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If they do, how would we tell?I am curious whether they will kick Demare out of the race
Keeps Green but gives up his lead to Froome in the GC.
PCS shows Coquard, Démare, De Bod and Vliegen finishing OTL.who?
PCS shows Coquard, Démare, De Bod and Vliegen finishing OTL.
Guarnieri, Delaplace and Dlamini.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.
Pogacar a level above everyone else in this Tour, but the competition is very weak.
Well Colbrelli didn't try to beat the best in the entire world on the multi mountain stage.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.
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...............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.
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.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...
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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.