I’m not super happy about the way these sprints are playing out, it seems there’s always a very dangerous move involved and we’ve just been very lucky so far.
Of course you can’t sanitize sprint finishes to the point that there is no danger, but I’m not sure this is equilibrium.
They need punishments to hand out lower than relegation. Even just an official sanction would help highlight that closing out to the barriers isn’t kosher so riders can’t complain when eventually someone does get punished for this dangerous stuff.
I think it would be radically unfair to penalize jasper by taking away the win when he’s so obviously winning the sprint whatever happens, but they have to do something.
Who had the stupid idea to turn the Green Jersey mudgreen?
Isn’t it part of the prestige of the leader jerseys that they stick out in the peloton?
Now the jersey almost looks like a military camouflage. They made it more difficult to find the green Jersey in the sprint train.
He’s the one at the back of the only functioning sprint train. Pretty easy to spot at the moment.
I agree it’s not a nice or helpful colour, but kind of accept this stuff is for the sponsors at the end of the day, so meh.
Escape Collective reported that Skoda had a marketing company do a redesign for them as a company and they changed the shade of green. That change then unfortunately carried over to the Tour…
That was a scary final again, so many narrow curves. So happy there were no crashes!
Indeed happy it was a fair sprint without any crashes makes up for the somewhat boring stage otherwise.
I usually don’t watch sprint stages until the last 20 km. Only read live blogs and if something happens, I can easily turn on the stream or tv
