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

[Peyroteo94]

Maybe, but at a certain point Cofidis, Arkea, Decathlon might just say f*ck it. It's over for us. Then you have just 3 Teams chasing.

In 50 km they will give up. So they need to close the gap before that.

 

[noob]

Cort love ya!

 

[Froome]

UAE is playing wisely this time, I know they are dumb as hell but today they are good, this is all about Pogacar after all. They are burning a domestique to create a better scenario to their leader. How is this a bad thing? They still maintain Almeida high in the GC even if yates loses a lot of time tomorrow

They are doing the perfect job for Vingegaard.

They are burning Yates, they are making the race hard again, just like in the last days. Everybody will start to be tired in the Pyrenees, and even more in the last week.

 

[noob]

So Ayuso, who's been struggling since stage 1, gives up with covid? I'm no boffin in a white coat, but that sounds not the complete story.

Pog said he himself had covid before the tour though so it doesn't sound unlikely.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Yates has nerves of steel still being there, he is not a popular man

 

[Samamba]

Cort is realizing it.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

So Ayuso, who's been struggling since stage 1, gives up with covid? I'm no boffin in a white coat, but that sounds not the complete story.

Struggling since stage 1? He was among the five strongest on Galibier.

 

[noob]

This isn't a bad break out of the break either.

 

[Gratemans]

I just love tactical shenanigans like this

 

[Samamba]

Moto helping a lot here

 

[Peyroteo94]

They are doing the perfect job for Vingegaard.

They are burning Yates, they are making the race hard again, just like in the last days. Everybody will start to be tired in the Pyrenees, and even more in the last week.

Vingegaard was working for 5 km with his team and Remco.

 

[Rob5091]

Pog said he himself had covid before the tour though so it doesn't sound unlikely.

He might well have Covid, but he's been struggling since stage 1. Has he had Covid all that time?

 

[RobertCrawley]

Pog said he himself had covid before the tour though so it doesn't sound unlikely.

The good news about that is that it's highly unlikely that Tadej will get it again before the end of the race.

 

[noob]

He might well have Covid, but he's been struggling since stage 1. Has he had Covid all that time?

I wouldn't say he has struggled that long. But about the amount of days it might take to turn a test positive, possibly.

 

[AmRacer]

They are doing the perfect job for Vingegaard.

They are burning Yates, they are making the race hard again, just like in the last days. Everybody will start to be tired in the Pyrenees, and even more in the last week.

Yates is working way less than other GC teams domestiques

 

[Peyroteo94]

They are doing the perfect job for Vingegaard.

They are burning Yates, they are making the race hard again, just like in the last days. Everybody will start to be tired in the Pyrenees, and even more in the last week.

Yates is not a GC threat, never was. This is Pogacar vs Vingegaard. [[content deleted]]

 

[Danskebjerge]

So Ayuso, who's been struggling since stage 1, gives up with covid? I'm no boffin in a white coat, but that sounds not the complete story.

Same with Mørkøv and Kragh. The explanations might be right in some cases, but not in all of them.

 

[noob]

The good news about that is that it's highly unlikely that Tadej will get it again before the end of the race.

Sadly that's also incorrect. And Almeida is prone to infections I'd say. Luckily he doesn't like Ayuso so probably have stayed far away from him

 

[Tim Cahill]

Adam Yates trying to bridge to the fuga de la fuga

Hope he makes it for hilarity purposes

 

[Poursuivant]

End for Yates

 

[noob]

Yates is not a GC threat, never was. This is Pogacar vs Vingegaard. [[deleted content]]

If Yates wasn't a GC threat why would Visma chase?

 

[Samamba]

Those 4 might actually be gone...

 

[Froome]

Vingegaard was working for 5 km with his team and Remco.

He can recover better than everybody in the last week. This style of race is better for him, than Emirates and Pogacar.

 

[hayneplane]

Yates must be really loved in the peloton. I think other riders would have been bullied into submission in case he were the rider that was dragging everyone down.

I think I recall Cadel Evan getting up the road in an early move on Stage 9 2020 TDF after dropping 3 minutes on GC and the rest of the riders remonstrated with him heavily not far short of physically attacking him until he gave in to the bullying and dropped back.

 

[AmRacer]

He can recover better than everybody in the last week. This style of race is better for him, than Emirates and Pogacar.

But it is still extra work he doesn't need.