Tour de France Tour de France 2022: Stage 8 (Dole – Lausanne, 186.3k)

[tobydawq]

I do, look at the post I was responding to.

Yeah, very praising of Jumbo, not sarcastic at all.

We have six MTF finishes and 54 km TT in this race. Bonus seconds won't decide squat, this isn't 2017.

 

[Extinction]

Imagine if Pogacar had won today.

 

[Rackham]

Ok but what is WvA supposed to do about this today? Not sprint? Then Pogacar gets 2nd.

Didn't you watch the stage? Jumbo pulled for the entire day to make that sprint happen, knowing full well Pog would quite possibly extend his lead in GC.

The smart move was to let a large breakaway fight for the win & tell WvA to calm down & behave.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

People really complaining that JV went for the stage and succeeded?

They worked against their own gc riders and lost time on gc . At the end of the tour, people care about the winner overall, not the winner of 2 dull stages in the first week

 

[Bolder]

I don't know why no one tried to attack in the last km. Even if it was likely that Pog or Wout were going to win, you never know if you don't try..

 

[JosefK]

I'm imagining teams in the early 70s TDF: "We've completely blown it. That Merckx guy is going to take GC again. Doesn't matter how many stages we take, our Tour is garbage."

 

[kingjr]

I don't know why no one tried to attack in the last km. Even if it was likely that Pog or Wout were going to win, you never know if you don't try..

Likely because the pace was too high for anyone to think that they could sustain an attack until the finish.

 

[RedheadDane]

Good to see Kron back in the mix after getting covid just before the Tour. Lotto desperately need something from this race with Ewan doing nothing, again.

After the stage he was even disappointed.
A debutant, only beaten by Van Aert, Matthews, and Pogacar was disappointed.

 

[Netserk]

It's the idea mr numbskull. How do you want to win the Tour de France if you only focus on winning it on half the stages.

Less than half the stages matter for that. A free Van Aert with the green in the bank matters more for the GC battle than 4 bonus seconds.

 

[ppanther92]

Didn't you watch the stage? Jumbo pulled for the entire day to make that sprint happen, knowing full well Pog would quite possibly extend his lead in GC.

The smart move was to let a large breakaway fight for the win & tell WvA to calm down & behave.

BEX and UAE would also have brought it back. It was a small break, gap never large.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Are all the people whining about Van Aert Danish or something?

 

[Bonimenier]

They worked against their own gc riders and lost time on gc . At the end of the tour, people care about the winner overall, not the winner of 2 dull stages in the first week

Sure, my man, whatever floats your boat.

 

[tobydawq]

A lot of those bonus seconds happen when Vigo and Tad are going mano-a-mano. That's on Vigo.

Why are we calling him Vigo?

 

[Valv.Piti]

Didn't you watch the stage? Jumbo pulled for the entire day to make that sprint happen, knowing full well Pog would quite possibly extend his lead in GC.

The smart move was to let a large breakaway fight for the win & tell WvA to calm down & behave.

If you want to run your team into the ground like DSM, that sounds like an absolutely perfect idea.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

If you want to run your team into the ground like DSM, that sounds like an absolutely perfect idea.

They should want to run their team like Ineos, that won 7 of the last 10 tours

 

[Bolder]

Uran and Paret Peintre lost time. And Meintjes.

Louis was not used to riding the last 100 meters. Should have dismounted and ran.

 

[Red Rick]

Less than half the stages matter for that. A free Van Aert with the green in the bank matters more for the GC battle than 4 bonus seconds.

Could've been 10 seconds just as easily.

Like they're straight up signaling that when Van Aerts and Vingegaards/Roglic' interests are at odds with each other they literally go for the inferior goal.

 

[Warhawk]

Why are we calling him Vigo?

He's Vigo Corleone. He's gonna make Pogi an offer he can't refuse.

 

[Netserk]

Why are we calling him Vigo?

I'm surprised it's not Viggo, like the actor and also more resembling Wiggo.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Why are we calling him Vigo?

I like it better than Vingo. Either way.

 

[tobydawq]

After the stage he was even disappointed.
A debutant, only beaten by Van Aert, Matthews, and Pogacar was disappointed.

You don't think Van der Poel was disappointed after stage 1 last year? There's not really something extra super special about a debutant being disappointed about a result.

But he would have to be a little delusional to think he could have won today (which I think he did realise).

 

[sir fly]

I like it better than Vingo. Either way.

Vinegar's the best!

 

[postmanhat]

Didn't you watch the stage? Jumbo pulled for the entire day to make that sprint happen, knowing full well Pog would quite possibly extend his lead in GC.

The smart move was to let a large breakaway fight for the win & tell WvA to calm down & behave.

The break only being three riders was mostly down to the early crash though wasn't it? If it hadn't been Jumbo chasing, it would have BEX or Total or...

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Yeah, very praising of Jumbo, not sarcastic at all.

We have six MTF finishes and 54 km TT in this race. Bonus seconds won't decide squat, this isn't 2017.

You always act like you think every post I make is 100% serious.

 

[movingtarget]

BEX and UAE would also have brought it back. It was a small break, gap never large.

They're the ones that the bunch sometimes messes up and even this one was still pretty close. The break did well.