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

[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.

 

[Nick2413]

If Quickstep/Ineos/Visma chase all day they should be burnt for tomorrow

 

[Bolder]

Ayuso is useless... terrible rider

Um, doesn't he have COVID? Or did I mishear?

 

[noob]

So UAE want Yates back in GC to act as a bate in mountains?

 

[fbjim]

riders today are so soft. Eddy Merckx once won the Giro d'Italia with COVID-19

 

[Potomac]

I don't agree with Tratnik coming all the way back.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Dream scenario for UAE right now but they lost a rider however

 

[Mayomaniac]

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

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

They just let the break dangle at the front on a tight leash, so Adam Yates wastes Energy today and is less useful on the next 2 days.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Today the breakaway is being kept on a tight leash, so it's a rather pointless move by him...

Interesting way to phrase ‚They‘re chasing full gas and still losing time‘

 

[DenisMenchov]

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...

So UAE has Yates ride the wheels in the breakaway is somehow worse than Jonas pulling on the flats and Visma destroying their whole team against riders like Mohoric, MVDP, Abrahamsen, Cort, Lazkano...?!

 

[rallybanana]

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

Don't jinx it

 

[ppanther92]

riders today are so soft. Eddy Merckx once won the Giro d'Italia with COVID-19

COVID-69 maybe

 

[AmRacer]

riders today are so soft. Eddy Merckx once won the Giro d'Italia with COVID-19

Covid-67

 

[Brullnux]

They just let the break dangle at the front on a tight leash, so Adam Yates wastes Energy today and is less useful on the next 2 days.

I don't think Yates is using up much more energy than Visma's domestiques. Ineos also seem pretty worried. Even Vingegaard was pulling on the flat at one point

 

[AnotherArmChair]

In many ways pro riders are like sheep ......their first reaction is always to panic

 

[Brullnux]

Kelly really does not rate Blythe lol

 

[Danskebjerge]

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)

If they all contribute, they should be able to make it. Visma can live with a 1-2 minute gap for Yates.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Grandpa G driving the peloton.

 

[Samamba]

All French teams apart from FDJ missed it and are riding now together with Soudal, Visma and Ineos ofcourse

 

[staubsauger]

UAE doesn't necessarily need Yates in the Pyrenees. Him tiring the other teams helpers now is helpful as well.

On Sunday Almeida can do a high tempo starting into Plateau den Beille and then Pogačar attacks anyway if he's healthy!

 

[Potomac]

Kelly really does not rate Blythe lol

I'm almost sorry I can't hear what's going with the ES feed (I have peacock)

 

[noob]

Dream scenario for UAE right now but they lost a rider however

I think they're burning more than one of their riders this way.