Even if you don’t like him then having him in GC contention would have at least kept the race alive. It’s over and will likely be a bit dull now.
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This. 
My EXACT thoughts when I saw the result was, this just looks too good to be true, and they aren’t even trying to hide it.
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When Sky were “dominant” (and they were never anywhere near as dominant as Jumbo) it was all this is killing cycling and doping accusations. Now with Jumbo… crickets.
Funny old game isn’t it Saint
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I mean, what do you say after today.
Floyd. Whiskey.
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A remarkable comeback the likes of which we’ve never seen before 
When never seen before = 2006.
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If you think Evenepoel yesterday is anything like Landis 2006 then I’m sorry but you know nothing about pro cycling. Evenepoel lost so much time that he is no longer a threat on GC, so there was zero incentive for Jumbo to chase him
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Thanks Dad 
I’d completely missed that Remco couldn’t even turn his pedals the other day, you know, when Jumbo came 1-2-3 and all we could hear were crickets
And then today he produces an unbelievable performance, the likes of which we’ve not seen …
… (HINT: we have. In 2006)
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Bit late posting this, but on Friday evening I popped out to McDonalds and as I was approaching some lights, I saw a Bora team car (bikes on the roof and foreign plates) bombing it from the other direction, driving like they were still in the race, cut across the oncoming traffic to turn into a complex (containing hotel, restaurants. I later found out a few of the teams were staying in that hotel). Only problem is they’d gone down the one way exit road, you actually have to go down to the roundabout (which Swindon is famous for) and do a 180 to get in.
Cars were coming out, so they had to take evasive action and pulled onto the grass 
It took me a while to process what was going on, I can’t imagine what the general public with no idea that TOB was taking place fairly locally thought of it all.
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Do you not think he might have sat up at some point on Friday? Or do you really think losing 27 minutes was him riding full gas for the whole stage…
And such an unbelievable performance that he was riding with Romain Bardet for most of the stage 
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He deffo sat up when he realised he couldn’t keep
Up with the Big Boys. At least he didn’t quit like Ewen 
It looked like he was toying with Bardet all day.
Only to put 1:18 into him over the last couple of km or so
You convinced me.
Remco’s performance yesterday is totally in the realms of normality.
Thanks.
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Will the GC riders of the other teams gang up on JV? Kinda like the Barbarians team in rugby. Get the best domestic riders too and make a ‘best of the rest’ not sure if I want Remco in it tho!
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I wonder if ‘Uncle Johan’ is somehow involved on a serrupticous level.
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My experience of the ToB on Saturday is that they all tear around like dicks on the back roads; even the Police & Safety bikes. Why is that necessary when the cyclists are only doing 25mph?
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JV is an evolution of the old Rabobank team, isn’t it? They weren’t shy of doping, which is one of the reasons why they lost their main sponsor
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The peloton is probably averaging closer to 30mph. The rolling road closure will rely on motorbikes running ahead of the race to block the side roads and junctions and these need to constantly recycle from the back of the race to the front, so they’ll tend to be going much faster than the bunch. You’ve also got team cars etc that are trying to catch back up with the race and team car drivers are ex racers who like to drive like dicks on closed roads 
I marshalled for the Olympic road race. We were stationed in a village on a wide, straight piece of road on a slight downhill. The locals were out in force to watch the race. The course wasn’t barriered and we were there to keep people off the course.
Shortly before the race came through, one of the spectators asked if the kids would be allowed in the road when the bikes came through. Maybe he’d seen footage of a mountain stage of the Tour?
Er no, stand well back on the pavement.
He seemed a bit miffed until the first vehicles in the convoy came through at 60mph+. At that point he made his kids step back from the curb before the bunch came through at a similar speed 
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precisely that
I marshalled the ToB when it came through Eastbourne a few years ago - the rolling road closure system works slickly and when the peloton comes through you really do not want to be in it’s way! they came past me at a hell of a lick going uphill towards Beachy Head.
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Looks like there’s been another bad accident, this time involving Nathan Van Hooydonck 
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ETA Just realised he was in a car accident…still not good news.
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Seems JB got the PR message yesterday and gave Kuss a few seconds back. It’s just a shame there is no-one else who can even threaten Roglic’s 3rd place, that might mean JB have to decide between giving Kuss the win and defending a 123 podium. But they are just too strong.
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Yes I was definitely thinking if I was Kuss, I’d be mulling over a change of team.
The critical thing, being attacking a teamate who’s worked their arse off for you in other grand tours!
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