Tour de France Tour de France 2021, Stage 5: Changé – Laval Espace Mayenne, 27.2 km (ITT)

[Rollthedice]

Only the 'real Froome' can save us now.

Not even him.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Don't tell me Pogacar will take yellow here already even with VDP doing a TT we thought to be impossible.

 

[MrTea1976]

Van der Poel is awesome.

 

[Eeslliw]

Pogacar has his radio back, I think he will sandbag last couple km to give yellow.

 

[spalco]

I thought Pogacar might take the yellow jersey on the weekend, didn't think it would be today.

 

[woodburn]

Not even him.

Froome wasn't close to this at this age. Only LeMond and Fignon.

 

[johnymax]

The only kryptonite for Pogačar is the heat. Today's conditions are perfect for him. Amazing ride.

Having said that, you may not agree with this, but I am of the opinion that a healthy Roglič would have been very close to him today.

 

[Red Rick]

I thought Pogacar might take the yellow jersey on the weekend, didn't think it would be today.

He's taking yellow too early

 

[King Boonen]

He doesn't look terrible at all though imo, maybe a bit too much movement on the bike.

He looks like he's wrestling the damn thing.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Kung looks like Tony Martin analysing Aru's surprise TT showing

 

[Eclipse]

Pog soft pedalling in

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Even in ITTs Van Aert and Van der Poel manage to sit in each others wheel and let a third guy win.

 

[Rollthedice]

No tiredness no pain on his face. What is this?

 

[Volderke]

51 average.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Pogacar treating himself with a nice drink after this relaxed afternoon ride.

 

[titan31]

Just misses going under 32 mins.

 

[sir fly]

I'd never think Pogačar would be the one to hit 51kph.

 

[MrTea1976]

Kung-cam has been excellent.

 

[Mayomaniac]

The Küng reaction face is meme material.

 

[woodburn]

Pogacar seems to have slowed a bit. Only gained 44 seconds on Roglic overall and nine seconds after second check.

Maybe hope for van der Poel

 

[ontheroad]

The tour is over barring an accident.

Pogacar is alien and he hasn't even come near to reaching his physical peak.

 

[Lequack]

He gained about 40 additional seconds on Roglic, meaning he now leads Roglic by about 1:40 give or take. Even helathy Roglic would have difficulty taking that back.

 

[Salvarani]

51 kph

 

[Broccolidwarf]

No tiredness no pain on his face. What is this?

Oh man, we really are in for a summer of conspiracy theories

 

[woodburn]

The tour is over barring an accident.

Pogacar is alien and he hasn't even come near to reaching his physical peak.

Only knee issues or getting shot by brother-in-law would seem to slow him down.