Tour de France Tour de France 2024, Stage 18, Gap - Barcelonnette, 179.5k

[Samamba]

Lemmen doing gods work for Van Aert but you gotta question if he doesn't stand a chance himself with these legs

Johannessen looks to be one of the best too

 

[scribers]

Steve Perino, or however you spell it....

Yesterday swilling beer with Jorgenson family, today swilling gin and tonics a long the route

He did a hot tub with a bunch it men the other day too. I don’t drink, and I don’t do that either, pass myself. So more power to him lol

 

[postmanhat]

THJ looking strong again, but wasting a lot of energy.

 

[Didinho]

Lemmen channeling his inner Vingegaard.

 

[Heston]

Lemmen low key with amazing legs today. Countering every single move

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

If he can drop the strongest, he’s got a good chance to win 😁

Still he has to beat himself.

 

[Slavique Nuke]

Lemmen must have received a good dose of CO before the stage

 

[Potomac]

Stever perino now swilling beer in the infinity pool as the race goes by

 

[RobertCrawley]

Lemmen low key with amazing legs today. Countering every single move

Lemmen not a lemon.

 

[Samamba]

Van Aert should let Lemmen do his thing cause the guy has ridiculous legs

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Lemmen low key with amazing legs today. Countering every single move

He's warming up for the apologies tomorrow.

 

[Didinho]

Still he has to beat himself.

That’s what I meant.

But I’m thinking Lemmen is the strongest here.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Van Aert setting himself up for the most embarrassing loss yet.

 

[Penninepeddler]

Incredible how mid Geraint Thomas looks outside of podiuming Grand Tours every season

The comparison to 2010s Portuguese pro-conti riders rocking up to the Volta doing TDF winner watts after spending most of the season failing to crack the top 100 in 2.1s is becoming more clear.

He has always seemed to time his peaks pretty well for season goals... I also believe he is one of the more "old-school" guys left in the peloton who actually have a proper, old fashioned, off-season where puts on weight, lives life a bit more aha. Generally takes first few months of season to get up to speed.

But also... tbh until the last few years he always did very, very well in the 1 week races that led up to his season goals. If look at 2015 onwards, when he seemed to switch targets from classics to stage races...

2015: 5th Paris-Nice, 2nd Tour de Suisse
2016: 1st Paris-Nice
2017: 5th Tirreno-Adriatico
2018: 3rd Tirreno-Adriatico, 1st Criterium du Dauphine
2019: 3rd Tour de Romandie
2020: 2nd Tirreno-Adriatico
2021: 3rd Volta a Catalunya, 1st Tour de Romandie, 3rd Criterium du Dauphine
2022: 1st Tour de Suisse

He won 4/7 of the big week-long World Tour races in an 8 year span, while finishing on the podium of each of the six he targeted (never bothered with Basque country)... and would have an even better record were it not for some crashes.

12x top 5 finishes in the biggest week-long races on earth in an 8 year span is pretty damn good tbf.

Roglic "only" has 13x top 5 finishes in those races in the last 8 years, and he is the King of the 1-week race. (albeit 10/13 are wins ahahaha)

But yeh, last 2 years he has really had no results of note outside of the Grand Tours... he also races a lot less than other guys in last few seasons... has generally raced ~60 days when most top pros race for 80.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Wout gonna be second today I feel.

But second to whom?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Kwiatkowski can really descend too, this is a proper selection if he can get the separation

 

[Netserk]

Ban all drone footage.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Just how much did the département pay for pretty lake pictures?

 

[Netserk]

Stop showing the peloton, ffs.

 

[Heston]

Gotta say I actually love those drone shots. Nature shots are part of the Tour

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Kwiatkowski can really descend too, this is a proper selection if he can get the separation

Drone shots higher priority for tv director

 

[Samamba]

Kinda weird that only 3 guys have dropped from this break, one of them being Healy is even more weird

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Who decided the peloton needs two motors and more coverage than the break?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Boom, Jake Stewart setting a massive rhythm in the Peloton.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Go Kwiat go!