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

[E_F_]

Ive never seen Wellens ride this strong...what has gotten into him?

wrong subforum

 

[Kedjan]

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.

 

[Red Rick]

My music playlist appropriately started playing Dragonforce on the background. Spotify know what's about to go down.

 

[iBanesto]

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.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

We are about to find out where the legs really are.

 

[Boehmand]

Sweeny is earning his keep today

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

We are about to find out where the legs really are.

ZZ Top has something to add here.

 

[dobrien]

Nice riding by Armirail

 

[ontheroad]

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.

 

[E_F_]

We are about to find out where the legs really are.

hopefully below the torso

 

[burning]

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.

It's definitely not. Amirail only lost 30 seconds from the start of Soulor until right now

 

[Sciatic]

Amazing crowds just in the town, will be wild scene on Hautacam

 

[Kedjan]

Moment of truth.

Now we will get our answers if we will have a real fight for Yellow or not.

 

[Brullnux]

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

 

[noob]

Oh no exciting stage chopper sounds hypnosis sleep is incoming

 

[CJCycling]

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.

 

[Escarabajo]

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.

 

[pelotonIQ]

Armirail will be a good domestique for Seixas.

 

[postmanhat]

Just started watching. Is Carlos Rodriguez still there?

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Just bumped in.
Seems like something has happened.

Visma attacke Soulor, droped Remco, then droped Jorgenson so they slowed down again. Remco lost about a minute initially but could come back cause of the slowdown in the descend.

 

[Poursuivant]

Pog to attack from 6.5-6 km to the finish.

 

[YavorD]

Armirail will be a good domestique for Seixas.

He won't be.
He is probably going to Visma.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

American drug commercials are some insane level of dystopia man. Just crazy. You always see people dancing while the warning labels read like "Can cause heart attack, spontaneous human combustion, rabies, do not use if you breathe oxygen...."

 

[Valv.Piti]

Every GC's team wet dream is a rider like Bruno Armirail

 

[Valv.Piti]

I just realized that Enrico Messi is MIA

God damnit, its a Vuelta peak again isnt it