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

[spalco]

GC

Ooh, Lutsenko, who's quietly sneaking up into the top ranks of the GC there...? Uran too, and maybe Vingegaard if Roglic can't continue fully.

 

[woodburn]

Pogacar doesn't have Heras, Landis or Hamilton with him, as long as enough riders don't conserve their top 10s then it could still be interesting.

I've never understood the strategy of contenders not attacking the leader with some cohesion. It's the only way to break him, especially with a weak team. Yeah, you might have to let a guy ahead of you or behind you go up the road but make Pogacar work more every day and wear him down. It's the only way to win the race - which I think is the goal.

 

[JosefK]

Roglic only 44 seconds slower than Pog on this TT. Pretty amazing grit, there.

 

[IndianCyclist]

Now Pogachar has to fend off the attack of the Press. I hope the media does its job properly this time around

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Pogacar jumped the start, not sure what the penalty would be.

dock him 20sec and give Kuung the satisfaction

 

[Big Doopie]

Kudos again to Rog and G for fighting thru.

Glad Uran and Gaudu stayed “in the game” for a high finish. Would have liked Chavez to resist better, but…

ineos abandoned Porte waaaay too soon. Had him work on Mur (dropping G in the process). He would definitely have been able to stay with the Ala group if not better and would not have added more time to his stage 1 deficit. Ineos panicked. Porte is climbing better than G, and maybe as well (or better?) as Carapaz.

 

[Rackham]

Roglic only 44 seconds slower than Pog on this TT. Pretty amazing grit, there.

Legendary performance from Roglic, IMO.

And it only makes the decision to leave van Aert ahead on Monday after the crash all the more stupid. Honestly, I'm even angrier right now. What were JV thinking? van Aert's dreams of temporary yellow were totally detrimental to the real fight for the podium & GC.

 

[Netserk]

Pogacar jumped the start, not sure what the penalty would be.

Doesn't matter, their times start when they leave the ramp.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Haha, TV2 reporter on-site, had spoken to Zeeman at the finish, and the quote was:

"Please don't pin all the hopes of the nation on Jonas now - pin them on your football team".

Clearly he knows the crazy Danish fans very well by now

 

[titan31]

Pogacar jumped the start, not sure what the penalty would be.

90 seconds would be good for us, so go with that.

 

[BlueRoads]

My brain is hardly able to process the results.
Apart from Pogacar:
Vingegaard faster than everyone except for Pogacar and Küng.
Van der Poel faster than Asgreen and Porte.
Alaphilippe faster than most GC guys but still a lot slower than Vingegaard and van der Poel.
Guys like Hamilton, Nibali and Bilbao practically nowhere to be seen.
(And I'm not even talking about guys like Roglic and Thomas because we know their injuries.)

 

[Big Doopie]

dock him 20sec and give Kuung the satisfaction

time is taken from when wheel crosses tape at start, NOT from when rider starts pedaling. Pretty dumb to measure to 1/100ths of a second if the latter were the case.

 

[topt]

I'm not even sure Evenepoel would have beaten Pogacar today.

why would he

 

[Tim Cahill]

Someone is just going to need to be brave, I think both Carapaz and a Roglic not interested in 2nd both have it in their locker.

 

[JosefK]

If Vingegaard hadn't been caught up with Primoz in that late stage 3 crash, who knows where he would be right now on GC?

 

[Ramira]

This and last year healthy Roglic was evenly matched with Pogacar. Gaining 1:40 is likely 99% impossible barring additonal any crashes.

Roglič was not healthy last year. He was still very much affected by his crash in the Dauphiné. Of course Pogačar is stronger than he was last year. So I agree that even a healthy Roglič would not be able to take back 1:40 unless Pogačar has a bad day for some reason.

 

[Mick Dundee]

VdP on target with taking monster form to Tokyo… he’ll need it against Piddles!

 

[Skalman]

Boring that Tdf is over by stage 5 unless there is a crash, but I guess all those that want more and longer TT´s are happy

 

[Ranagazoo]

If we see a single Jumbo or Ineos train this Tour then they deserve to lose, only slim chance of beating Pog is to make his team do all the work

 

[Netserk]

Van Aert letting the team down.

 

[topt]

Now Pogachar has to fend off the attack of the Press. I hope the media does its job properly this time around

perhaps they should also ask MVP the same question than

 

[Ramira]

Someone is just going to need to be brave, I think both Carapaz and a Roglic not interested in 2nd both have it in their locker.

The problem is they are already too far behind, and Roglič is not going to get back to 100% this Tour. Those wounds just take too much energy to recover from.

I do think that both Carapaz and Roglič (if he can recover somewhat) will attack Pogačar, I just don't think they can challenge him unless he has a truly bad day, worse than he's had for a few years now.

 

[movingtarget]

If we see a single Jumbo or Ineos train this Tour then they deserve to lose, only slim chance of beating Pog is to make his team do all the work

Agree. Its tactics or nothing for Jumbo and Ineos unless they intend to ride for a podium which is possible of course but it would be very dull.

 

[BlueRoads]

Does someone have a list with the GC standings of the suspected GC riders?
(I know I can make it myself, but if someone has one at hand...)

 

[Carols]

Doesn't matter, their times start when they leave the ramp.

Except for Perico?