Tour de France 2020 | Stage 20 ITT (Lure - La Planche des Belles Filles, 36.2km)

[Red Rick]

Why don't people give me the 19 chances Roglic missed to drop Pogacar.

 

[Breezy1985]

Back in the Dawg days this forum was crashing badly. It kept up pretty well with Pog's uber froomesque performance.

The Powg days

 

[TomLPC]

Did Froome ever have a TT performance like this?

No, but the Vuelta 2011 stage 10 one was pretty shocking

""I wasn't really expecting that," Froome said at the finish. "

"I was just trying to stay in contention and be there along with Bradley Wiggins, the team leader. I just had a fantastic day and somehow I've ended up in the leader's jersey. It's a dream come true."

He says, tongue firmly in cheek

 

[Red Rick]

Did Froome ever have a TT performance like this?

Not even close.

 

[bajbar]

Yes. I feel sorry for Roglic as a fellow human being. But he and Jumbo were largely responsible for largely killing the GC battle and the 'big' stages.

Unfortunately I missed some of the fun stages as I'd lost interest

I mean, they played to their strenghts. They arrived to the TT with a minute of an advantage over every GC contender. If someone offered them that before the race I am sure they would take it. But who would have though Pogačar (who looked to be fading slightly in the past couple of days) would beat world class TTers like Dumoulin, WvA and Roglič by one an a half minute or more... if Pogi did his "usual" TT, Rogla would maybe lose a second or two, but would still win comfortably. But this was just completely something else. He was just flying and destroyed everyone.

 

[Breezy1985]

Just realized, Lampre are going to win the Tour. How very 2020.

God imagine it was old Lampre and Rabo kicking Sky to the kerb. This place would have went nuts

 

[Breezy1985]

Not even close.

He never needed to. He usually had the buffer built up and wasnt chasing the tour on the TT

 

[tobydawq]

Why don't people give me the 19 chances Roglic missed to drop Pogacar.

Oh, with that team, they should have been able to conjure something up.

For starters, don't sacrifice Dumoulin, so you can play the numbers game.

I would have liked to have seen poor David de la Cruz trying to marshal the front for Pogacar in that case. Especially downhill...

Also, two days ago, Roglic had a gap after the gravel section but then just waited. Would the others have chased him, or would they have thought they were beaten already?

 

[neevosh]

I started watching hopeful that Pog would make this an exciting stage. By midway I was excited. By the end I felt gutted for Roglič to lose and in disbelief at how much time Pogačar had taken on everyone.

Also, how must MAL have felt being passed by not one, but two riders, and rolling in last?

 

[savornin]

ez pz for wout van alien

rog will destroy pog on the second half

Famous last words

 

[Mayomaniac]

God imagine it was old Lampre and Rabo kicking Sky to the kerb. This place would have went nuts

Before the 2019 season Matxim and Gianetti got rid of nearly all the old Lampre coaches, team doctors and staff members who were leeching around Saronni and the whole team improved leaps and bounds.

 

[Breezy1985]

Famous last words

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Some of the posters in here are hilarious.

The same people that said GC was over 2 days ago, are now saying Roglic and JV should have done more earlier.

 

[topt]

Oh, with that team, they should have been able to conjure something up.

For starters, don't sacrifice Dumoulin, so you can play the numbers game.

I would have liked to have seen poor David de la Cruz trying to marshal the front for Pogacar in that case. Especially downhill...

Also, two days ago, Roglic had a gap after the gravel section but then just waited. Would the others have chased him, or would they have thought they were beaten already?

again with this mit

 

[gregrowlerson]

I feel sorry for Roglic. He was probably just following team orders, trusting that they had all the numbers worked out. But, at the same time, it's great to see a team who tried to suffocate the race fall at the final hurdle.

Imagine Uran smashing Froome in the ITT to win the 2017 TDF?

I know, I can't either.

But that's kind of what today was like.

 

[Tonton]

Well, incredible Pog. Congrats. Performance for the ages; part of me refuses to believe what I just saw. Berzinesque. Sad for Rog, but happy that big teams don't always win. And I'm happy for Porte: I'm not a fan of his, but after all the bad luck over the years, good for him. Now I hope I'm not jinxing him for tomorrow.

 

[burning]

Not even close.

Mont-Saint Michel TT was truly an alien one while having a worse wind condition than another TT ailen Tony Martin, I would rate these performances similarly.

 

[spalco]

Some of the posters in here are hilarious.

The same people that said GC was over 2 days ago, are now saying Roglic and JV should have done more earlier.

Yes. I don't see the contradiction.

The former ist what it seemed to almost everyone, the latter is what we now know in hindsight.

eta: and of course many people criticised the Jumbots for their passiveness even at the time.

 

[Red Rick]

Oh, with that team, they should have been able to conjure something up.

For starters, don't sacrifice Dumoulin, so you can play the numbers game.

I would have liked to have seen poor David de la Cruz trying to marshal the front for Pogacar in that case. Especially downhill...

Also, two days ago, Roglic had a gap after the gravel section but then just waited. Would the others have chased him, or would they have thought they were beaten already?

You have a minute lead in a GT with a guy who has like 7/10 last ITTs he's done and who put 1'30 into the 2nd guy the last GT ITT they did vs each other.

It's like I'm supposed to trash Contador for not dropping Schleck on the 2010 Tourmalet despite being the better ITTer.

Dumoulin might have been 90 seconds closer if he doesn't commit harakiri on the Peyresourde. Then what. He didn't have the legs to attack most of the Tour, yet he's supposed to attack in case the non ITTer wins the ITT by over 1'20 on everyone?

 

[Rollthedice]

Did Froome ever have a TT performance like this?

Nobody had, it was ultra uber froomesque. Lance is gobsmacked.

 

[Jungle Cycle]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1307371539210342406

View: https://twitter.com/MRasmussen1974/status/1307371539210342406

 

[tobydawq]

again with this mit

I don't have any idea what this means.

 

[Rollthedice]

Before the 2019 season Matxim and Gianetti got rid of nearly all the old Lampre coaches, team doctors and staff members who were leeching around Saronni and the whole team improved leaps and bounds.

They brought in Jeroen Swart.

 

[Breezy1985]

The winning team

Kristoff looks like Pogs dad

 

[Ted Striker]

Not even close.

he never needed to do it