Tour de France Tour de France 2021, Stage 9: Cluses – Tignes, 144.9 km

[Devil's Elbow]

O'Connor has a big chance to make the podium now. Minutes ahead of next threat.

I feel like there will be a few more jumps like this with the current racing attitude though.

 

[SafeBet]

Stuyven 25th, only 5 minutes behind Pogacar. Finished ahead of Higuita among others.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

I enjoyed O'Connor saying he was worried Tadej would "explode from behind and catch me", ha, I guess he wasn't the only one who thought there was a chance of that at one point

 

[TomBonnen2005]

That look to the competitors when pogacar droped them just without a sharp attack. Looks like the guy can push 10% watts more than the rest, without forcing, every day. And even if he's alone, even if after the monster stage of friday, the guy is beating or approaching climbing records...

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

I guess Mr. O'Connor had a Chicken dinner a'la Padun variant 2005 with Pogacar being the equivalent of Armstrong. It would had been 2007 if he got yellow.

Oh no, Pog would drop Armstrong.

 

[movingtarget]

Did Ineos think they were going to crack Pogacar or just riding in their race for second as if Pogacar is a ghost?

Ineos, Movistar, Astana and co seemingly forgot about the podium threat up the road.

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

Pogacar a level above everyone else in this Tour, but the competition is very weak. Nibali in a similar position with other top 2 favorites out in 2014 looked similarly dominant. 4 stage wins, 7-minute+ time gap. He certainly could have put more time on rivals with earlier attacks. If Contador or Froome had been the one left with the other two crashed out, might have seen an even larger discrepancy between leader and chasers. Pogacar legendary for sure but not ready to say he’s above peak Froome and Contador. In-form, healthy Roglic would completely change the dynamic here.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Stuyven 25th, only 5 minutes behind Pogacar. Finished ahead of Higuita among others.

His ride excited Michel Wuyts more than anything else this stage.

 

[Red Rick]

Livetracker seems to have the grupettos all msising the time cut

 

[Krzysztof_O]

As I expected, it was breakaway's day. Great pefromance by Connor, who was by far the best. Good for him that tomorrow is a rest day so he can recover and maybe has some chance to defend his great position (if not a podium place then at least top10). Only a small GC fight at the end (not surprising) but the tempo was too slow for Pog, who decided to do a mini-TT and gain more time.

 

[Amazinmets87]

what's the point to have time limit then?

People have been wondering that for years. I'd say it's more of an incentive for stragglers to get a move on at this point, as it's so seldom enforced.

 

[Rollthedice]

Thing is Pogacar is so far off these other riders without even killing himself that I'm starting to suspect their level is pretty ordinary.

 

[Fantastico]

Ineos, Movistar, Astana and co seemingly forgot about the podium threat up the road.

To be fair, Movistar and Astana did not really have the numbers to lead the peloton.

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

Livetracker seems to have the grupettos all msising the time cut

They turn it off after the stage - very annoying but if you believe it then Alaphillipe is missing too. Before it cut most of them looked OK - Demare needs a miracle though

 

[perico]

Ineos, Movistar, Astana and co seemingly forgot about the podium threat up the road.

Movistar wasn’t there. Mas only had Valverde with him by the 3rd climb. Verona is injured and MAL is way off the pace with his crashed.

Ineos rode the last climb but obviously Carapaz didn’t have it to match Pogacar.

Astana only had 1 rider. Uran was isolated. Gaudu was on the limit and cracked with Lutsenko.

 

[burning]

Livetracker seems to have the grupettos all msising the time cut

Where do you get this info, tour tracker doesn't show the time gaps for all of the groupettos.

 

[Red Rick]

Where do you get this info, tour tracker doesn't show the time gaps for all of the groupettos.

it was the map on tour tracker, but apparently it's *** once a few riders have finished.

 

[Red Rick]

Thing is Pogacar is so far off these other riders without even killing himself that I'm starting to suspect their level is pretty ordinary.

We'll see the climbing times in good weather. If we get good weather.

 

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

Thing is Pogacar is so far off these other riders without even killing himself that I'm starting to suspect their level is pretty ordinary.

I don't even think they were trying today tbh. When Pog went people said f*ck this I'm out, they didn't try to organize a chase. What would the point be? He's so ridiculously strong and ahead in GC people are racing for second.

 

[will-10]

So Matthews takes green if Cav misses the cut?

 

[Netserk]

 

[burning]

it was the map on tour tracker, but apparently it's *** once a few riders have finished.

I see, there are still 115 riders out there with ~7 minutes to go, quite a few riders will probably miss the cut.

 

[benzwire]

If feel like everyone will just race for the remaining podium spots at this point, ignoring Pogacar. He looks unstoppable and there's no point in wasting energy in trying to get time back from him. If you disregard 1st place, the race is still quite interesting. It also looks like Cav may get to 34 stage wins and a green jersey. Is there anyone on this planet that would have believed that 6 months ago?

 

[Screecher]

it was the map on tour tracker, but apparently it's *** once a few riders have finished.

That tracker thing is such a mess and has been that way for years now... I guess they don't care about making it better.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I see, there are still 115 riders out there with ~7 minutes to go, quite a few riders will probably miss the cut.

Yesterday half the peloton came in with a few minutes to spare too, though. Will probably be only the Démare group.