Teams & Riders Everybody needs a little bit of Roglstomp in their lives

[Keelhaul]

Narrow margins.

It was a real shame because he rode so well (as did Evenepoel). These little mini disasters are very annoying.

Fortunately it was a low speed crash so hopefully there's no real damage.

There will be massive margins and cracks in the upcoming stages. I do not trust any of the big 4 to be invulnerable. The course is incredibly hard and each has a reason to crack. Pogacar's reckless racing style is already showing its adverse effects today.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Seems they have him the same time. Thats absolutely hilarious.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Another year, another dose of misfortune.

I'm no gonna pretend he didn't have big misfortune in the past (2021 was his big chance) but the only reason he is not contending the win right now is because he's not good enough

 

[Keelhaul]

Seems they have him the same time. Thats absolutely hilarious.

I think they will rectify that, but I'm not crying if they don't

 

[QueenStagiaire]

They definitely need to edit the 3k rule because this is hilariously unfair. He could have walked those two kilometers and would have still gotten the same time as Remco.

 

[zlev11]

wow awesome, so rare that a bad rule goes in my favor lol

 

[Valv.Piti]

They definitely need to edit the 3k rule because this is hilariously unfair. He could have walked those two kilometers and would have still gotten the same time as Remco.

Ridicolous, but oh well.

 

[Mayomaniac]

The Red Bull pull...

 

[Keelhaul]

Seems they have him the same time. Thats absolutely hilarious.

It seems the 3K rule applies here.

 

[Keelhaul]

NOW THIS IS A ROGLIC TELEPORT FOR YOU

Ed.: Bending spacetime again!

 

[Mayomaniac]

Hillarious, Rodriguez just would have needed to pull an Andy Schleck to drop his chain to get s. t. as those before him.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

People talking about misfortunes...
This has been his luckiest GT by far, the guy has 9 lifes. To be only 2:14 down in GC is a joke given that he got dropped a billion times this Tour, now being awarded the same time as Remco is just the icing on the cake.
Don't think that crash was hard, he got two days of nothing to recover and then it's time to show if he's really peaking for the last week. He won't win it of course but he's not far off Remcos level.

 

[Mayomaniac]

NOW THIS IS A ROGLIC TELEPORT FOR YOU

Ed.: Bending spacetime again!

*teleports at the finish line to get s. t. as Evenepoel*
"Nothing personal, kiddo!"

 

[svit]

Lol wut? He gets the same time as Remco... That must be a joke right??

If so, then there are still hope for yellow...

 

[benzwire]

There will be massive margins and cracks in the upcoming stages. I do not trust any of the big 4 to be invulnerable. The course is incredibly hard and each has a reason to crack. Pogacar's reckless racing style is already showing its adverse effects today.

I think you're right. Up until that crash, Roglic was looking much better. Vingo is looking damn good. Pogi may get a bit frazzled by Jonas, but it'll take him cracking to lose his advantage. And Remco, who knows how the really big mountains will treat him. He's doing better than I expected. So far, it's been a great show!

 

[Rackham]

If the 3km rule was in the rulebook for stage 11, then that's the rule.

You can't just make stuff up. This time it seems like it's saved Rog. So I'll take it.

 

[JosefK]

Rog should buy Remco a beer after today's stage. That was probably a free 20 or 30 seconds that Rog got as a result of Remco's fighting spirit and the crazy loophole in the rules.

 

[svit]

It's not a loophole.

 

[Eeslliw]

Lol wut? He gets the same time as Remco... That must be a joke right??

If so, then there are still hope for yellow...

Do you really think that those 30 seconds would make the difference. It's quite clear his only shot of winning is if both Jonas and Tadej either crash or bonk big time (talking 5-6 min in one stage). Remco is obviously still ahead but I think he will ship more time in the big mountains with comparison to Roglic.

Now if there is one year that Tadej or Jonas can bonk is this year. Tadej has Giro in the legs and Jonas had big crash 3 months and can bonk any time and we shouldn't be surprised.

So this is the year, I can feel it. Till now (minus the crash) he had all going his way (little time loss on Galibier, San Luca, no time loss in gravel stage...). This is how he can win it.

And now he has crash in his system so I am sure he feels complete now. Now or never.

 

[JosefK]

It's not a loophole.

I think it's a kind of loophole for a stage such as today, which is no way a sprint stage. But fair point.

 

[Rackham]

Turin opening sprint test for modified UCI 3km rule at Tour de France

Six stages at this year's Tour will extend sprint zone to either four or five kilometres for rider safety

www.cyclingnews.com

Stages with 3-kilometre rule​

• Stage 1 - Florence to Rimini
• Stage 2 - Cesenatico to Bologna
• Stage 4 - Pinerolo to Valloire
• Stage 8 - Semur-en-Auxois to Colombey-les-Deux-Églises
• Stage 9 - Troyes to Troyes
• Stage 11 - Évaux-les-Bains to Le Lioran
• Stage 16 - Gruissan to Nîmes
• Stage 18 - Gap to Barcelonnette

 

[Didinho]

I don’t care about the same time. He would’ve stayed with Remco nonetheless and it could be a good sprint. Just hope he didn’t get injured badly, he was really good today and tried to follow Vingo.
Battle for podium still on.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

I don’t care about the same time. He would’ve stayed with Remco nonetheless and it could be a good sprint. Just hope he didn’t get injured badly, he was really good today and tried to follow Vingo.
Battle for podium still on.

Aldag said on German television that he is fine, shoulder not affected (biggest worry) and he just fell on the side.

 

[JosefK]

Rog seemed stronger today (stage 11) than in earlier stages. The crash wasn't good, but let's hope it was not a bad one in the Roglic gallery of crashes. ... Who knows, maybe he actually gets stronger relative to one or more of the guys ahead of him in GC?

 

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

I never thought this stage suited Roglic particularly well because of the distance. He looked pretty good until the crash, on track of only losing 20s to the big 2. If he doesn't feel the crash and keeps improving he can still have a good Tour.