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

[RedheadDane]

I hate those fans standing in the middle of the road so much

Yeah. I know the organisers can't put actual barriers on the entire climb, but there's gonna be a way to prevent such moronity.
Poles and rope.
Maze.

 

[postmanhat]

In the Pog era, If ASO are serious about reducing the amount of sprint stages, then they basically need 15 hilly stages, with two MTFs at the end to keep it interesting?

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Come on Ben, just a few more meters!

 

[Salvarani]

Visma tactics for the first half of the Tour and today could be questioned a lot

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I said Onley is the man to look to for the podium....but got shot down here by the usual Einsteins...saying he was only a rouler and couldn't climb

The anti UK sentiment on here is palatable

I suspect that you mean that it is palpable, and that you find int unpalatable.

 

[Didinho]

Where is Matteo?

Been seen searching for a hook to hang his bike in turn 17.

 

[glassmoon]

Tour’s over. Pog put them to the sword.

lol... there are still actually fans who honestly thought it will be real race for the win? I hope Pog at least tried to put a "suffering" show on for the cameras this time...

 

[AnotherArmChair]

The Basque crash has set Jonas back too much and he hasnt improved in the intervening time like Pog has

If I had a pound for all the times I heard a rider say their numbers are better but in a hard stage/race the facts are evident more than training numbers

Also difference this year is some of the young riders have stepped up so Remco is not guaranteed a podium

 

[Boehmand]

Yeah. I know the organisers on the entire climb, but there's gonna be a way to prevent such moronity.
Poles and rope.
Maze.

Knives
Guns
Grenades

 

[Brullnux]

Did Vingegaard even beat his own 2022 time? Regardless of what Pogacar did, he has clearly regressed in relation to the rest of the field, and also compared to his own level in 2023.

No Vingegaard climbed it in like 37:40, like Tadej in 2022. First mountain stage, so maybe anomalous as some people underperform but compared to Nibali/2022, he should have been much fresher.

 

[Rou]

@ChewbaccaDefense
Nice day today, right?

 

[Andy262]

Roglic is finished. Will be interesting to see if this is Remcos level this year or if it was just a bad day. Lipo favorite for 3rd right now.

This was a good day for Remco. I have never seen anything to suggest he can compete with the best in the high mountains.

He needs to ride some spring classics.

 

[Rackham]

Did Vingegaard even beat his own 2022 time? Regardless of what Pogacar did, he has clearly regressed in relation to the rest of the field, and also compared to his own level in 2023.

Yes. Vinge is terrible considering he had a clean prep for this race. We already saw it in the ITT last week though.

As for Rog, chapeau, no complaints. A lot of guys are just stronger. Lipowitz was really good.

 

[Brullnux]

Not even close.

Nibali's time would look good in this field.

In fairness Nibali's time was maybe his single best climbing performance, and was really quite good for the mid-2010s.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Weak field today, 2015 Nibali with the long solo ride was faster than all the other riders today.

 

[Gigs_98]

Tbf if Vingegaard had the gap to the rest of the field that I expected he would have been right with Pogacar. This was much more Vingegaard being disappointing than Pogacar being better than expected.

 

[KoopaCycling]

Sad day for the Tour. I was hoping Vingegaard was gonna be closer.

Remco both better than expected after midway stage crisis and about 25 sec worse than expected before the stage began. I figured he would lose around a minute today on Vingegaard.

 

[RedheadDane]

Knives
Guns
Grenades

No need for violence.

 

[Boehmand]

Yes. Vinge is terrible considering he had a clean prep for this race. We already saw it in the ITT last week though.

As for Rog, chapeau, no complaints. A lot of guys are just stronger. Lipowitz was really good.

"Terrible" is a bit much.

In any other era he would win every race, he just happens to be competing against the greatest stage race rider of all time.

 

[dampframme]

Haha my man Rubio coming in 11th

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Not even close.

Nibali's time would look good in this field.

Well, at least that gives me a little bit of reason to hope someone can at least make things interesting again to prevent us from facing another 5-7 years of this ***.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Pog being showing much more class than some of his fans.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Not even close.

Nibali's time would look good in this field.

that version of Nibali is goated, best gc rider of the 2010s!

 

[burning]

The gaps are actually mental, which makes Pogacar's performance even more insane, LOL

 

[Heston]

Arkea with 3 riders in the top 12 today.

Who's the real superteam now?