Tour de France Tour de France 2021, Stage 14: Carcassonne – Quillan, 183.7 km

[70kmph]

Here come Ineos train haha

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[bassano]

I like that Martin at least trying something. Maybe Enric Mas or Lutsenko could put UAE more under pressure today. Even if probably would not work.

 

[Gigs_98]

Gotta say, I really prefer breakaway Patrick Konrad over gc riding and Haimar Zubeldia imitating Patrick Konrad. He really impressed me today.

 

[JosefK]

We'll see if Martin can hang in there tomorrow. Tall order.

 

[Red Rick]

We'll see if Martin can hang in there tomorrow. Tall order.

It's not like he rode super hard in that break either.

He'd get dropped on Beixalis with or without that breakaway, Envalira scares nobody

 

[titan31]

I like that Martin at least trying something. Maybe Enric Mas or Lutsenko could put UAE more under pressure today. Even if probably would not work.

They should try tomorrow. If either want to get on the podium anyway, they need to gain time on likes of Uran and Vingegaard before the TTs

 

[movingtarget]

Meintjes is doubling the amount of screentime he's gotten through his whole career here

He realized he was near the front too much and faded back into the second group...............former ninjas shaking their heads.....

 

[sir fly]

The stage lived up to expectations.
Congrats to Mollema.
Daring move paid off.

 

[movingtarget]

Typical Mollema move, he loves the long break. On his day like today he gets in TT mode and he's never seen again. Great win.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Konrad saying he wasn't allowed to pull in the break because of the GC threat to Kelderman (lol), hence was at the back when Mollema attacked (facepalm)

 

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

Bauke Mollema made Great again

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Just like TGBM's Lombardia

 

[DenisMenchov]

Great move, great ride and great win by The Great Bauke Mollema, also 50/1 odds were great.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[Black Betsy]

Nothing better than spinning some Dutch metal while rewatching TGBM's win(Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! F**cking sram!)

 

[jmdirt]

I love it when a breaks works, and I especially love it when hard racing from the break gets the win!
Bauke!

 

[Leinster]

Yup, definitely the worst rider if you are others to let go solo.

Because this is what he does best. Just ride at a high steady pace.

But hats off to Mollema. He has won some great stages and races like this.

I remember when he won his previous Tour stage in (2017?) afterwards he said “this is great because I get to tell my kid I won a race.” He’s won a fair few more since then now that he’s not going for gc any more.

 

[Blanco]

I would really like if Martin could hang on to podium place. I mean what was this? Jumbo, Ineos, EF all had the firepower to chase but choose not to.

 

[will-10]

I would really like if Martin could hang on to podium place. I mean what was this? Jumbo, Ineos, EF all had the firepower to chase but choose not to.

He is not a threat for the podium so they saved their matches for tomorrow.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Bjerg from UAE said that it was stupid by the other GC teams to let Martin gain so much time today.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Mollema just copy-pasted his victory in Puy-en-Velay in 2017 to today.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

It's embarrassing to allow Mollema to attack on the descent and get one minute - This should not happen.

I doubt they fully 'allowed' it as opposed to Mollema just being strong.
Don't forget even on the climb they only gained back 20 seconds, after Mollema had already been solo for +20km.

I think it's quite easy to say the strongest won

 

[Jungle Cycle]

whoever it is deserve a promotion!!..

https://twitter.com/x/status/1413875642974707715

View: https://twitter.com/SRAMroad/status/1413875642974707715

 

[roundabout]

I'd love to see Martin pull of a miracle, but he was not that great in the breaks, lost 2.5 minutes to other podium contenders over the Ventoux and is easily the worst TT rider.