Tour de France Tour de France 2023, stage 17: Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc - Courchevel, 165.7k

[Red Rick]

Should be headwind on the first half, then tailwind the 2nd half

 

[danielovichdk2]

Tough Tour for Bernal. Makes you wonder if he's ever going to get his old form back.

I doubt it. But I really hope for it. Great athlete before he crashed.

 

[Netserk]

Btw, what's the story behind Vingegaard using his mother's last name and not Rasmussen, which is his father's? Is this typical for the Danes?

That’s not how Danish names work.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Col de la Loze is a kinda horrible climb.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

French TV keeps talking about how pale Pogi looks. I think they're expecting him to crack spectacularly on this stage.

Maybe it's because I'm used to seeing him with his shades on, but he does look rather spent without them. I'll be surprised to see much of anything from him today except for surviving... hope I'm wrong.

 

[danielovichdk2]

I think pog is a bit ill. I noticed a small wound on his lips (caugh wound) yesterday and thought the same. But he is not a guy that gives excuses

 

[Sciatic]

The break and the “peloton” are roughly the same size right now.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Pogacar with his glasses off. A nuclear bomb is coming ahahah

 

[Rob5091]

It is with deep sadness that I have to announce that these were the last kilometers of this Tour I was able to watch live. Have fun everyone!

Which means the next few days will be spectacular!

 

[KOM]

Really hope im wrong but I got a weird feeling Pogi will be dropped before other top5 contenders

 

[Potomac]

Will anything happen today?

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

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French TV keeps talking about how pale Pogi looks. I think they're expecting him to crack spectacularly on this stage.

Maybe it's because I'm used to seeing him with his shades on, but he does look rather spent without them. I'll be surprised to see much of anything from him today except for surviving... hope I'm wrong.

He looked like someone who hadn't slept for 3 days on Joux Plane but rode brilliantly so I wouldn't take much from that. Not that I expect him to be better than Vingegaard today, mind.

 

[meat puppet]

Kuss sitting on his own in the pack, behind UAE riders. Would expect him to guard Vingo's wheel

 

[RobertCrawley]

Kuss sitting on his own in the pack, behind UAE riders. Would expect him to guard Vingo's wheel

In other climbs, he's lingered behind until it's time for him to go to work.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Pogacar rode an incredible tt yesterday, one of the best in years, think people are being fooled because he doesn't have his glasses on anymore.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Really hope im wrong but I got a weird feeling Pogi will be dropped before other top5 contenders

I don't think so, he was head and shoulders above everybody else, bar Vingegaard, yesterday. Vinge was just such an outlier it looked like a bad ride from Pogi, just going by the gap.

 

[ppanther92]

I think pog is a bit ill. I noticed a small wound on his lips (caugh wound) yesterday and thought the same. But he is not a guy that gives excuses

German Eurosport had a bigger discussion on it just some minutes ago. Apparently has the Herpes rash since yesterday. Might harm his performance according to them. That said, still think he did well enough yesterday.

 

[Salvarani]

I don't think so, he was head and shoulders above everybody else, bar Vingegaard, yesterday. Vinge was just such an outlier it looked like a bad ride from Pogi, just going by the gap.

Might be the smarter thing to not do something crazy here. Concede or settle for the stage-win in a sprint.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

I don't think so, he was head and shoulders above everybody else, bar Vingegaard, yesterday. Vinge was just such an outlier it looked like a bad ride from Pogi, just going by the gap.

This tweet visualizes very well how Pogacar is above the rest, and Vingegaard just is somewhere close Jupiter, doing his thing yesterday.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1681562731890057218

View: https://twitter.com/BriSmithy/status/1681562731890057218

 

[QueenStagiaire]

German Eurosport had a bigger discussion on it just some minutes ago. Apparently has the Herpes rash since yesterday. Might harm his performance according to them. That said, still think he did well enough yesterday.

It‘s radiation poisoning.

 

[RedheadDane]

Geschke 25 minutes behind. Probably sick.

 

[Salvarani]

German Eurosport had a bigger discussion on it just some minutes ago. Apparently has the Herpes rash since yesterday. Might harm his performance according to them. That said, still think he did well enough yesterday.

Like a lip sore? Most people get them from time to time.

 

[DrSahl]

Will anything happen today?

Most likely but most likely without consequences

 

[Poursuivant]

S Yates attack: loading

 

[Danskebjerge]

Both his parents are called 'Vingegaard Rasmussen'. Dunno where either name originally came from.

That's become normal in Denmark. Famous footballer Preben Elkjaer actually has the name Preben Elkjaer Larsen, but he dropped the Larsen part. That's typically because the middle names are more "interesting" than (too) common family names such as Hansen, Jensen and Larsen. Normally the middle name is from the mother.

Same goes for politicians by the way - numerous Danish prime ministers from the last couple of decades actually.