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

[Eclipse]

lol Roglic just sneaking past Pogacar on the line too lol

 

[Scarponi]

What a fitting way to end this stage, and I don't mean that in a positive way.

So so true

 

[Volderke]

To me it looked like Carapaz?

Kwiatkowski.

 

[BlueRoads]

yeah, I know it's Ineos, but
Kwiatkowski, wasn't it?

 

[Hugo Koblet]

How many stages in this Tour could Van Aert realistically have won had he had a team riding solely for that?

 

[Hayabusa]

Really happy for Michal to win that stage. After all the work he has done over the years in multiple Tour winning teams, he deserved his own moment.

 

[richwallone]

I was thinking they better stopped touching each other otherwise they gonna get disqualified for interfering with each other sprint...

 

[Breezy1985]

Best part of the stage was that fan getting clobbered and they didn't show it

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Van Aert had to take away the boniseconds, lol

 

[spalco]

Carapaz almost "accidentally" nipped it in the end, lol.

 

[BlueRoads]

No wonder nobody wants to go to the worlds. Van Aert has that 99,7%.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Kung Fu Richie.

Great fighting effort!

 

[SafeBet]

How many stages in this Tour could Van Aert realistically have won had he had a team riding solely for that?

7? Counting tomorrow.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Nice, Richard hit the rear break just enough that Michal could win it.

 

[perico]

Never been an Ineos Sky fan, but truly happy for Carapaz and Kwiatkowski. They are two talented and classy riders.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

What sort of perspective on life do you have in which that isn't a *** ton of money? Easily top 5% of earners in most rich countries

I'm not comparing it to what you earn working the check out at the local store......... I'm comparing it to other pro sports, and the media exposure/economy they generate.

Cycling salaries are generally laughable compared to other sports.

The big winners in the pro racing market are the race organisers, that is where most the money ends up.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I think Van Aert enters top 20 GC today, says it all really.

 

[Savant12]

Ineos deserved to get their stage win. Great ride by Kwiat and Carapaz.

 

[Red Rick]

I think Van Aert enters top 20 GC today, says it all really.

He already was top 20 IIRC

 

[Scarponi]

I'm not comparing it to what you earn working the check out at the local store......... I'm comparing it to other pro sports, and the media exposure/economy they generate.

Cycling salaries are generally laughable compared to other sports.

I just think other sports earn to much, the money soccer players and basketball players get is just sickening

 

[Velolover2]

Some low IQ douchebag nearly destroyed their winning movement.

Giant fail from the UCI. Hit that bastard with a heavy fine.

 

[Andy262]

Very happy for Kwiato. Sad for Hirschi.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Pointlessly cynical view. If people start laundering money for the sake of a cycling team (which is simply just vanity) then it's at their own risk. The likelihood is, especially looking at who the owners are now, that it can be controlled to a good extent. Either way, would be considerably better than what we have now...

Salary caps are only barely enforceable in sports where teams are large, stable, entities and everyone is based in one jurisdiction. Even in those circumstances there are various schemes to circumvent them, which are occasionally discovered and mostly are not. Getting around a salary cap is not money laundering and does not have to involve criminality.

Teams are largely owned or financed by a collection of oligarchs of dubious character, some of whom exercise a great deal of political power (like the torture-princeling of Bahrain). Riders largely live in tax havens or to put it more politely countries that offer a great deal of protection for the privacy of personal finances.

The UCI simply has no way to regulate this.

 

[Escarabajo]

I assume Lopez is confident on his TT capabilities!

 

[Lequack]

Yeah it's really good to see Ineos winning a stage and at least somewhat salvaging this Tour. And the teamwork is good see, as well as Carapaz who seems to be going into great form. He would've been a really good challenger for the Giro.