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

[Waterloo Sunrise]

47:41 time limit then. Cav group currently 36 minutes behind with 4km left to climb

and now the live tracker fails as usual and one just has to pray.

 

[Red Rick]

This descent really changed nothing, except Vingegaard getting caught maybe. They should have finished at the top.

Maybe don't wait for 2km to go to attack then.

 

[jmdirt]

These young freaks!

 

[Escarabajo]

Vingegard asking Pogacar if he saw his acting!!! that was some acting said Vingegard!!

 

[canarydan23]

47:41 time limit then. Cav group currently 36 minutes behind with 4km left to climb

Should be comfortably home then, touch wood.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Maybe don't wait for 2km to go to attack then.

Exactly, the route was not the issue here, even if double Bedoin side would have helped. Riders should be offered opportunities to take time on descents and there aren't overly many this year.

 

[sir fly]

Kudos to JVT.
Losing riders just make them feature more prominently.

 

[dgodave]

Good racing today. I was entertained.

 

[MrTea1976]

As a mod I'm not sure I should be putting users on ignore...

I like ranting at a screen about the ridiculous nature of human behaviour sometimes. I haven't seen the ads though, as I watch via computer.

 

[spalco]

Van der Poel being grumpy the rest of the week, because now he has to do this as well next year.

It's really impossible to decide which one of the two is the more impressive racer.

 

[BlueRoads]

You don't give away the most prestigious stage of the entire tour, for a possible 25 seconds in GC for a possible 3rd podium spot.

Yeah, I know, that's why I said I understand it in this situation. It's just that if I have a hunch, and I would have expected that the team has from the training data, that Vingegaard can take the race to the best and Wout van Aert can win a tough climbing stage and is the best climber apart from Vingegaard, and Vingegaard is not a great descender, and van Aert is, and there's quite some descending on this stage... well, what I want to say I would probably have told van Aert before the stage he should not go for the win here but choose another stage and stay with Vingegaard here - but of course once van Aert is sure to get the stage win here, you don't give that up for a possible podium.

 

[titan31]

Should be comfortably home then, touch wood.

SKA and Rowe look done for here though

 

[Escarabajo]

Maybe don't wait for 2km to go to attack then.

That never happens because riders are not that strong!
They should just play the statistics and weight in next time. Maybe I am asking for too much.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I doubt Jumbo knew that Vingegaard would be able to drop Pogacar and Carapaz here. He might have been feeling better today after his crash than he did during the weekend, but this level is still something new for him. I'm not sure he's going to be the best climber in the race from now on though, but at least he did take time ouf of some of the other contenders.

 

[jarvo]

if you would have said 3 years ago that Froome and Cav would be climbing together on a double ascent of Ventoux, people would be thinking you were smoking crack!

 

[TourOfSardinia]

That was almost a confession from Wout.

 

[Breezy1985]

SKA and Rowe look done for here though

Wasn't that long ago that Rowe was the most amazing mountain Dom ever

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

If Vingegaard keeps this up for three weeks, he could start next to Roglic next year, in the pecking order.
Below Van Aert, obviously.

 

[Red Rick]

If Vingegaard keeps this up for three weeks, he could start next to Roglic next year, in the pecking order.
Below Van Aert, obviously.

I just asked Roglic if that were okay with him

He said "why not eh"

 

[IndianCyclist]

Maybe don't wait for 2km to go to attack then.

Not possible with the Kawasaki express

 

[Red Rick]

Not possible with the Kawasaki express

Kwiatkowski was barely putting time into Van Aert.

 

[FroomeWagon]

According to cyclilngnews livereport ... Cavs group 45minutes down ... going to be close again.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

GC

 

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

According to cyclilngnews livereport ... Cavs group 45minutes down ... going to be close again.

45? Isn't the time limit around 47?

 

[Izzyeviel]

if you would have said 3 years ago that Froome and Cav would be climbing together on a double ascent of Ventoux, people would be thinking you were smoking crack!

well in 2012 we were treated to the ridiculous sight of Cavendish leading the Sky Train up a cat 1 climb...