Tour de France Tour de France 2024: Stage 14: Pau - Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d’Adet 151.9km

[tobydawq]

UAE seem to be patrolling a little now.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Might even get a competitive intermediate sprint at this rate

 

[Tim Cahill]

Vervaeke, Van Aert, Soler have been lingering at the back

 

[Devil's Elbow]

These flat starts always work out the same. Takes an hour for and underwhelming break to go that has no shot to do anything.

Do you remember the first Pyrenees stage last year, like, at all?

 

[Kazistuta]

I disagree. But Eisel shares your view, for example. Just think the way he went in with the shoulder was absolutely unnecessarily rough and Capiot really didn't move a lot, rather van Gils seeing a gap where there never was one.

De Lie as well, but he might of course be a tad biased. I agree the gap required a daredevil to move through, but we've seen sprinters move through smaller gaps time after time. I still think it was an unfortunate incident, because Capiot wasn't aware of the riders on his left side. Leadout riders shouldn't be drifting sideways, but just let up straight and let riders pass them when their vision lets them.
I guess this has been discussed a lot yesterday, and I feel sorry for Capiot, so maybe it's better to focus on todays interesting stage.

 

[AmRacer]

Vervaeke, Van Aert, Soler have been lingering at the back

I heard Vervaeke is sick.

 

[svit]

Carlos Rodriguez will insertt himself i to GC race today....

 

[tobydawq]

Do you remember the first Pyrenees stage last year, like, at all?

That was too early in the race to count. Also an odd-numbered stage.

 

[Netserk]

Good Lotto setup.

 

[Tim Cahill]

De Lie not at the Olympics in this form is a real shame

 

[Samamba]

Four strong climbers ahead now

 

[Didinho]

De Lie not scared to attack in his first Tour. Surely didn’t go unnoticed. When a stage win is hard this year, he’s doing fine.

 

[Netserk]

These flat starts always work out the same. Takes an hour for and underwhelming break to go that has no shot to do anything.

That's the point. ASO wants the GC riders to win the MTF, I think.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Good Lotto setup.

For what exactly though? I guess just being in the race, and maybe the point competition?

 

[Samamba]

Good Lotto setup.

Yeah but without their climber lmao

 

[Salvarani]

They should let these guys go, they are far behind on GC.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Lots of people here sounding like Pogacar has lost the Tour already when he hasn't even been dropped once yet. He's the biggest favorite to win the stage today.

Yes, but it's not only "here". I even read a big news site claiming that Pogacar suffered "a big collapse" the other day when he was beaten by Vingegaard. It's so inaccurate that it's silly.

 

[Medvind]

Lots of people here sounding like Pogacar has lost the Tour already when he hasn't even been dropped once yet. He's the biggest favorite to win the stage today.

Well, we haven't yet had any real hard high mountain stages. On the hardest stage so far Vinge won.

Probably the biggest favorite today, at least if the stage is not ridden hard.

If he is still the favorite to win the tour is more uncertain I would say. As we know, it depends on several factors: will Vinge get stronger and stronger, will Pog pay for the Giro, etc.

If he rides smart I still give Pog a decent chance of winning the tour.

 

[AmRacer]

When I say always I round upwards from ~95%.

Plus that was less flat than this is

You do remember 95-100 % of last years first Pyrenees stage?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Some weird Tour of Flanders attack where Cedric Beullens has managed to cling on from an early breakaway but its a Tour mountain stage.

 

[Netserk]

Yeah but without their climber lmao

I thought the second Lotto rider might have been Vanhoucke.

 

[memyselfandI]

MVDP going for a solo win today, no?

 

[scribers]

Do you remember the first Pyrenees stage last year, like, at all?

I don’t remember what I did yesterday morning

 

[Netserk]

Do you remember the first Pyrenees stage last year, like, at all?

If they had chosen more rolling terrain south of Pau, it would have been more alike.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Toys are out the pram from Johannessen, this is why you don't invite Scandinavian nationalist movements to the Tour.