Tour de France Tour de France 2021, Stage 8: Oyonnax – Le Grand-Bornand, 150.8 km

[Poursuivant]

Peloton riding go karts while Pogacar cruises past in a ferrari. Insane that

 

[Escarabajo]

I take spectacle, not ridicule. I feel like we are going back to the past. When is the next UCI president election?

 

[MartinGT]

Good old Ineos. Everyone laughing at UAE at the start of this comparing the team to Ineos.

 

[BlueRoads]

If we expect van Aert to lose more significant time in the weeks coming Pogacar already has about 5 minutes on his main competitors...

 

[Netserk]

Ras 2007 stage 8 was pretty massive IIRC, most weren't considering him a contender at that point though, although according to Dekker he had been telling people he was in tour winning form for ages.

2'47''. Didn't make the podium (of largest gaps).

 

[MartinGT]

I take spectacle, not ridicule. I feel like we are going back to the past. When is the next UCI president election?

Going back to 2012 you mean?

 

[Big Doopie]

Froome and Contador matched up in 5 races in 2014; Contador beat Froome in 4 of them and they both crashed out in the 5th.

again conveniently leaving out that froome basically crashed hard in the dauphine after froome had beat him in both the ITT and the first MTF. contador was in no way at all looking like he was going to "dominate" as pog just had. no way at all. it was actually less likely that he beat froome (between the years of 2013 and 2015 dominant victories) or Nibali who had a full 3 minutes on him and wenty on to completely dominate the rest of that TDF.

contador never once won a stage, wore any jersey category or stood on any podium after he was DQ-ed. fact.

pog won three jerseys in his first TDF and has two now with 4 1/2 minutes on his first real GC rival after the first mountain stage. contador in 2014 was in absolutely no way demonstrating that quality.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Froome '18: 3'00''
Pogačar '21: 3'20''
Landis '06: 5'42''

That's depressing.

 

[movingtarget]

Great win for Teuns. Pogacar blew the GC wide open. Pogacar might win the race by 10 minutes.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Has someone cared to work out the time limit? (yes, I'm too lazy do it myself)

 

[JosefK]

Pogi should go full cannibal and enter the Vuelta, too. Then do all 3 grand tours next year.

 

[Escarabajo]

Biggest gap to nearest GC competitors in a single stage since?

1999

 

[MartinGT]

I take spectacle, not ridicule. I feel like we are going back to the past. When is the next UCI president election?

BriNg BaCk C0OksOn

 

[Netserk]

Nairoman in Valloire. But afterall luckily he was not a GC contender (according to Unzue).

How far back in GC was he before that stage?

 

[woodburn]

Any word on grupetto?

 

[Escarabajo]

Did Froome every win by more than 3 mins on stage? Maybe Nibali in 2014?

He meant a single stage!
Indurain TT come to mind. But Armstrong in 1999 and 2000 put some big gaps to the competition as well. Not a good company if you ask me.

 

[Volderke]

If we expect van Aert to lose more significant time in the weeks coming Pogacar already has about 5 minutes on his main competitors...

WvA will take back 9 minutes like Ocana on the way to Orcières-Merlettes.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Teuns rode for his granddad who was buried the week before the Tour started. That's why he was pointing to the sky when he crossed the finish.

 

[perico]

again conveniently leaving out that froome basically crashed hard in the dauphine after froome had beat him in both the ITT and the first MTF. contador was in no way at all looking like he was going to "dominate" as pog just had. no way at all. it was actually less likely that he beat froome (between the years of 2013 and 2015 dominant victories) or Nibali who had a full 3 minutes on him and wenty on to completely dominate the rest of that TDF.

contador never once won a stage, wore any jersey category or stood on any podium after he was DQ-ed. fact.

You conveniently leave out the fact that they both entered the Vuelta that year and injured and were the top 2 riders in the 3rd week, and Contador beat Froome on both Mtn stages, as well as destroying him in the TT. Contador also dropped him in Cataluña and Tirreno in the mountains. Froome out sprinted Contador in the Dauphine Mtn stage, hardly dropped him.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Froome '18: 3'00''
Pogačar '21: 3'20''
Landis '06: 5'42''

A significant difference with these rides is that Pogacar didn't need to gain that time; he didn't need to gain any time! In some ways this makes it even more ridiculous imo.

 

[Escarabajo]

Going back to 2012 you mean?

I thought so. But this is a lot worse than that if you see the gaps.

 

[titan31]

Despite that performance, I still don't think Pogacar does that to Roglic, and definitely not if Roglic and Jumbo all come on form. Shame really that Roglic crashed cos I do think they would have had a great battle here.

Outside of that, I'm here for Carapaz trying on every mountain stage and gaining no time. Bloody hilarious.

 

[El_ojo_del_Tigre]

Has someone cared to work out the time limit? (yes, I'm too lazy do it myself)

37'33''

(Well, that's what procyclingstats says, the velofacts calculator has it at 37'32''.)

 

[Netserk]

That's depressing.

Quite impressive that he needed far less distance to make his gap than the other two.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

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