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Tour de France Tour de France 2024 stage 17: Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux - Superdévoluy, 177.8 km

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But Visma‘s best chance at winning is Pogačar blowing up and if that actually happens it would be nice if they weren‘t five minutes behind Remco.
And Pogacar is going to explode out of the blue? Letting Evenepoel come as close as possible to Pogacar would effectively make Evenoel an ally of Vingegaard because then Evenepoel's goal would also be to beat Pogacar instead of attacking Vingegaard for 2nd. It was tactically a dumb move by Visma if they really do not care about 2nd place. But i think they simply do care about 2nd place.

Now they are having to defend on two fronts. Against Pogacar who further wants to distance him, and against Evenepoel who wants his place.
 
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I would assume that they care about their own result. Derek Gee can wait for the TT. Ciccone, Gall and Buitrago need to act if they want to finish in the top 10.
Yeah, but Pogi attacked at only -1,4km from the peak of Col du Noyer.
Perhaps, at that point, the other riders didn't think they could make much of a difference compared to their 4° to 11° counterparts.

If one of the 4-11° guys thinks he could gain something uphill against his competitors, he'll have tons of opportunities to do so on stage 19 and stage 20.

 
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Vaughters** likely**in tears as he is hugging and thanking Carapaz. Today's win and the great riding of Ben Healy have people forgetting about who Vaughters is a person and person in cycling. Carapaz securing victory has what Vaughters did w Piccolo, the Giro almost all but forgotten!! Bravo Richard!!
 
You missed a day w multiple viable breaks ways and Richard Carapaz making the most of his spotty form, he is not good everyday, but when he is on like today he has great abilities.. GC teams had drone like vision on anything important and decided that today they would not chase..
Must watch this night.
Oh boy, now 5 months since I've had a night of +4hours sleep - feels like I was a fresh newborn dad ...but thanks for spoiler anyway..
 
Look, what you need to do is sit the kids - or is it grandkids by now? - down and teach them about the joys of cycling! Then you'll have a win-win situation:

1. You get to watch cycling.
2. You get some quality time with the family.
It's maybe the other way around that bike race watching might the cure of distraction for quite more severe things affecting the beloved ones than the purely platonic things like being busy at work round the clock and children's things. If only it had been, but sometimes life struck. But I'm okay with that and cannot wait for tonite :)