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

[Devil's Elbow]

Five GT winners in the top-6 by the way, that doesn't happen every day.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Cycling in an awful state

Understatement of the year...

 

[FrontHeadlock]

I'll never understand the view that athletes shouldn't race to win.

Did merckx hand out stage wins?

As a fan you like to see the wealth spread a bit. It's one of the best things about cycling.

This was CLEARLY a very insecure performance.

I won't be surprised if he goes in a breakaway tomorrow just to win KOM too.

 

[Scarponi]

Cycling is cooked when your third placed riders competition are team mates of the two riders ahead of you. It’s just F1 now

 

[Penninepeddler]

The absolutely insane thing to me is that he didn't look tired at all guys... Check his previous wins against Vingegaard or in general in 2023/2022/2021 etc and compared his facial expression to the 2024 wins... His face is completely different.

We need Vingegaard in perfect shape in 2025.

Annnnd his cadence seems to have increased even more, when it was already pretty damn high.

 

[fbjim]

i think that tadej pogacar might win the tour de france 2024

 

[James M]

Right cos Vingegaard was on top condition this year

Better numbers than he has ever ridden thats just a facts and he even said it himself its no point of me and you arguing that when he said it himself

 

[scribers]

It doesn’t look like remco can shake out second on the GC podium

 

[Berniece]

I don’t mind Pogacar going for everything he can. He’s trying to make history.

Looking forward to Remco’s interview

 

[glassmoon]

Armstrong didn't want to take some wins because he didn't want to draw negative attention on himself or his team, given their proclivity for some "pick me up help".

yep... and this one looks 100% legit lmao

 

[Scarponi]

The fisherman is crying after the stage and posters were calling him a wheel sucker like he chose not to take a pull

 

[AmRacer]

Jonas devastated

 

[titan31]

There must be some other sport where it’s normal expected to give wins away?

Tbf, sports that are uncompetitive do suffer with viewership and lose money as a result. Look at the procession that is mens cross country skiing without the Russians, or biathlon cos of JTB. Cycling is already a rather non casual friendly sport, having it be a procession just makes it worse.

 

[Slavique Nuke]

Vingegaard is pretending to be tired while he's going to crush everyone on ITT by 5 minutes.

 

[Andre]

Damn it all...another year without a Tour victory for Belgium.

 

[Penninepeddler]

His heart-rate already looks like it is back down... does not even look tired or breathing that heavily...

this is silly tbh.

 

[saunaking]

Cycling in an awful state

no, it's exciting in a hulk hogan ripping his shirt off at the republican national convention kinda way!!

 

[scribers]

Tbf, sports that are uncompetitive do suffer with viewership and lose money as a result. Look at the procession that is mens cross country skiing without the Russians, or biathlon cos of JTB. Cycling is already a rather non casual friendly sport, having it be a procession just makes it worse.

A procession would be sitting on wheels of second and third, no? You honor the sport by racing the stage. Merckx and Hinault raced this way

 

[RobertCrawley]

Jonas' wife is there. He wanted to do something special today. It just wasn't his day.

Cycling is a brutal sport.

 

[iBanesto]

Most stage wins in Tour de France history.

#	Rider	Wins	2nd	3rd	Active
1	CAVENDISH Mark	35	4	5	Yes
2	MERCKX Eddy	34	18	11
3	HINAULT Bernard	28	12	6
4	LEDUCQ André	25	13	19
5	DARRIGADE André	22	12	5
6	FRANTZ Nicolas	20	18	12
7	FABER François	19	10	11
8	ALAVOINE Jean	17	9	8
9	PÉLISSIER Charles	16	16	10
10	ANQUETIL Jacques	16	9	4
11	LE GREVÈS René	16	6	6
12	MAERTENS Freddy	15	9	7
13	POGAČAR Tadej	15	7	7	Yes
14	KITTEL Marcel	14	2	2
15	THYS Philippe	13	11	13
16	TROUSSELIER Louis	13	4	8
17	ZABEL Erik	12	22	19
18	SAGAN Peter	12	22	13
19	INDURAIN Miguel	12	13	8
20	MCEWEN Robbie	12	10	6

 

[tobydawq]

Five GT winners in the top-6 by the way, that doesn't happen every day.

Too bad Hindley cracked.

 

[rower2cyclist]

Damn Jonas

 

[Poursuivant]

This is unreal. He is climbing that fast without even pushing right now... We are watching a monster in an insane physical condition

Yer that looked like he had another gear or two there. He sort of knocked it off after he got a gap to Jorgensen

 

[Danskebjerge]

I think Pogacar should ride the Vuelta and win 20 GT stages this year. Maybe even win by a record gap to number two.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Damn it all...another year without a Tour victory for Belgium.

You actually thought Evenepoel still had a shot at beating Pogacar going into today? That makes Abi look tame...