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

[richwallone]

And now I can go for a bike ride... Congrats to Pogacar! Well deserved win! One of the most exciting riders in the peleton. Not a bad Tour this year

 

[Jagartrott]

Porte officially retiring as a GC captain, in an interview with Danish TV at the finish line.

Saying he couldn’t wish for a better end, is looking forward to helping younger riders succeed in future, and that he will be glad to be rid of the stress.

That's just jinxing it for tomorrow. Crashes, crazy supporters, meteorites, you name it - it can happen. To Richie.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Memories

 

[richwallone]

I still can't even process what happened..

Trust me... You are not the only one

 

[TomLPC]

 

[Broccolidwarf]

I remember thinking, when Aru proved in bad form (again), and both he and Formolo dropped out, that now a Pogacar had no shot at the podium

 

[dicanio_michael]

Superman dropped like a stone. Now that was a horrific tt.
Even if Primoz had ridden better than Dumoulin, Van Aert, Porte, he still would have lost overall by a large margin. Pogacar just rode an unbelievable tt. Almost no one thought this was even possible.

No one could have predicted Pogacar would win the TT. He was not even a favorite before gaining time on Roglic.
Yes. Don't blame Roglic. Even Dumoulin felt impossible because a top TT specialist put all the effort and still lost more than one minute.

 

[bob.a.feet]

The jerseys podium tomorrow will just be Pogacar and Bennett.

 

[richwallone]

That is a priceless snapshot defining the 2020 TdF in one picture!!!

 

[Salvarani]

I still don’t understand. Did Rog burn out from previous days? Doesn’t seem like it but for whatever reason he bonked bad here. Should have been at least 2nd or 3rd in the TT but finished outside top 5. That’s pitiful for how he was riding. He had to be feeling bad.

His body language wasnt great. He was on the edge of the saddle pretty early in the stage. He was standing up a lot on the bike, which is unusual for him. He didnt look comfortable. Receiving info that he was losing time is tough mentally. Every image on the climb screamed panic.

Pog just had an incredible day. From the interview it sounded like they had did a very thorough recon. Im sure JV must have did that too, but maybe they relied too much on Roglic TT ability? They slipped up somewhere.

In the end, which I believe I think I saw another poster say, not following Pog on stage 8 was a huge mistake if he had the legs. You dont "gift" time away. Pog also must have gotten a huge confidence boost from that. He has never looked back since that stage in this Tour.

And riding so defensively and calculated, it can be hard to switch on the offense when things not going your way all of a sudden.

So much to write about this. Im sure we gonna be doing that for a few days/weeks on here. Just hoping it is for real. I love Pog and not so say "I knew it", but he was the first name on my team in the TdF game.

 

[yaco]

I doubt Pogacar will ever ride a better ITT in a GT - It was off the charts - Yes, Roglic's TT's at the end of GT's do wane but it was still a respectable ride in defending the yellow jersey.

 

[richwallone]

The jerseys podium tomorrow will just be Pogacar and Bennett.

Plus, Hirschi for most aggressive rider of the Tour and the top three teams in the team competition Also, it is top 3 on the podium in Paris, so plenty of people up there...

 

[Volderke]

The jerseys podium tomorrow will just be Pogacar and Bennett.

During the yellow jersey, the 2nd and 3rd will also be on the podium.

 

[Poursuivant]

It’s like being 1-0 up all game and then conceding two in injury time.

 

[Strathlubnaig]

Nice TT by Caruso for a top 10 on GC. Did Lopez have a fall or a mechanical ? He fell out of the top five !

he just had a nightmare instead

 

[gunara]

This Tour will be fun too rate, extremely boring to so so mountain stages and above average to great everything else.

 

[Volderke]

I already told that it was stupid of Roglic to 'allow' Pogacar to take time on Peyresourde, and it proved to be the case. If Pogacar had 45 seconds more to take, he would probably have not been flying like this.

Roglic probably couldn't follow Pogacar at Peyresourde, but it was still a tactical mistake not to try.

 

[bob.a.feet]

During the yellow jersey, the 2nd and 3rd will also be on the podium.

I'm talking about the one where they have all 4 jersey winners together.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Roglic says he did get info on the time splits. Have to wonder if that's the best strategy, it could be very demotivating. I know for example in 2010 when Contador started badly in the final time trial and Schleck was actually a bit faster, the DS did encourage him to speed up a bit as the timing was close, but didn't actually tell him the split times.

 

[LaFlorecita]

I already told that it was stupid of Roglic to 'allow' Pogacar to take time on Peyresourde, and it proved to be the case. If Pogacar had 45 seconds more to take, he would probably have not been flying like this.

Roglic probably couldn't follow Pogacar at Peyresourde, but it was still a tactical mistake not to try.

I feel Jumbo and Roglic wasted many opportunities to put pressure on Pogacar. A minute is so easily lost on a bad day or with a mechanical, so their passive attitude made little sense to me.

 

[hrotha]

MwahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHA snort

 

[Brullnux]

Interesting to see the Wiggins psychology BS was indeed BS

 

[hrotha]

It’s like being 1-0 up all game and then conceding two in injury time.

After subbing out all your strikers to get extra defenders.

 

[JosephK]

So Porte was as fast as a fast Dumoulin, and Roglic finished within 35 seconds of Dumo and made top 5 but still ceded almost 2 minutes to Pogi and lost GC by almost a minute. Makes sense.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Is this what forum eruption looks like??

Yes.

The only thing that's harder to keep pace with than Pogacar in an ITT is this stage thread!