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

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Gap between Pogi and Vingo on Hautacam

  • They arrive at the finish together

    Votes: 22 16.2%
  • Pogi wins by 1-30 seconds

    Votes: 22 16.2%
  • Pogi wins by 31-60 seconds

    Votes: 29 21.3%
  • Pogi wins by over a minute

    Votes: 28 20.6%
  • Vingo wins by 1-30 seconds

    Votes: 9 6.6%
  • Vingo wins by 31-60 seconds

    Votes: 6 4.4%
  • Vingo wins by over a minute

    Votes: 7 5.1%
  • Race cancelled (due to Pogi's brushes)

    Votes: 13 9.6%

  • Total voters
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It's the trade off you have to make, when you are not the richest team.

If WvA was to ride just as a dom, he could do that for significant more money elsewhere.
But maybe not going all out the day before a really important GC stage?
And he got chances in the Giro.

I'm actually baffled.
 
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My music playlist appropriately started playing Dragonforce on the background. Spotify know what's about to go down.
 
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Neither did Mayo (in a GT). The whole team might have been spooked by that post-2004-Dauphiné phone call.

I do miss the Euskaltel orange jerseys and the Basque flags in the Pyrenees.

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I'm not sure the pace being set is a blistering one, at least visually, apart from when Kuss ramped it up for a few kilometres midway up Soulor. Expect that to change on Hautacam.
 
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But your leader is probably good so right strategy IMHO.
It clearly wasn't, though - they stopped riding as soon as Jorgenson got dropped and now they're left with just Kuss for the Hautacam, so can't put Pogacar/UAE under pressure.

It was a plan that only worked if everyone felt good; if they didn't, then they should have communicated that, slowed down hammered the final few km of the climb as well as the bottom of the Hautacam. By following their OG plan they got the worst of both worlds: ruined their domestiques, unable to put Pogacar under pressure, and nobody left for Hautacam
 
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peacock sucks so bad.

it took them 10 minutes before they were TOLD remco had made it back.

and they didn't know S. Yates had come with him.
I can't wait to watch Chris Horner's analysis of this stage. Even though it's after the stage is over, I still get more out of his program than I do from Peacock.
 
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I'm not sure the pace being set is a blistering one, at least visually, apart from when Kuss ramped it up for a few kilometres midway up Soulor.
That is correct. They were waiting for Remco. They told them they were having problems with the internet. Now it is restored.