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

[DJO]

Turgis...Brilliant win. So pleased for the lad.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Mon dieu, Turgis!!!

 

[Salvarani]

Turgis!

Wow

The guy who almost never wins

Biggest victory of his career

Made Totals Tour with that as well

 

[postmanhat]

Best GT stage I've watched in a long time.

 

[kingjr]

These are awesome one-day riders getting a deserved shot at win

Yes, but I don't want the tension to be over 10k before the line. This ended up being perfect, fortunately.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Turgis deserved after he was screwed out of being allowed to ride the monuments.

 

[Brullnux]

Respect to Lutsenko, broke Stuyven's dreams and then was nowhere near the win

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I’m a fan of exciting racing but no way should Visma’s plan today to be full out attacking.

I wasn't saying they should be full out attacking. I was suggesting that Jorgenson contributing a few turns while Pog was pushing on and Remco was chasing behind, meaning that Vingegaard didn't have to contribute a turn but could extract gain, rather than nuking the move and gaining nothing on anybody, was worthwhile.

Gaining time is always good. You'd think they'd have learned their lesson from 2020.

 

[Slavique Nuke]

Lutsenko just decided to kill Stuyven and then have nothing left

Just practicing for Cav's train

 

[Gigs_98]

Unironically one of the best Tour stages of the last 10 years.

 

[Heston]

Lets face it, its a carbon-copy of the past two editions. Pogi trying ang trying, Vingegaard shutting down and win it in the 3rd week. I honestly give this now 50%+. Will check the odds after the stage, and probably put something on Vingegaard. He is much stronger than expected. Much stronger.

The first GC attack last year was Vingegaard on Marie Blanque. Then the next day Vingegaard tried a far distance attack on Tourmalet while Pogacar wheelsucked him all day.

 

[Penninepeddler]

That was a lot of fun.

Turgis needs to buy Gee and Healy a beer.

Two guys with the least chance to win from a sprint and they got the group back. Both very likeable riders.

 

[ppanther92]

Wow, MvdP is really bad. He was not great last year either but way better than this, helping to deliver Philipsen to the line at least.

 

[Movitrain]

Aranburu may resemble Valverde in certain traits, but man does he lack his killer instinct in these races. I think tactically he played that okay but seems like whoever was in front of him just slowed him down for a split second and that was that. Anyway, i am happy for Turgis, well deserved win for TotalEnergies.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

I wasn't saying they should be full out attacking. I was suggesting that Jorgenson contributing a few turns while Pog was pushing on and Remco was chasing behind, meaning that Vingegaard didn't have to contribute a turn but could extract gain, rather than nuking the move and gaining nothing on anybody, was worthwhile.

Gaining time is always good. You'd think they'd have learned their lesson from 2020.

Now that I do agree with.

 

[kingjr]

VdP will be outsprinted both by Matthews and Girmay

comfortably

 

[Miha81]

This was fun. Do it again next year.

 

[benzwire]

Great win for Turgis!

 

[Colombiano Cadence]

When it comes to overrated riders Pidcock us right up there…..he made a monumental arse of that

 

[will-10]

Finally a big one for Turgis

 

[Penninepeddler]

5 years since Turgis last won a race.

 

[slim charles]

Vingegaard:
'I expected to lose 3 seconds so this is a great result'

 

[Savant12]

This was a great stage!

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Respect to Lutsenko, broke Stuyven's dreams and then was nowhere near the win

Much bigger win for Turgis than it would have been for Sanremo and Omloop winner Stuyven, though. A bigger dream was realised than broken.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Unironically one of the best Tour stages of the last 10 years.

You say that because you traditionally aren't there to watch the good ones