This year's "that one dratted stage" seems to have been stage 14, where a combo of slippy road, a turn and ill-fortune took down a swath of riders (https://www.eurosport.co.uk/cycling/tour-de-france/2023/tour-de-france-neutralised-after-extraordinarily-nasty-moment-on-stage-14-involving-almost-all-teams_vid1951457/video.shtml)
[I'm not sure who that Intermarche-Circus-Wanty rider is, probably Adrien Petit, but that's possibly the actual face of "damn it all" made flesh.]
Stage 14 really stands out in the pie chart of withdrawals by stage.
And you can see the inflection it causes in the Kaplan Meier diagram
The Kaplan-Meier split out by teams makes it clear that life continues to happen to Astana and EF Education-Easy Post
In the yellow jersey standings at the start of the third week there was so little in it that people started to talk about 1989. I know people enjoy talking about that edition.
I've mostly just been enjoying Kwiatkowski and Izagirre winning stages, and desperately trying not to jinx a certain rider who is still in. (If I avoid jinxing him, I will explain who it is)
The final post in this series will be delayed by a week for reasons, but I hope to add an extra special diagram to make up for the delay.
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