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

[titan31]

That's Demare out then

 

[Waterloo Sunrise]

I am curious whether they will kick Demare out of the race

If they do, how would we tell?

 

[Screecher]

Coquard OTL according to PCS.

 

[Vino's Mum]

Keeps Green but gives up his lead to Froome in the GC.

It’s ok, Cav’s a better TT-er than Froomey.

 

[Billie]

5 abandons so 7 guys ootl?

 

[FjPavels]

5 abandons so 7 guys ootl?

yes i think so

 

[BlueRoads]

who?

(I see Vliegen, Démare, Coquard and de Bod?)

 

[Billie]

Coquard, De Bod, Vliegen, Demare + 3 others.

Van der Poel, Roglic DNS
De Buyst, Peters, Merlier DNF

165 finishers on 177 riders.

Edit: Guarnieri is not in the results either.

 

[Screecher]

who?

PCS shows Coquard, Démare, De Bod and Vliegen finishing OTL.

 

[titan31]

PCS shows Coquard, Démare, De Bod and Vliegen finishing OTL.

Guarnieri and Dlamini too. Not sure who the last one is

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Coquard, De Bod, Vliegen, Demare + 3 others.

Van der Poel, Roglic DNS
De Buyst, Peters, Merlier DNF

165 finishers on 177 riders.

Guarnieri, Delaplace and Dlamini.

 

[Tinnekeisabella]

Livetracker still shows 3 riders racing?

 

[titan31]

Guarnieri, Delaplace and Dlamini.

Ya, was searching through the results and those three.

 

[Big Doopie]

Pogacar a level above everyone else in this Tour, but the competition is very weak.

sure, i guess. but hard to imagine healthy Rog and G being that much better than Carapaz... one minute maybe? so they would still be 4-5 minutes back...

#fignon84

 

[yaco]

O'Connor does a Pogacar winning by a lazy 5 minutes - Colbrelli got dropped on a 3 km climb in stage one but yet finishes third on a multi-mountain stage.

 

[Red Rick]

O'Connor does a Pogacar winning by a lazy 5 minutes - Colbrelli got dropped on a 3 km climb in stage one but yet finishes third on a multi-mountain stage.

Well Colbrelli didn't try to beat the best in the entire world on the multi mountain stage.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Today Pogacar showed a weakness in the mountains (by finishing behind Colbrelli) but rivals didn't capitalize.

 

[movingtarget]

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.

If all of those teams except for UAE are not strong enough to limit O'Connor's time gap then they are in trouble. He now has three minutes over third place. Team leaders are allowed to chase if they see a rival opening up a large gap. Either they are not strong enough or they don't see him as a podium threat. O'Connor now has a rest day...............

 

[Inquitus]

Impressive display from Bjarne Lance Pogacar!

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

sure, i guess. but hard to imagine healthy Rog and G being that much better than Carapaz... one minute maybe? so they would still be 4-5 minutes back...

#fignon84

I disagree. Carapaz has not impressed this Tour. He hasn’t put any time into Mas, Uran, Lutzenco (I’m sure I butchered that…sorry) on the mountain stages and got crushed in the ITT. Roglic has never concerned himself with Mas and co. They’re not on his level.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Jesus Christ, this Tour may as well have been a one week race. Theres no competition in the GC and the already extremely poor sprinting field has been further demolished. The funniest consequence is that Cavendish now has to be better than evens to beat the Merckx stage record.

 

[Roku]

I think they let O'Connor take too much time. IMHO he is very likely to make the podium with the way he's been climbing this season.

Vingegaard and Carapaz are my two main favourites for the third podium place.

 

[Rackham]

I think they let O'Connor take too much time. IMHO he is very likely to make the podium with the way he's been climbing this season.

Vingegaard and Carapaz are my two main favourites for the third podium place.

The fact Carapaz is fighting against one of Roglic's domestiques for a podium says everything about his performance (or lack thereof) so far.

To be honest I believe it's a combination of issues, one of them being the fact he miscalculated his attack on Friday & blew cartridges for no reward (after quickly building a gap). Then Pogacar using him as a human punching bag on wheels yesterday wasn't good for him either.

Completely ignoring Pogacar, I'm thinking if he had the wheel of Roglic to follow, he at least could have distanced those around him right now (because he really should, i.e. Mas, Uran & co aren't his normal level).

 

[Extinction]

What is really striking is how much Van Aert, Alaphilippe and Nibali lost, pure carnage out there today. The Sicilian must realize he's past his expiration date, whereas the other two clearly messed up their preparation.

 

[tobydawq]

I think O'Connor will finish second in this race, now. In the Giro he had huge performances on three consecutive days in week 3.

Also, it was probably a good thing he didn't sprint to the line. A couple of seconds faster, and his teammate Golden Greg would have been outside the time limit (he was only five seconds inside).