Tour de France Tour de France 2022: Stage 11 (Albertville – Col du Granon Serre Chevalier, 151.7k)

[BigCoward]

I see today being like the stage in 2013? When Froome was totally isolated, but because he was the strongest by far nobody could do a damn thing.
Nobody is dropping Pog. Roglic attack, he follows, Vingegaard counters he follows.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Joking aside I think it will be decided on Granon. No earlier drama unfortunately. And it will be Pog vs Vinge. Its likely that they will come to the finish together a fez dozens os seconds ahead of the next guy with Pog taking bonus seconds. If Pog has one of his superb performances he will drop everybody - Vinge will be within 30 40 seconds, other top guys over a minute down. But im not sure if Pog can do it in this hot weather.

 

[Extinction]

Having read the Tour's last and only visit to the Col du Granon was 20 July 1986, I decided to check out the footage of it:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0YDIb9Ts04


The commentary by Paul Sherwin and Phil Ligget is hilariously fraught with glaring mistakes (funny that, who'd have thought?). They had no idea where the once Robert Millar was, initially thinking he had broken away from Lemond (even stating the race radio (!) said Millar was 15 seconds ahead of Lemond, hoping the cameras would take them UP to Millar soon ), only to find out that Millar was in fact dropped by Zimmerman and Lemond! How can you make such a mistake? And then Ligget a couple of times referred to Millar as Lemond, getting the two mixed up in his head.

Yet at the time, Ligget in particular was the voice of European cycling for the Anglo-American world.

I can officially say that the Italian commentary has been infinitely better.

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

I fear the worst today, for Pogi. On a similar climb to Granon, Col de la Loze, MAL brought Pogi‘s nightmare, in 2020. Today, I expect Pogi still in the stage's Top-10, but about two minutes down on stage winner Roglic.

After a good night‘s sleep, then, Primoz could gain Yellow then, tomorrow, on AdH. That‘s the plan. Time will tell if it will work.

 

[Lequack]

Le Granon climb

https://twitter.com/x/status/1547110365280043009

View: https://twitter.com/VeloProno/status/1547110365280043009

 

[Pantani_lives]

today is G-day.

the riders will tackle the two hardest climbs of this whole tour. the Galibier, where pantani dethroned ullrich, is the souvenir henri desGranGe for the 29th time. the Granon, where lemond slayed the badGer, is hiGh and lonG, and has a hiGh Gradient. the temperature above 30 deGrees celsius will add to the fatiGue in this queen staGe.

can poGacar hit them with his sledGehammer? hasn’t he been too Generous with the efforts of himself and his team? can vinGeGaard challenGe him at hiGh altitude? Is roGlic still a factor? can Geraint hanG on? can Gaudu keep the french hopes alive? who will rattle the small Gear and become le meilleur Grimpeur? Glance, Gape and GoGGle!

 

[Eclipse]

Allez! Let's go climbing

 

[tobydawq]

Having read the Tour's last and only visit to the Col du Granon was 20 July 1986, I decided to check out the footage of it:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0YDIb9Ts04


The commentary by Paul Sherwin and Phil Ligget is hilariously fraught with glaring mistakes (funny that, who'd have thought?). They had no idea where the once Robert Millar was, initially thinking he had broken away from Lemond (even stating the race radio (!) said Millar was 15 seconds ahead of Lemond, hoping the cameras would take them UP to Millar soon ), only to find out that Millar was in fact dropped by Zimmerman and Lemond! How can you make such a mistake? And then Ligget a couple of times referred to Millar as Lemond, getting the two mixed up in his head.

Yet at the time, Ligget in particular was the voice of European cycling for the Anglo-American world.

I can officially say that the Italian commentary has been infinitely better.

I have been wondering about these highlights packages. Did Phil and Paul actually comment live or did they pretend to?

Because often they have been incongruously good at identifying the winning rider when you consider their general cluelessness, so I have always had a suspicion that they knew the result in advance.

 

[tobydawq]

today is G-day.

can Geraint hanG on?

Well, it's G-day, obviously he will win.

 

[Rackham]

According to usually serious Le Parisien, Vingegaard has back pains & has been receiving treatment from the team osteopath over the past few days:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546929041944485891

Are they confusing him with Roglic? (who really does have back problems). No idea. But until they've amended their article, that's their story.

 

[Extinction]

I have been wondering about these highlights packages. Did Phil and Paul actually comment live or did they pretend to?

Because often they have been incongruously good at identifying the winning rider when you consider their general cluelessness, so I have always had a suspicion that they knew the result in advance.

I have no idea.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Are you guys ready for a million shots of

this

Spoiler

this

Spoiler

and this

Spoiler

?

 

[Eclipse]

Lacet me up

 

[tobydawq]

According to usually serious Le Parisien, Vingegaard has back pains & has been receiving treatment from the team osteopath over the past few days:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546929041944485891

Are they confusing him with Roglic? (who really does have back problems). No idea. But until they've amended their article, that's their story.

I think they have been confusing him with Roglic. The story vas been debunked in the Danish Twitter sphere.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Are you guys ready for a million shots of

this

Spoiler

this

Spoiler

and this

Spoiler

?

Hopefully. Hopefully they get the helicopter shots out of their system.

So that we get to see up close shots of the riders on the real climbs later.

 

[Lequack]

According to usually serious Le Parisien, Vingegaard has back pains & has been receiving treatment from the team osteopath over the past few days:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1546929041944485891

Are they confusing him with Roglic? (who really does have back problems). No idea. But until they've amended their article, that's their story.

Would be just another of Jumbo's blunders that a wrong rider is receiving treatment

Primoz: Man, my back still hurts, wonder where that massage is that I ordered
Vingegaard:

View: https://youtu.be/_au0UUHI2aI?t=18

 

[solo80k]

Total madness and massive gaps - top 10 GC spread within 7-8 minutes after this stage easily. Pog can move on Galibier if he senses any signs of weakness in Jonas.

Maybe another Contador - Rasmussen like showdown? Who knows....

 

[Didinho]

Planning my bike ride so I'm back home for the start. Should be a good one today! But I think if Jumbo and/or Ineos doesn't send the right guys up front, UAE will just give them a lot of time so they won't be in range for a long attack to bridge with them. The main riders will wait for the Granon today.

Never seen the Granon. Bring it on, I'm excited!

 

[Jan the Man]

Pogacar realistically just needs one of Majka and Mcnulty to survive Galibier in maillot jaune group. Once on the Granon proper it will be everyman for himself. Logic dictates it calls for Jumbo to isolate pogacar on Galibier and take advantage on lower slopes of descent first kilometers of grannon to do a 1-2. Problem for Jumbo is pogacar so strong/unpredictable if isolated at top of galibier i could just as easy see him launch a move on galibier descent as he is probably the better descender of primoz or jonas

 

[DrSahl]

Pinot to win the stage from the breakaway!

I will almost guarentie, that he wont win.
But he might win tomorrow.


You see.. while Pinot takes on tomorrow, a bird will turn into a phoenix today and chok everybody with a win..


Or... maybe it will just be Pogimon destroying everybody. .. But I hope for the first. Revival stories are just much more fun

 

[dutchdescent]

Entire UAE DNS due to positive test

 

[Boes]

Today is the day if Jumbo and Ineos wants to hurt Poggy in any way.
I fully expect the likes of Roglic or Pidcock in an early mass break away perhaps with the support of half man half motors like WVA, Ganna or Van Baarle (although the last 2 were already in the break yesterday).

Here's to wishfull thinking and a spectacular stage. Pidcock to take yellow and stage.

 

[Boes]

Entire UAE DNS due to positive test

Are you serious or trolling?

 

[DrSahl]

Are you serious or trolling?

From a logical perspective, we can only assume, that the user is making a "joke"
Mainly because there is no news about it yet. That being said, you never know what type of scandals that happens in TDF

 

[dutchdescent]

Are you serious or trolling?

What do you think?