DiabloScott

Am I right?
Is it affecting the results?

Keith99

Did they shorten todays stage? If not it depends on what one considers a long time.

DiabloScott

No, and I'm not talking about the worst weather for any one stage; I'm talking about the weather being crappy for a majority of all the stages. Maybe if we need a metric we could rate previous TdFs on how many stages were raced in heavy rain.
And "a long time" is about as long as I can remember.

Kind of Blued

You mean the wind? The two rainiest days had the fewest, and least severe crashes of all the stages so far from what I saw, and I've watched every stage at least twice.

Caretaker

I presume you mean wind and rain.

Yes there was quite a bit of rain up until stage 12 and riders in interviews did mention that wind was a factor also in the first week.

Wet/drying roads was certainly a big factor in the crash that took Zabriskie, Van den Broeck and Vinokourov out of the race.

Ofcourse it affects results but everybody is riding in the same conditions.

rousseau

It was in the mid-20s in Pau in the evening, but it was probably higher than that during the day. Isn't it usually in the 20s, with hot days in the low 30s?

DiabloScott

I reasoned that cold, rain, and wind are harder on the spindly climber types who might otherwise have made more decisive moves by now.
And that bigger power riders maybe have a little more insulation and can weather the weather better and go for long breaks in cold fog... eg.

Caretaker

It's mid-July. It's not cold.

There are guys making decisive moves every day. The moves may not work out but they are still decisive.