Tour de France Tour de France 2024, Stage 13: Agen > Pau, 165.3 km

[Brullnux]

It was a pretty good try from Visma to try and catch them out but should've stopped when Pogacar/Evenepoel were wise to it.

It was a very aggressive move but I'm not sure it was better than chasing harder with Jayco earlier, and then they got reined in by Ineos which is not... superb

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Was speaking about INEOS general situation at the Tour not being great

 

[Peyroteo94]

Where is Ayuso?

 

[Danskebjerge]

Too much GC on this stage.

 

[RobertCrawley]

L'Equipe reports that Ayuso does in fact have Covid. I hope it was just him and not any other teammates.

Ayuso a abandonné !​

En difficulté depuis le début de la journée, Juan Ayuso (UAE Emirates) a abandonné. L'Espagnol a été contrôlé positif au Covid.

 

[Potomac]

Where is Ayuso?

way way way way gone

 

[Tim Cahill]

Where is Ayuso?

Abandoned about 10 mins ago

 

[Brullnux]

Where is Ayuso?

DNF, covid

 

[noob]

So much cycling adhd.

 

[Lequack]

So Visma just dropped Tratnik from the 1st group.

Can't have him going for stages

 

[Bolder]

I just couldn't see UAE allowing a GC Yates. So not sure why Visma panicked

 

[snipeheem]

Where is Ayuso?

He is done

 

[Boehmand]

This is not necessarily over.

We've already seen the wind is strong enough to create echelons, and the stage is north to south almost the entire day.

It's just a question of waiting for the next open terrain with crosswinds

 

[Netserk]

I thought more riders in the front group would save themselves for this section now and try to split it on the hills.

 

[Brullnux]

Sean Kelly very critical of Visma

 

[RobertCrawley]

Here's the break:

Tête de course
A. Yates (UAE Team Emirates)
J. Bernard (Lidl - Trek)
T. Skujins (Lidl - Trek)
N. Powless (EF Education - Easy Post)
F. Van Den Broek (DSM - Firmenich PostNL)
J. Fuglsang (Israel - Premier Tech)
R. Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ)
R. Costa (EF Education - Easy Post)
H. Houle (Israel - Premier Tech)
M. Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers)
K. Geniets (Groupama-FDJ)
J. Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility)
M. Van Der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
A. Laurance (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
B. Van Moer (Lotto-Dstny)
M. Cort Nielsen (Uno-X Mobility)
O. Lazkano (Movistar)
M. Van Den Berg (EF Education - Easy Post)
M. Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious)
A. De Lie (Lotto-Dstny)
D. Ballerini (Astana Qazaqstan)

 

[Peyroteo94]

Ayuso is useless... terrible rider

 

[Brullnux]

Ayuso is useless... terrible rider

Bruh he got covid

 

[RobertCrawley]

Sean Kelly very critical of Visma

I like Visma giving it a try.

 

[Boehmand]

Ayuso is useless... terrible rider

He has Covid...

 

[fbjim]

Ayuso is useless... terrible rider

i think he might possibly be sick op

 

[staubsauger]

I just couldn't see UAE allowing a GC Yates. So not sure why Visma panicked

Ayuso has got Covid-19, UAE tries to bring Yates back into the GC....

Visma sums up they can maybe sink Pogačar in the Pyrenees!

 

[Brullnux]

I like Visma giving it a try.

Not as much for the effort but more for not preventing it getting to this point to begin with

 

[Mayomaniac]

UAE with the drunken monkey tactic.
Ayuso dropping out and they have Adam Yates waste energy in the breakaway before 2 big MTFs.
Today the breakaway is being kept on a tight leash, so it's a rather pointless move by him...

 

[Netserk]

It was a very aggressive move but I'm not sure it was better than chasing harder with Jayco earlier, and then they got reined in by Ineos which is not... superb

Yeah.

The upside is that Soudal and Ineos are more cooperative now.