Tour de France 2020 | Stage 17 (Grenoble - Méribel Col de la Loze, 170 km)

[johnymax]

Good on Bahrain for trying but no way is Roglic ever going to be isolated in this Tour, still 6 Jumbots in the group. Only way to beat them is if Landa is feeling absolutely super

Bahrain didn't even do this action to put Roglič and Jumbo in difficulty. Their goal is stage win today and a podium.

 

[SafeBet]

27 in the maillot jaune group if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Thank gawd a worthy KOM now. Enough of that pretender

While I give credit to Pogačar for recognising the chance to get the GPM and therefore give himself something out of this race even if it goes wrong, this stage now has to live up to its potential.

If the stage lives up to his potential and Tadej takes the maillot à pois, all is fine. But if we just get a Jumbo-Visma tempo ride, it is a travesty, because Benoît Cosnefroy has killed himself ten times over trying to protect that jersey and him riding in with the polka dots over 4 hours down on GC and in the 130s overall would have been the KOM the race deserved.

 

[glassmoon]

Pogacar in KOM now I think

All is as all should be

 

[Eclipse]

Dan Martin descending like Reichenbach's grandmother

 

[SafeBet]

Dan Martin has lost like 500 metres in 5 km of descent.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Bahrain's efforts were never going to pay off here if they did at all. The hope of pay off will be that when they hammer it on the finale that there's a lot less in the tank from JV and reeling in Landa relies on team leaders / super doms and not WVA's miraculous legs

Too soon to say IMO

They used the heavy guys on the first climb, to keep the break in check, and still have the mountain doms for the last one.

I view it as a play for a Landa stage win.

 

[Amazinmets87]

Ughh I feel Roglic will be shepherded up the climb by JV unless there are attacks on the early slopes.

 

[search]

Bahrain's efforts were never going to pay off here if they did at all. The hope of pay off will be that when they hammer it on the finale that there's a lot less in the tank from JV and reeling in Landa relies on team leaders / super doms and not WVA's miraculous legs

well, it's not only about today, there's another tough stage tomorrow, where you can potentially attack early on

 

[70kmph]

Wow Pogi KOM

 

[Rollthedice]

I have the feeling that today Rog will be asked outside for a fight.

 

[ice&fire]

Why does TV waste a camera on Martin when they can go after Ala?

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Wow Pogi KOM

The kid might be in 3 jerseys in Paris!

 

[BlueRoads]

Alaphilippe's just having fun.

 

[Bardamu]

Didn't Gesink win both Canadian classics back in the day (not durning the same year)?

Yeah and he's won Emilia twice as well, but Poels on his day is better than Gesink.

 

[Bardamu]

The kid might be in 3 jerseys in Paris!

He's 10th in green jersey as well!

 

[pink_jersey]

The peloton is descending really slow. They lost 40seconds in 8kms. A lot of guys will catch up now....

 

[Broccolidwarf]

He's 10th in green jersey as well!

UAE will sign Moerkoev to lead him out next year, so he can take all 4

 

[Andy262]

Alaphillipe descending is terrifying!

 

[gregrowlerson]

I have the feeling that today Rog will be asked outside for a fight.

Yep. So much depends on the strength of big Tom.

 

[Valv.Piti]

This is some of the most confident downhill acrobatics I have ever seen lol, Alaphilippe casually drinking when taking all these turns.

 

[Pirazziattacks]

All I ask is that Roglic has to fight for it and actually put his face in the wind for more than 100 metres today or tomorrow. I'm not optimistic at the moment.

 

[ice&fire]

And Gorka comes back to Alaphilippe to tell him stories about descending Stelvio in a snowstorm

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Dan Martin descending like Reichenbach's grandmother

break is doomed, why take chances? Particularly when you’ve a long record of falling off and breaking bones

 

[gregrowlerson]

Promising stage thus far. The important thing right now is not how many riders are there at the foot of the Lozenge, but how hard they have ridden to get there.