Tour de France 2020 | Stage 6 (Le Teil - Mont Aigoual, 191 km)

[Gigs_98]

Depending on your definition there is now 1/3 of the mountain stages done.

 

[IndianCyclist]

Bad stage design. Should have ended at the highest incline mountain

 

[Andy262]

Nice to see the break get a win but otherwise another snoozefest.

 

[TomLPC]

"Julian Alaphilippe did get the moral victory there"

Thanks Gary Imlach, has his priorities straight there

 

[Escarabajo]

the problem with the TDF compared to vuelta and giro, is that riders fear losing more than they hope to win. it is just too important to be top ten.

This. I think that is the main issue.

Today I don't understand Jumbo. Roglic is hot. He should take time whenever he can I guess. I might be proven wrong later but more times than not riders regret it later.

 

[luckyboy]

This has been a horrible first week.

 

[JosephK]

At start of stage today: OMG, it is going to be a throwdown for GC! And then . . . okay, letting the break go up the road, just strategy. And then . . . okay, letting the break go WAY up the road, no doubt to gather for a GC battle behind the break. And then . . . uh, zzzzz [snoring].

 

[huangho]

JV think they have controlled the race so far, but I believe this was a wasted opportunity...

 

[ppanther92]

This has been a horrible first week.

Even for Tour standards, I have to add. The race itself is still exciting, the racing action was really bad.

 

[Wvv]

Lutsenko giving Italian answers to English questions. Takes me back to the 90s/early 00s!

Nice effort Greg. Hope you can dig deep again in a better suited stage.

 

[Volderke]

it's the Tour.
It always looks like a prep. race for the Vuelta.

If they wanted some action, they should have held the Giro first. Now it seems like everybody is afraid mainly because they have not enough racing rythm.

 

[spalco]

Good on Yates for keeping the jersey.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

You can put 9 quantity-over-quality mountain stages in the first week and still have no meaningful gaps, particularly with this lethargic peloton.

 

[Kwibus]

This profile was never going to work in the first week. Last week this couldve been great, now nobody dares.

 

[Big Doopie]

Bad stage design. Should have ended at the highest incline mountain

or more up and down with little flat.

please, oh please, no more stages with (basically) just one final MTF.

and imagine if they had just done a descent afterwards, ala's attack could have really turned into something...

so tired of the flat stage ending in one MTF.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

This. I think that is the main issue.

Today I don't understand Jumbo. Roglic is hot. He should take time whenever he can I guess. I might be proven wrong later but more times than not riders regret it later.

Exactly. If Roglic starts to fade ever so slightly in the third week, they'll kick themselves in the head for not striking the iron while it was hot.

 

[fuiers]

This has been a horrible first week.

comparing this to previous years it actually is much better.

 

[Red Rick]

Depending on your definition there is now 1/3 of the mountain stages done.

By my count they've already done 3/2 of the rest days

 

[Big Doopie]

hugh carthy looks like the second best guy at EF after uran...

 

[Escarabajo]

Bad stage design. Should have ended at the highest incline mountain

I don't think the design was the problem. IMHO. I know some forum members in here think that almost every stage is a bad design. But is just not the stages only but the riders. Put the same finish at the Vuelta to see what happens.

 

[Carols]

This. I think that is the main issue.

Today I don't understand Jumbo. Roglic is hot. He should take time whenever he can I guess. I might be proven wrong later but more times than not riders regret it later.

Maybe he was on a bad day? JV never even went to the front or even showed themselves. Later we may hear his legs weren't there.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Would have been a snooze fest without Aru
btw did he finish with the group?

 

[Leinster]

Looking at the way Lutsenko destroyed his break companions and is still increasing the gap to the peloton now I'm not sure he would have been caught anyway.

That gap was to a peloton that had long since settled into Sunday stroll rhythm.

 

[Red Rick]

Exactly. If Roglic starts to fade ever so slightly in the third week, they'll kick themselves in the head for not striking the iron while it was hot.

They're so wannabe Sky it's making me cringe.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I honestly don't understand why none of the secondary GC teams try something on a stage like today.

People like Porte, Mollema, Bardet, Mas, Martin, etc.

A lot of GC captains are riding injured, and not putting pressure on them in the first week, will allow them to recover without losing time.

Porte wouldn't try anything if he had a DS committee consisting of Jacky Durand, Vino and the ghost of Frank Vandenbroucke.

Because most of the guys probably has a lot of respect for Saturdays stage. Why put in an extreme effort to gain only 20s-30s today. With that stage coming up, where you can lose 10 minutes on a bad day.

Yea, because Peyresourde stages with descent finishes have opened huge time gaps in recent years? Fingers crossed it's better than 2016...

Bad stage design. Should have ended at the highest incline mountain

The stage finish design was fine, Mont Aigoual after Lusette is fine. The issue was taking the tempo round from Le Vigan that cut the start of the steeper col out, and refusing to add any lead-in climbs, in an area where they almost had to work harder to find flat roads than they would have done to create an infinitely better stage where the riders weren't all just hitting Lusette completely fresh.