Tour de France Stage 6: Bayeux – Vire-Normandie (201.5k)

[Samamba]

What a pity... so we will have 20 km of nothing

Well blame organizers for putting 50 points on hilly stages. Girmay and Milan need to to have a shot at green.

Ok a new tactic... but is it a smart one? Milan then will win the intermediate. If they would try to attack with Girmay maybe he wins it...

It's about taking points on the climbers... not against eachother.

 

[Earns1985]

What a pity... so we will have 20 km of nothing

Nahh,, that only means, that it will happen later on a hilly terrain, even more interesting..

 

[Peyroteo94]

Well blame organizers for putting 50 points on hilly stages. Girmay and Milan need to to have a shot at green.



It's about taking points on the climbers... not against eachother.

Today is 50? I thought it was 30.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Helping Milan, getting ahead might be a better option?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Today is 50? I thought it was 30.

Today is 30, unlike other hilly stages

 

[Tymek]

Vini said without any laugh on his face that he might start in next year’s Flanders classics 👀
Please, make it happen. There are some sings that he might be really good at it. Ituzlias he won, this TdF stages.

 

[Samamba]

Today is 50? I thought it was 30.

I don't know about today, I ment the previous one. Why Pogacar is now in first. There's not that many sprint stages left. Better to not take risks and make sure you put him on a distance. And also Van der Poel honestly. He's not thinking about green now, but that could still come.

 

[Tymek]

I think 30. Anyway Pogi has a chance to grab another points.

 

[Earns1985]

The sprint itself can already be a decisive moment for the formation of the breakaway..

 

[moljoh]

Forty years ago, I sparked a girl in Bayeux.
Thousands of miles away, a butterfly flapped one wing and we drifted apart. Today, Gouvenou takes me back through the mists of time to a scene of indescribable beauty.

Surely you meant to write "spanked"

 

[Red Rick]

Roglic disgracefully sitting in the back while Evenepoel is very cleverly sitting safely in the tail end of the peloton

 

[Samamba]

Healy 100% attacking just after the intermediate.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Use the IS to make the break

 

[Heston]

VdP sprinting for green?

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Imagine Pogi getting bored and contesting intermediate sprints vs Milan and co.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Healy, Simmons and Amirail with the most predictable move of 2025 and the only ones thinking clearly.

 

[Samamba]

There he is. Ben Healy. Written in the stars

 

[Red Rick]

VdP chasing green probably means this break isn't going without him in it

 

[Peyroteo94]

Ben Healy is a strong possibility for today.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

VdP chasing green probably means this break isn't going without him in it

But it also means Lidl and Intermarché will try to shut down any move with him in it. Which could then result in Alpecin trying to control the break instead.

 

[Samamba]

VdP chasing green probably means this break isn't going without him in it

Or he realizes that Milan and Girmay won't let him in it. But yeah then Alpecin should just try to control honestly. Ask Arkea if they want to help.

 

[Didinho]

Mathieu has never worn green in a Tour stage if I’m not mistaken? Maybe he just wants it for a day and then sees where it takes him later on.

 

[Red Rick]

But it also means Lidl and Intermarché will try to shut down any move with him in it. Which could then result in Alpecin trying to control the break instead.

Should be interesting dynamics, all favoring a certain UAE.

Really hope Van der Poel goes all out for green, because if he doesn't Pogacar will likely just sleepwalk it unless suddenly breakaways start winning many stages again.

 

[Peyroteo94]

But it also means Lidl and Intermarché will try to shut down any move with him in it. Which could then result in Alpecin trying to control the break instead.

This. I think a break of only 2 riders is giving the win to Pogacar.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Forty years ago, I sparked a girl in Bayeux.
Thousands of miles away, a butterfly flapped one wing and we drifted apart. Today, Gouvenou takes me back through the mists of time to a scene of indescribable beauty.

There's material for a Limerick somewhere in there.