Tour de France Tour de France 2023, stage 20: Belfort - Le Markstein, 133.5k

[Poursuivant]

Sad for Kuss

 

[Peter von]

Great to see Pogi be so happy for a stage win.

Vingegaard happy to sprint for the win it’s fair. Not really a climb hard enough for him to drop Pogi under normal circumstances anyway and Pogi looked pretty strong today again.
I do find it interesting that Jonas rides like Pogi had a chance of gaining the 7 mins back. I think mentally when you’ve been living in the zone of 100% focus it’s tough to go out of it and adjust to riding for the stage win even if it can cost you 30 seconds.

 

[DNP-Old]

Van Baarle just said on Dutch television that they wanted to win the stage with Vingegaard. Except somebody forgot to tell Vinge the Cringe.

 

[dgodave]

All the fuss over whos the most boring!

If you all want boring I'll start posting here a lot more. I'll show you boring.

One great disappointment today, for me, was the lack of chateaux and eglises on this stage.

 

[slim charles]

Spoiler Alert: I don't think Jonas or Teddy are boring riders. I also think they both deserve their threads in The Clinic. I also think the sour grapes that cause boring posts about Jonas being boring, is boring.

I'm sure many have misunderstood your very subtle trolling

 

[IndianCyclist]

The hero of this stage Pinot for attacking, the rest were just boring or stupid or tired

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

we arent but 1st defintely isnt

Then you're not very intelligent...

 

[dobrien]

He crashed hard in the Vuelta, too. Big fighter.

He really is; it's super unfortunate but he sure has showed he's got the character to be a big GC player. Just needs to keep it on two wheels now

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

I'm sure many have misunderstood your very subtle trolling

Apparently they did, as I had to weather posts telling me why Pog isn't boring...

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Van Baarle just said on Dutch television that they wanted to win the stage with Vingegaard. Except somebody forgot to tell Vinge the Cringe.

Maybe he beat Van Wilder in a sprint and believed he could win?

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Great to see Pogi be so happy for a stage win.

Vingegaard happy to sprint for the win it’s fair. Not really a climb hard enough for him to drop Pogi under normal circumstances anyway and Pogi looked pretty strong today again.
I do find it interesting that Jonas rides like Pogi had a chance of gaining the 7 mins back. I think mentally when you’ve been living in the zone of 100% focus it’s tough to go out of it and adjust to riding for the stage win even if it can cost you 30 seconds.

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[RobertCrawley]

Retirement life will be very kind to Mr. Thibaut Pinot.

 

[staubsauger]

This stage had everything a cycling fan could've dreamed about.

Big drama with Rodriguez crash. Big emotions, with Pinot's brave attack up towards the Petit Ballon and the spectators cheering on him. Offense & incomprehension for Gall's tactics not to attack but pull even on Breitfürst!

Action right from the start when Lidl successfully went for Ciccone's polka dot jersey.

Pittoresque scenery of the Vosges! <3
Especially Petit Ballon with the forest and the glade on top of it!

 

[RedheadDane]

A few TdF stage wins in that top-10.

 

[RobertCrawley]

we arent but 1st defintely isnt

Let's not forget the attacks on Pog is 2021 for being "extraterrestrial."

 

[dobrien]

Really happy to see TiboPinot get his moment of glory, such a wonderful sendoff. Nice to see the fans relatively decently behaved today as well; I think the ropes seemed like a pretty good compromise, we got all the atmosphere but way less of the idiocy.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Sad for Kuss

He's still on the road, from what I can tell from livetracking.

 

[ooo]

 

[RobertCrawley]

One great disappointment today, for me, was the lack of chateaux and eglises on this stage.

Are there no châteaux in the Vosges region?

 

[D. Pecher]

The hero of this stage Pinot for attacking, the rest were just boring or stupid or tired

You can't really expect more fireworks after the last two stages. It's the end of a three week tour and most people are running on fumes by now.

 

[slim charles]

Like many, I often whine about boring stages, riders that should attack and all the other things that shouldn't be mentioned on this part of the forum, and it's easy to forget how badass these people are. Sad to see Lafay abandon [assuming it was a crash?]. Great to see Rodriguez and Kuss [and plenty others] fight after such misfortune.

 

[HelloDolly]

Retirement life will be very kind to Mr. Thibaut Pinot.

Could be the Eric Cantona of cycling. He has the looks for the big screen, not to mention the romantic allure

 

[movingtarget]

The way Pogacar celebrated, he obviously wanted to salvage something from the final week. Another badly timed Rodriguez crash. Gall was one of the surprises of the race. Great scenes on the mountain with the Pinot fans. Good to see the cops dragging road runners off the road. Vingegaard paying homage to Andy Rubberneck. Pretty entertaining stage even though Simon Yates moving up one place was the only GC move that mattered. Good to see Adam get a GT podium. KOM battle was more entertaining than usual.

 

[D. Pecher]

Are there no châteaux in the Vosges region?

Considering that Germany and France have gone to war over Alsace-Lorraine since forever. I would venture to guess that if there were any, most are a bit kaputt.

 

[Volderke]

You just have the feeling that Vingegaard didn’t ride to his full potential:
If he can pull off a tt like some days ago, you would expect him to actually race the race, but the next thing you see is him just following wheels and he would even do a track stand if Pog did one, to make absolutely sure he isn’t doing anything than following wheels.

i would have loved to see an aggressive Vingegaard today: it’s the TdF and he raced this last stage as if he was afraid to influence the outcome of the stage, while he could have raced it to show the world what he has in the legs. It’s great to see that in a tt, but better in a race.