Tour de France Tour de France 2022: Stage 20 (Lacapelle-Marival – Rocamadour, 40.7k/ITT)

[ppanther92]

Geraint is doing a low-key excellent ride

I honestly think thats the best Thomas ever. So good for him that he used his chance before Vingegaard and Pogacar raised to the top.

 

[Eclipse]

Geraint is doing a low-key excellent ride

Basically his whole tour in a nutshell.

All we really saw was him getting dropped by monsters, but ultimately he also soloed massive gaps into quality climbers

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Remember Jonas said he wont be taking any risks. This is him at only 90%.

Mr. 90%.

 

[gunara]

As if it wasn't already too much, lol JV

 

[ppanther92]

where..?? lol
c'mon tone it down..

He was. Thats just a fact. That said, there were apparently more or less good reasons. Visit the Vingegaard thread - there is a discussion.

 

[roundabout]

where..?? lol
c'mon tone it down..

His TT results are available at any palmares website

 

[burning]

Geraint is doing a low-key excellent ride

He's probably stronger than the 2018 Tour, but he got outclassed so hard by the top two guys.

 

[Lequack]

Mr. 90%.

If he had gone 100% he might need to switch to the old 10 speed system with a thicker chain, so as to avoid breaking it.

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

Riders such as? Armstrong? Ullrich? Froome? Wiggins? Contador? Pogacar? Roglic?

The first two had obvious advantages that can’t be discussed here.
The third, Froome, got dropped like a stone by Quintana, losing about a minute in 2013 and 2015. In 2014 he got crushed by Contador in the Vuelta ITT, etc.
Wiggins was nowhere close to Vingegaard’s level in the mountains. Froome could have put minutes into him.
Contador in 2009 was close to this level probably but he did not destroy peak Pogacar in the mountains and had no mountain victories with gaps like Vingegaard’s.
Pogacar was destroyed by Vingegaard in the mountains and it looks like in the ITT too and, aside from the 2020 mutant ITT, has clearly been a better climber than time trialist. That 2020 ITT of course had a mountain in it.
Roglic was able to do both extremely well too but I don’t ever recall him improving both to this extent at the same time.

 

[GroupDK]

Pogacar +22 sec. to Van Aert.
Thomas +6
Jonas -6
(atm)

 

[madthebad]

Chicken Rasmussen approves Vingo's perfomance today!

 

[Billie]

Bardet still with a chance to overtake Meintjens.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

If he had gone 100% he might need to switch to the old 10 speed system with a thicker chain, so as to avoid breaking it.

Fortunately he isn't riding a Colnago.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Most of the GC riders are doing the kind of meh TT you'd normally expect after such brutal racing in the mountains.

And then there's the top-3.

 

[Cagalitroso]

Vingegaard could win this itt by 1 min and win tomorrow's sprint by 30 s and there would still be people here saying it's totally expected because he beat the neighborhood kids when he was 16

 

[gunara]

The evolution won't stop here, next year you're going to see all-season, all-terrain Jonas, no more July megapeak

 

[Eclipse]

A good showing from Nairito in the battle for best loser.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Thomas is low-key radiating today.

 

[FrontHeadlock]

Go G, go!

 

[johnymax]

I can't believe I'm actually rooting for Thomas here.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Strange seeing Pogacar looking human and vulnerable in comparison.

 

[Gigs_98]

The time gaps between the gc contenders are honestly pretty big. The top three are on a completely different level in this TT.

 

[capuldemetal]

turned on the tv.then i've turned it off.utter ridiculous..the rest of the cooments..in the other side of the forum

 

[Eclipse]

Is 4th place legitimately going to be 15mins down lol

 

[ngent41]

Strange seeing Pogacar looking human and vulnerable in comparison.

He had some pretty bad road rash from his crash, probably effecting his sleep.