Tour de France Tour de France 2024, Stage 10: Orléans > Saint-Amand-Montrond, 187.3km

[Peter von]

It's really bad for dutch speaking people

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Really bad.

The best thing about Netflix Tour de France: how they pronounce Wut's name.

edit, ok it's Hindley's voice, but second greatest thing is Wut van Aert

 

[Savant12]

Stage 10 is the cafe ride stage?

 

[Gratemans]

Another rest day on the menu. I was a fan of sprints and I don't know why, this is dreadful. Sprinters should no longer have 8 stages for them. 6 is good enough. I want more hilly stages!

I'm a fan of sprints as well. Just not the rest of those stages.

 

[RobertCrawley]

I'm a fan of sprints as well. Just not the rest of those stages.

I love sprint finishes and excitement of catching breakaways. It's very odd to see stages where no one has cares to form a break, esp. those teams that have nothing to show for their tour so far.

 

[Danskebjerge]

This is like watching France play football.

 

[RobertCrawley]

This is like watching France play football.

England?

 

[Mayomaniac]

This is like watching France play football.

Nah, watching France play football is like watching Roglic and Thomas play the waiting game on last year's Tre Cime stage. Super dissapointing and a waste of potential.

 

[Mayomaniac]

England?

About the same.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Jonas: To be clear, I will ride my own bike again today instead of Jan's.

 

[ppanther92]

Another rest day on the menu. I was a fan of sprints and I don't know why, this is dreadful. Sprinters should no longer have 8 stages for them. 6 is good enough. I want more hilly stages!

6 is totally good enough. 6 hilly ones. 6 mountain. 2 ITTs. 1 gravel. Et voila.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

They‘re getting off-track, interviewing Vingegaard about his mustache while the swans swimming in nearby ponds get labeled as Pogačar and Vingegaard by the on-screen graphics.

 

[bjaelkesex]

They‘re getting off-track, interviewing Vingegaard about his mustache while the swans swimming in nearby ponds get labeled as Pogačar and Vingegaard by the on-screen graphics.

 

[topcat]

This is super disappointing. I was expecting a day where I'd be glued to the tv and accomplish nothing. Now I'll have to be of service to humanity.

 

[Poursuivant]

I wonder if the “no break” scenario makes ASO change things up next year. The break on a day like this has 1% chance, probably not even that, but this type of stuff is unwatchable.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Matt Stephens says the raindrops are moist.

 

[Lequack]

I think today's stage should be cancelled because of extreme boredom protocol.

 

[Netserk]

I wonder if the “no break” scenario makes ASO change things up next year. The break on a day like this has 1% chance, probably not even that, but this type of stuff is unwatchable.

I hope it will make them (re-)learn what worked in 2022. No boring sprint stage from stage 4 to 20 then.

That said, I think today and stage 16 are perfectly fine. 12 & 13 less so.

 

[Gigs_98]

If I'm seeing this correctly the wind gets stronger later, so hey, the peloton is clearly going slowly in order to cause more action later

 

[Valv.Piti]

I wonder if the “no break” scenario makes ASO change things up next year. The break on a day like this has 1% chance, probably not even that, but this type of stuff is unwatchable.

If they have half a brain, they will just stop to design 7 competely flat stages. I think stage 8 was fine enough though

 

[Danskebjerge]

I wonder if the “no break” scenario makes ASO change things up next year. The break on a day like this has 1% chance, probably not even that, but this type of stuff is unwatchable.

True, I can’t think of any other Tour where it’s been like this. The potential was always there (hopeless breakaways), but it was assumed that the smaller teams wanted to get some publicity.

 

[Valv.Piti]

On the other hand, it doesn't really bother me that no break goes on stages like this if its just 1-3 riders from pro conti teams like it used to be. Thats completely doomed anyways and is still not real racing. But its just not a good look to go this slow, but I dont blame the riders today. And I don't blame the riders on the other days either tbh, its just ASO making crap stages

 

[Gigs_98]

I hope it will make them (re-)learn what worked in 2022. No boring sprint stage from stage 4 to 20 then.

That said, I think today and stage 16 are perfectly fine. 12 & 13 less so.

I had honestly forgotten how good the trabsitional stages were in 2022. Really sad the abandoned that formula

 

[Netserk]

I think we'll have a break after the intermediate sprint. Thankfully, it comes relatively early today, but perhaps it could spur a breakaway if it was placed even earlier.

 

[RobertCrawley]

I think we'll have a break after the intermediate sprint. Thankfully, it comes relatively early today, but perhaps it could spur a breakaway if it was placed even earlier.

Agreed. Maybe some teams will use the intermediate sprint as a launching point, like they did last week.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

We were never going to have action before Issoudun, only after does the race turn in a direction where the wind play ball. And I actually prefer it that way, rather have potential action in the last 70 kilometers than the other way round, early Echelons rarely lead to something.