Tour de France Tour de France 2023, stage 21: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - Paris, 115.1k

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Will EF Education fight to not allow Pinot to lead on to the Champs? I understand that Vaughters fellow, can hold a grudge.

 

[movingtarget]

Hard to see this ending any way but one.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Of course this has JDP written all over it, but like most I hope someone (anyone) else wins it. Michael Mørkøv has no one to lead out and will give it a go. I vote for him.

 

[Volderke]

Wet cobbles so I predict chaos and thus I hope 🤞 Sagan shines, or any last 1.5 K effort by a rouleur, but I’m not enthusiastic about a Philipsen repeat (last 7 years = 7 different winners, so keep that stat going)

 

[RedheadDane]

Will EF Education fight to not allow Pinot to lead on to the Champs? I understand that Vaughters fellow, can hold a grudge.

Will Pinot even want to lead on the Champs? Seems to me like he got his farewell ride yesterday.

 

[SHAD0W93]

Will Pinot even want to lead on the Champs? Seems to me like he got his farewell ride yesterday.

It’d probably be Sagan, especially with Cav out.

 

[RedheadDane]

It’d probably be Sagan, especially with Cav out.

Or maybe guys like Devenyns and Gallopin.

 

[tobydawq]

Or maybe guys like Devenyns and Gallopin.

Yeah, they're equally big figures in the Tour as Sagan...

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

I'll support anyone but Philipsen

Maybe Vino will help you, hiding somewhere in the alleys, prepped for last lap spectacle.

 

[RedheadDane]

Yeah, they're equally big figures in the Tour as Sagan...

They're also riding their last Tour. It's not only big names who're allowed to attack on the entrance to the Champs.

 

[rallybanana]

They're also riding their last Tour. It's not only big names who're allowed to attack on the entrance to the Champs.

I think an even more fitting tribute for Devenyns would be for Declercq, Mørkøv, and Devenyns to cross the finish line together just inside the time limit.

 

[RedheadDane]

I think an even more fitting tribute for Devenyns would be for Declercq, Mørkøv, and Devenyns to cross the finish line together just inside the time limit.

Why not... both?
Lead on the entrance to the Champs, then take it chill, maybe stop for a drink, and then just go very slow.

 

[rallybanana]

Why not... both?
Lead on the entrance to the Champs, then take it chill, maybe stop for a drink, and then just go very slow.

I'm cool with multiple tributes to Devenyns

 

[Samamba]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1683055457487683584

View: https://twitter.com/LeTour/status/1683055457487683584

 

[Netserk]

Nice! I feared it was a French year and we would get another undeserving winner.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Would have bet my left kidney on Pinot winning this one, it being his last year and him not having gotten much else out of his four breakaways. Can't argue with Campenaerts taking it though.

 

[Red Rick]

Can't think of any particular standout rider for that award anyway. Campenaerts probably has recency bias on his side.

 

[tobydawq]

I saw a headline from Sporza that Wout Van Aert was not among the nominated riders.

I mean, wtf did they expect?

 

[Red Rick]

I saw a headline from Sporza that Wout Van Aert was not among the nominated riders.

I mean, wtf did they expect?

Sporza really should have won most combative award

 

[RedheadDane]

I saw a headline from Sporza that Wout Van Aert was not among the nominated riders.

I mean, wtf did they expect?

THIS JUST IN!

Evenepoel not nominated either.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

I think Alaphilippe did a really aggressive Tour and he‘s French, so I‘m actually surprised that Campenaerts won it, but I guess attacking from Stage 18 to 20 gives you the recency bias.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

I think Alaphilippe did a really aggressive Tour and he‘s French, so I‘m actually surprised that Campenaerts won it, but I guess attacking from Stage 18 to 20 gives you the recency bias.

Campenaerts' aggressive riding dictated how the stages worked out. Alaphilippe just went up the road countless days with little effect.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Campenaerts' aggressive riding dictated how the stages worked out. Alaphilippe just went up the road countless days with little effect.

Well, yes, but it isn‘t the dictated the race award, they‘d have to give it to Christophe Laporte then.
But he was in quite a few breakaways before as well, so it‘s not necessarily a bad choice, I‘m just surprised.

 

[Potomac]

Even my wife will watch this stage just to see Paris.

 

[IndianCyclist]

Would have bet my left kidney on Pinot winning this one, it being his last year and him not having gotten much else out of his four breakaways. Can't argue with Campenaerts taking it though.

For Pinot to take a stage win, podium(mountains/aggressive), Madiot should have allowed him a free role but he was drafted to save Gaudu who finished 2 spots above him