Tour de France Tour de France 2025 Stage 10: Ennezat – Le Mont-Dore (165.3k)

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Pogi for the win with little animation from the team.

Wildcards to include
1. Jegat Jordan from the break
2. Jorg if UAE decides to let him up the road (they damn well shouldn't)
 
Feb 20, 2012
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It's the poor man's stage 11 from last year.
It's really one of these "attrition without real selectivity" stages. Sure you expect gaps in the final 3km, but that's about it. They're not gonna use the strongest domestiques before the final 3km.
 
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I'm no cycling strategist by any means, but it seems like it would be in UAE's interest to let Jorgenson get some time tomorrow and move into yellow. Let Visma spend some energy defending the jersey.
Why would they defend Jorgenson‘s yellow jersey more than they would defend Vingegaard otherwise? That‘s just giving them free time and hoping Visma are stupid.
 
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I don't get the thing with Jorgensson in the break. The only way UAE let him go is if he's undercover wearing an Arkea jersey.
 
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Should be a break win. UAE won't have the team imo to control it if Pogi doesn't wan to attack himself early and make it a long range attack. The first hills are so hard that the top breakaway riders can establish a break or it will be so fast that there will be only 40 riders left in the peleton which normally even gives opportunities for even stronger breakaway riders. You don't get a breakaway of riders like Healy, Schmid, Benoot, Alaphilippe/Hirschi, Simmons or Romeo back with Soler and Sivakov alone. Don't know if UAE then goes all-in and burn riders like Wellens and narvaez early on. With Almeida out I don't think AUE will go for it.
 
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Sep 1, 2023
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Should be a break win. UAE won't have the team imo to control it if Pogi doesn't wan to attack himself early and make it a long range attack. The first hills are so hard that the top breakaway riders can establish a break or it will be so fast that there will be only 40 riders left in the peleton which normally even gives opportunities for even stronger breakaway riders. You don't get a breakaway of riders like Healy, Schmid, Benoot, Alaphilippe/Hirschi, Simmons or Romeo back with Soler and Sivakov alone. Don't know if UAE then goes all-in and burn riders like Wellens and narvaez early on. With Almeida out I don't think AUE will go for it.
UAE only cares about VLABank. And stage wins, if feasible.
 
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The holiday tomorrow only explains the rest day postponed to Tuesday. The flat stage today has nothing to do with the holiday.

Well it does to me, because Bastille Day is a public holiday, so its a 3 day weekend in France this year, in previous tours ime theyve always put the big GC affecting stages, usually mountains, on the day before the rest day, thats usually been a Sunday, because it gets the biggest tv audiences as everyone is at home and then goes back to work on the Monday and the rest day is like great pause, build up for the next weekend and repeat over the 3 weekends.

but everyone in France at least is off work tomorrow, tomorrow is their "Sunday" in effect, so theyve planned the GC affecting stage for that instead of today, and thats why we got a kind of more traditional Saturday sprint stage today instead imo.
 
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Lol. I love that Bastille Day stuff, or "rider X was born right near the start/finish!"
Hardly ever amounts to anything yet you keep reading it in all previews each and every year.
Well I don't think anyone believes being born near the stage finish or start gives them superpowers. Fact is, riders are motivated by such things.. just cause they are motivated won't make them better then others
 
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This is the rider’s introduction to the finale, and our introduction to the new style of Cyclingcols profiles. I think it’s a big downgrade, but we’ll have to deal with it.

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This is the kind of stage where everything depends on how the first few dozen kilometers go. If a harmless break goes early on, it will be a controlled day with some gc action at the end. If the break isn't able to establish itself climb after climb this will be absolutely brutal. We barely ever see a stage with so few flat kilometers. Yes there are barely any proper gradients but the sequence of back to back climbs is savage. We could see all hell breaking lose and an incredible stage. But then we could also have a day after which everyone is talking about how cycling is dying.
 
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This is the kind of stage where everything depends on how the first few dozen kilometers go. If a harmless break goes early on, it will be a controlled day with some gc action at the end. If the break isn't able to establish itself climb after climb this will be absolutely brutal. We barely ever see a stage with so few flat kilometers. Yes there are barely any proper gradients but the sequence of back to back climbs is savage. We could see all hell breaking lose and an incredible stage. But then we could also have a day after which everyone is talking about how cycling is dying.
For some people, these are not mutually exclusive.