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

[Lequack]

The biggest con of this Tour is the promise of rain. Do the French not employ any meteorologists who can predict weather one day ahead?

 

[Poursuivant]

Vingo clearly wants the stage. And will very likely get it.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

The biggest con of this Tour is the promise of rain. Do the French not employ any meteorologists who can predict weather one day ahead?

Weather reports are a conspiracy theory.

 

[Peter von]

The biggest con of this Tour is the promise of rain. Do the French not employ any meteorologists who can predict weather one day ahead?

We must move the race to Iceland next year and get all weather types every stage

 

[RobertCrawley]

Vingo clearly wants the stage. And will very likely get it.

I think he just wants to make the race really hard so there are no surprises.

 

[F_Cance]

jumbo killing yet another promising breakaway fight. Completely destroying their moral not even giving them more than a minute.

 

[ice&fire]

I want Vingegaard to try and bridge the gap now, just to see what happens.

He should do it. Kuss 6th pace is in danger

 

[Red Rick]

Roglic watching Jumbo protect Kuss' 6th place right now

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Van Aert getting dropped by his own teammates, again.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Van Aert getting dropped by his own teammates, again.

MvdP proves again to be the better rider

 

[RedheadDane]

Bauhaus DNF.

 

[ice&fire]

Van Aert getting dropped by his own teammates, again.

He's just a selfish rider who doesn't want to contribute

 

[Squire]

Photoshoot with the devil!

 

[Trofonios]

What the hell is Soler doing?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

What the hell is Soler doing?

Climbing poorly.

 

[Valv.Piti]

What a break!

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

What the hell is Soler doing?

Preaching the ideology of Solerism as Chris Horner would say.

 

[rallybanana]

Location on the Cormet de Roselend descent where Johan Bruyneel went off the road in 1996. Notice the Johan graffiti on the guard wall.

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[GroupDK]

Jumbo are doing the exact same thing that backfired on them in the Cauterets stage...

Yep, It will not look good in hindsight if it doesn't work out.

 

[RobertCrawley]

He's just a selfish rider who doesn't want to contribute

He's a pancake today.

 

[Valv.Piti]

I don't see a reason for Jumbo to change tactics just because they are almost 2min ahead now. If you believe this was the stage to actually crack Pogacar, then go for it.

Yup.

Cant believe people are actually complaining about this. We see racing, whole bottom half of top-10 is in the break and Jumbo is riding a somewhat hard pace taking no prisoners today.

In the Sky era, this break would have around 10 minutes by now, and it would be an absolute snoozefest.

 

[RedheadDane]

Yup.

Cant believe people are actually complaining about this. We see racing, whole bottom half of top-10 is in the break and Jumbo is riding a somewhat hard pace taking no prisoners today.

In the Sky era, this break would have around 10 minutes by now, and it would be an absolute snoozefest.

My favourite rider is in the break. I'm biased!

 

[Peter von]

I think he just wants to make the race really hard so there are no surprises.

A little bit of A and a little bit of B perhaps. It is clear that going slow is not to his advantage. But at the same time they should time it so at least Jonas doesn’t need to eat wind before it’s steep and at high altitude.

 

[Red Rick]

Cauterets actually had not been hard enough before the final 5km of Tourmalet too

 

[Gigs_98]

I was just thinking that this stage really shows how badly the ASO f*cked up by not designing a better stage around the Col de la Loze. This would be a guaranteed classic if the Col de la Loze came with something like 40km to go with an easier climb still to come.