Tour de France 2020 | Stage 15 (Lyon - Grand Colombier, 174.5 km)

[gregrowlerson]

Great ride from Valverde.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Setting Roglic up for his 500m sprint win.

That would be so disappointing. Visma is just too strong (

 

[titan31]

I'd hope Bilbao and Caruso can set something up for Landa

 

[skippo12]

Valverde is going to sneak into the top 10 again.

 

[Red Rick]

On Bennett's pace there's a chance for an attack.

And nobody will try because Kuss will just laugh at you

 

[Devil's Elbow]

For all the hype it gets, every single time Grand Colombier has been used in the Tour it hasn't added much to the race.

 

[Lequack]

Great ride from Valverde.

Yes, quite surprising.

 

[Amazinmets87]

Valverde hanging tough. Quite impressed. He'll need to be dropped if there's a sprint finish

 

[Big Doopie]

lol, valverde!!

 

[ice&fire]

Valverde almost thinking about attacking

Just imagine if he goes Alaphippe

 

[Salvarani]

Man, Porte looks great

 

[lenric]

Everything lining up to Richie Porte to podium. That would be ironic.

 

[Saint Unix]

When has Van Aert done anything like this before so late in a stage?

He was hauling ass up the final climb on stage 4 and then won the sprint the day after.

 

[red_flanders]

Because there‘s still 12 guys in the front? All of those guys better than Quintana and Bernal?

Because last year’s champion and the third place rider just utterly blew up. It makes the race less interesting to me. If you don’t feel that way, great. I don’t begrudge anyone who is tired of Ineos.

 

[Ted Striker]

attack for gods sake

 

[Red Rick]

For all the hype it gets, every single time Grand Colombier has been used in the Tour it hasn't added much to the race.

They use it terribly every single time

 

[Pirazziattacks]

Also people are acting like its never happened before but Kwiatkowski has displayed similar versatility although he's probably lighter.

Kwiatkowski had already finished 11th at the tour before becoming a Skybot though.

 

[DFA123]

Valverde hanging tough. Quite impressed. He'll need to be dropped if there's a sprint finish

He's just warming up for the mano a mano with Froome at the Vuelta. A clash for the ages.

 

[Brullnux]

Also people are acting like its never happened before but Kwiatkowski has displayed similar versatility although he's probably lighter.

Kwiatkowski wasn't winning bunch sprints. He is the most similar comparison, but I remember we were pretty stunned when we was pulling everyone up. Still, what wva is doing is a whole new level

 

[Krokro]

Everybody talking about WVA dropping Bernal. What about the other 30 riders that are ahead of him too? Bernal is cooked that's why he's dropped

That doesn't neglect the fact that he's showing a mutant performance. It's not like there are 50 riders left in the bunch.

If we don't only look at the main contenders who show poor form or suffer from crashes, he still has dropped 3/4 of the best teammates and climbers around. So no, it's not only because of Bernal being cooked.

 

[macbindle]

Bob Roll just said Former Cyclocross World Champion dropping the current Tour de France Champion, who would believe it?

Always good when a former cx rider, classics rider, sprinter, turns out to be a pure climber.

At this point we should probably just start copy and pasting posts from the 2012- Team Sky threads and just change the names

 

[ppanther92]

Underrated rider and great teammate. Always fantastic for Nibali

Yes, of you bring Caruso he is always a top 15-20 climber. Rarely in the spotlight though.

 

[Amazinmets87]

For all the hype it gets, every single time Grand Colombier has been used in the Tour it hasn't added much to the race.

It certainly dispatched of Bernal and Quintana.

 

[Red Rick]

Stage deserves a Valverde win

 

[Salvarani]

Barguil doing a great job for Quintana