Tour de France 2019 **SPOILERS**

[Dogtrousers]

I think Alaphilippe more likely to be going for another jersey, possibly the green, along with the likes of Sagan, GVA, WVA, Matthews and maybe any sprinter that manages to get to Paris.

Well, Alaphilippe won the mountains jersey last year.

So green this year then yellow when he gets into the end of his career? Maybe that's his secret plan.

What's the course like for green? Are there lots of points in puncheur only locations? Or is it more weighted towards the pure sprinters?

 

[KneesUp]

I err, yeah , wonder yeah err if yates could be err yeaah on for a podium err yeah spot

For sure he’ll be err super motivated? You know I think he’ll give it his best shot and err see where that gets him. For sure.

 

[Adam4868]

Well, Alaphilippe won the mountains jersey last year.

So green this year then yellow when he gets into the end of his career? Maybe that's his secret plan.

What's the course like for green? Are there lots of points in puncheur only locations? Or is it more weighted towards the pure sprinters?

He has some serious competition for green with Sagan and Van Aert.

 

[Dogtrousers]

He has some serious competition for green with Sagan and Van Aert.

Indeed. In fact it was @brommers who suggested he might be going for green. I just got a bit carried away with the idea and cooked up a rather ambitious masterplan for him to be the first rider since Merckx to win all 3 jerseys. (I didn't check that fact. If it's wrong I don't care).

He might just be happy treating some selected stages as one day races (which we know he can win) and maybe looking to retain the mountains jersey.

 

[Adam4868]

Indeed. In fact it was @brommers who suggested he might be going for green. I just got a bit carried away with the idea and cooked up a rather ambitious masterplan for him to be the first rider since Merckx to win all 3 jerseys. (I didn't check that fact. If it's wrong I don't care).

He might just be happy treating some selected stages as one day races (which we know he can win) and maybe looking to retain the mountains jersey.

Wasn't having a go at you ! Lol I don't care what he goes for.Although I'd think your second paragraph could be nearer the mark.Stage wins and mountains jersey.

 

[dragon72]

Matthews getting in his excuses early today saying he's has been training to support Dumoulin in the TTT and mountains, and has not been training for sprints. Personally I don't buy it. I'm sure his inclusion in the team was for the sprints first and foremost and to help Tommy where he could. I wager he's using T.D.'s exit as an excuse to fail, or it's mind games with the other sprinters so they don't count him as a threat.

 

[Adam4868]

Ok I'm going to let you know...Bernal will win it !

 

[rich p]

Ok I'm going to let you know...Bernal will win it !

Thank goodness I put SPOILER in the title!

An unintentional typo led me to think that if Tom Dumoulin had won, I could have put SOILER alert instead

 

[nickyboy]

Ok I'm going to let you know...Bernal will win it !

I think you're right. The stars are aligning... injuries, lack of form, strongest team.
Only question for me is when will Brailsford allow him off the leash if Thomas is flagging?

 

[roadrash]

I think brailsford will let him off the leash if Thomas struggles from brailsfords point of view , Thomas cant have many years left as a serious contender whereas theres a lot of years ahead of bernal .

 

[Aravis]

Indeed. In fact it was @brommers who suggested he might be going for green. I just got a bit carried away with the idea and cooked up a rather ambitious masterplan for him to be the first rider since Merckx to win all 3 jerseys. (I didn't check that fact. If it's wrong I don't care).

There's a fun fact here. The only rider to win all three major TDF jerseys (yellow, green, polka dot) is Hinault.

 

[BalkanExpress]

Watch out for Chavez. He got stronger and stronger in the Giro, and with a climbtastic course, depleated field and no real pressure on him as he ghosts along in Yates's shadow he is in with a chance.

 

[gavroche]

There's a fun fact here. The only rider to win all three major TDF jerseys (yellow, green, polka dot) is Hinault.

Sorry but Eddy Merckx also won all three jerseys in 1969. He also won the White jersey in the same year.

 

[rich p]

 

[rich p]

Bernal and Thomas are lousy odds if you fancy a cheeky fiver on the race.
Mas @33/1 but he hasn't shown much form this year
Porte 16/1 - perennial loser
Pinot 18/1 maybe
Quintana at 14's maybe
Uran 25/1
None of them apart from Bernal has shown any form though really
I think I might go for Pinot and/or Quintana