Tour de France Tour de France 2023, stage 15: Les Gets - Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc, 179.0k

[Boehmand]

Imagine if Vingegaard and Pogacar go early, so that Poels suddenly see both Van Aert and Soler sit up on the last climb, and get gifted a stage win

 

[Leinster]

Anyone else in the US just lose their feed?

 

[RobertCrawley]

Anyone else in the US just lose their feed?

Good here in the Midwest on Peacock.

 

[awavey]

Clearly Neilandts fault. You don't reach out for a bidon in the middle of a corner. The moto guy handed him one because he assumed that Neilandts was safe to grab it. What was he supposed to do? shout 'non'?

I suppose he could have just asked for a moment, I mean does he ride along with one in the hand waiting to hand out ? or are they all in the back boxes and he has to reach around for it, not sure how that setup works as I dont think Id realised there was even a water motorbike in the peloton handing out bottles, though I was wondering where they kept getting all these bottles they keep pouring down their necks.

 

[saunaking]

*** the moto

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Rider error

 

[DNP-Old]

My tv station didn’t pay for the image of Neilands crashing.

You can see it on the Eurosport Player. Don't have a time stamp, but the replay is at 35,8 from the line.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Good here in the Midwest on Peacock.

Same here on the West Coast

 

[saunaking]

Taking on a water bottle in a turn in a descent, but the roads are not safe enough guys!

someone call adam hansen

 

[Tim Cahill]

They have missed the boat, the climbing level of the front 3 is too high.

 

[Poursuivant]

Enjoying the mental gymnastics from ES now that WVA has joined Soler, it’s all ok now, they’ve “obviously been given the green light” to attack.

 

[postmanhat]

Nothing against the three in front, but none of them are among the guys I'd love to see win.
Neilands was...

Yes. There should be too many good climbers for them to make to the end?

 

[noob]

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Rider error

Noob error. IE: knee jerk reaction half asleep saw a moto riding into a bicycle. Not trying to put serious blame on the one driving it. Sorry everyone <3

 

[Boehmand]

Neilands made it back to the chasing group

 

[F_Cance]

sad that it's already down to 3 possible winners. Was hoping it would be more exciting

 

[RobertCrawley]

Neilands made it back to the chasing group

Wow. Good on him. It looked like he was out of the Tour.

 

[KZD]

Minute than 1 minute advantage from the front group to the chasers. I am starting to think that the winner may come from this group.

 

[RedheadDane]

Yes. There should be too many good climbers for them to make to the end?

The front group is gaining time on the chasers. Not that the climbing quality in the group matters for my personal preferences.

Neilands made it back to the chasing group

But couldn't that mean they're going too slow?

 

[postmanhat]

Enjoying the mental gymnastics from ES now that WVA has joined Soler, it’s all ok now, they’ve “obviously been given the green light” to attack.

In fairness to Kirby, he did say that as soon as WVA started chasing Soler.

 

[Breezy1985]

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Rider error

Sean Kelly cutting through the hyperbole on ES as usual.

"Don't take water on a turn"

 

[RedheadDane]

Apparently Neilands isn't in the group anyway.

 

[Boehmand]

Wow. Good on him. It looked like he was out of the Tour.

I was wrong, It said on screen, but I can see he is not there

 

[Leinster]

Good here in the Midwest on Peacock.

***. And Twitter seems to all be fine. Must be just me.

 

[D. Pecher]

sad that it's already down to 3 possible winners. Was hoping it would be more exciting

Not on such a hard stage at the end of the second week. There were simply not enough good climbers in that group to compete with these three after 14 stages.

 

[Salvarani]

Apparently Neilands isn't in the group anyway.

He has probably sat up.

He hit his head pretty hard. Hope that he has been checked.

 

[Volderke]

Yes. There should be too many good climbers for them to make to the end?

Isn’t Poels a legit climber? I remember him pulling in a way that Kuss did, back in his Sky days.
In any way, I predict Wout will win this bike race