Tour de France Tour de France 2024: Stage 20: Nice - Col de la Couillole, 20/07, 132.8k

[QueenStagiaire]

Arnaud Démare DNS today.

He was already OTL yesterday.

 

[RobertCrawley]

He was already OTL yesterday.

Thanks.

 

[fbjim]

i am going to be dissapointed with anything less than an hour for the break to successfully go, though i have a feeling that the uphill start will make that unlikely

 

[wheresmybrakes]

Which leads nicely to an article at https://velo.outsideonline.com/road...er-teams-are-transforming-the-tour-de-france/

“To win the Tour de France you need to have a budget of 50 million euro to 60 million euro,” Cofidis boss Cedric Vasseur told Velo. “If you want to have a chance to sign those riders like Pogačar and Vingegaard, and to have the domestiques and staff around to make that happen, anything under 50 million, there is no chance.”

I wonder how Pog would have got on, riding on team Cofidis this Tour. I reckon he still would have won the thing.

 

[perico]

Tadej for the win because why not.

 

[fbjim]

the tour de france starts today

 

[RobertCrawley]

“To win the Tour de France you need to have a budget of 50 million euro to 60 million euro,” Cofidis boss Cedric Vasseur told Velo. “If you want to have a chance to sign those riders like Pogačar and Vingegaard, and to have the domestiques and staff around to make that happen, anything under 50 million, there is no chance.”

I wonder how Pog would have got on, riding on team Cofidis this Tour. I reckon he still would have won the thing.

Maybe. But a lot of that 50 million is preparation, training, and support, not just paying to have excellent domestiques, who are essential. Altitude training is not cheap, for example.

 

[topcat]

G or Stephen Williams to win the stage in honour of the late Ray Reardon (a man who had balls and knew how to use them).

Snooker in a cycling thread - lifetime ban.

 

[fbjim]

i'm not saying that 2020 UAE was like Cofidis but that team's strength is hilarious compared to UAE 2024

Tadej Pogačar
Fabio Aru
David de la Cruz
Davide Formolo
Alexander Kristoff
Vegard Stake Laengen
Marco Marcato
Jan Polanc

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Snooker in a cycling thread - lifetime ban.

I am honestly surprised I haven't even received a warning for mentioning it some much during my time on here.

 

[Ricco']

Elbows out, staring at his power meter.

"I'm doing my best numbers ever mate, a shame my team didn't want me there"

 

[red_flanders]

Which leads nicely to an article at https://velo.outsideonline.com/road...er-teams-are-transforming-the-tour-de-france/

Cedric, how much to win a stage? Maybe focus on that first…

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Mikel Landa Meana will blow then out of the water today

The Tour begins today

 

[RobertCrawley]

Ready for the last mountains of the Tour.

 

[RedheadDane]

Jorgenson: I think every, except the top-3, are going for the win today.




I don't think Cavendish is going for the win either.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

The top 3 should just stop for a pi$$ and let the rest go.

 

[Taxus4a]

Mikel Landa Meana will blow then out of the water today

The Tour begins today

It would be great, but if Remco put half a minute to Vibgegaard he has real options to be second, and if he trt something, it is easy Landa play a role and have to forgt his ambitions. But of course there are some ways bith of then can vebefit, and as well the way to make quite separate his own war.
almedia is stonger than ever and he now is free to job, so it will be difficult.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Going to be tough to take for myself and several here when VDP turns up in a couple of weeks with about 40 more watts than he currently has, after sh*tting the bed the entire tour.

 

[RobertCrawley]

The top 3 should just stop for a pi$$ and let the rest go.

Like the old days, stop in a wine shop to fill their bidons.

 

[iBanesto]

G or Stephen Williams to win the stage in honour of the late Ray Reardon (a man who had balls and knew how to use them).

Did not know Reardon passed away.

6 time World Champion > 5 time TdF winners.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Jens Voigt has come up with a genius solution to the boring sprint stages: Make races shorter and easier so people are actually able to attack. Because, as you can see at the moment, everybody is completely cooked

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Philipsen and De Lie getting dropped before Cav, it looks like...

 

[Stablo]

Hoping for a Landis style raid from Vingo or Remco😅gaining 6 mins on Poggie! Would fit the picture of this Tour 🫡

 

[Slavique Nuke]

MvdP skills

 

[Tim Cahill]

Snooker lost it's lustre when it, like cycling became too optimised. We've got kids doing marathons and watching what they eat nowadays, it was better when they used to down pints and smoke at the table, give me big Bill Werbeniuk any day of the week, peak physical prowess;