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

[Tim Cahill]

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[Ripper]

Bora and Ineos are riding stupid. If UAE really wants this, which is obvious, then let them commit their whole team

 

[gregrowlerson]

It's funny to watch the difference in the way Pog and JV approach the Tour. JV treats this like it's a calculus problem. Pog's strategy is: I'm going to ride faster than everyone else because I can.

Good will hunting vs. 2 + 2 is 4

 

[Salvarani]

I dont think that the group upfront is a problem, because it is "big". Everybody is not working in that group.

I guess Bjerg and Laengen wont be of much use in the weekend anyway, so might as well use them today. Trentin helping out as well I see.

I thought it would be unwise to burn their team today... but maybe it also stupid to not make use of the stage. Especially, when Jumbo has ridden hard in the past days. Was it to deter Pog on a stage that probably favors him more than Vingegaard? Had UAE not ridden today... maybe JV and Vinge would have thought that the hard racing in previous days had done something.

It really is a cat and mouse game going on each of these stages.

It is just fun to speculate also.

 

[Ripper]

So it's gonna be a full on watts fest for the win today. Mano a Shimano between Vingegaard and Pogačar.

New climbing records coming soon

 

[Volderke]

The stage is supershort. They only need to ride another 65K to the start of the climb.
That's around the length that time trials used to be in the early '90s

 

[Boehmand]

We don't. We make a factual assesement of the situation and then, from a memorizied template, choose an answer someone who suffers from humor might enjoy.

Henning Wehn is funny though, but he may of course have Danish ancestry

 

[gregrowlerson]

The stage is supershort. They only need to ride another 65K to the start of the climb.
That's around the length that time trials used to be in the early '90s

@Bavarianrider

 

[Gigs_98]

The stage is supershort. They only need to ride another 65K to the start of the climb.
That's around the length that time trials used to be in the early '90s

No no no, you don't get it. Short stages are impossible to control because they are so dynamic.

 

[gregrowlerson]

So it's gonna be a full on watts fest for the win today. Mano a Shimano between Vingegaard and Pogačar.

The ? is.....who is on another

LVL?

 

[Izzyeviel]

I don't understand why AG2R aren't riding to protect their 17th on GC.

 

[HelloDolly]

Is Jens losing his marbles ?

"Adam yates and the Polish rider" ...ha ha ha

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Can’t wait for Chris Horner to call UAE knuckleheads for this whole break formation and chasing phase.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Is Jens losing his marbles ?

"Adam yates and the Polish rider" ...ha ha ha

Losing?

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Henning Wehn is funny though, but hey may of course have Danish ancestry

The application of 'humor' is part of cultural diplomacy which is an important aspect of German diplomacy full stop. So sometimes people who make very good templates to accomodate a certain aspect of 'humor' are send to these countries.

 

[gregrowlerson]

I don't understand why AG2R aren't riding to protect their 17th on GC.

French Contador: "The seventeenth place is no good."

 

[tobydawq]

No no no, you don't get it. Short stages are impossible to control because they are so dynamic.

For all the hate short stages get, the Tour sure has become much more entertaining after their implementation.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

For all the hate short stages get, the Tour sure has become much more entertaining after their implementation.

I'd argue that is more down to a new generation of riders racing differently, rather than the short stages.

 

[tobydawq]

I'd argue that is more down to a new generation of riders racing differently, rather than the short stages.

I think both factors contribute.

 

[Aimar16]

I don't understand why AG2R aren't riding to protect their 17th on GC.

Gall will be in the top 10 on GC after the stage

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Gall will be in the top 10 on GC after the stage

Gall is 3'13 behind Pinot in 10th. I think this is a bit far fetched of a claim.

 

[gregrowlerson]

Gall is 3'13 behind Pinot in 10th. I think this is a bit far fetched of a claim.

"At least he had the gall to say it."

German proverb.

 

[pelotonIQ]

It would suck if Vinges radio malfunctions after Poga drops him

 

[Tim Cahill]

Sepp Kuss should go on the attack late to try and take the boni's and start his GC fightback

 

[BigCoward]

Henning Wehn is funny though, but he may of course have Danish ancestry

In 2015 Henning Wehn did a nationwide UK tour, in 2016 Britain voted to leave the EU.