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

[Moose McKnuckles]

Good news.

Pog by 5 minutes and 5 stages is back on the menu boys

Cheers to Red Rick for the Lord of the Rings reference, one of my favorite quotes.
Also nice ride by Jorgenson, very impressive. He has all the markings of a future TdF star.

 

[JosefK]

Pantani smiling, somewhere.

 

[red_flanders]

Another anticlimatic stage.

I mean….wut?

 

[Medvind]

Perfect tactics by UAE. Let Yates attack away and then let Pog bridge a couple of kilometers before the lower gradients in the last 3-4 k where Pog can use his poweradvantage over Vinge.

Vinge can't respond to Pog attacks, it's clear he lacks some form and he looked quite exhausted in the end.

Pog with the clear upperhand now.

 

[solo80k]

I’ve noticed you usually show up about 50k too late

At least I was right, 35 seconds more for Pog. I still believe Jonas will turn the table in the last weekend.

 

[Izzyeviel]

For all you pro-cycling enthusiasts - Thats how you use team mates as satellite riders.

Still a huge error from UAE not to do this on stage 4

 

[tobydawq]

Another anticlimatic stage.

Sure, if you don't like cycling.

 

[fbjim]

The greatest of all time

Vino is in the race??????

 

[Wvv]

If Remco performs on the same level tomorrow, he'll get that podium spot.

 

[BubbaChuck]

tommorrow uae is once again gonna pace like hell and pog takes minute.

 

[slim charles]

Another anticlimatic stage.

What would, then, qualify as a good stage?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Surely Vingegaard would have liked Evenepoel take turns with him, Evenepoel just didn't - maybe, I don't know - have them balls..no?

It's Evenepoel's big balls that are dragging him down uphill man.

Amazing how few people seem to realise that having balls has nothing to do with being strong.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Landa was really quite disappointing

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

One day it’s all one team, and the next day it switches to all the other team. Cant we just be rational here?

 

[Sciatic]

Kind of awkward for Remco to have Pog right in his face on the warm-down bike?

 

[Kangaridoo]

Evenepoel may have come 3rd but his big balls crossed the line just a few seconds after Pogacar

 

[Heston]

Pogacar has dropped Vinge on every mountain stage so far. At this point people are mainly deluding themselves by pretending Pog isnt gonna win by 5 minutes in the end. He will probably win 2-3 stages more.

Vinge just isnt at top shape. Which no one should have expected him to be. Vinge still favorite next year if both come to the Tour in top shape.

 

[Finn84]

Time limit 43'31"

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Jonas to Remco: "Now the whole world's gonna know that you got dropped looking at my balls."
(h/t to Bond here)

 

[slim charles]

One day it’s all one team, and the next day it switches to all the other team. Cant we just be rational here?

No.

 

[madthebad]

Why would anybody chase yates? That was so stupid. Maybe only ciccone should have bothered

Irrelevant and it wouldn't have made any difference if they chased or not. Yates was sent to attack only to give Pogi a hand and a couple of pulls while a Vingegaard tried to close the gap. I could see it coming from a mile, as soon as Yates attacked I knew what they were doing.

 

[AmRacer]

It's Evenepoel's big balls that are dragging him down uphill man.

Amazing how few people seem to realise that having balls has nothing to do with being strong.

It's excessive weight, he should cut one off.😅

 

[Savant12]

Tbh I think Vingegaard and Evenepoel paced themselves really poorly. Yates just slowed Pogacar down, and the only way it helped was that it baited Vingegaard into blowing himself up.

Yates, allowed Pog a little time to recover from his big attack, it was paced well by Pog.

 

[CleanCiclismo]

Jorgenson chasing Yates was so stupid

Yeah, why did he do it? Remco still had Hirt and Landa there.

 

[ppanther92]

Really shows as well how much Vingo is disadvantaged by the lack of strength in the mountains for his team...

when he had Roglic and/or Kuss? Usually one there would have been able to help. And Kelderman looks a shadow of himself.

Jorgensen is a damn good rider. But in mountains he is not close to Yates, Almeida or Ayuso...

Tbf, Jorgenson and Kelderman had to ride all day yesterday for whatever weird reason. Even Vingegaard himself took pulls. Thats as questionable if not more, than Pogacar attacking every second day and sprinting at random stages (which he gets criticized for a lot). Not sure it would have changed a lot but stupid to do this before a decisive day like today.