Remco for the stage victory. Let's hope Tadel and Vingo crack, and Remco can take yellow.
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Rememba when mountain stages weren't meme distance?
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I expect he'll leapfrog Gee and possibly one or two others.Been waiting to see if Gall will heat up. 8th last year and top 3 3rd week climber, currently in 11th.
Pogacar will win obviously. Question is if Vinge will keep up with Remco or not, my bet is that he will be behind but only by 30 sec or so.
Would gladly be wrong but don't see much else as realistic.
What year is that from?
I agree with all those.. was really hoping that Oscar Onley could shine for one day!!I want to see Healy, Bernal, and Bardet in the break tomorrow.
Today is Friday, the day of reckoning. A lot of things can be decided in the queen stage.
Girmay can secure his green jersey. Even if Philipsen wins the early sprint, the Eritrean only needs to be in the top 8 to keep a lead of more than 20 points.
The polka-dot jersey is a different matter. There are 20, 40 and 10 points at stake on the three climbs. It's absurd that the Col de Vars is worth twice as many points as Isola 2000, but ASO decided to disadvantage the GC riders. This means that Lazkano, Carapaz or even Gaudu can still win the KoM.
The Cime de la Bonette is a beast: the highest paved mountain pass in France, the highest point in the history of the Tour. Isola 2000 is the second toughest MTF in this Tour. These two climbs were already lumped together in the 1993 Tour, when Rominger won the stage after dropping everybody except Indurain.
It's the last chance for a major GC attack. It can be important to still have at least one teammate with you in the valley, so sending someone up the road might be a good idea. Somebody who has a bad day and gets isolated too soon can lose ten minutes here. The most likely outcome is that the top 3 stays the same, but you never know.
That would assume Visma has enough bodies to be in Tadej's neighborhood. Not likely any UAE climber will leave his side until it makes tactical sense for a relay. He's gonna have an escort that assure that 3 minute lead doesn't suffer from some random situation.Hot again tomorrow? After dropping Vingegaard on PdB Pogi credited his UAE teammates with keeping him cool. As we know he doesn’t like the heat I am wondering if Visma might try to isolate Pogi early so he might become susceptible to the heat?
It's basically a vertical kermesse peaking around 6,000 ft at each summit. Your chance to rest is a crazy descent and then you need to get your legs under you to do it again....and again after 3 weeks of abuse.I don't get why today is the last chance for a major GC attack. Tomorrow is only up and down and also about 4500 vertical meters of climbing. Sure the moutains are more shallow overall, but it's still 4 of them and there's no valley in between them. It's also the stage after today and the penultimate stage after a pretty hard Tour. So I'm not saying there's going to be major action, but why would you discount it as an opportunity?
I think that is good, so there will he a fight for the KOM jersey.t's absurd that the Col de Vars is worth twice as many points as Isola 2000, but ASO decided to disadvantage the GC riders
Col de la BonetteI predict that I will get excessively angry and pedantic about people saying "Col de la Bonette"
I advise using the mute button then on your TV!I predict that I will get excessively angry and pedantic about people saying "Col de la Bonette"