Tour de France Tour de France 2022: Stage 17 (Saint-Gaudens – Peyragudes, 129.7k)

[StryderHells]

Well done Jakobson!!! I loved that the team jumping around yelling support for him.

 

[KOM]

Gutsy ride by Geniets today... He was behind the Quickstep train everytime I checked, but actually ended up finishing ahead of them despite beeing dropped and alone from Km 0 pretty much

 

[movingtarget]

Ewan already finished. It looks like he recovered very well from his crash.

Ewan will win the Paris stage.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Kuss was there with the last 5 guys. That’s not early.

Yeah, that’s a top level superdomestique performance. McNulty‘s performance was just outlandish

 

[Red Rick]

Vingegaard looks completely in control now, but despite all of that the longer I think about it the more I realize how similar the narrative of Pog vs. Vingo has become after the Granon stage, to the narrative of Pog vs. Roglic in 2020.

Pogacar constantly tries to drop Vingegaard but only manages to outsprint him for bonus seconds, Vingegaard looks like he is actually the stronger of the two and might be able to drop Pogacar if only he tried and althought there is still a stage 20 ITT to come there is no way you can gain that much on Vingegaard there, right?

Now change every instance of the name "Vingegaard" in the last sentence to "Roglic" and you will realize it perfectly summarizes what all of us were thinking during the Alps stages in 2020. I'm not saying history is going to repeat itself and there are certainly a few differences that go against Pog compared to two years ago, but I still want to stay cautious thinking of how I've been in a very similar situation before and was completely fooled.

Difference being that in 2022 Vingegaard actually put 3 minutes into Pogacar when he committed to an attack.

 

[Didinho]

Ewan will win the Paris stage.

And Wout plays golf

 

[RobertCrawley]

Ewan will win the Paris stage.

I hope so.

 

[Sciatic]

The real showdown between two evenly matched competitors comes tomorrow—Gaudu v. Quintana in the battle for 4th

 

[Red Rick]

If Vingegaard was a year younger Pogacar could get 2nd in every single classification

 

[tobydawq]

Seriously why are people happy with Pogacar this Tour.

He's making ASO think Super Planche and Peyragudes are the best discoveries since fire and the wheel.

Yes, what a terrible edition this has been.

 

[FrontHeadlock]

Kuss was there with the last 5 guys. That’s not early.

Question now seems to be whether the fortunes have flipped, as perhaps Kuss will have more left in the tank than McNulty tomorrow.

 

[GroupDK]

Kuss was there with the last 5 guys. That’s not early.

read the comment again.." early" was in regards to today's stage.

 

[search]

The real showdown between two evenly matched competitors comes tomorrow—Gaudu v. Quintana in the battle for 4th

Vlasov did better than I thought today, after spening all that energy yesterday. If he gains a bit of time tomorrow, he may still have a shot in the ITT as well

 

[Bonimenier]

The real showdown between two evenly matched competitors comes tomorrow—Gaudu v. Quintana in the battle for 4th

Just to be rolled by TT specialist Meintjes on saturday

 

[Bonimenier]

read the comment again.." early" was in regards to today's stage.

He was in the last 5 in the main group today as well

 

[Lequack]

This Tour is now officially over, well it was over yesterday already. As long as there is heat there is no beating Vingegaard, he seems to be powered by it.

 

[movingtarget]

Just to be rolled by TT specialist Meintjes on saturday

There's a TT battle I wouldn't bet on on............

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Why did QS let Jakobsen ride alone?
Unless Lampaert puts in another fantastic performance on Saturday, he's their only chance of getting more stage wins. Is he doing so badly, they've lost all faith in him?.

 

[titan31]

This Tour is now officially over, well it was over yesterday already. As long as there is heat there is no beating Vingegaard, he seems to be powered by it.

That would be new. Instead of motors on the bike, solar powered motors.

 

[FrontHeadlock]

On a separate topic, does Geschke go hard tomorrow up front to try to take 20 points up the first climb and hope that's enough to hang on to the KOM jersey in Paris?

 

[Poursuivant]

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[Red Rick]

Yes, what a terrible edition this has been.

I would tell you you're taking my words too literally but usually you're not even taking my words.

 

[Bonimenier]

Why did QS let Jakobsen ride alone?
Unless Lampaert puts in another fantastic performance on Saturday, he's their only chance of getting more stage wins. Is he doing so badly, they've lost all faith in him?.

They probably told the other riders to go with a few km to go since it was going to be close and they don't want the whole team to finish OTL.

 

[titan31]

On a separate topic, does Geschke go hard tomorrow up front to try to take 20 points up the first climb and hope that's enough to hang on to the KOM jersey in Paris?

It should be, shouldn't it? 20 there's puts him 32 ahead of Vingegaard and there's only 30 left on that stage.

Vingegaard would actually have to win all 3 4th cats that are left after to go over.

 

[search]

It should be, shouldn't it? 20 there's puts him 32 ahead of Vingegaard and there's only 30 left on that stage.

Vingegaard would actually have to win all 3 4th cats that are left after to go over.

Ciccone is still a risk as well if the breakaway stays clear (can't really see who is still left to chase), but yeah, normally going all out for those 20pt should be the best plan, and enough to win the jersey