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

[RobertCrawley]

Yes. It was an admonition not to invite more questions about his performances, not a comment on morality.

Also morality. He, George, and Johan talked about how it was important not to anger or upset other riders by running up the score.

 

[Taxus4a]

What a dissapointing rider is Pogacar, He shoudl be now on the break, or even break solo to be considering similar to Mercks and he is just in the middle of the bunch...

 

[Taxus4a]

Oh Luke Durbridge is part of the race, and actually his own group atm. Did not notice him at all until today.

Yes, he puntured by publicity issues.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Why is Bora trying to get Hindley into the break by brute force?
Obviously if you don't try you can't win but I don't see this stage suiting him that much and he has now wasted an incredible amount of energy already pulling multiple times on the flat. As a 60kg rider he should at least wait until it gets steeper before pushing so much.

 

[RobertCrawley]

More cyclists in the peloton should be named Axel.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Why is Bora trying to get Hindley into the break by brute force?
Obviously if you don't try you can't win but I don't see this stage suiting him that much and he has now wasted an incredible amount of energy already pulling multiple times on the flat. As a 60kg rider he should at least wait until it gets steeper before pushing so much.

Yeah I think Bora have just logged out mentally out of this Tour.
Where's Denz e.g.?

 

[Tim Cahill]

I think this is a reasonable group to go

1		6	LEMMEN Bart	3:16:34
2		8	VAN AERT Wout	2:32:41
3		37	THOMAS Geraint	2:00:34
4		42	BERNARD Julien	1:13:15
5		46	SKUJIŅŠ Toms	1:54:04
6		52	ARMIRAIL Bruno	1:48:39
7		84	HINDLEY Jai	54:09
8		86	SOBRERO Matteo	2:45:10
9		95	MADOUAS Valentin	1:34:42
10		117	QUINN Sean	3:14:00
11		136	HOULE Hugo	2:47:52
12		156	MÜHLBERGER Gregor	3:02:32
13		187	VAN DEN BROEK Frank	2:47:03
14		204	JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland	1:44:14

 

[RedheadDane]

More cyclists in the peloton should be named Axel.

What?

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Yes, he puntured by publicity issues.

Sorry I don't understand.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

What?

Axel. It's a Name. It makes things much easier, but it would also be horrible. Really horrible. Please don't.

 

[Slavique Nuke]

Wellens is going to have a tough day

 

[Tim Cahill]

Once again, as with yesterday I find myself looking at the profile to check when the intermediate sprint is

 

[Slavique Nuke]

I thought it would be a bigger fight for the break.

 

[Potomac]

I thought it would be a bigger fight for the break.

If yesterday told us anything it might not be over

 

[Tim Cahill]

I would say Carapaz has more than an outside chance of KOM, tomorrow has big points, he just needs to make it into the break.

 

[Red Rick]

Mathieu van der Poel, did not, in the end, do anything

 

[Taxus4a]

I dont understad Soudal dont put any rider on the break

 

[Tim Cahill]

Lazkano as usual accidently dropping people because he's too strong

 

[Didinho]

Wellens the next UAE rider feeling sick?

 

[RobertCrawley]

I dont understad Soudal dont put any rider on the break

The Soudal DS is saying the same thing.

 

[skippo12]

Group is too big and has too many big names. Another split is almost inevitable.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Group is too big and has too many big names. Another split is almost inevitable.

They might hang together for a while until they hit the Côte de Saint-Apollinaire.

 

[Slavique Nuke]

Most strong guys have a teammate in the group, the group can be functional for a while.

 

[Potomac]

Mathieu van der Poel, did not, in the end, do anything

To my great frustration, I keep picking him in the PCS game.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I would say Carapaz has more than an outside chance of KOM, tomorrow has big points, he just needs to make it into the break.

Now that he's in the break, he also has to pay attention to where the top of the climbs are, so he doesn't lose more points to Lazkano.