Tour de France Tour de France 2023, stage 19: Moirans-en-Montagne - Poligny, 172.8k

[Eyeballs Out]

Pretty impressive showing by Abrahamsen. After finishing 3rd yesterday he's been working on the front and they're holding a very strong break so far.

 

[RedheadDane]

There are guys in this one who will try to get away or try and force Trentin and Pedersen to take a bigger share of the workload.

Trentin might try to get away from Pedersen. He hasn't had the best of luck sprinting against him in recent years.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Language discussion: Can someone help me with Campenaerts' nickname "Vocsnor"? What does it mean?

 

[Peter von]

Trentin might try to get away from Pedersen. He hasn't had the best of luck sprinting against him in recent years.

Hehe True, not the best record.

But without being a mind reader I still think Trentin will have a rather high opinion of his own sprint in a small group like this. Also compared to his ability to ride solo against some of those engines.

 

[Salvarani]

Bad for the break. Politt was super-strong yesterday.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Bad luck Politt with a chainbreak and no team car.

 

[RedheadDane]

This is a *** situation for Politt!

 

[DNP-Old]

Now this is a game changer.

 

[Didinho]

Give him a ride back to the break.

 

[RedheadDane]

Give him a ride back to the break.

He needs to catch up with the peloton first.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Poor Politt, he was in really good form these last two days (held onto the GC group until the bottom of Loze including pulling in the valley and had that monster pull yesterday that almost killed the break). Such a *** way to basically have your tour ended.

 

[Danskebjerge]

The neutral mechanic experienced a chain reaction from Politt there.

 

[Didinho]

He needs to catch up with the peloton first.

I know. Behind the team car 😁.
They were already a minute in front, isn’t that the rule for the cars to go behind the break?

 

[Didinho]

Lol Vingo. Just get in line again.

 

[Faserr]

El Patron

 

[RedheadDane]

I know. Behind the team car 😁.
They were already a minute in front, isn’t that the rule for the cars to go behind the break?

Yeah... Rolf Sørensen was thinking it might be because there hadn't been a place where it was possible.
(He also questioned why.)

 

[D. Pecher]

TJV will have some words with EF tonight.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Cort in the second peloton... Tv2 Aften Tour Predictor is broken.

I would never expect a stage win from a rider who has shown nothing on the previous 18 stages.

 

[D. Pecher]

I know. Behind the team car 😁.
They were already a minute in front, isn’t that the rule for the cars to go behind the break?

ARD commentators said that the gap was just big enough for the cars to go up front, but the roads were too narrow to safely pass the peloton.

 

[RedheadDane]

ARD commentators said that the gap was just big enough for the cars to go up front, but the roads were too narrow to safely pass the peloton.

And of course now it's under a minute... so all the cars would have had to be called back.

 

[search]

Bora has Konrad and Buchmann in the 2nd peloton. Let's see if they still join the chase now.

 

[Faserr]

Without Politt the gap goes down. He should attack again. .

 

[D. Pecher]

Would be quite the irony id Politts mechanical ultimately dooms the entire break

 

[RedheadDane]

Would be quite the irony id Politts mechanical ultimately dooms the entire break

And then it turns out that the neutral service mechanical is Belgian.

Those radio messages, though...

 

[F_Cance]

it's so nice of other teams to do the work for alpecin