Tour de France Tour de France 2023, stage 3: Amorebieta-Etxano - Bayonne/Baiona, 193.5k

[SHAD0W93]

Cavendish punctured.

Pog too, hopefully no tacks again!

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

The last 500 M today is a 2-3 % incline, and there is a 4-5 % 500 M hill 6 K from the finish, which will certainly be used to put pressure on some of the trains (especially Soudal and Jayco).

So I think it is one for the punchier sprinters: Philipsen, Girmay, WvA, Pedersen - maybe Ewan if he is in shape.

Yeah, I pray for a Girmay stage win for today!…

 

[Nick2413]

Overestimating how much this takes out of a rider imo. They aren't riding hard and there's plenty of recovery for him before stages he might actually have an outside shot at winning.

Staying in front of even a chilling peloton still takes a fair amount. Yesterday’s stage average speed was 44kph and he basically did that with 1-2 helpers for 180k.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Exactly…

Powless got better throughout the years, and recently raised his game to a whole other level.

I also don’t understand why he rides like he does that early in the Tour, attacking every day. He is so good, he could save himself to climb with the best, soon…

But Vaughters wants his men to do the things no one else does… At least it‘s entertaining.

Charly Wegelius told Christian VdV that Powless (who is nice) is going to stay in front so long as the pace remains reasonable. If the peloton kicks up, look for Powless (who is nice) to drop back.

 

[Ricco']

Lovely piece of road, this one

 

[SHAD0W93]

WVA interviewed and said he’s going for the stage today.

 

[RobertCrawley]

WVA interviewed and said he’s going for the stage today.

I wonder how he plans to do that. Maybe a plan to get out in front with 10K to go or so?

 

[Lequack]

Average speed is just 37 km/h. Even a club rider could easily attack the peloton today.

 

[Red Rick]

Lafay you absolute legend

 

[Samamba]

Lafay saw Powless waisting energy so he thought well why not for a few points to maybe stay in green for 1 extra day

 

[SHAD0W93]

Pog another mechanical.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Lafay having quite a Tour already...

 

[Red Rick]

CN forum people: "I dont understand what Red Rick means by meme attacks"

Vicor Lafay: "I got you fam"

 

[Peter von]

regarding Powless: I would have expected he would keep his powder dry today and go for it on wednesday.
Both to win the points, but also compete for the stage.
Then again I reckon the team thinks it is a nice way to take just a little bit of pressure from the team, they get something small to celebrate, which can give some motivation for the whole team. Cort also managed to take a stage win later on last year despite burning matches chasing polkadays in first week.

It is nice to have stuff to do for the teams instead of just waiting for days where a breakaway might be allowed to go.

I guess they figured that Powless will be able to recover just fine in time for later break away stages.

 

[RobertCrawley]

I like the new color of the green jersey.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Selfish Lafay doing meme attacks instead of leading out Coquard.

 

[Rollthedice]

Lafay is in his last year of contract which kind of explains his stratospheric jump from nobody to dropping Pog on Pike and next day's nuclear attack to win the stage. Do you think it's enough or are we gonna see him doing a Voekler 2011 version?

 

[Rob5091]

If Lafay is going for more then Green Jersey points, can someone tell me please!

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

Lafay is in his last year of contract which kind of explains his stratospheric jump from nobody to dropping Pog on Pike and next day's nuclear attack to win the stage. Do you think it's enough or are we gonna see him doing a Voekler 2011 version?

Anyways it‘s good for the French…

Now that Alaphilippe clearly has his best years behind him, and probably even won‘t get a new contract at Soudal-QS, Lafay might be the man to watch for the future…

 

[SHAD0W93]

Lafay is in his last year of contract which kind of explains his stratospheric jump from nobody to dropping Pog on Pike and next day's nuclear attack to win the stage. Do you think it's enough or are we gonna see him doing a Voekler 2011 version?

Also the English commentators already talking that Lafay got an offer from Ineos and 5 other WT teams after his win.

 

[Peter von]

I like the new color of the green jersey.

me too it looks great

 

[DNP-Old]

Also the English commentators already talking that Lafay got an offer from Ineos and 5 other WT teams after his win.

INEOS has been talking with him for a few months now. I really hope for his sake he hasn't signed anything yet.

 

[ZamlinusYoutubeious]

Charly Wegelius told Christian VdV that Powless (who is nice) is going to stay in front so long as the pace remains reasonable. If the peloton kicks up, look for Powless (who is nice) to drop back.

Is there a Powless ( who is not nice) ..i guess he would be powerless

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

Also the English commentators already talking that Lafay got an offer from Ineos and 5 other WT teams after his win.

Might be realistic.

A TdF stage win (mainly the first one) is an absolutely life-changing event. If you‘re smart and strong afterwards, you‘ll enjoy great decades, afterwards…

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

Exactly…

Powless got better throughout the years, and recently raised his game to a whole other level.

I also don’t understand why he rides like he does that early in the Tour, attacking every day. He is so good, he could save himself to climb with the best, soon…

But Vaughters wants his men to do the things no one else does… At least it‘s entertaining.

They aren’t riding hard, and he clearly isn’t riding for GC this Tour;he can keep his powder dry tomorrow before the Pyrenees.