Tour de France Tour de France 2024, Stage 2: Cesenatico > Bologne (Bologna), 199.2 km

[scribers]

Tomorrow is a boring stage, only watching the last 10-20 k. Maybe Cav will get his 35. I'll be back on Tuesday.

Yeah. I’ll see you at kilometer 0

 

[Boehmand]

To be fair - as encouraging as today was for another Pogacar/Vingegaard showdown, it is not on day 2 we will see if Vingegaard is at his top level.

It's when we get up in the thin air we find out if his oxygen uptake has been compromised by his lung injury.
It's week 3 we find out if his recovery ability is still the same.

Fingers crossed

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Contador joking with landa about his form and how it looks better than 2015

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

OK, after, as usual, concentrating my mind on being in the present in observations in a cycling race, I can feel here after the smoke has cleared:
I'm stunned.

 

[tobydawq]

I may have an idea whose user he is

It's @Salvarani isn't it?

 

[Boehmand]

Is having the yellow tomorrow really such a burden? The sprint teams will take care of the pacing on the stage. After that is the Galibier stage, which you'd think they'd race the same way whether Tadej is in yellow or not.

Exactly

 

[scribers]

So pog hot mike told remco he tried to sit up to give him yellow?

 

[Izzyeviel]

'Win a yellow jersey signed by Tadej Pogacar' (just ignore the fact he signs dozens after every stage & barely touches them, this is why you don't reveal the magic folks)

 

[SorelyBoy]

Is having the yellow tomorrow really such a burden? The sprint teams will take care of the pacing on the stage. After that is the Galibier stage, which you'd think they'd race the same way whether Tadej is in yellow or not.

It’s not the in-race responsibilities, it’s all the additional media duties the yellow jersey imposes on its wearer. They’re not inconsiderable, and often involves getting back to the hotel hours after your team mates, eating alone, getting to bed later etc. Given the margins between success and failure, it’s much too early in the race for any potential winner to want the ‘privilege.’

 

[Boehmand]

Tomorrow is a boring stage, only watching the last 10-20 k. Maybe Cav will get his 35. I'll be back on Tuesday.

You'll be sorely missed

 

[Unchained]

looks like brilliant tactics by EF to keep their powder dry, and now they sit pretty in GC. always believed in Big Vaught.

Vaughters is wasting energy on GC, Carapaz is a good racer but a little out classed. If " Big Vaught" had any sense he would see that Ben Healy and Alberto Bettiol have form and exploit it.. If EF supports either they can get a stage. Ben Healy obviously has something, just doesn't know what to do with it and when.. Roglic falling in the toilet today probably has Vaughters little mind racing and yes Carapaz could draft off of Remco..but come on..

 

[Salvarani]

It's @Salvarani isn't it?

I am often right in how stuff actually plays out, so if that is what you mean you are correct.

 

[gunara]

Remco bragging, I pulled you back all by myself.

Then both are bragging, Pog with the gap stuffs. These two are alright, I enjoy watching them race and talk more than I do certain others.

 

[jmdirt]

Congrats KV! GREAT race! I love it!

 

[Salvarani]

Turns out, this was a really dumb comment.

Van Aert was done. It was an observation of what was happening in the stage today.

Where did I say anything else wouldnt transpire?

I been the only one saying Vinge was gonna be 100%.

 

[yaco]

What's so bad with having the jersey?

It's not like they have to pull tomorrow as it's a sprinter's stage, and they can just hand it to Remco or Carapaz who will happily take it.

Agree. Stage 3,5 and 6 are sprinter stages so they will control the peleton. Then stage seven is an ITT. So UAE only have to work one stage in the next 5 stages.

 

[CleanCiclismo]

Roglič with a smile in his post race interview saying he didn't have the legs and there are still 19 stages to go.

 

[Froome]

Remco annoyed by Carapaz not heping

https://twitter.com/x/status/1807436121518805142

View: https://twitter.com/LeTour/status/1807436121518805142

Remco is so back 😂

 

[Boehmand]

The first 23 are still within 21 seconds on GC, so there is a lot of racing still to be done before we can say anything definitive

Gee and Thomas are the only real casualties so far.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Analysis so far:

Visma and Jonas is super strong, but lacks climbers to pull what they did the previous years and make the race real hard. UAE now clearly has the upper hand in the mountains, and so if there was any reason to bring Almeida and Ayuso at all, it should actually be to use them aggressively already on stage 4. Of course, UAE doesn't do that because Almeida and Ayuso rides their own race, so there's no merit to them being here anyways. But point being its clearly a different situation, also with the Giro and the Vingegaard injury. Lots of unknowns and a very different scenario

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Remco will be more pissed tomorrow if Carapaz take the jersey

 

[Krzysztof_O]

The first 23 are still within 21 seconds on GC, so there is a lot of racing still to be done before we can say anything definitive

Gee and Thomas are the only real casualties so far.

The GC is still close but let's be honest, others only hope to win is that both Pogacar and Vingegaard will crash or feel the legs in the last part of the race (the former due to the Giro and the latter due to rushed preparations).

 

[rehy90]

So, guys, please explain to me, how Pog can actually win this tour? This was his terrain and the start of the tour where Jonas should not be 100%. Jonas is going to get better throughtough the tour whereas Pog will probably fade after the giro. I dont see any way how he could beat Jonas.

 

[Bolder]

So happy Evenepoel was this sharp, high hopes him bringing extra spice for GC game even thou it's looong way to go.

Exactly.

I was watching with the sound off, but it looked like no one wanted to claim yellow there at the finish. Apparently it was true!

Great start to the Tour so far!

 

[Froome]

Van Aert was done. It was an observation of what was happening in the stage today.

Where did I say anything else wouldnt transpire?

I been the only one saying Vinge was gonna be 100%.

He is not 100% yet. He can still improve until the last week.