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

[Big Doopie]

Pog and Vinge have been neck and neck for over 2 weeks ....Vinge is the better TTer but not by this much hence I think Pog is tired

agreed.

likely a 3rd-week drop-off due to compromised prep. totally understandable. unfortunately, some riders are not given the benefit of that most logical of reasons.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Merciless. Champion.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Froome and Lance looking so basic now.

Froome definitely is. Very basic and mediocre to compared to Jonas, most definitely.

 

[glassmoon]

You kind always comes out of the woodworks whenever a rider does well, you probably said the same og Pogacar in 2020.

Maybe he is just salty Pog fan... and was very happy in 2020

 

[Gratemans]

So the question is how do they make the tour remotely interesting for the next few years?

How were the last weeks not interesting to you? Someone dominates one stage and immediately the entire Tour isn't interesting anymore?
And if you take back a step and distance yourself from all the hysterics: is this Tour really definitely decided? There's still two very important stages left

As for the race itself: Jonas also technically rode it way better. Almost each and every turn he did better.

 

[HelloDolly]

Mate, Pogi beat Van Aert by the same margin he did in 2020 at La Planche. Vingegaard shouldnt reach Paris after this, and if he is, the whole Tour is a circus with 0 credibility.

There are often very good Tts and to suggest something other is a bad loser

Rog TT in the Giro was also magnificent ...go to the clinic You are p***ing up a against a wall and totally out of order

 

[titan31]

agreed.

likely a 3rd-week drop-off due to compromised prep. totally understandable. unfortunately, some riders are not given the benefit of that most logical of reasons.

I mean did every rider drop massively or did one rider do something ridiculous? It's not that he's beating Pogacar here by a lot, he beat Pogacar by a lot and obliterated everyone else

 

[Elos Anjos]

Merciless. Champion.

Go make your marketing somewhere else. Everyone saw what happened.

 

[Big Doopie]

Mate, Pogi beat Van Aert by the same margin he did in 2020 at La Planche. Vingegaard shouldnt reach Paris after this, and if he is, the whole Tour is a circus with 0 credibility.

says the poster with freaking contador as their avatar.

the hypocrisy is just dripping down the walls of their basement.

 

[Didinho]

Next year the ASO will make a route to give Remco a chance and hence doesn't include any TTs

Remco just signed a 5 year contract with RSC Anderlecht. He will play at left back. Young promising player, a bit aggressive. Looks good!

 

[Red Lobster]

You kind always comes out of the woodworks whenever a rider does well, you probably said the same of Pogacar in 2020.

"Your kind"? By that I guess you mean longtime observers who have seen a few things?

 

[Lorzenz08]

Pogi still did an excellent performance given he has more than a minute on WVA. So even in top form, and everything going alright Pogi would still be a minute behind Vingo.

 

[Poursuivant]

lets hope the race now calms down.

In what respect?

 

[postmanhat]

Has Pogacar's alien status now been offically revoked?

 

[Vino's Mum]

Not sure what to make of that.

If it hadn’t been only 22km, and was a proper man-sized tt over 60km like some of Indurain’s, it could have been five minutes to Pog.

 

[46&twoWheels]

enjoy while it lasts I guess.
Anyway great performance by Giulio Cicco. The abruzzese Mutant

 

[GroupDK]

Thats one cooked Vingegaard.

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and a dissapointed Pogacar

 

[proffate]

Reckon how much time Tadej lost because of a bike change? Commentators in my country were very critical of it.

10ish seconds IMO.

Good thing that's not going to be what we're talking about in 10 years' time.

 

[pelotonIQ]

To all the Vinge haters:
I'm sorry you can't dream big and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles...

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Well maybe next year Pogi will focus only on Le Tour. He might be a world beater but he focuses on too many side quests.

Pogi is still a gift to our sport due to the way he is doing and filling the calendar.
Today was a nosebleeder, but Pogi will surely bounce back.
Luckily for all of us thats a core part of his nature.

 

[Boehmand]

Well that doesn't explain how fast Vingegaard was just, why he might be faster than Pogacar. But by this margin? It's quite insane.

Of course it does.

We all knew beforehand, that both are on another level than anyone else, but when Vingegaard gets a day where 2 of the 3 factors where he is better are present, he beats Pogacar 9 times out of 10 - people just didn't want to believe it beforehand.

 

[BillyTwinner]

So you don't think it was a clinical performance?

Was not man! He relaxed 2 week to smash on third! He said before tour
Jumbo expected to be behind pogacar until 3week

 

[Sciatic]

Probably all the same crybabies referred to the clinic then too

You’re so gracious aren’t you?

 

[fbjim]

So you don't think it was a clinical performance?

He was out for blood.

 

[46&twoWheels]

Pogi come to the Giro with Rogla. Let's leave the tour to this danish dictatorship