Tour de France Tour de France 2022: Stage 6 (Binche – Longwy, 219.9k)

[Rackham]

Van Art collected precious points for the green jersey and Jumbo wasn't forced to pull the peloton after yesterday's intensity.

Apparently wasn't their plan though.

Jumbo's post stage claims are PR damage control.

They don't get to pretend they care about the legs of their riders, not after the way they've started this TdF & after the first 80km of stage 6 where there were constant attacks by WvA, even after Laporte had gotten into a break (which should have suited them as well).

No, they wanted to force UAE to chase WvA in order to tire their domestiques. Just as they did in stage 7 last year. Too bad they forget there are other teams in this race which have their own interests, so it's not just Jumbo versus UAE. Pog's team can & will always find allies in these sorts of stages.

 

[movingtarget]

"
" Van Aert is playing with our balls at the Tour de France" ---Tom Pidcock.
I wonder what he meant by that

Stealing their manhood ?

 

[VeloMaster]

"
" Van Aert is playing with our balls at the Tour de France" ---Tom Pidcock.
I wonder what he meant by that

I find Pidcock's public persona, ie his TV interviews, particularly annoying. Is he the Ineos answer to Vingo's public cluelessness?

 

[CyclistAbi]

Maybe they are brothers?

 

[Bolder]

Yeah. Roglič is more like Beethoven.

More like Salieri to Mozart.

I find Pidcock's public persona, ie his TV interviews, particularly annoying. Is he the Ineos answer to Vingo's public cluelessness?

I love his candor

 

[CyclistAbi]

@Bolder

Nah. Mozart was strongly influenced by Beethoven. With Salieri there was more about rivalry. Pogi said Rogla was his role model. And a lot of elements he uses are heavily influenced by the work done previously by Rogla.

I will hence stick with Beethoven. But obviously an occasional Salieri doesn't hurt.

Fans love that to.

 

[frisenfruitig]

I find Pidcock's public persona, ie his TV interviews, particularly annoying. Is he the Ineos answer to Vingo's public cluelessness?

I don't see the problem, just seems like a young guy who says what he thinks to me.

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

Just went back through Vingegaard’s 2022 TdF on PCS, and noticed this stage to Longwy…

220kms, 2400 vertical meters - similar to RVV, but 40kms shorter… But can this be correct: average stage speed of 49.376 kms/hr!… (!)

Is this a mistake by PCS, or is this the correct average speed? That would be absolutely insanely fast… Maybe tailwind all day?

Normally you don‘t have an average of almost 50 kms/hr on a 220kms Ardennes stage, have you? I doubt this can be true - anyone of you guys knows more? Thanks in advance…

 

[TourOfSardinia]

WvA went into a v.long break carrying the yellow jersey.
So the peloton had to pull hard all day.
Then Pog made the finale fast.

 

[Red Rick]

Just went back through Vingegaard’s 2022 TdF on PCS, and noticed this stage to Longwy…

220kms, 2400 vertical meters - similar to RVV, but 40kms shorter… But can this be correct: average stage speed of 49.376 kms/hr!… (!)

Is this a mistake by PCS, or is this the correct average speed? That would be absolutely insanely fast… Maybe tailwind all day?

Normally you don‘t have an average of almost 50 kms/hr on a 220kms Ardennes stage, have you? I doubt this can be true - anyone of you guys knows more? Thanks in advance…

Page 1 you can see the general direction of the stage, and it was indeed tailwind all day.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Ok this really needs to be clarified.

Mozart was born and died long before Beethoven, who was heavily influenced (especially in his earlier years) by his style.

The story of Salieri in the film Amadeus was also completely false.

The catholic nun who taught me piano would've had the wooden ruler out if she had lived long enough to read the last page of this thread.