Tour de France Tour de France 2024:Stage 21: Monaco - Nice, 21/07, 33.7k (ITT)

[Rollthedice]

Big news in the United States.

Pog nominated. He can't lose.

 

[red_flanders]

Nice podium shot for sure. Best 3 in the race, all young guys, incredible background. A lot prettier to my eye than the Champs.

 

[Didinho]

If Pogi goes full, more than a minute on everyone.
Vingo 2nd, Remco 3th.
If he rides carefully, around 20” win.

Always good to be right 😁

 

[ice&fire]

Is it odd that Tadej is not giving his speech in French or Slovene?

I believe Nadal only started to give his speech partially in French after having won 10+ Roland Garros. It's just a matter of time for Tadej.

 

[Unchained]

Vaughters convincing himself that polkadot is better than yellow

Your assuming that EF makes it passed airport checkpoints.. Probably have a race radio earpiece w Piccolo telling them what to do, which security line not to use!!

 

[Lequack]

Is it odd that Tadej is not giving his speech in French or Slovene?

And no mic drop at the end.

 

[awavey]

You could argue that cracking your rival so badly that they concede on the team radio in the middle of a stage is more of a beat down.

But I think even a perfectly prepared Jonas loses to this version of Pog by 3-4 minutes.

I think it depends on how prepared Jonas was for this, which only Visma know and wont ever tell us.

for Pog it looked like this was peak Pog, there was nothing more to give, this was performance perfection the best he had.

but Ive felt whatever level of preparedness Jonas had, there would be more Jonas could do, this wasnt peak Jonas performance and wasnt peak Visma performance either,

is that 6mins more performance, possibly it would have been alot closer I feel than minutes separating them, even if Pog was unbeatable this year and Pog would have been stretched more on stages where he was quite comfortably in control.

 

[jaylew]

You could argue that cracking your rival so badly that they concede on the team radio in the middle of a stage is more of a beat down.

But I think even a perfectly prepared Jonas loses to this version of Pog by 3-4 minutes.

I coudn't disagree with this more. Tadej did the same thing last year. And those injuries were no joke. The guy was completely sedentary without any exercise for quite a while. It wasn't one of those accidents where you were at least back on the trainer quickly. To make your comeback in the biggest race in the world and come 2nd to the best overall road rider in the world on his best form ever is unbelievable. He is still clearly improving as a rider and I truly think we were headed for a nuclear performance by JV without that crash. I have no idea how it would have turned out but it would have been glorious to see the battle. We can only hope they both get to the Tour with no issues next year because I don't think we've seen the best from either yet as scary as that sounds.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

So the battle is over! Congrats to Teddy on 6th (!) stage victory and 3rd Tour win! Absolutely amazing performance this year. Also congrats to Vingo on his incredible way back: from a terrible crash to a Tour contender. Kudos to Remco on a podium place in his maiden Tour. He confirmed his GT credentials once and for all.

 

[dacooley]

Vaughters convincing himself that polkadot is better than yellow

Thats what he'll have to sell sponsor to bring more funds, so business as usual.

 

[Lequack]

It's done folks!

 

[RobertCrawley]

It's done folks!

Colnago says thank you.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Fun Tour, chaps and ladies!

See you all down the parcours.

 

[Rollthedice]

Colnago says thank you.

"Cazzo di bici!" Aru yelled several times after crashing in a curve. The television camera had immediately stopped with Aru and picked up the phrase – sh*t bike! – for all viewers to hear.

 

[SHAD0W93]

BS. USPS riders did transfusions in front of them on Lance's plane more than once.

To be fair to Liggett, he probably confused it with something else the way he confuses riders and the situation on the regular.

 

[Bolder]

I coudn't disagree with this more. Tadej did the same thing last year. And those injuries were no joke. The guy was completely sedentary without any exercise for quite a while. It wasn't one of those accidents where you were at least back on the trainer quickly. To make your comeback in the biggest race in the world and come 2nd to the best overall road rider in the world on his best form ever is unbelievable. He is still clearly improving as a rider and I truly think we were headed for a nuclear performance by JV without that crash. I have no idea how it would have turned out but it would have been glorious to see the battle. We can only hope they both get to the Tour with no issues next year because I don't think we've seen the best from either yet as scary as that sounds.

Of course we'll never really know how Jonas would have raced with perfect prep. I'm just basing my opinion on how I perceived Pog's shape this year. He was leaner than ever and was a better descender, and was never fazed by the heat or altitude. Those were all said to be weaknesses vs. Jonas in the past two years.

But agree 💯 % that we need them both healthy next year.

 

[Slavique Nuke]

And no mic drop at the end.

Remco with his cheap Garmin Forerunner watch, is happy to be there. While Pog with his 200k euro watch, shows who's boss.

 

[scribers]

It is very likely that is not his watch but sponsor loaner from the watchmaker

 

[dacooley]

To me, there's no question who will win if both reach top shape, but we heavily need the landscape providing exciting battle for the overall win. I'm convinced the others will partially close down the gap until the next tour. Any domination results in a dominator weakening the grip in a way and competitors desperately searching and finding ways of improvent. But if it will be enough to catch Pogačar... Life will tell.

 

[Netserk]

I coudn't disagree with this more. Tadej did the same thing last year. And those injuries were no joke. The guy was completely sedentary without any exercise for quite a while. It wasn't one of those accidents where you were at least back on the trainer quickly.

I don't think that's true.

EDIT: Maybe I misunderstood you. I don't think it's true of Pogi last year, to be clear.

 

[James M]

And no mic drop at the end.

To do the dobule in the most competitve Tour in ages and the style he did. Okei Tadej okei. Truly out of this world. We are all lucky arent we simply amazing

 

[Cookster15]

Do you have @Red Rick on ignore?

How about linking what @Red Rick posted since I obviously missed it?

 

[hayneplane]

and Sean Kelly on live Eurosport said the F-word ? and was reprimanded by mother Orla.. < sheesh>

Funniest thing about that is that Sean Kelly has such an incomprehensible accent that it is likely very few people picked up on the F bomb prior to Orla issuing the apology

 

[Izzyeviel]

Funniest thing about that is that Sean Kelly has such an incomprehensible accent that it is likely very few people picked up on the F bomb prior to Orla issuing the apology

I watched that bit three times & I still have no *** idea what he said

 

[hayneplane]

It's done folks!

I thought he was going to step off the bike and do this on the finishing line as well which would have been super cool