Tour de France Tour de France 2021, Stage 11: Sorgues – Malaucène, 198.9 km

[Mayomaniac]

Certain it be Yates from BEX - Maybe it could be both riders.

Chaves probably needs some help to get into the breakaway with a flat start.
I won't be able to watch the stage because of work, maybe I'll catch the final descent.

 

[movingtarget]

And Froome will run past all of them before the tree line ends.

If it was a half marathon Froome might have a chance....................

 

[Lequack]

Dan Martin is also in this race.

 

[vladimir]

Can anyone from the top 13 (within 12 minutes) get into the break? Would be nice to see a new "yellow on the road" if not the actual podium.

Guilaime Martin will probably try. And no need for UAE to panic if he gets into the break. INEOS and Ag2r on the other hand might want to keep him at 4-5 minutes max...

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Dan Martin is also in this race.

Yeah, but that reminds me of a rest day interview with Pierre Latour cited in ITV4 commentary yesterday. He was asked what stage he had earmarked as a possibility, and said that today was his target. The commentator responded with surprise, mentioning the long descent to the finish, which apparently came as news to Latour and he quickly reassessed his opportunities and set his sights on the Pyrenees.

 

[Lequack]

How the people of TDF get pumped up in the morning

https://twitter.com/x/status/1412680868884320258

View: https://twitter.com/siniecko/status/1412680868884320258?s=20

 

[saganftw]

pogacars recent comments make me worry he is not gonna tryhard this stage just to get the critics off his nuts, could result in a fairly dull stage and a break taking it ...hopefully carapaz isnt jolly about ben oconnor snatching second overall so at least there is that, which is nice

 

[MrTea1976]

Barhain to win with Colbrelli, 2011 Vuelta Liquigas style. Pog being the other in this case.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Pog to lose 5 mins

 

[Netserk]

I like stages to have a meaningful story to tell. To be part of a bigger narrative. Doing a loop on a climb makes no sense in the story of riders pedalling their way around France (unless you wanna tell the story that someone forgot their wallet on top of the mountain and had to go back to get it).

Anyway, break to take it. Woods vs Poels vs Quintana.

Even if you go from A to B and do no climb twice, you can still get the "someone forgot their wallet", and I don't think it necessarily clashes with the narrative (See also the Champs-Élysées).

This.

Double Alpe deliberately ignored all the amazing climbs around Bourg d’Oisans, to do the same one twice.

There’s nothing near the Ventoux, and they’re climbing it from 2 different directions. If there’s a disappointment it’s that they can’t start the stage by including a climb from the other side and include all 3.

It's possible, but it'd have to be very far from the finish.

 

[Eclipse]

Pog to lose 5 mins

to Gaudu or Bilbao?

 

[King Boonen]

Warren Barguil will win this bike race. Don't at me.

 

[Leinster]

It's possible, but it'd have to be very far from the finish.

That would be beautiful.

 

[gregrowlerson]

If it was a half marathon Froome might have a chance....................

The way that we're heading it wouldn't totally surprise if stages are half marathon distance one day.

Not a lot to look forward to if that's the case. Well, apart from rants from Libertine Seguros.

 

[Netserk]

Check out the wind yesterday, what a massive headwind! (It seems that it will be far calmer today)

I wonder how hard the wind was blowing in 2016 when they moved the finish.

 

[Stelvio]

If there’s a disappointment it’s that they can’t start the stage by including a climb from the other side and include all 3.

Something like that is probably the shortest possible route, but since it requires climbing and descending both the Malaucène and Sault sides it's not possible, if for nothing else safety reasons (at least not in TdF).

 

[Stelvio]

I wonder how hard the wind was blowing in 2016 when they moved the finish.

104 km/h, 64 mph, 29 meters/second, Beaufort 11. It was windy.

 

[Netserk]

Something like that is probably the shortest possible route, but since it requires climbing and descending both the Malaucène and Sault sides it's not possible, if for nothing else safety reasons (at least not in TdF).

They have done that in the Vuelta (and to a lesser extend the Giro too with the Stelvio).

 

[Bardamu]

How the people of TDF get pumped up in the morning

https://twitter.com/x/status/1412680868884320258

View: https://twitter.com/siniecko/status/1412680868884320258?s=20

why aren't they dancing to snollebollekes?

 

[Izzyeviel]

This has Tommy of Gendt all over it

 

[Netserk]

They are about to reach the Départ Réel.

Miguel Ángel López is my pick to win this bike race.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Mollema, Alaphilippe, Woods, Mohoric, Meurisse all seem to want to be in the break.

 

[Netserk]

Alaphilippe enjoys the nice weather and wants to get in the break. Cavendish is near the front.

The first 30 km is flat, then the hills and the intermediate sprint come.

 

[Tobi]

Hope this stage can live up to the hype

 

[BigCoward]

Did Wiggins just refer to Mont Ventoux as 'she'?