Tour de France Tour de France 2023, stage 5: Pau - Laruns, 162.7k

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Tbf apart from UAE and Jumbo you also have to question what all the guys happy to work in the break are thinking? Do Quickstep really think Alaphilippe stands a chance against Ciccone, Buchmann and Hindley?

 

[Red Rick]

UAE should let the break go & call Jumbo's bluff.

Then they would see just how much time Niermann & Vingegaard are happy to give Hindley.

Joke is on UAE when Jonas drops Pog on Soudet

 

[Peyroteo94]

Joke is on UAE when Jonas drops Pog on Soudet

If that happens, Tour is over

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Tbf apart from UAE and Jumbo you also have to question what all the guys happy to work in the break are thinking? Do Quickstep really think Alaphilippe stands a chance against Ciccone, Buchmann and Hindley?

The Quickstep squad is terrible and jakobsen is crashed. They have to gamble on Alaphilippe or they won't win anything

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Do Quickstep really think Alaphilippe stands a chance against Ciccone, Buchmann and Hindley?

If QuickStep can help the break getting a big lead it might lead to Hindley, Ciccone, Buchmann etc needing to work for GC already on the rolling terrain before Col du Marie Blanque and then Als can be on the wheel here.

I think that’s the best possibility to make him survive CdMB.

 

[Reynard]

Yeah that break is dead. Hindley should slowly drift back at the HC climb I think. Have Buchmann attack and try to move up to the front with other strong climbers like Ciccone and Gall so that you have at least a satellite left.

 

[DenisMenchov]

I hope Bjerg rips it on Soudet

 

[RedheadDane]

Selfish Pedersen, just a Danish Van Aert.

And Van Aert is a Belgian Pozzato. Does that make Pedersen a Danish Pozzato with an extra step?

 

[Bushman]

What is Pedersen doing pushing on, your boy is behind

He cant really help Ciccone nor Skjelmose if he just gets dropped on Soudet. Makes perfect sense to gain an advantage beforehand

 

[Netserk]

Cofidis 2nd and 3rd in virtual points classification.

 

[SHAD0W93]

It's a pretty good situation for Jumbo - as long as UAE are panicking. If UAE stop chasing, then Jumbo have problems. But why should they?

So Jumbo has problems.

 

[MartinGT]

Meh Kirby is here to spoil it

 

[Mayomaniac]

Why exactly is giving Ciccone minutes risky? Yet to win a GC of any kind, yet to finish a GT in the top 15.

Yeah, but some of his climbing performances this year were legit top class. Outsprinting Roglic and Evenepoel on that MTF in Catalunya and being the 4th fastest on that Murito climb up to the fortress in Grenoble while being in the breakaway all day long.
With so little flat in the one TT that you have in this race I wouldn't gift him minutes, cause what if his climbing performances are consistently on that level?

 

[ppanther92]

Joke is on UAE when Jonas drops Pog on Soudet

If that happens there is anyway no comeback in any scenario. Großschartner and Soler can easily drop back though, so I don't see the problem.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

The Quickstep squad is terrible and jakobsen is crashed. They have to gamble on Alaphilippe or they won't win anything

If QuickStep can help the break getting a big lead it might lead to Hindley, Ciccone, Buchmann etc needing to work for GC already on the rolling terrain before Col du Marie Blanque and then Als can be on the wheel here.

I think that’s the best possibility to make him survive CdMB.

Fair points but why not join a move like the one with WVA and Campanaerts instead? This way they're just burning themselves against the chasing peleton as well as against guys in the break. But yeah, might as well do something I guess.

 

[Reynard]

Asgreen should be up there. No need for Pedersen to join that move he would be better invested with bringing the group together with Konrad asap to the HC climb

 

[Pirazziattacks]

I'm not sure if WVA's on a tear again or is just wasting energy on the flat to prove a point.

 

[gregrowlerson]

The breakaway of 2023 is in full flight and Australian television cut to a cooking segment.

 

[Didinho]

Luckily Powless saved some energy for this. Wout taking over today.

 

[dazaau]

The breakaway of 2023 is in full flight and Australian television cut to a cooking segment.

Get on the SBS tour app. No stupid cooking show here!

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Only Konrad pulling in the Hindley group is really stupid. Buchmann and Lopez could both join in too and don't get me started on Pedersen. AG2R should also probably commit someone, the Suisse version of Gall has a shot too and they have two other guys here.

 

[Andy schleck]

It's the perfect scenario for vingegaard to attack in the last 6/7 km of col du soudet. It's a good oportunity.

 

[Didinho]

Only Konrad pulling in the Hindley group is really stupid. Buchmann and Lopez could both join in too and don't get me started on Pedersen.

They’re saving Buchmann for the climb I think. Or they just feel the group isn’t going to take more time.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

It's the perfect scenario for vingegaard to attack in the last 6/7 km of col du soudet. It's a good oportunity.

Yeah because UAE is chasing for some reason and keeping the gap close

 

[Boehmand]

UAE is slowly reeling the break back in, because everyone is the break (logically) wants Bora to do all the work.

They won’t get a large gap as long as Hindley is there.