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

[Samu Cuenca]

So ok, hmmm...ready for subs on my Tour manager team for Le Grand Finale....hmm...quite a puzzle, who should I choose between Bini, Jasper, Kristoff, Coquard, Ackerman, Cav & Renshaw? hmm...
Oh feck it. Time to enjoy family, a cozy coffee ride and sunny weather. I can cope standing out as a sore looser with my picks of yesterday as of Pogi, Remco, Vingo, Almeida, Jorgenson and Gee...

...oh wait, what did you say? It's NOT Champs Élyssées?

Life is simple on a sunday morning

I definitely think you should pick Renshaw.

 

[Lequack]

So ok, hmmm...ready for subs on my Tour manager team for Le Grand Finale....hmm...quite a puzzle, who should I choose between Bini, Jasper, Kristoff, Coquard, Ackerman, Cav & Renshaw? hmm...
Oh feck it. Time to enjoy family, a cozy coffee ride and sunny weather. I can cope standing out as a sore looser with my picks of yesterday as of Pogi, Remco, Vingo, Almeida, Jorgenson and Gee...

...oh wait, what did you say? It's NOT Champs Élyssées?

Life is simple on a sunday morning

I guess we won't see a fully yellow Colango, or the champagne drinking.

 

[Breh]

Can anyone beat Evenepoel, this route is made for him?

Evenepoel is way better at flatter TT's.

 

[KZD]

Pogačar, Vingegaard and Remco are all strong candidates for this but all of them have something to lose. Pogačar can lose the Tour and the chance of riding the Olympics if he crashes, Remco can lose the podium and the chance of riding the Olympics and Vingegaard is actually the one with the least to lose if he crashes as he has already won the Tour in previous years and doesn't go to the Olympics so I pick him for this TT as he will probably be the one willing to take more risks.

Having said that, if Pogačar decides to take similar risks to Vingegaard, he should be able to take his sixth stage win of this Tour. Buitrago to overtake Ciccone for 10th on GC.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

So, top three gaps:

Evenepoel
Pogacar @ 15s
Vingegaard @35s

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Can anyone beat Evenepoel, this route is made for him?

More like Pogi property, especially d'Éze ramp, also considering he seems to be the rider among the entire peleton still left least affected by 20 days of racing. Fresh as fly as he will.

 

[Rackham]

So, top three gaps:

Evenepoel
Pogacar @ 15s
Vingegaard @35s

Pog
Vingegaard @30
Evenepoel @1 minute or thereabouts.

It's a climbing & descending ITT. Add the fact it's a GT third week time trial (on the last day, no less) & the hierarchy should be respected, which is Pog number one because he's the best climber & visibly has the best form, then Vingegaard & then the rest etc.

I don't think Evenepoel's natural superiority in a TT will have any relevance on this unique profile & TdF stage 21 at all.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

A small part of me is hoping that Pogačar will have a Michael Rasmussen 2005-esque ITT, and he'll be 5:20 behind Vingegaard with a km to go, but that he will manage to cut it by 7 seconds before the line due to exceptional cornering.

 

[topcat]

A small part of me is hoping that Pogačar will have a Michael Rasmussen 2005-esque ITT, and he'll be 5:20 behind Vingegaard with a km to go, but that he will manage to cut it by 7 seconds before the line due to exceptional cornering.

Samu, you have more endurance than Pog.

 

[rallybanana]

Sunset in Nice is at 21:05. So even with the later than usual start times they should all finish before darkness falls.

 

[Eclipse]

Pogi will win if he races it, but given his only route to losing the tour is a dumb yet agonising crash I feel like he'll not be pushing this

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Samu, you have more endurance than Pog.

That is simply not true. I've only watched two weeks of the Tour, but I'm still dead and gone.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

That is simply not true. I've only watched two weeks of the Tour, but I'm still dead and gone.

More porridge than?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

More porridge than?

I was eating porridge before it became cool, but I guess I should have added other dishes to make it a breakfast buffet.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

I was eating porridge before it became cool, but I guess I should have added other dishes to make it a breakfast buffet.

Harribo porridge may be an easier solution?

 

[tobydawq]

There will definitely not be rain.

Ok, it actually does rain now. And the barriers are falling. What a drama!

 

[RedheadDane]

Harribo porridge may be an easier solution?

Please, do not try to make Harribo porridge a thing...

 

[solo80k]

55 seconds

My wife told me the same last night. So you have the same expectations for the winning margin, how cute.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Please, do not try to make Harribo porridge a thing...

I was planning on a sales pitch already. A dual use: two products: one for children, because sugar is healthy, and one for people who want to emulate professional athletes because that is totally healthy as well.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

My bid:

It will be a fight for the hot seat at the closing stages.

1. "They forced me" Pogi
2. Vingo '26 - The miracle is real. He seemed on top of his pedals yesterday (nothing to do against a Pogi smelling a finish line) and his confidence TT'ing downhill hairy slopes is back, I think
3. Remco '42 - he will sacrifice anything for a revenge, but downhill not in his favor, besides stamina will sum up.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Please, do not try to make Harribo porridge a thing...

Reminds me of a uni student pal back in early 90ies who won 10 bags of Turkish Pepper (dunno whether it's a Danish thing?) and one from my project group joked "have you tried a whole bowl with milk on it for breakfast?" - and he did it.

 

[fbjim]

Carapaz has won supercombativity. Can't say that wasn't deserved

 

[Eyeballs Out]

Carapaz has won supercombativity. Can't say that wasn't deserved

I would have much rather seen Abrahamsen win it

 

[tobydawq]

Carapaz has won supercombativity. Can't say that wasn't deserved

Yet Twitter is ablaze with outrage because Abrahamsen apparently had the competition sown up halfway through and the rest of the race shouldn't matter.

 

[fbjim]

Can we somehow get Norwegian Twitter to get into a feud with Portugese Twitter by getting Almeida involved