Tour de France Tour de France 2022: Stage 18 (Lourdes – Hautacam, 143.2k)

[Salvarani]

Race wil explode on Aubisque

 

[Volderke]

Everybody is killing everybody.

 

[Rollthedice]

Another stage at breakneck speed.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Pogacar is way down and there could be a split here

 

[ontheroad]

Its another war of attrition to get into the break.

 

[Salvarani]

Yates at the back of the peloton

 

[SafeBet]

Gruppo compatto.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Geschke needs to get in a break on the flat imo, otherwise better climbers will probably crest Aubisque first and then Vingegaard and/or Pogacar can overtake him with the points on Hautacam and possibly also Spandelles.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Wout just needs to have Geschke on his wheel when he attacks - then the break will go

 

[Tim Cahill]

Credit to Cofidis who have actually ridden with a plan this tour even if they don't win it in the end, the clowns are the abundance of teams with better climbers who didn't bother.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Yates at the back of the peloton

Seems like the team has given up on him. I won't be surprised if his spare bike is in third position on the team car.

 

[johnymax]

Imagine Team Van Aert and Team Gadret in the same team...

 

[jarvo]

I have a feeling Yates will abandon

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Yates will lose atleast 30 minutes today. If he doesn't abandons, that is.

 

[Salvarani]

Geschke made it!

I thought...

 

[Didinho]

Geschke made it!

Nope

 

[Samamba]

Nope he didn't, Cofidis back at it again.
Group would've been gone if they let Geschke in it, now Cofidis will bring it back again probably if they don't work together.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

The Geschke situation will end in heart break.

 

[Salvarani]

Cofidis would have been better to let a bigger group go? Maybe would have held over Spandelles.

 

[johnymax]

Mythical climber called Dylan in the break

 

[Faserr]

Simoni exploded.

 

[Salvarani]

Laruns is not that far away

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Cofidis would have been better to let a bigger group go? Maybe would have held over Spandelles.

Not with Ciccone in the break. And the break would have had to go all the way anyway.

 

[spalco]

Credit to Cofidis who have actually ridden with a plan this tour even if they don't win it in the end, the clowns are the abundance of teams with better climbers who didn't bother.

Ok, but they haven't found anyone who can win a stage in the Tour, since 2008 (?!). Regardless of what they do, they are still clowns in my eyes until they rectify that.

 

[Salvarani]

Not with Ciccone in the break. And the break would have had to go all the way anyway.

I meant earlier...