Tour de France Tour de France 2021, Stage 17: Muret – Saint-Lary-Soulan Col du Portet, 178.4 km

[zepecat]

I think Pogacar should attack before the final TT to gain more time on his rivals.

Why? If anything, he should lose some time on purpose, to make the tour less boring. Anyway he will win the TT.

 

[Red Rick]

Ineos not driving the pace. Signaling weakness or what?

 

[Pantani_lives]

Pogacar clearly wants this stage. Winning in yellow on the toughest MTF.

 

[Netserk]

GC guys winning the stage is not a 100% given IMO

Van Aert lost 3'22'' on Ventoux with the slow Ineos pace in the first half.

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Van Aert should either have dropped off earlier or worked on Azet. Will he go in the break tomorrow, or save legs for the ITT and the OG?

 

[Eeslliw]

I think Pogi will go thermonuclear, he told them to up the pace.

 

[Eclipse]

Ineos not driving the pace. Signaling weakness or what?

It's pretty clear UAE are driving hard no?

I don't think it's an easy job to even wrestle this from them right now

 

[burning]

Actually, UAE are dropping a lot of riders, Pogacar wants to win the stage.

 

[Scarponi]

Quintana went from almost Tour winning attack back in the day to a top 5 contender to destroying a break and winning a MTF to now not even being able to beat z level riders to win stages

 

[lenric]

yawn

 

[SarahtheDane]

Only if a British rider falls with no contact, and takes him down with him.

I suppose only the english riders are a threat, not to drag Wales etc. into it. Anyone still in the peleton?

 

[ruamruam]

Bye bye Porte

 

[Red Rick]

Kelderman apparently fell on his face.

 

[Netserk]

Imminent Pogi obliteration incoming!

 

[Red Rick]

Majka isn't gonna last long, I think Pogacar will go from quite far out.

 

[Cassirer]

Quintana went from almost Tour winning attack back in the day to a top 5 contender to destroying a break and winning a MTF to now not even being able to beat z level riders to win stages

Its really sad to see... such a baffling decline

 

[burning]

Kelderman apparently fell on his face.

He is still in the main group, it is actually impressive that he is still hanging on here.

 

[Eclipse]

Kelderman apparently fell on his face.

Feels a bit early for a career retrospective.

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Seems we're down to 2 from UAE, 2 from JV, 2 from INEOS and not much more that's cohesive

 

[TourOfSardinia]

G not much use today

 

[Red Rick]

Sepp Kuss is Kussing.

 

[ontheroad]

Peloton down to 15 now.

 

[SafeBet]

Either GPS is broken or Perez is on a mission today. Barely losing time while UAE destroys the peloton.

 

[luckyboy]

Kelderman apparently fell on his face.

huh, where?

 

[Tim Cahill]

GPS incredibly suspect.

 

[Earns1985]

Mas dropped?

 

[Finn84]

Cofidis hasn't won a Tour stage since 2008.