Tour de France Tour de France 2024: Stage 16 16/7 Gruissan - Nîmes, 188.6k

[staubsauger]

Wærenskjold kinda blew this one. He should have gone early for a monster leadout with Kristoff on his wheel, when Philipsen still had 2 riders in front of him.
In that situation, when they have the field out you can't wait until Van der Poel does his leadout and expect to win. A wattage monster like Wærenskjold, with his sprinter Kristoff on his wheel, should go early, to even the odds and launch Kristoff at a high speed in a tailwind sprint.

The mistake is UnoX still sprints with Kristoff instead of Waerenskjold IMHO!

This isn't 2015!

 

[Danskebjerge]

It's like Philipsen makes a clean sprint one out of three times.

 

[RobertCrawley]

If Philipsen wins all 3 of the intermediates that seem "plausible"?

Then if Bini comes 6th, 6th and 7th he still wins.

Should be interesting if Bini can make a go of it.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Three for Jasper!

 

[Norbea]

That idiot from UNOx needs to look around and stop instead of leading out Philipsen

I don´t think Abra is to blame here. Wærenskjold and Kristoff should be on his wheel, but Wærenskjold gets bullied by Alpecin and they manage to squeeze in between the UnoX riders. I guess this is also the main reason they keep going for Kristoff in these sprints. If they can get ahead of the pack with Abra and Wærenskjold, he should win. Unfortunately Wærenskjold keeps losing his fights. He needs to fix that first before he can challenge Kristoff as the sprint captain.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Cav will keep going till Nice, but he was pretty much reflecting on his career and is just happy to be at the Tour one last time. Good interview.

Also, Bini looks all right enough on the podium, hopefully he won't be too sore tomorrow.

 

[Danskebjerge]

It's as if nowadays the injuries after crashes often prove worse than they looked at first. I feel that earlier, years ago, there were more riders that came out relatively fine after crashes. A consequence of higher speeds?

 

[Heston]

It's a false flat. Should be interesting.

We're talking about a man who has crushed Strade + Liege + Giro + Tour in the same season without looking tired at any point. No chance he gets tired tomorrow.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Cav will keep going till Nice, but he was pretty much reflecting on his career and is just happy to be at the Tour one last time. Good interview.

I wouldn't be surprised if he called it quits after today. Does he want to climb mountains so he can do a bumpy time trial?

 

[RedheadDane]

I wouldn't be surprised if he called it quits after today. Does he want to climb mountains so he can do a bumpy time trial?

Makes perfect sense that he wants to finish his last Tour.

 

[RobertCrawley]

We're talking about a man who has crushed Strade + Liege + Giro + Tour in the same season without looking tired at any point. No chance he gets tired tomorrow.

Not fatigue, but heat. They'll want to test to see how well he rides when it's really hot. I think he'll be fine, but Visma is not here to be part of a victory procession.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Makes perfect sense that he wants to finish his last Tour.

I hope he does, but I would not be surprised if he went home. He was baked after that mountain ride on Sunday.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

I hope he does, but I would not be surprised if he went home. He was baked after that mountain ride on Sunday.

I hope he finishes too seeing as he's got nothing to lose at this point, we'll see.

 

[Mayomaniac]

The mistake is UnoX still sprints with Kristoff instead of Waerenskjold IMHO!

This isn't 2015!

Yeah, that's another thing, but today Kristoff got a podium with a suboptimal execution by his leadout man. having you leadout man wait on Philipsens wheel in those circumstances is a bad call.

 

[Valv.Piti]

We're talking about a man who has crushed Strade + Liege + Giro + Tour in the same season without looking tired at any point. No chance he gets tired tomorrow.

If anything Pog will drop anyone tomorrow, this is really a Pog day if I have ever seen one. Smash 2 km of Noyer and then ggs

 

[staubsauger]

I wouldn't be surprised if he called it quits after today. Does he want to climb mountains so he can do a bumpy time trial?

Nah

Cav wasn't like Kirsipuu & Cipollini before, so he doesn't want to end like that.

Cavendish finishes the 2024 Tour de France in Nice if he's able to.

Isola 2000-Bonette might be a tough call for him though!

 

[RedheadDane]

Kulset (about the roundabout mess-up): I saw a car coming the opposite direction. Then I thought "***! That's us!"

 

[Peyroteo94]

Not fatigue, but heat. They'll want to test to see how well he rides when it's really hot. I think he'll be fine, but Visma is not here to be part of a victory procession.

Last year, he almost cracked Vingegaard in Col de Jeux Plane and it was hot as hell. We had 32°C before Plateau de Beille and he delivered his best performance ever. The true is we try to find weakness in Pogacar but he really doesn't have any type of weakness. This doesn't mean he can't be defeated, of course he can lose specially because he is competing against other generational talent.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Last year, he almost cracked Vingegaard in Col de Jeux Plane and it was hot as hell. We had 32°C before Plateau de Beille and he delivered his best performance ever. The true is we try to find weakness in Pogacar but he really doesn't have any type of weakness. This doesn't mean he can't be defeated, of course he can lose specially because he is competing against other generational talent.

I know you are a big fan of Tadej. I'm just saying that Visma will try to crack him in the heat and also week three. It's not a criticism.

 

[gunara]

Ackermann, Coquard, Wærenskjold, GIbbons

Without Philipsen this sprint field gives off a real 'sleepy Vuelta flat stage randomly at 1400m altitude' vibe.

contested by the likes of Manuel Cardoso, Leo Duque, Gianni Meersman, and Lloyd Mondory, with one or two random strayed big name blew them out by one truck length

 

[Peyroteo94]

I know you are a big fan of Tadej. I'm just saying that Visma will try to crack him in the heat and also week three. It's not a criticism.

Mate, you don't need to be "afraid" to give your opinion. I just didn’t agree with you and respond to you but we can disagree, we are all differents with different points of view so we just need to be respectful towards each other.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Mate, you don't need to be "afraid" to give your opinion. I just didn’t agree with you and respond to you but we can disagree, we are all differents with different points of view so we just need to be respectful towards each other.

You disagree that Visma will attack? That's all I said.

 

[Peyroteo94]

You disagree that Visma will attack? That's all I said.

I agree. They will do an all in! In bonette and if they fail,they will try in stage 20 again.

 

[yaco]

"Inferior" is a strong word, when Hepburn, Walscheid and Mezgec is a potential world class sprint train.
That said, the Giro sprint field was also stronger. Kooij, Merlier and Milan are all not here...

The point is Jayco could not get their sprinter to the final enough times, when they had better chances of winning the sprint. You have to remember that for the Giro, Mezgec was a late call up, so was unprepared, took a week to get going and had not ridden with Ewan for six years, but somehow got him to more sprint finishes.

Ewan is an interesting case. Did not ride after TA, before the Giro, except for a one day race in Germany, and has not ridden since. Strange indeed!

 

[SHAD0W93]

Good win by Philipsen, hopefully Girmay doesn’t lose green because of this crash.