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Tour de France Tour de France 2024: Stage 19: Embrun - Isola 2000, 19/07 144.6k

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How is it a humiliation...The man was in intensive care 8 weeks ago . Behave
Anyone who can get 2nd in the Tour after that is as tough as steel


Derek Gee is a top athlete. Just cos you dont know his ability doesnt mean he cant do what he did . He showed how he can climb at the Dauphine. Thisd forum is ridiculous ...no one is allowed to turn up and be good except those you deem worthy

This is no necessarily the best he can do . Why is it ? he has 6 weeks to train and this is what he did. If that annoying poster (James M) who keeps posting over and over again about Vingegaards best numbers last week in the Pyrenees would think for a moment . Its not about your best numbers on one day ...its about your recovery and best numbers every day ...that is based on your base which he never got a chance to build after his injury. For me it feels he went deep today and probably feels he let the team down and was emotional ..He tried and did well considering where he came from
What II meant, is the best he could do with the preparation he had. Some riders do exactly the same prep and races every season and the variability of the results is huge and they never know why. Missing a block of training and racing to compete against someone like Pogacar is never going to go well. Even Evenepoel is looking as good as Vingegaard at the moment if not better. The TT should be interesting re the results of the top 3. Vingegaard looks like he is getting weaker in the final week but most people do against Pogacar in the form he has had for the past 3 months or so.
 
And people say the time limits are laughable.
They are, and continue to just get expanded so that weak riders like Cavendish can stay in the race. Quite pathetic if you ask me especially since these riders don't have a single thing to contribute anyways

They should have been sent home in the Pyrenees already.

Do we know if this is purely on ASO or if Adam Hansen has convinced them to expand it on stage 15, 19 and 20?
 
There is a difference between "gifting" a stage and not going for every stage.

There are riders in the peloton who hold back in certain stages. Are those stages "gifted" because not every single rider is going for the victory?
I'm not sure I understand your point. Every rider would love to win every stage, I would imagine.

In this particular case, if Tadej had eased up so that Matteo could win, yes, that would have been a gift.
 
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In case people have forgotten. Last year, Vingo won by 7:29 over Pog, the largest MOV in like a decade, I believe. Only something like 16 riders were within 1 hour of Vingo on GC.
For all the pearl-clutching going on here, if anything, last year was even more monstrous than this year.
Not really. For the top.
Pogacar blatantly cracked last year after the ITT and his weakness gave the largest MOV for whenever. Neither Vingo nor Remco has cracked this year, and the margin stands to be even bigger.
 
In case people have forgotten. Last year, Vingo won by 7:29 over Pog, the largest MOV in like a decade, I believe. Only something like 16 riders were within 1 hour of Vingo on GC.
For all the pearl-clutching going on here, if anything, last year was even more monstrous than this year.
Not really. Pog and Vingo were extremely close until stage 16 and then lost lots of minutes on stage 17 due to bonking, not Vingo being otherwordly
 
On this day in 2010.

In stage 15 of the 2010 Tour de France, Alberto Contador attacked on the Port de Balès. Andy Schleck tried to follow, but had issues with his chain. He had to stop to fix his bike. It took 34 seconds to fix his issues and get back on his bike. After getting back on his bike, he couldn't catch Contador, who finished 39 seconds ahead of Schleck and took the yellow jersey.

After the race, Contador said that he hadn't seen his rival's mechanical issue.
The hate Contador got for this considering the only reason Schleck was ahead was due to him riding away on the cobbled stage where Conatdor was held up by Fränks crash and maybe even by a puncture, dont remember. And dont even forgot the prior stage where Andy was unfortunant and Cancellara policed the peloton and gifted the stage and yersey to Chavanel so Andy could come back.
 
With the time limits, I think the biggest problem is that 200-kilometre multi-mountain-stage (let's use this year's Plateau de Beille stage as an example has same time limit as a stage with similar length but just one tough mountain at the end, few Mont Ventoux stages fit that bill.
 
There is a difference between "gifting" a stage and not going for every stage.

There are riders in the peloton who hold back in certain stages. Are those stages "gifted" because not every single rider is going for the victory?
How many riders are there who know they would most likely win the stage if they went for it, have no other obligations to their team for which they would need to save energy, but then don't go for it?
 
Not really. Pog and Vingo were extremely close until stage 16 and then lost lots of minutes on stage 17 due to bonking, not Vingo being otherwordly
Wait, Vingo's TT was not "otherworldly"?
Vingo cracked Pog on Stage 17. But I guess that doesn't count either. Got it.
Let me know when you all finally decide where to put the goalposts.
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The pdb performance this year must come close.

I don't think so, on stage 2 and 11 are the only moments he did push with similar rage. Everything else on this edition is far far far behind that level.

Was very surprising to see that Evenepoel didn't have grinta and legs to go away from Vingegaard in the endgame. Where's that sprint leadout-world champion-multiple Liege punch now?
 
I don't think so, on stage 2 and 11 are the only moments he did push with similar rage. Everything else on this edition is far far far behind that level.

Was very surprising to see that Evenepoel didn't have grinta and legs to go away from Vingegaard in the endgame. Where's that sprint leadout-world champion-multiple Liege punch now?
What do you mean didn't have the 'grinta'? He didn't have the legs or he surely would have dropped Jonas; has he not proven his toughness by now? Remco in my opinion has exceeded expectations this year and has ridden a very solid, tough Tour. Come on.
 
First of all, hope that the Tour returns to this area in the next years because these are some beautiful mountains that allow good racing.

I am lost of words for Pogačar, this really is his season, another brutal performance on a MTF today.

I didn't like Visma's strategy but Jorgenson really showed how good he is on the high mountains as well, I think he really could be a future GT contender. Kelderman also did a great job for his teammate.

Simon Yates seems to be getting back at his best and Carapaz once again very tenacious, the KOM jersey looking likely at this point which I didn't expect earlier this week.

About the rest of the GC riders, Vingegaard clearly didn't have it today, following Remco was the best that he could do and also good performances from Almeida, Landa and Yates. Disappointed with Carlos Rodriguez once again, this should be his terrain and Gall's too.
 
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