Monday 7: 13:10–13:25 → 17:15-17:40
Another climb of Mount Cassel, but again 30 km from the finish line. Therefore it should end up with a bunch sprint, among a bunch perhaps reduced by echelons.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
7 points (88.9% liked)
procycling
586 readers
14 users here now
for news and discussion of professional cycling
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Yeah, that was fun - getting so worked up over an intermediate sprint. Didn't even seem like anyone did anything dangerous, yet two different arguments came from it.
Anyway, I also expect this to be a prette straight forward sprint finish.
Makes me think maybe some of the sprinters are still quite frustrated after the opening stage, which is why I feel like they will be desperate for a result here.
I agree, they absolutely will not let this stage get away from them. I wonder what the finish is like, if it's technical and could get dangerous.
Edit: Apparently it's a straight run-in followed by a sharp turn 1500 meters from the finish line, then softly undulating 6 m wide roads through the city and a soft curve onto the 200 meter straight flat sprint. Should be pretty safe - but sometimes those "safe" finishes end up being the most dangerous of them all because everyone wants to be in position.
It happened several 100 metres before, in the sprint preparation, when they were trying to get positions: Girmay went to 'hit' Milan because the latter was sitting in the former's train. But the bleeding TV director stayed for an hour on the breakaway instead of showing the bunch's sprint preparation and launching, so no viewer could see it on the main stream.
I don't know about Coquard vs Penhoët. But arguments rarely come up for no reason, and when the recipient of a barney/insults doesn't answer and keeps a low profile, it generally means that he knows he was guilty of something.