Tour de France 2020 | Stage 18 (Méribel - La Roche-sur-Foron, 175 km)

[Pricey_sky]

Come on Richie, nearly there!

 

[trevim]

Cool to see Kwiatko and Carapaz riding this together, really nice win!

Hats off to Porte, great fight (although Landa and Mas are puzzling not riding harder....)

 

[Volderke]

Is Jumbo still in the running for team classification?

(ofcourse Dumoulin will climb the ranks, with the TT coming and today Uran dropped...)

 

[Pirazziattacks]

They believe Lopez can overtake Pogacar in the TT

MAL's within striking distance of the lead now. Why attack today when he could wait for Roglic to fade in the 4th week instead?

 

[Red Rick]

Is Jumbo still in the running for team classification?

Half an hour down. Will win 20 minutes in ITT obviously

 

[lenric]

Uran +3 minutes. wow

 

[Krokro]

Give it another Tour like this and I'll hate Jumbo as much as Sky/Ineos

I've really nothing against Ineos or Jumbo as a team or regarding nationality. But hell, they have already taken this spot in my mind, way faster than I got fed up by Sky during their golden Era.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Is Jumbo still in the running for team classification?

(ofcourse Dumoulin will climb the ranks, with the TT coming and today Uran dropped...)

You can see it at letour.fr

 

[Brullnux]

Most pro bike riders make very little money as is, a budget cap is not the solution.

I mean they're almost all on six figures, with minimal expenses on food etc. Unless your definition is a bit different lol. Besides, UCI can implement a minimum wage for rider salaries and a cap at the same time, hopefully resulting in teams having two or three superstars not six

 

[Volderke]

Mas allowing Porte to come back. just like that.

 

[Volderke]

You can see it at letour.fr

as in: you can see the time differences of the 3rd rider of each team live on that site?

 

[Escarabajo]

Why didn't Caruso jumped Porte?
I don't understand tactics anymore!

 

[jsem94]

Bring on the Giro now FFS. Tired of this

 

[Volderke]

prix combative still escapes Carapaz (the guy that attacked 3 days in a row, got 2nd behind Kamna, led the race until 4kms on the Meribel and will now finish second in this stage). Maybe Carapaz is too combative for that prize.

It's for the guy that followed wheels and crashed because he made a rookie mistake (Hirschi)

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Most pro bike riders make very little money as is, a budget cap is not the solution.

What is "very little money"? I actually don't have much insight into this.

 

[Volderke]

Half an hour down. Will win 20 minutes in ITT obviously

They should be able to take at least 5 minutes back today?

 

[Broccolidwarf]

as in: you can see the time differences of the 3rd rider of each team live on that site?

No, you can see the standings in the team classification pre-stage. - JV is 30 minutes off.

 

[Escarabajo]

Seriously, if they don't put a MTT riders just want to ride tempo and make a truce.

 

[trevim]

prix combative still escapes Carapaz. It's for the guy that followed wheels and crashed because he made a rookie mistake (Hirschi)

Great ride by Carapaz in this 3rd week, he should get into the break again tomorrow so that they could give combativity award to random french

 

[Red Rick]

To me it looks like there's no deals between Kwiato and Carapaz lol

 

[Brullnux]

prix combative still escapes Carapaz. It's for the guy that followed wheels and crashed because he made a rookie mistake (Hirschi)

He's got a slightly better prize...

 

[Escarabajo]

Seriously, if they don't put a MTT riders just want to ride tempo and make a truce.

Is this why stages with descents don't work? because the riders don't care?

 

[huangho]

Lopez to take 1 second to Rogla in the finish line!!

If he keeps like this he can take yellow next November... C'on superman!!

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

I mean they're almost all on six figures, with minimal expenses on food etc. Unless your definition is a bit different lol. Besides, UCI can implement a minimum wage for rider salaries and a cap at the same time, hopefully resulting in teams having two or three superstars not six

there‘s no way to enforce a salary cap. Good luck to the UCI stopping an oligarch from one country who owns a team based in a second from getting under the counter money to a rider from a third country who lives in a tax haven fourth country,

 

[Broccolidwarf]

What is "very little money"? I actually don't have much insight into this.

An average dom on an average WT team, makes € 2-300,000 a year.

The stars make 10-15 times that.