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

[Broccolidwarf]

ON?

Well probably "near" - but this way it's funnier

 

[Mayomaniac]

Haha, TV2 saying WvA got a €175 fine yesterday - apparently for peeing on a spectator

Did he pull an R. Kelly?

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Too bad Bjarne never had Alpecin to take care of his hair...

Dude!

That literally made me LOL

 

[The pet snake of Froome]

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

Good enough for Froome good enough for pog

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Did he pull an R. Kelly?

You gotta update that reference dude, he's not really fit joking material anymore

 

[movingtarget]

The Danes are really on fire today

A Dane that can't TT is becoming like a Colombian that can't climb or a Belgian that can't ride the cobbles...............

 

[Carols]

Whenever I think a race is over I watch stage 19 and 20 of the 2016 Giro .
It's never over until the fat lady sings!

 

[saganftw]

of the real favourites its uran who is in the best position, but except pog the rest is quite stacked together, there could be fun fighting for top 5

 

[Samu Cuenca]

So, who do you consider the biggest threat to Pogacar? Vingegaard, Latour or Lutsenko?

I have done some research, and his only real weakness seems to be Anna van der Breggen, so I think he'll be alright here.

 

[Breezy1985]

Whenever I think a race is over I watch stage 19 and 20 of the 2016 Giro .
It's never over until the fat lady sings!

Or peak Floyd Landis
Sometimes it still isn't over after the singing

 

[luckyboy]

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

What can anybody say without being sued for libel/slander?

 

[Breezy1985]

I have done some research, and his only real weakness seems to be Anna van der Breggen, so I think he'll be alright here.

No one has a chance when she gives that look

 

[Netserk]

Not the best pic I could find, but still...

Bjarne more muscular than Mathieu.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I thought 51kph will be the winning speed today.
It still can.

Rnk	Rider	Team	UCI	Pnt	Time	Avg
1	POGAČAR Tadej	UAE-Team Emirates	120	100	0:32:00	51.000

As far as accuracy of predictions go, to within 1/1000 km/h is pretty good (yes, I know that the claim to be able to present av speeds to that accuracy are untenable)

 

[Tim Cahill]

What can anybody say without being sued for libel/slander?

Does Digger still grace these parts, maybe they could ask him where the line is.
If not I'm sure he knows a good lawyer or two.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Bjarne more muscular than Mathieu.

And is more of a conehead

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Porte not exactly saving himself for dom duties

However, Kwiatkokwski, Geoghegan Hart and Castroviejo, none of them poor time trialists, were all in the last 20 times.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

I find it odd, that Fuglsang didn't slow roll today, to lose more time.

I would have thought Saturday was a perfect stage for him, if his target is stages and polkadots, but only being 2:08 down on Pogacar, he will not be allowed to hit the early break, nor get away from the GC group on the last climb.

 

[Ramira]

Whenever I think a race is over I watch stage 19 and 20 of the 2016 Giro .
It's never over until the fat lady sings!

That was caused by a crash though, albeit one that was caused due to Kruijswijk trying to follow Nibali while there was no need to do so. No race is ever over if we account for crashes.

This year's Paris-Nice was also over until Roglič crashed.

 

[BlueRoads]

So my list of GC candidates:

Pogacar
Latour +1.20
Uran +1.21
Vingegaard +1.35
Carapaz +1.36
Roglic +1.40
Thomas +1.46
Kelderman +1.48
Mas +1.50

Pogacar with a safe win unless bad luck happens, but the others should be in for the podium fight.

 

[houtdffan]

Unless Remco gets back to his pre crash form, there is no competition for Pogacar

 

[Breezy1985]

So my list of GC candidates:

Pogacar
Latour +1.20
Uran +1.21
Vingegaard +1.35
Carapaz +1.36
Roglic +1.40
Thomas +1.46
Kelderman +1.48
Mas +1.50

Pogacar with a safe win unless bad luck happens, but the others should be in for the podium fight.

Thomas back to 10+ from the Ineos leadership jersey
Nice to see Latour up there hopefully he hangs on late into the race

 

[ppanther92]

Bjarne more muscular than Mathieu.

Crazy how bulky those "old" GC riders sometimes were.

 

[Ricco']

Bjarne more muscular than Mathieu.

From which supplier is the helmet?

It doesn't look like a Abus/Canyon one.

 

[ice&fire]

Other than the outlier of Pogacar we still have 8 contenders within half a minute. We need longer ITTs.