Tour de France Tour de France 2024, Stage 9: Troyes > Troyes, 199.0 km

[Le Grand Doop]

the peloton can not decide whether they want the break to win today

I don't think they care (maybe VDP).

for them its all about GC.

 

[Brullnux]

Good stage this

 

[ppanther92]

Last real uphill gravel section coming up.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Le Tour is a big deal. Youd think they could have paved these gravel sections for the race.

It is odd. They create perfectly manicured roads for the Tour to prevent accidents and mechanicals. And then this.

 

[Samamba]

Don't think De Lie will ride like he did earlier ever again. So dumb.

 

[Brullnux]

I don't think they care (maybe VDP).

for them its all about GC.

Absolutely. If it gets towards the end and someone there fancies the stage they'll chase, but I don't think Girmay is in the group anymore and I can't see any other sprinters. If Healy gets gapped up front then EF will go hard

 

[Le Grand Doop]

I don't get the hate against Ineos here. They're riding for a podium spot and their biggest threat against that, Evenepoel, is attacking. Of course they ride to catch him.

riding for top 5 already? can that not wait until the third week?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

It's hilarious how consistently wrong the on-screen gradients are. Supposedly 3% and they're doing 17 kph...

 

[ppanther92]

Visma attacks the last uphill gravel sector.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Eurosport, joke of cycling

 

[Tim Cahill]

A De Lie win would be a great victory for fans of great cycling tactics, he just needs to cling on over this climb and not lose too much so he can draft the cars off-camera and make it back, then it's flat.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

riding for top 5 already? can that not wait until the third week?

They're riding for the last podium spot which is the best they could ever hope for, whether it's week 1 or 3.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Come on Arnaud, do a Nibali in the Vuelta that time

 

[Squire]

This terrain is really beautiful.

 

[Medvind]

Benoot gone?

 

[Andre]

This terrain not good for De Lie

 

[RobertCrawley]

This terrain is really beautiful.

You can almost see it through the dust.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I don't get the hate against Ineos here. They're riding for a podium spot and their biggest threat against that, Evenepoel, is attacking. Of course they ride to catch him. It's really not a part of their strategy to let Visma chase to use up Vingegaard's domestiques as it doesn't matter for them.

If it was an isolated example, people probably wouldn't make anything of it, but because they habitually neutralise moves and stifle racing in circumstances like this where GC moves are being made that they are not the team most relevant to chasing, regardless of whether they profit or if it is logical, people get sick of seeing racing breaking out and it always being Ineos that restore the status quo so are more critical of them for doing so.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Almeida is out...
Edit: Soler

 

[Tim Cahill]

Vingegaard of a few years ago would be crashing 3 times uphill and having a panic attack every time his chain came off, looks very easy today.

 

[Andre]

...reminds me of a road in North Carolina

 

[noob]

Does Wout look a it cuddly?

 

[Penninepeddler]

This is tense. Very fun.

10 minutes ago UAE look strong as hell... now the tide has totally turned.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

The big question is whether they want to keep this racing up when the terrain flattens out after this.

 

[Medvind]

Doesn't Vinge need his doms if Pog attacks late? van Aert burning matches here.