Tour de France Tour de France 2022: Stage 19 (Castelnau-Magnoac – Cahors, 188.3k)

[shalgo]

Laporte on Wout van Aert: "He told me with 1 k to go today is for you."

Yet again, Wout so selfish.

Wout selfishly thinking that it is his prerogative to decide whose day it is.

 

[search]

The questionner asked Pidders for a dissertation on the history of young riders in the Tour de France. No wonder he deferred.

yeah, Gregor Brown is special. And Pidcock doesn't even know Simon Spilak (according to Thomas), so obiously never really was interested in road cycling.

 

[Sciatic]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1550553034102644736

View: https://twitter.com/geraintthomas86/status/1550553034102644736?s=21&t=eLPf7izu5F3Qh_zZ6lFVhg

 

[Oldermanish]

Wout selfishly thinking that it is his prerogative to decide whose day it is.

Likely it is his call in the field. LaPorte was fresher and, if it were my situation as WvA I'd expect alot of immediate attention. Watching the broadcast it looked like he even gave the Laporte the "go" nod and then covered behind him slightly to allow a gap. That's how strategy works in the closing and you have about 1/2 second to execute. They also got lucky that no one was assigned to go with LaPorte from another team. Well done.

 

[Stelvio]

Likely it is his call in the field. LaPorte was fresher and, if it were my situation as WvA I'd expect alot of immediate attention. Watching the broadcast it looked like he even gave the Laporte the "go" nod and then covered behind him slightly to allow a gap. That's how strategy works in the closing and you have about 1/2 second to execute. They also got lucky that no one was assigned to go with LaPorte from another team. Well done.

Wout being selfish has become a sarcastic meme at this point.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Bettiol corrected his mistake from stage 5 by neutralising the gap, that initially gave Pogačar 5 seconds on Vingegaard.

 

[Andre]

just came home.. WTF WAS THIS FINISH???

I'm not sure...it felt like a gift stage.

 

[movingtarget]

I think there's a 90% chance he'll somehow get himself boxed in on one of the widest roads in Europe on Sunday.

Should be okay in the TT...........

 

[Netserk]

I take it that the 3''-rule was in effect yesterday, and that was the reason for the gap being annulled. With the result now, the first group behind Laporte is the biggest one, so the rule should apply, but I wonder if anyone has the full provisional results from yesterday before they applied the rule?

 

[RedheadDane]

So... how long is this thread gonna remain sticky?

 

[Red Rick]