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

[htym]

Godamn, bro is way better than Armstrong. Amazing

 

[pelotonIQ]

Onto the vuelta we go, vamos Roglic!

 

[dgodave]

Not all, but I do

I like Pog. Im thrilled by his racing and attitude generally.

 

[Andy schleck]

Maybe Lopez should have paid more to the moto. Stop wasn’t long enough.

That's true!

 

[Skalman]

***, this was depressing, from one of the more exiting Tdf`s to utter shiite

 

[dazaau]

Why does Pog have kinesiotape on his abdomen? Strange

 

[Andy schleck]

By how much?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1681685441324482566

View: https://twitter.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1681685441324482566

 

[Trofonios]

TJV was right, a stage for Vinge. Have to give it to them, they know what they are doing.

 

[Izzyeviel]

This is what cyclists should look like after every stage. Half dead.

 

[D. Pecher]

Just compare how utterly exhausted Gall looks and JV looks like he had just another day in the office. That boy worked hard for his first win.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Vingegaard destroyed superman lopez record on la loze, what a monster.

Is this included the section of the moto blocking incident?
Looking at Vingo up Loze my impression was that he still thought a stage win was possible.
Then at altiport ramp hitting reality seems he totally blew up.

*edit* ok thread running at pace, thanks for posting clocked times and section in focus.

 

[T-Nielsen]

Eagle sound effects getting to obvious on the world feed

earlier they had cows mooing

I LOVE the cows mooing.

The eagles we could do without.

 

[HelloDolly]

Where is the irony?

you can be more popular when you lose spectacularly sometimes than when you win everything ..

 

[Escarabajo]

I wonder if Pogi also had a fuel bonk. He really went.

I don't see him eating that much during his tours. But that is just an impression by me. His coaching staff will know better.

 

[rallybanana]

If Sepp Kuss can win this stage we could have a situation where every rider in the top 7 also has a stage win

GC

Now we need a Simon Yates win on Saturday to have all riders in the top 8 with a stage win

 

[dazaau]

Godamn, bro is way better than Armstrong. Amazing

I'm so confused. Yesterday was mental. Today was pretty standard.

Pog just imploded.

 

[ppanther92]

TJV was right, a stage for Vinge. Have to give it to them, they know what they are doing.

Tbh, its usually relatively easy to know what you are doing if you are just stronger. Then anyway 9 out of 10 scenarios will work for you.

 

[Bolder]

Pogacar went down really hard. That plus yesterday's effort may have put him in a hole today. Hope he's able to bounce back somewhat.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

I have to say, whatever homerism exists on this board doesn't come close to the idiocy on Twitter.

 

[Martinstranger]

Either sick or the crash he had at the start of the day took it out of him

Or could it be lack of training and Racing seccions the last few months. Add to that it has been a long season, a hard race all along and we are in week 3 where Vingegaard useally have the upper hand.
There is many possible reasons and hopefully he will be back in shape next year🙏

 

[Fantastico]

Is this included the section of the moto blocking incident?
Looking at Vingo up Loze my impression was that he still thought a stage win was possible.
Then at altiport ramp hitting reality seems he totally blew up.

*edit* ok thread running at pace, thanks for posting clocked times and section in focus.

To me it rather looked like he wasn't going full gas anymore at the altiport. I have no doubt that if required he could've managed to stay at Bilbao's wheel.

 

[ppanther92]

I'm so confused. Yesterday was mental. Today was pretty standard.

Pog just imploded.

Standard is a high standard though. Again took almost 2 minutes on the second fastest on the climb and set a new record (while being stopped by a moto).

 

[RobertCrawley]

Pogacar went down really hard. That plus yesterday's effort may have put him in a hole today. Hope he's able to bounce back somewhat.

We've all wiped out on the bike. It feels terrible and is just deflating, even if the injuries are minimal.

 

[RobertCrawley]

I have to say, whatever homerism exists on this board doesn't come close to the idiocy on Twitter.

What are they saying on Twitter?

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Oh boy, what a carnage! Congrats to Gall on a great performance, he didn't even lose more than a minute when Skeletor accelerated. OTOH Teddy absolutely cracked. His worst day on a bike, even Vinge was looking back not believing that he's not in the group anymore. Not sure if it's because of the heat, the crash, not enough preparation for 3 weeks of racing or whatever.

The race is over and the gaps are becoming comical. Who will want to have "fun" with Skeletor next year? He'll be alone at the start saying "my goal is to finish the race in one piece".