He wasn’t even liked at Duke, for what it’s worth.

The best moment of the tour was Barguil’s interview where he subtly mocked those who would rely on time trial abilities and sit back while the race went by. Needless to say, he’s a fan of the attacking style.

One rider cannot win the Tour without 8 other capable riders. They will have significant financial incentives in their contracts to ensure this happens. Also, as Sky has shown, a lot of these incredible support riders then move to other teams, command bigger money, and are the supported rider for winning the Tour…

This year’s Tour showed that Quintana can’t ride all of the Grand Tours and challenge for yellow. Zero legs, and it was quite apparent.

Aru showed this year that Grand Tour cycling is not an individual sport. He kept yellow solely due to the logjam at top, where other riders had incentives to neutralize attacks on his…

This was the most boring win of the Sky Train era. Two TT margins, boom, the other 19 stages just need to be neutralized. It’s no small feat to have the team do that, but man, it’s BORING.

I’d also be a HUGE fan of nixing power meters for the riders. I want to see more Warren Barguil style feel-riding, and less “I’m…

I really hate that I actually enjoyed his SEC writing on Deadspin...

Nairo needs to skip the Giro if he wants Yellow, that’s it. No legs for 2 grand tours this quick in succession, especially with a weaker team.

Aru is great because he clearly belongs to the “fuck you, I’m going” school of attacking. Sky are just boring. Hit their watts, avoid the red line by juuuuust enough to snuff…

I may have tweeted this precise question to Matthew Keenan today, and am hoping for a good response (Keenan is a GREAT cycling commentator)

Nairo needs to skip the Giro to have the legs for the Tour. Here’s hoping he does next year.

Froome was in front of Aru. Aru actually ducks under his arm to begin the attack.

Patrick, did you actually watch this stage?

The first descents were done on slick roads - that’s what took out Majka, Gisink, and Thomas - the rest of the stage was bone dry.
Contador didn’t lose his GC status due to crash - he folded on the Mont du Chat climb because he doesn’t have the legs anymore.
Cannondale…

I was more shocked to see Nairo without a teammate from virtually the base of the climb. I know Valverde was a key component, but the whole Movistar team laid a big stinky dump today.

It was interesting to see Froome open gaps up with harsh accelerations among the GC contenders... and then see them close down immediately. This was a finish that favored that one last burst without time to reel him back in - shocking to see Contador and Quintana dropped without much fuss, really. Both look to be in…

Fair. The power he has behind him and his bike handling are both second to none. But it does leave him behind in the final mad dash when all he sees is the wheel to latch onto and the line.

I’ve seen him up close on the mountains - the dude knows how to enjoy cycling up an Alp, knowing that he is getting dusted. It’s a…

The thing that sucks is that Sagan is one of the most fun riders to watch - mostly because he excels AND has a boat load of fun while not kicking everyone’s ass. But man, he done fucked up here.

Note in the commissaires expanation, they don’t mention the elbow, but they do seem to be talking about Sagan’s somewhat... vacillating sprinting line as influencing their decision.

Yeah... no. Sagan continues to the right as Cav takes the lane to the right. Cav probably makes first contact (as he is being squeezed out 1/3 of the way to pass), but Sagan did not even remotely hold a solid sprinting line.

The best part is before attacking to the right, just before Demare goes, Cav looks over his…

The overhead view has Sagan coming across the road to follow Demare’s line, and when Demare comes back left, Sagan continues wide to the right as Cav accelerates. If that’s Sagan following Demare’s line, that’s incredibly sloppy at the tail end.He had Cav coming out of his slip stream and pushed across his line far…

Cocaine’s a helluva drug.

Wouldn’t the university have paid for some of these recruits to cross state lines, with the intention of offering them a sex act? That might get into “what is the age of consent in their home state” territory.