mjr
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Will we see the Femmes this year too?
Tour de France 2026 ***Spoilers***
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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
No Ta Doctor
Veteran
The green jersey comp has been remodelled to favour sprinters (trying to avoid Pog winning bloody everything this year, as he nearly did last year). Extra intermediate sprints and 70 points for sprint stage winners
https://domestiquecycling.com/en/ne...-changes-to-the-tour-de-france-points-system/
https://domestiquecycling.com/en/ne...-changes-to-the-tour-de-france-points-system/
matticus
Guru
Can't be bothered to read the details, but I'm in favour in principle. If you're going to have sprint stages, there really should be a motivation for the world's best sprinters to turn up, and take the race seriously.
Otherwise they'll just go elsewhere to hoover up Team UCI points at lower effort+cost.
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wakemalcolm
Legendary Member
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Just reacquainting myself with the route courtesy of INRNG. There's a real danger this could be put to bed by the first Monday, Tuesday or Thursday; the Tour de Suisse route looks like it's been designed to help Pog prepare for week 1.
If it survives as a contest beyond then, the middle of the race is inert enough for there to be a real chance of it going into week 3.
If it survives as a contest beyond then, the middle of the race is inert enough for there to be a real chance of it going into week 3.
matticus
Guru
I'm guessing from that, you weren't interested in the Green Jersey related posts!
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wakemalcolm
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Not what I want to see on a weekend stage.
I think most of the 'contenders' would rather have more stage wins than win the competition.
Dorset Boy
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You'll hate the post podium clip from TdS yesterday where Pog pells off the green jersey to reveal the blue one which he peels off to reveal the yellow one, and I presume if he peels that off it reveals his WC jersey!
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
Seeing that they've royally buggered up stage 21 so it's no longer an unofficial sprinters world champs there's a real risk of sprinters buggering off home if week 3 is mountainous and they aren't in with a sniff of green.
With no Wout to save us this year Pog may well be winning on the Champs d'Elysees.
With no Wout to save us this year Pog may well be winning on the Champs d'Elysees.
Pross
Guru
Didn't they previously go the opposite way to stop Cav winning it?
25 stage wins for Pogacar so it probably won't be long before he's chasing Cav's record.
MadMalx
Senior Member
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Prudhomme said in 2011 :
"I first realised there was an issue when I realised that we had a sprinter like Mark Cavendish and he hadn't won the green jersey in three Tours,"
Pross
Guru
Seems odd as they increased the intermediate sprint points that he tended not to chase.
No Ta Doctor
Veteran
You'll hate the post podium clip from TdS yesterday where Pog pells off the green jersey to reveal the blue one which he peels off to reveal the yellow one, and I presume if he peels that off it reveals his WC jersey!
Let's put it this way: I'm unlikely to be digging it out to view it
