just as crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 18, 2023 Report Share Posted July 18, 2023 There was the infamous incident of a fan punching Eddy Merckx as he rode up a climb on the Tour in 1975. He went back with the police and identified the man who was taken to court about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted July 19, 2023 Report Share Posted July 19, 2023 I'm not too worried about something like that, as it's very remote, and in a bike race, may be kind of hard to pull off. Mind, I'm not gonna say impossible.... Well, bummer. The data-driven sports predictions of FiveThirtyEight.com have been shut down. They were picked up by Disney, and initially put under the ESPN umbrella...but transferred to ABC News later. Now? Disney's cuts have completely shut down ALL their sports forecasting. The site will be kept up through the 2024 elections; that's their bread and butter. After that, tho? No one is sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted July 19, 2023 Report Share Posted July 19, 2023 Felix Gall wins stage 17, for his first Grand Tour stage win. Also got the polka dot for most combative; he was in front for most of the race. 3rd and 4th on the first 2 climbs...1st over the last one, which was HC. Also vaulted him to 3rd in KoM. Vingegaard makes a move on the last climb that blows Pogacar out of the water. Really, seriously crushes him today. As in 5 minutes or so, just before Gall crossed the line, and the live tracking stops showing the full field. EDIT: Pogacar just finished the stage in 23rd. Lost 5:45 today alone, so he's 7:35 back...closer to losing 2nd than taking 1st, by quite a bit. Adam Yates picked up almost 4 minutes on him. I'm not gonna pay for Peacock, so I don't get the pics, just the live tracking. But with about 4 km to the last summit, Vingegaard and Pogacar were side by side...then Vingegaard dropped the hammer, and it looks like Pogacar *cracked*. The next 2 days could be given to breakaways, or could go to the sprinters. Vingegaard won't lose any time on these. Stage 20 is vicious: especially as the last really competitive stage. But it's basically a race for KoM at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 19, 2023 Report Share Posted July 19, 2023 This is how the BBC reported it https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/66248827 ITV have been showing the Tour de France for years now on ITV4 and today it was live with the Red Devil making another appearance early on. ITV is free. Guilo Ciccone is in the Polka Dot jersey which is for King of the Mountains. Gall did win today's combativity award. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted July 20, 2023 Report Share Posted July 20, 2023 (edited) Kasper Asgreen wins stage 18 of the Tour de France. This was from a four man break which had a minute on the peloton for most of the day. And the peloton did not manage to catch them. Finally Soudal Quick Step win a stage. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/66259885 Edited July 20, 2023 by death tribble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted July 20, 2023 Report Share Posted July 20, 2023 Wish I'd seen it, but I've already griped about THAT score. One of my all-time favorite sports moments was a perfect shot. 2 or 3 man breakaway. They come over a hump in the road, they're continuing on desperately...because then you see the ravening MASS cresting that little hill, seeking to consume everything in front of them, like an unstoppable tide. In most cases, the peloton does catch them...but not always. And when they don't, by my lights, it's always really cool. This had to be close, because there was no gap between that foursome and the peloton, in the times awarded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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