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

[Devil's Elbow]

I dunno, New riders will emerge, routes will be adjusted, teams will adjust tactics.

It's not like he's a boring rider either.

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anyyway, stage win on offer. Will Poels unchained climb faster than even Pogawatts?

How do you adjust a route to someone who smashes everyone on both the TT and the climbs? Unless ASO wants to make the BinckBank into a three-week race there's nothing to do if this is the new normal.

 

[glassmoon]

lol at carlton saying woods is a good descender -- he is horrible because he started cycling so late... horrible.

How come this clown still has his job... Must be some kind of internal joke obviously

 

[Big Doopie]

contador dropped nibali.

lol. when? by 2-3 seconds at the top of one hill...?

LOL! And LOL!! again and again. u contador fans are completely blind to reality.

 

[sir fly]

Cobbles yes. He road like a grannie.

Not the climbs though

Pogacar today reminds me of the TA stage in 2015 where Conta went from a very long way out and stomped the field

This is pre-beef Contador level.

 

[Volderke]

Who else is praying for a massive hunger knuck for Pogacar

 

[T-Nielsen]

No, until the end of days (and we are near with all those thermo.... attacks), I won't understand why Movistar were so eager to catch Carapaz, unless ofcourse it was revenge.

They did not want Mas to lose time on him.

You know they are competing in the same GC?

 

[Eclipse]

contador dropped nibali.

Was that when he savaged him for a mighty 3 seconds?

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Pog can actually do this if he takes a risk on the descent but he probably won't want to

 

[JosefK]

UEA team discussion before the stage: "'Do we go with the 10-megaton device?' . . . 'Nah. Let's make it 50 megs.'"

 

[Mayomaniac]

Lol, Formolo is still in the gc group.

 

[Billie]

Carapaz and Roglic should transfer to Bahrain if they want to compete with Pogi.

 

[Volderke]

They did not want Mas to lose time on him.

You know they are competing in the same GC?

this has been discussed ad nauseam. Every insider in the sport knows that's not the reason.

 

[lenric]

lol. when? by 2-3 seconds at the top of one hill...?

LOL! And LOL!! again and again. u contador fans are completely blind to reality.

relax darling, you seem too nervous, I simply stated that Contador dropped Nibali, not that Contador was better.

 

[ice&fire]

Is Van Aert seriously that close to Carapaz?

From the heli shots, Van Aert is not in Van Aert's group

 

[Netserk]

How do you adjust a route to someone who smashes everyone on both the TT and the climbs? Unless ASO wants to make the BinckBank into a three-week race there's nothing to do if this is the new normal.

Harder stages, easier finales.

 

[IndurainsTdF1994]

In the short -term, we can only hope Evenepoel gets better at descending, and Pidcock makes good on his promise as a climber?

And Evenepoel in climbing, no?

 

[T-Nielsen]

this has been discussed ad nauseam. Every insider in the sport knows that's not the reason.

Sure... I am certain Valverde told you in person.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I dunno, New riders will emerge, routes will be adjusted, teams will adjust tactics.

It's not like he's a boring rider either.

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anyyway, stage win on offer. Will Poels unchained climb faster than even Pogawatts?

The fear will be that either UAE assemble a superteam around him, or one of the other superteams sign him, taking away that element from him. Remember how excited people were by Sebastian Vettel in 2008-10, vs. how bored they were by him collecting fastest laps as he drove around unchallenged in 2011-13. So long as he's the best rider but doesn't have the team around him, he can maintain popularity as he will have to continue to ride with panache to overcome numerical disadvantage (take Sagan vs. the DQS ensemble as an example), but if either UAE use him to assemble a monster squad or he signs for an Ineos or a Jumbo who have a monster domestique squad to back him, it will swiftly lead to antipathy.

 

[BlueRoads]

Roglič in Itzulia is the only one who has put up a fight, and won.

It might not have been the race that mattered the most in this season. Roglic is incredibly consistent if he doesn't fall, yes. There was also a tactical "game" involved. Doesn't really convince me. I don't see anyone close to Pogacar, the only comparison that comes to my mind is Armstrong indeed.

 

[Big Doopie]

theuns catching woods

...so sick of bahrain and their ridiculousness.

 

[JosefK]

It took Pogi to finally put an end to Sky/Ineos dominance in the TDF. A new era has dawned.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Wonder if he feels like winning the stage to rub it in

 

[burning]

Pogacar is going to win this stage, right?

 

[Netserk]

Teuns should have waited for a while ~50 m behind Woods and then passed him at full speed.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Wonder if he feels like winning the stage to rub it in

Do the Jalabert, just for the hell of it.

 

[Tim Cahill]

All time great Teuns drops cycling pack fodder Simon Yates and Nairo Quintana up a massive climb.

Ooh Ahh, Up the Bha