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

[Eclipse]

We're basically going to have no GC riders within 1'30 of Pog after today lol

 

[Carols]

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.

If Roglic was healthy he wouldn't be 1:40 down, just saying.

 

[woodburn]

1:43 for Carapaz. Going to need to go nuclear in mountains.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

Any takers on the final gap between 1st and 2nd in this Tour? I'll venture 5 minutes or more.

I won't.

It's stage 5 - and I have watched waaaay too many GTs, where something happened to put an early leader out of contention..

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Pogacar saw Alaphlippe's race number before the start and thought he had to ride faster than that to win.

 

[titan31]

Carapaz going to need to take 4 minutes between this and the next TT in the high mountains

 

[limak_]

MvdP will defend that on those corners and cx-like accelerations

 

[spalco]

Oof, 1:43 extra for Carapaz, that's quite a package...

 

[Barnacle Bill]

5 seconds!

 

[ppanther92]

Do we actually think Roglic could even have done much better? Pogacar also beats Kung, WvA and Asgreen with quite some margin on their terrain. That was just (again) another level.

 

[Red Rick]

If Roglic was healthy he wouldn't be 1:40 down, just saying.

Jumbo didn't learn.

Roglic again didn't attack Pogacar before the ITT smh.

 

[Tim Cahill]

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.

 

[woodburn]

van der Poel should keep it by a few seconds.

 

[perico]

Bad TT for Wilco, same time as Mas.

A few of the climbers like Mas and Fraile seemed to improve over the 2nd and 3rd section. Wasn’t a terrible time in relation to everyone except Pogacar.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

1:43 for Carapaz. Going to need to go nuclear in mountains.

It's literally impossible. The only possibility is UAE messing up a descent like in Itzulia, and even that is unlikely to be enough.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Carapaz did what he could, better than Mas and Wilco.

 

[Big Doopie]

The idea that everyone would be at the same level this year as they were last and that it was just a matter of changing race tactics was a false assumption from the start.

The winner was a 21 year old.

He is now 22.

There was always a strong chance that Pog was the variable in ascendency.

Fignon 83 — surprise, winner at very young age
Fignon 84 — absolute domination the next year

similarities?

lol

 

[spalco]

Do we actually think Roglic could also even have done much better? Pogacar also beats Kung, WvA and Asgreen with quite some margin on their terrain. That was just (again) another level.

I do think so, but it's both speculative and pointless to talk about it.

 

[glassmoon]

mvdp impressive

 

[Carols]

MVDP does it!!!!

 

[titan31]

Do we actually think Roglic could also even have done much better? Pogacar also beats Kung, WvA and Asgreen with quite some margin on their terrain. That was just (again) another level.

Yup. Roglic would have been around Kungs time imo at worst, and he was already ahead of Pogacar when he crashed in GC.

 

[woodburn]

Hell of a ride by MVDP. TT could be in his future.

 

[RedheadDane]

Van der Poel defends yellow?

 

[Eclipse]

Superb defence of the jersey

 

[KZD]

HE DID IT!