badgerx16 Posted 2 July, 2023 Posted 2 July, 2023 Stage 1 fought out by the Yates twins. Stage 2 gives COFIDIS their first win since 2008. More worrying - some twats scattered tacks across the road towards the end of today's stage, causing several punctures.
Winnersaint Posted 2 July, 2023 Posted 2 July, 2023 Its been a fun start to it. The Pays y Basque has done the Grand Depart proud. Could be Cav's opportunity tomorrow into Bayonne but gut feeling is that Jakobsen and Philipsen may have more. Off to Stage 17 territory on Friday. A week just outside Bourg St Maurice, so its the Petit St Bernard, Les Arcs, Tignes and possibly the Iseran but not sure about 65 year old legs.
The Cat Posted 2 July, 2023 Posted 2 July, 2023 Excellent start to the race so far, much better having a couple of lumpy stages to start with rather than a dull time trial and a sprint day. A chance for Cav tomorrow but there's so many good sprinters in the race it will be very tough for him.
badgerx16 Posted 3 July, 2023 Author Posted 3 July, 2023 Tacks on the road again. Thankfully tubeless tyres are unlikely to catastrophically blow out.
Winnersaint Posted 4 July, 2023 Posted 4 July, 2023 Going to be a long, slow day in the peloton by the looks of it.
badgerx16 Posted 4 July, 2023 Author Posted 4 July, 2023 I look ve the way they rarely describe something as dangerous, merely 'technical'.
badgerx16 Posted 8 July, 2023 Author Posted 8 July, 2023 Tadej Pogacar to Mathieu van der Poel "How are you feeling ?" VDP replies "More fucked than you".
badgerx16 Posted 13 July, 2023 Author Posted 13 July, 2023 "Bazball" comes to stage 12. Utter chaos - who needs team orders ?
Winnersaint Posted 16 July, 2023 Posted 16 July, 2023 (edited) Pog and Vinegaard continuing to take lumps out of each other today, What a pull by Adam Yates up that last climb btw. Did a couple of bits of Stage 17 last week. Down the Cormet de Roseland. 20km downhill, it's really brisk at the top and in the middle its the only time I've been pedalling at around 65kmph, god knows what speeds they'll hit. We also did the Cat 2 Cote de Longefoy. Its at the start of the climb to La Plagne (Its Stephen Roche! It's Stephen Roche!!) turning right instead of following to the left. Around 7km at 7.7%, its not nice. Saw the Jumbos not at the TdF descending, don't know if Primoz was amongst them as they were travelling like shit off a shovel in aero tucks. Edited 16 July, 2023 by Winnersaint
Weston Super Saint Posted 19 July, 2023 Posted 19 July, 2023 6 hours ago, Picard said: Aren't we getting into raised eyebrows territory? There was a suggestion of that from the commentators during Sunday's stage. The rumours will only get stronger after yesterday's performance. Shame really as the ding dong battle has been fantastic for the whole race and has re-written how 'modern tactics' are played out with two very strong contenders.
Winnersaint Posted 19 July, 2023 Posted 19 July, 2023 Well that was anticlimactic in the end. I said to my neighbour this morning that Pogacar looked wrecked in the same way Remco looked after the Giro TT before he pulled out with COVID. Writing was on the wall when he didn’t make his home tour in the run up. As for Vingegaard he’s possibly the best rider out there at the moment. 59kg and a huge VO2 max, there’ll be more where that came from in the future.
badgerx16 Posted 19 July, 2023 Author Posted 19 July, 2023 18 minutes ago, Winnersaint said: Well that was anticlimactic in the end. I said to my neighbour this morning that Pogacar looked wrecked in the same way Remco looked after the Giro TT before he pulled out with COVID. Writing was on the wall when he didn’t make his home tour in the run up. As for Vingegaard he’s possibly the best rider out there at the moment. 59kg and a huge VO2 max, there’ll be more where that came from in the future. I'm not sure Pog was 100% before the Tour started, and his efforts on the couple of stages before the second rest day were a desperate attempt to paper over the cracks he knew were there. I think he went too deep yesterday and today's crash, even if slight, was a psychological hammer blow. ( Jealous of your piccies from the Alps ).
Winnersaint Posted 24 July, 2023 Posted 24 July, 2023 (edited) It was a good trip. Good up to Les Arcs, death by a thousand pedal strokes on the Roseland, had to stop 4 times in last 4k, cramp in both legs, but good by the end of the week up the Petit St Bernard Edited 24 July, 2023 by Winnersaint
Weston Super Saint Posted 17 September, 2023 Posted 17 September, 2023 Nice win for Sepp, he's definitely put the hard yards in for the team to gift the win to him. 1
Weston Super Saint Posted 26 June, 2024 Posted 26 June, 2024 Can anyone see anything other than a Pogacar win this year?
Winnersaint Posted 26 June, 2024 Posted 26 June, 2024 Nope. His injury at LBL was less severe than Vingegaard's and earlier. Likely JV will pay in third week as Pog did last year. That said it could be won and lost on stage 4. Sestriere, Montgenevre, up the Lauteret from Briancon which incidentally is 21km uphill and then over the Galibier. Looking to see Pidcock doing the descent into Valloire again.
badgerx16 Posted 14 July, 2024 Author Posted 14 July, 2024 20 minutes after Pog crossed the line today, only 22 riders had finished. 1
Dr Who? Posted 14 July, 2024 Posted 14 July, 2024 1 hour ago, badgerx16 said: 20 minutes after Pog crossed the line today, only 22 riders had finished. He is a machine!
badgerx16 Posted 21 July, 2024 Author Posted 21 July, 2024 On accumulated time across the last 4 Tours de France, there is less than a minute between Pogacar and Vingegaard.
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