Tour de France Tour de France 2024, Stage 15 14/7 Loudenvielle-Plateau de Beille 197.7k

[Scarponi]

What was the Pantani stage like? Longer, harder , third week? Can we even give him a minutes leeway with those factors lol

 

[dobrien]

There are so many strange takes on this forum.

What's strange about this take? He's 100% right.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Yates talking about Balls again

 

[Finn84]

Maybe they'll ease off and give the breaks more chance in the third week. But maybe not after the way Pog rode The Giro.

Pog has seemingly set his targets for stage number 36 and he needs to use every opportunity.

 

[Screecher]

I think it's pretty clear now that stage 11 was a bad day for Pogacar.

 

[Scarponi]

I agree totally with this; I already posted this before but I would truly hate to see Remco try to skeletonize himself fruitlessly and then lose the qualities that make him so exciting in other races. There is no universe in which Remco is ever going to put together two days like Pog just did yesterday and today, it is what it is. Remco did a phenomenal ride today, totally killed CRod, etc, and he just got absolutely nuked by Pog and a sub-100% Jonas. He has proved today he can win GT's when these two aren't around but he's never going to beat them at the Tour, not when they're riding like this.

Sadly there’s plenty of third placed riders who should have won a tour but weren’t up to the top dogs. Should just avoid them and rack up the Giros and Veulta imo

 

[RedheadDane]

Pog has seemingly set his targets for stage number 36 and he needs to use every opportunity.

He only got 2 stage wins last year, so he needs four this year to even it out.

 

[Rollthedice]

View: https://youtu.be/ZtyjY6VjF9Q?feature=shared

 

[ppanther92]

In today's form Pog would do Alpe in about 35 minutes! It's maybe the best performance in climbing history.

We need Alpe next year. Its just the most well documented climb. And I really can see a sub 36 of Pogi and Vingegaard.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I think it's pretty clear now that stage 11 was a bad day for Pogacar.

Which is frightening in and of itself.

 

[movingtarget]

Game set and match. Now the race is feeling like the Giro all over again, with a week to go................

 

[Krzysztof_O]

We need Alpe next year. Its just the most well documented climb. And I really can see a sub 36 of Pogi and Vingegaard.

Almost 1900 m/h of VAM on a climb longer than Alpe. Pogacar would smash Alpe record.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Kudos, you were ****** right! Almost 4 minutes is unreal! 😨😨😨

At like 10k to go I thought: well this is exactly the scenario needed that you painted. But the margin! WTF!

 

[AmRacer]

Pog did eat those chips yesterday, while Jonas just took a bite.

 

[Stelvio]

What was the Pantani stage like? Longer, harder , third week? Can we even give him a minutes leeway with those factors lol

Stage 11, fairly similar but a bit shorter. Edit: Average speed on the stage 32.3 kph. Source: cyclingnews

 

[ppanther92]

Almost 1900 m/h of VAM on a climb longer than Alpe. Pogacar would smash Alpe record.

Yes, and I want to see it.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

We need Alpe next year. Its just the most well documented climb. And I really can see a sub 36 of Pogi and Vingegaard.

Honestly think ASO may choose to deliberately avoid Alpe and Ventoux for exactly this reason. It's the perfect recipe to take the clinic talk back into the non-cycling media.

 

[Scarponi]

We need Alpe next year. Its just the most well documented climb. And I really can see a sub 36 of Pogi and Vingegaard.

Alpe is the most mythical time left. Needs to be done

 

[iBanesto]

General classification after stage 15 and time won or lost in the classification.

Rnk.	+/-	Rider	Team	Time	Time won/lost
1	-	POGAČAR Tadej	UAD	61:56:24	-
2	-	VINGEGAARD Jonas	TVL	3:09	▼1:12
3	-	EVENEPOEL Remco	SOQ	5:19	▼2:57
4	-	ALMEIDA João	UAD	10:54	▼4:53
5	▲1	LANDA Mikel	SOQ	11:21	▼4:04
6	▼1	RODRÍGUEZ Carlos	IGD	11:27	▼5:18
7	-	YATES Adam	UAD	13:38	▼5:06
8	-	CICCONE Giulio	LTK	15:48	▼6:39
9	-	GEE Derek	IPT	16:12	▼6:39
10	▲2	BUITRAGO Santiago	TBV	16:32	▼5:18

 

[ppanther92]

Honestly think ASO may choose to deliberately avoid Alpe and Ventoux for exactly this reason. It's the perfect recipe to take the clinic talk back into the non-cycling media.

I agree.

 

[Pippo_San]

Game
Set
Match

We're so lucky to see Pogi go thermonuclear.
Also, the forum. 😂

 

[TrekCyclist]

OK, I believe in miracles again.
Now, I'll check the other part of the forum.

 

[ice&fire]

Something, something, too much valley between the climbs...

 

[Unchained]

Yates talking about Balls again

@100 days ago ,balls and all Jonas was in horizontal stow mode in the hospital..

 

[Lequack]

Lanterne rouge

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZntUVdeNHqA