His jersey was completely open on the day Vingo dropped him for 2:44 and he didn't crash. It shows he's suffering IMO.
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So was last year!
if you counted ‘TV minutes’ Wout would have some monstrous proportion of the total for the entire TdF. He’s been in the story almost all day, every day.
sponsors should be melting with gratitude.
It was actually very fast considering every 90-times is not to be taken seriously.
The technical moment of the day weren't the two crashes by Pogacar and Vingegaard. The technical moment of the day was Wout watching from behind at Martinez and Pinot descend together in front of him!!!!
He said "I'll keep my distance"
He said "I'll keep my distance"
Congratulations to Jonas Vingegaard for winning the stage.
It was a nice and dynamic stage to watch. Pogačar trying but Vingegaard not giving in. After the crash i feel that Pogačar gave up and decided this is it. As Jonas waited and that was i guess it. It's a good thing Vingegaard took time on the last climb. From yellow jersey point of view.
Lets see if JV can bring this one home.
It was a nice and dynamic stage to watch. Pogačar trying but Vingegaard not giving in. After the crash i feel that Pogačar gave up and decided this is it. As Jonas waited and that was i guess it. It's a good thing Vingegaard took time on the last climb. From yellow jersey point of view.
Lets see if JV can bring this one home.
I missed every stage that mattered due to work, including this one, and as it relates to today's stage, I watched highlights (well, I still had CN live updates during the meetings 
) so I may not bring depth here. Feelings.
Bravo Jonas! In my eyes, he earned his Tour today. Hats off to Pog for going down in style, he gained many fans by not being invincible and show the heart of a champion...something that I always found was missing with, say, Quintana. Pog went down with his guns blazing, man-to-man, trying to shake the tree so many times.
There was what looked like a Nibali/Rasmussen scene, Geraint attacked once, the aforementioned Quintana was Meintjes and Meintjes was Quintana, After today, maybe Wout will think about broadening his horizon. After all, he's looking more like Merckx than Remco these days...great stage.
My hometown hero Thibaut Pinot couldn't pull it, he's not at 100%, but at least he's trying. Today, knowing that he would not win he dropped back and paced Gaudu. For David, a 4th place finish in Paris is the stepping stone that he needs.
Gutted for Geschke. He wanted the jersey more than anyone. Cycling is cruel, he won a stage in '15 with some luck, today it fell apart. I was cheering for him.
Great stage. Drama. GC action. I give it an 8.
) so I may not bring depth here. Feelings. Bravo Jonas! In my eyes, he earned his Tour today. Hats off to Pog for going down in style, he gained many fans by not being invincible and show the heart of a champion...something that I always found was missing with, say, Quintana. Pog went down with his guns blazing, man-to-man, trying to shake the tree so many times.
There was what looked like a Nibali/Rasmussen scene, Geraint attacked once, the aforementioned Quintana was Meintjes and Meintjes was Quintana, After today, maybe Wout will think about broadening his horizon. After all, he's looking more like Merckx than Remco these days...great stage.
My hometown hero Thibaut Pinot couldn't pull it, he's not at 100%, but at least he's trying. Today, knowing that he would not win he dropped back and paced Gaudu. For David, a 4th place finish in Paris is the stepping stone that he needs.
Gutted for Geschke. He wanted the jersey more than anyone. Cycling is cruel, he won a stage in '15 with some luck, today it fell apart. I was cheering for him.
Great stage. Drama. GC action. I give it an 8
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Oh my.
Haven't read the thread (bumped in at page 3 at this moment).
Just watched the full stage and my heart and mind is crowded of all kinds of emotions.
What worthy representatives of this fantastic sport we have been gifted with these years.
A stage to remember as long as we live.
This was my first full stage watch of this edition of Le Tour. And I do hope that the other stages (of which I will enjoy first full stages watch during the upcoming weeks) have not been just as action packed as today (edit: yesterday by now). In that case my heart will break.
Cycling lives.
Vive Le Tour!
Haven't read the thread (bumped in at page 3 at this moment).
Just watched the full stage and my heart and mind is crowded of all kinds of emotions.
What worthy representatives of this fantastic sport we have been gifted with these years.
A stage to remember as long as we live.
This was my first full stage watch of this edition of Le Tour. And I do hope that the other stages (of which I will enjoy first full stages watch during the upcoming weeks) have not been just as action packed as today (edit: yesterday by now). In that case my heart will break.
Cycling lives.
Vive Le Tour!
I think this would be a crying shame, as Pog clearly has the potential to win Flanders. Tbh I'm not that convinced his prep was wrong, the biggest difference was the strength of the teams. UAE were not as strong to begin with and lost key riders in-tour. JV pretty much full strength throughout.
You could equally say Pog 'wasted' energy on the cobbled stage or the Longwy stage, but the guy loves to race. And racers love the classics. There's much more to cycling than the Tour imho.
With Kruijswik and Roglic out? Nonetheless, you are probably correct that J-V has been more impactful in key moments.
This has been a magnificent Tour in terms of team tactics, btw. Not much one-team "mountain train choo-choo" action, but much more varied and creative display. In the past ~5 years we have quite often seen team send satellite riders up the road, Kelme style. But it has been quite rare to see them have any impact. This Tour they have been crucial on many stages.
I have thoroughly enjoyed seeing the madness and creativity of this Tour. Weaker teams provoke more creative action? And by weaker, I mean weaker mostly in numbers. You have to play your few aces in a wise way.
I know it probably wasn't the intention - that Pinot was indeed going for the stage win - but I quite like how it looked a little like FDJ was doing a mini version of the "send riders ahead" tactic.
Gaudu attacked Quintana, a bit later he caught up with Madouas, then Madouas got dropped, and a bit later Gaudu caught up with Pinot.
I missed every stage that mattered due to work, including this one, and as it relates to today's stage, I watched highlights (well, I still had CN live updates during the meetings
Bravo Jonas! In my eyes, he earned his Tour today. Hats off to Pog for going down in style, he gained many fans by not being invincible and show the heart of a champion...something that I always found was missing with, say, Quintana. Pog went down with his guns blazing, man-to-man, trying to shake the tree so many times.
There was what looked like a Nibali/Rasmussen scene, Geraint attacked once, the aforementioned Quintana was Meintjes and Meintjes was Quintana, After today, maybe Wout will think about broadening his horizon. After all, he's looking more like Merckx than Remco these days...great stage.
My hometown hero Thibaut Pinot couldn't pull it, he's not at 100%, but at least he's trying. Today, knowing that he would not win he dropped back and paced Gaudu. For David, a 4th place finish in Paris is the stepping stone that he needs.
Gutted for Geschke. He wanted the jersey more than anyone. Cycling is cruel, he won a stage in '15 with some luck, today it fell apart. I was cheering for him.
Great stage. Drama. GC action. I give it an 8
An 8? Out of 10?
What was missing?
It's hard to fathom how useless the French are. They have guys who have Tour podiums aiming for polka dots and can't manage to even get close.
The whole of France seemed to say they were trying for stages and KoM and haven't been in a million miles of either.
The whole of France seemed to say they were trying for stages and KoM and haven't been in a million miles of either.
All the discussion and talk, and all I want to know is this: what did pogacar say to his car after the crash. He called them up through impossible traffic and then seemed to give them a bit of a spray and didn't take anything from the car of note.
Someone get to the bottom of this, it would be entertaining. My feeling is they were pushing him on the descent, and he was not happy.
Someone get to the bottom of this, it would be entertaining. My feeling is they were pushing him on the descent, and he was not happy.
He told them : " Guys, I said Vingegaard not Jack Bauer. VINGE-FREAKIN'-GAARD! Now make yourselves useful and pass me some water bottles...."
He was asking if Hirschi had made it over the Aubisque yet.
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