Tour de France Tour de France 2024, Stage 11: Évaux-les-Bains > Le Lioran, 211km

[ppanther92]

Never believe anything Jumbo says about their riders before a race.

I tried to not believe Niermann when he said "Jonas, you can catch him on the next hill"...

 

[Potomac]

Potomac vindicated they should've just let Healy and the rest of the circus take 15 minutes up front.

No. I liked this stage.

 

[Penninepeddler]

Roglic lost 30 seconds then I guess with that crash...

Remco +0:25
Roglic +0:55

provisional results.

 

[Scarponi]

If Pog loses this tour he has to stop doing the year long peak. You can’t keep turning up here and getting cooked, needs to peak for this race alone

 

[Didinho]

Jonas definitely benefited from starting the sprint there instead of waiting for Tadej to do it. Sure you don't want to be on the front in that situation, but if you are at least you're better off taking the initiative.

In these gradients and starting so slow you got almost no slipstream. Should just started beside him, he was a tiny bit faster but started behind.

 

[Brullnux]

Did Pogacar not fuel himself well or something, he looked really off it from 20km to go

 

[slim charles]

Vingegaard gains 1s today but it almost feels like another Granon/Loze meltdown from Pog.

That is a bit over the top, tbh.

Definitely a psychological win for Vingegaard, but this was hardly a meltdown.

Fantastic stage, though. Great job by Jonas, he is incredibly strong. I feel like UAE screwed this up and have only themselves to blame.

 

[dgodave]

Jonas definitely benefited from starting the sprint there instead of waiting for Tadej to do it. Sure you don't want to be on the front in that situation, but if you are at least you're better off taking the initiative.

With a bit of a grade to fight, yeah.

 

[jono]

Thomas looks to have nailed it. Vingo is getting stronger and Pog is on the decline. I expect we might see a repeat of last year, with Pog cracking massively on a stage. The G-T double is hard enough without trying to do it against the 2-time defending Tour champion and best grand tour racer of the peloton.

Chapeau to Vingo, this is turning out to be a great Tour so far. Kudos to Remco and Roglic keeping it close as well.

This seems likely at this point, although Vingegaard will have to do it all without the benefit of any team support because Visma is ass in the mountains.

 

[dobrien]

Ok, but only a very naive person would think that Almeida, Yates or Ayuso can drop Vingegaard uphill.

The more worrying part is that Pogacar lost 34s on the 2nd climb after getting an initial gap with his explosiveness.

No need to be snooty about it; my point was that prior to this stage I doubt UAE thought Vingo would be like this and were seeing if they could stick the knife in him. Clearly Jonas is far better than they expected, so yes, now we know this version of Jonas is nearly as good as last year's model. Agree with your second point obviously.

 

[Tim Cahill]

No. I liked this stage.

Not sure Pogacar liked it

 

[Devrann]

After seeing sprint,I tend to believe Rasmussen below;

https://twitter.com/x/status/1811040045211484528

View: https://x.com/MRasmussen1974/status/1811040045211484528

 

[ontheroad]

The big balls jokes were funny for the first few times, now they are just becoming repetitive!

 

[Landeirovic]

Pogacar at finish line was more dead than Vingegaard in basque crash.

 

[Fantastico]

Wow, Remco recovered well.

He gained most of the time because the two in front looked at each other before the sprint.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Shambles from Slovenian Pozzato to be beaten by a fish with zero kick. Unban Mou to be trialled by questioning from us and then ban him right away for being a fraud, unlike the honorary and wise Dr. San Milan.

Good showing by the real slim Shady although he was definitely saved by the two upfront playing games. Roglic, don't know what to say, first better than expected, than about what we expect, than worse and in the end crashes, does a stage get more fitting than that?

 

[Wvv]

Remco is cooked

Sure.

 

[tobydawq]

If Pog loses this tour he has to stop doing the year long peak. You can’t keep turning up here and getting cooked, needs to peak for this race alone

No

 

[Scarponi]

Tears from Vinge. Pogacar is so *** this next 1.5 weeks. He’s going to go thermonuclear

 

[slim charles]

Did Pogacar not fuel himself well or something, he looked really off it from 20km to go

This is what I thought, too, only at the top, I believe, did he get gels from the neutral vehicle. Huge failure from UAE [IF I am correct in this]

 

[Brullnux]

After seeing sprint,I tend to believe Rasmussen below;

https://twitter.com/x/status/1811040045211484528

View: https://x.com/MRasmussen1974/status/1811040045211484528

He looked like he ran out of juice I agree.

 

[Penninepeddler]

Wow. Ayuso finishes with Healy in the group even after Healy did all that work out front.

 

[ppanther92]

So Gall dropped his group with Bernal, Ayuso and Co. by 2 minutes. He was quite strong in the end, it seems.

 

[Devrann]

Did Pogacar not fuel himself well or something, he looked really off it from 20km to go

Most likely so..Great ride by Vingo though.

 

[Poursuivant]

Is great to see another huge chapter in the biggest rivalry in the sport happening today, these two riders very difficult to separate again. It's a shame they are both a minute behind Pogacar and Vingegard

The sport needs the two, if there was only one, it would be so dull.