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

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Pogi doing Purito may very well be enough to give him the victory if he survives Wednesday.
He doesn't need a longer range attack (yet) and neither does Vingegaard. The gap between the two suggests we may get a pretty meh racing in the remaining stages.

Pidcock looks impressive, but I still want to see how he goes in the multi mountain stages.

Do you think he'll be better than Rodriguez?
He certainly doesn't seem to be doing any favors for Rodriguez
 
Lmao Pog has all the legs and is riding like a coward
Mate . What you are smoking.

We're talking about a guy who lost the Tour last year, and who made a lot of mistakes in that tour by wasting energy and being very aggressive. He will learn from that mistake.

And now we have a stage that is uniporto with 2 hard mountain stages to follow over the weekend. He would be very silly to attack like a maniac , today stage is not the stage to make a difference.

The pacing of UAE was likely to test vineggard, to see if they could take advantage of weakness without pogacar himself spending energy before next 4 hard stage.

You yourself are a roglic fan so It's strange to me that you make this criticism of pogacar.
 
*** stage but can't be mad given the weekend that's coming up. The climb would be a killer if the stage itself is really hard before the bottom - this way it's an easy ride and then you just have to survive the steep parts and recover in the massive draft on the flat ones. Incentive to attack is low because of all the teammates UAE and JV have that will claw you back on the flat parts. Expected Simon Yates to be better and Hindley to be worse, Pidcock is the big surprise since Puy de Dome, really curious how he now does on the harder stages.
 
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Kwiato!!

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What would Roglic have done differently than Pogacar? I agree he probably could have followed Pogacar, maybe beaten him on the line, but that's about it.
Think his biggest danger is he's actually a viable threat. Kuss is a climbing dom no matter how food he's at it, and Kelderman is not a threat to a Pogacar in any race. Pogacar has to counter if Roglic attacks, and that leaves him open to blowing himself up.
 
It matters for the stage win.

I have to agree that Bonus seconds are kinda dumb. You already get a big benefit finishing first by winning the stage, which is reward enough. Giving out bonus seconds to create faux time gaps for 2nd and third is strange.
Don't tell that to Pogacar. Without bonus seconds he's way further behind (19 seconds more, to be precise). And people love Pogacar, so apparently they love the concept of bonus seconds.
 
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Mate . What you are smoking.

We're talking about a guy who lost the Tour last year, and who made a lot of mistakes in that tour by wasting energy and being very aggressive. He will learn from that mistake.

And now we have a stage that is uniporto with 2 hard mountain stages to follow over the weekend. He would be very silly to attack like a maniac , today stage is not the stage to make a difference.

The pacing of UAE was likely to test vineggard, to see if they could take advantage of weakness without pogacar himself spending energy before next 4 hard stage.

You yourself are a roglic fan so It's strange to me that you make this criticism of pogacar.
This seems like the best take to me.