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

[saganftw]

with all respect, lets not pretend Kruiswijk would play any kruicial role in the race anyway

 

[Tinnekeisabella]

How many with Vingegaard now?
3?

VA, Kuss and Teunissen

 

[Krokro]

How many with Vingegaard now?
3?

Teunissen, WVA and Kuss apparently?

 

[sir fly]

with all respect, lets not pretend Kruiswijk would play any kruicial role in the race anyway

Didn't have to be crucial.
A bottle here, musette there... make it easier for the rest of the team.

 

[Tinnekeisabella]

Did Jumbo lose a rider last year?

 

[Red Rick]

Did Jumbo lose a rider last year?

No.

 

[titan31]

Did Jumbo lose a rider last year?

Pretty sure all 8 went to Paris

 

[luckyboy]

Didn't have to be crucial.
A bottle here, musette there... make it easier for the rest of the team.

Teunissen can do that for 115km and then Van Aert will be fine.

 

[sir fly]

Still 70k to the climbs.
Ridiculous.

 

[sir fly]

Brad's comparisons are... special.

 

[glassmoon]

Bernard is being punished by his DS...

 

[staubsauger]

Abandon Kruyswijk….Jumbo left with 4 riders

Should have been scheduled for la Vuelta right away!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Bernard is probably going for the lesser-known most breaks without a win competition this year.

 

[sir fly]

At ease, Bernard.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

poor kruijswijk has 2 *** years in a row since 2019..

Jumbo with 4 man. Well as long as Ving has Van Aert and Kuss he shouldnt be worried

 

[ppanther92]

What an awful break for a mountain stage. Even more so if we cobsider that Pogacar does not care about stage wins and breaks have high chances

 

[broppo]

most difficult stage and the weakest break of the whole tour....

 

[18-Valve. (pithy)]

Should have been scheduled for la Vuelta right away!

he won't be of much use there either

 

[tobydawq]

So pretty weak break compared to the last days..
Will they do it to the end? I think only when they have more then 15 minutes before the road starts to rise..

They would need half an hour. No chance they win today, thank god.

 

[sir fly]

most difficult stage and the weakest break of the whole tour....

It's the break that makes everybody on the road happy.

 

[bob.a.feet]

I think the 'roadblocking' is more akin to taking the ball to the corner than diving in football: not super fun but yes super legal.

Unfair to compare it to diving as that is actually cheating.

 

[houtdffan]

Still 70k to the climbs.
Ridiculous.

stage really needed Bales to be included

 

[Red Rick]

poor kruijswijk has 2 *** years in a row since 2019..

Jumbo with 4 man. Well as long as Ving has Van Aert and Kuss he shouldnt be worried

Contract through 2023 too

 

[Red Rick]

They would need half an hour. No chance they win today, thank god.

Doesn't matter

Sepp Kuss and Alejandro Valverde #1 and #2 are inevitable.

 

[sir fly]

stage really needed Bales to be included

Hay bales?