Tour de France Tour de France 2022: Stage 16 (Carcassonne – Foix, 178.5k)

[claude cat]

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Mohoric has the dropper on.

 

[Gigs_98]

Considering Vingegaard crashed, I think more than one team will be interested in putting pressure on him on the first climb to see if he's hurt.

I still remember thinking the same when Froome crashed late in the 2016 Tour just for not a single serious gc contender making a single move on the final mountain stage. That said, Pogacar is no Richie Porte. He might actually try.

 

[Rackham]

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Crosswind action would be nice, but I somehow doubt it'll happen.

 

[MartinGT]

Bettiol FTW

 

[Miha81]

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Mohoric has the dropper on.

Heard from his inner circles he is not in his optimum shape. Changed training proceedures for this years TDF and did not pan out as expected.

Anyway, he will still go suicidal into the last descent, I just feel it is not technical enough to make difference. We'll see.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Lotto just need Wout in the break on the top of the last climb. Harder said than done. Or Laporte for that matter, but thats a lot harder. Then even if you lose 30 seconds, you just mitigate the loss with Wout. I think that should the the priority today. Thats why I still don't get Vingegaard didnt try on Galibier - even if Pogacar drops you, he drops you for absolute nothing and if you drop him just with 15 seconds, I think thats Tour over right then and there. Thats not 3 minutes, but much more.

 

[Earns1985]

Lotto just need Wout in the break on the top of the last climb. Harder said than done. Or Laporte for that matter, but thats a lot harder. Then even if you lose 30 seconds, you just mitigate the loss with Wout. I think that should the the priority today. Thats why I still don't get Vingegaard didnt try on Galibier - even if Pogacar drops you, he drops you for absolute nothing and if you drop him just with 15 seconds, I think thats Tour over right then and there. Thats not 3 minutes, but much more.

If Wout is in the break, then Jumbo will have too few riders for pacing the peleton. Will Benoot and Kuss be enough for the two climbs? Don´t think so.. Laporte and van Hooydonck will only offer help until the first slopes of Port de Lers. It would be a totally different story with Kruiswijk or Roglic still in the race, but they aren´t anymore..

 

[rune1107]

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Crosswind action would be nice, but I somehow doubt it'll happen.

JV should give it a go in the beginning, just to see if they can catch Pogacar of guard. They have 4 engines that can really hammer it, and in a perfect scenario they end up with INEOS as partners in that group.

 

[RedheadDane]

Lotto just need Wout in the break on the top of the last climb. Harder said than done. Or Laporte for that matter, but thats a lot harder. Then even if you lose 30 seconds, you just mitigate the loss with Wout. I think that should the the priority today. Thats why I still don't get Vingegaard didnt try on Galibier - even if Pogacar drops you, he drops you for absolute nothing and if you drop him just with 15 seconds, I think thats Tour over right then and there. Thats not 3 minutes, but much more.

I don't think Lotto is gonna care much about Van Aert being in the break.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Oh frick, why in the world would I confuse Jumbo Visma, the best team in the race, with Lotto, mostly preoccupied since stage 4 with bringing Caleb Ewan to Champs Elysees? Darn..

 

[RedheadDane]

Oh frick, why in the world would I confuse Jumbo Visma, the best team in the race, with Lotto, mostly preoccupied since stage 4 with bringing Caleb Ewan to Champs Elysees? Darn..

It's okay. They did have the word 'Lotto' in their name, back in... 2018.

 

[wansteadimp]

If Wout is in the break, then Jumbo will have too few riders for pacing the peleton. Will Benoot and Kuss be enough for the two climbs? Don´t think so.. Laporte and van Hooydonck will only offer help until the first slopes of Port de Lers. It would be a totally different story with Kruiswijk or Roglic still in the race, but they aren´t anymore..

Any word on Benoot following his crash?

 

[spalco]

If Wout is in the break, then Jumbo will have too few riders for pacing the peleton. Will Benoot and Kuss be enough for the two climbs? Don´t think so.. Laporte and van Hooydonck will only offer help until the first slopes of Port de Lers. It would be a totally different story with Kruiswijk or Roglic still in the race, but they aren´t anymore..

So don't pace? If the break takes 20 minutes and Van Aert gets to eat some ice cream on top of the Mur de Peguere while waiting for the peloton, that's fine too.

 

[Valanga]

Any word on Benoot following his crash?

We'll have to wait and see I guess. He's definitely hurt.

Tiesj Benoot begint zwaar gehavend aan slotweek, waarin hij Vingegaard zo lang mogelijk wil bijstaan: “Ik sta voor een marteling”

Tiesj Benoot (28) beleefde niet de rustdag waar hij op gehoopt had. Nadat Jumbo-Visma Roglic en Kruijswijk al kwijt was, ging ook hij zondag tegen de grond. Gevolg: schaafwonden over zijn hele rechterkant. Uitgerekend nu de Pyreneeën eraan komen en het kwik rond de 40 graden schommelt in Frankrijk.

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“I didn't even sleep that badly,” said Benoot yesterday. “I did take a painkiller. If I slept on my left side, it wasn't that bad, but if I turned around unconsciously, I woke up from the pain.” Nevertheless, Benoot went for a ride yesterday. "I had no other choice, otherwise you'll stiffen up completely and that's obviously not what you want in the Tour."

Benoot is not thinking about giving up for the time being. He would prefer to continue to assist Jonas Vingegaard until the last gasp. “My hip is swollen from the impact. We'll see what it gives, but it's not serious enough to throw in the towel. I know I'm facing torture. Especially with that heat. Those scrapes make me lose even more moisture, and if I cut water over it, the salts won't make it any more pleasant. The advantage is that because of this new pain I may suffer less from the pain in my legs.” (laughs)

 

[Stelvio]

Looks like the forecast is 32-33 at the finish in Foix, so a warm day but nothing extreme.

Edit: The rain/thunder looks to come in later, but in the mountains that can of course change.

 

[Salvarani]

Does not sound too good regarding Benoot.

 

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[Unterlenkerfahrend]

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Ah ***, he did sound reasonably confident two days ago in an interview with German TV after the race that he might be over the worst and it'll get better from now on. Looks like the opposite happened.
Bit crazy that despite that he still had the legs to go into the break on the Mende stage. Incredible consistent form since the Giro.

 

[Lequack]

So where is all that rain you folks were talking about?

 

[ppanther92]

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Mohoric has the dropper on.

Mohoric’s form is too bad anyway to do something.

 

[ontheroad]

If Benoot is as sore as he claims then there is a huge onus on Sepp Kuss to climb well this week and support Vingegaard. It's hard to see how Van Aert would be sent up the road in a break in that situation with so little manpower for the mountains.

 

[roundabout]

Cherel and Paret-Peintre out with COVID

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[search]

Trek brought in a new rider for the final week

 

[Devil's Elbow]

AG2R down to three then. The Jungels stage win is crazy because literally everything else has gone wrong for them.

 

[spalco]

Fuglsang is out too apparently.