Tour de France Tour de France 2025 Stage 12: Auch - Hautacam (180.6k)

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great ride from Bruno Armirail today. He is due a big win in the mountains

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Vingegaard going for the dots... Knows yellow is probably out of reach..!!

I don't think he's given up yet.

 

[Kedjan]

Roglic or Lipo for podium looking better and better.

Jorgenson will probably lose minutes on Hautacam, Remco also.

 

[burning]

I am curious whether UAE will full send it at the bottom of Hautacam given that Visma is dead except Vingegaard

 

[Boehmand]

Amirail is a great descender - Woods not so much

 

[YavorD]

Vingegaard going for the dots... Knows yellow is probably out of reach..!!

I think Vingegaard will destroy Pogacar on Hautacam.

 

[Sciatic]

What a lovely descent

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Crazy takes on here, pace yourselves people, lots of stages left.

 

[Lequack]

Healy should drop 30 minutes and go in breaks, he's wasted trying to cling on for minor GC places.

Well he should fight at least today to honor the jersey as they say.

 

[ice&fire]

Yates stayed with Mateo to pace him. Look where he is now. You're just wrong. It's okay to be wrong.

The head of the race started the climb more than 2 minutes ahead of the leaders. The gap went down to 1:40 and it's now back to over 2 minutes.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Visma control van had a busy night parsing the evenepoel thread. By 1pm today they had enough intel on evenepoel's weaknesses, and their AI analysis suggested going for it in the suolor.

I mean...it's possibly true.

 

[Lui98]

I think Vingegaard will destroy Pogacar on Hautacam.

I think the same, but If it happens then the Tour will be basically over.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Woods descending a lot better than he used to, but these roads are pretty much Armiral's backyard.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

The head of the race started the climb more than 2 minutes ahead of the leaders. The gap went down to 1:40 and it's now back to over 2 minutes.

See what you want. He stayed with Mateo to help. That's what I saw.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Armirail is very fast.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

It took about 33.5 minutes for the GC guys to climb Suolor (860 vertical meters). VAM of 1540 m/h (about 5.6-5.7 w/kg). Moderate pace but a lot of guys were dropped, which indicates that conditions (temperature, wind?) are hard.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Fatco enjoying and taking advantage of his weight now

 

[nightowl]

I don't understand this at all. They know they weren't going to distance Pog on this climb, this is a long term strategy to put pressure on over this 3-day mountain block. Folks here are talking about Jorgenson staying close--that may not matter to them at all, as I wouldn't expect him to stay with Yates and Kuss when they're making it hard.

Think they were trying to drop all of Pog’s domestiques so he can’t get a lead-out later. Problem is they were going to isolate Vingegaard instead if they kept pushing.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Roglic new approach to cycling based on the motivational stance of "I dont care" may actually pay off

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

I think the same, but If it happens then the Tour will be basically over.

If Pog is on a bad day (still way too early to tell), it's almost certainly because he crashed yesterday. This is Pog we are talking about. It won't be over, if this is what happens.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Crazy takes on here, pace yourselves people, lots of stages left.

Hey, we've been waiting over half the race to overreact to the first serious climb of the race, a lot of insane takes have been building up, just waiting to be had!

 

[AnotherArmChair]

like to see Armrail win

 

[noob]

Danish TV2 broadcast saying on the descent from the cat. 2 there is melted asphalt because of the high heat.

Absolutely not good if true

 

[Lorzenz08]

Pogi hear me out !!! You have one job

 

[jono]

Danish TV2 broadcast saying on the descent from the cat. 2 there is melted asphalt because of the high heat.

I never understand this. It gets hot where I live too, well over the 31 degrees they keep talking about. This never happens. Do they use substandard road building materials over in France?