Tour de France Tour de France 2023, stage 16: Passy - Combloux, 22.4k (ITT)

[DNP-Old]

Alexis Renard might have an OTL problem coming.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

More confusion at the start line, is the entire peloton drunk?

Who knows? I am convinced my favourite football team is always on ketamine whence the important matches arrive, hence they got relegated.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Voigt convinced he and Eisel would have smashed the spectator out of the way, with their strong shoulders, that crashed Kuss. Everybody's drunk today.

 

[RedheadDane]

Voigt convinced he and Eisel would have smashed the spectator out of the way with their strong shoulders that crashed Kuss. Everybody's drunk today.

So would Welsford, obviously!

I'm not drunk.

 

[Rackham]

Adam Blythe says rain is forecast after 15:00.

 

[bizzmane89]

Voigts reasoning for not having a bike change was also gold. Since a bike chance needs about 20 seconds and we expect only small difference in the end, there will be no time for a change.

 

[Aimar16]

Did they move the barrier at the first corner? It looks like the white painting was in a different place when Bjerg went through there.

 

[Trofonios]

Anyone thinking Wout can win this must be delusional. He might get a couple of seconds on Pog and Vinge to the bottom of last climb. But then he will surely lose at least 30s, that steep section is really hard.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

So would Welsford, obviously!

I'm not drunk.

Ketamine then?

 

[RedheadDane]

Ketamine then?

Coffee.

 

[RobertCrawley]

That must be a designated bike change area, but that must put a little bite in the legs to start right at the bottom of the hill.

 

[Poursuivant]

That ASO stage profile seems to underestimate the final climb a lot, they make it look like it hardly rises

 

[Gratemans]

Imagine Pog & Vinge are separated only by a few seconds after the TT and they stay this way until the final weekend...

Based on what we've seen so far, this is exactly what I think will happen.

 

[glassmoon]

Coffee.

what a well timed reminder... i'll be right back

 

[Salvarani]

Climb seems a lot harder than I thought.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Phil Liggett just said there is a time cutoff of around 10 minutes in the TT with the penalty being disqualification. I did not know this.

 

[Trofonios]

That ASO stage profile seems to underestimate the final climb a lot, they make it look like it hardly rises

Noticed that also. It says that the average gradient from 3 to 4k is 1,6 % which is not what the profile on page 1 says (I also checked on Strava, it's steeper).

 

[RobertCrawley]

Anyone thinking Wout can win this must be delusional. He might get a couple of seconds on Pog and Vinge to the bottom of last climb. But then he will surely lose at least 30s, that steep section is really hard.

We've seen Wout being superhuman. I would not underestimate his performance today.

 

[Boehmand]

Bjerg slower than Moerkoev at the first time check, so clearly not riding the TT full.

 

[SafeBet]

In case you have doubts about the profiles just trust what @Devil's Elbow write.
This is a real climb, nobody outside the top4 climbers in the race + perhaps WVA in stellar shape has a shot.

And 99% it's Pog vs Vingo.

 

[Tim Cahill]

If the heavens are about to open this tt could have some absolute random who gets good conditions winning

 

[RobertCrawley]

Christian VdV just reported wind in the first kilometers at 20-25 mph/40kph, and rain appears to be on the way.

 

[glassmoon]

In case you have doubts about the profiles just trust what @Devil's Elbow write.
This is a real climb, nobody outside the top4 climbers in the race + perhaps WVA in stellar shape has a shot.

And 99% it's Pog vs Vingo.

Wout might have even more of a shot if he finishes before the rain starts...

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Waerenskjold, with this helmet, looks a bit like they took his Elden Ring character to do his TT.

 

[DNP-Old]

Bike change starting to look like a more logical decision by the minute.