Tour de France Tour de France 2023, stage 13: Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne - Grand Colombier, 137.8k

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Danish broadcast debating Tour prize money.

The Tour winner gets € 500,000 after riding 21 stages
The Wimbledon winner gets € 2,750,000 after playing 7 matches
The US Open winner gets € 3,200,000 after playing 4 rounds

:rolleyes:

Cycling is a team sport and the prize money is split between the 8 teammates, they get salaries and the team pays for the hotel and stuff like that. Tennis is an individual sport and there are no guaranteed salaries, but no doubt the women tennis players are massively overpaid...
 
Nice interview today in L'Equipe with LeMond about Le Professeur, Laurent Fignon. LeMond said that the reason he won by 8 seconds in 1989 was the triathlete aerobars on his bike. He also said that Fignon was the kind of rider who needed an enemy to be successful. That's certainly not the case today with Jonas or Pogi. They seem to be respectful competitors.
 
I don't have the time to elaborate now. But I think it's quite evident that there is a correlation between shorter stages and exciting racing. Denying that is just being contrarian.
I am right and you are wrong and whoever disagrees is stupid.

Like, I'm far from being the biggest supporter of long stages on this forum, but phrasing this debate like that is just nonsensical. I still think that in a vacuum neither short nor long stages are the one correct way to go and the best way to design your race is a good mixture of both.

I also have the feeling that the newest wave of "long stages bad" has formed during the Giro where far and beyond the most disappointing mountain stage was extremely short. Meanwhile the best mountain stage of the Giro was probably the Monte Bondone stage which was also the only big Alps stage over 200km. And again I'm not saying this is because long stages are better. These things just wary from gt to gt almost as if there is no correlation at all.
 
Cycling is a team sport and the prize money is split between the 8 teammates, they get salaries and the team pays for the hotel and stuff like that. Tennis is an individual sport and there are no guaranteed salaries, but no doubt the women tennis players are massively overpaid...

I get all the dynamics of the sports, but that is not the point.

The point is the organiser keeping more of the revenue to themselves, instead of sharing it with the athletes.

Anyway, climb starting so enough of the random debates :p
 
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Pogacar will take atleast 20 secounds on Vingegaard today if not more and thus get the Yellow Jersey.
I think he will keep it for the rest of the tour after that. But it only takes one bad day and it can switch again.

But this stage really is a Pogacar stage.
 
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