Tour de France Tour de France 2025 Stage 13: Loudenvielle – Peyragudes (10.9k, ITT)

[movingtarget]

That helmet looks even crazier from that perspective. But it surely helped taking 2 min out of remco.

A helmet designer with a lot on his mind.

 

[Red Rick]

The only thing missing would be Pogacar in the background.

Evenepoel spoke truly. He was closer to Vingegaard than last year.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Evenepoel spoke truly. He was closer to Vingegaard than last year.

Post of the day!

 

[ppanther92]

Gall at least climbed up the ranks over the stage, but again slightly below what I hoped for:

T1: 0:41 (21)
T2: 1:41 (14)
F: 2:22 (10)

 

[dobrien]

Evenepoel spoke truly. He was closer to Vingegaard than last year.

Ohh, that's cold!

 

[proffate]

My eyebrows are already nearing my neck as it is.

lay off the botox?

 

[ppanther92]

Pogi also already super close to the Green jersey - so Lidl-Trek should actually go for the early sprints and put Milan in breaks (or ride hard and keep attackers in the peloton until the first sprint) to be sure.

Judging by yesterday, thats also something MvdP goes for though.

 

[TrekCyclist]

so far the battle for 1st seems as exciting as 2001 or 2002. Unfortunately.

 

[kingjr]

so far the battle for 1st seems as exciting as 2001 or 2002. Unfortunately.

And 2014, of course

 

[Red Rick]

And 2014, of course

In 2014 at least you had every reason to believe the Vuelta would be great and next year would be different. The race was *** because 2 horses broke their leg in a 3 horse race.

Now the race is terrible basically because 2 horses don't crash out.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Honestly the main story should by how *** Vingegaard was.

Nah, Vingegaard was second yesterday, he was second today. There was no story. Cycling is no story - when Pogacar is there.

 

[Red Rick]

Nah, Vingegaard was second yesterday, he was second today. There was no story. Cycling is no story - when Pogacar is there.

Well Vingegaard was a lot better today. He should have lost at most a minute yesterday, but losing 2'10 is what made it stick out even more.

Roglic imploding is the other real story of Hautacam.

 

[Danskebjerge]

And 2014, of course

2014 was more memorable than the average Tour.

 

[E_F_]

He should have lost at most a minute yesterday, but losing 2'10 is what made it stick out even more.

I suspect he blew himself up by trying to keep up. Same as in Dauphine.

 

[kingjr]

2014 was more memorable than the average Tour.

Only if you're a Nibali fan; otherwise it was a complete nightmare. When you have three contenders, and the least of them is the only one who doesn't crash out, it's a worst-case scenario.

 

[E_F_]

Only if you're a Nibali fan; otherwise it was a complete nightmare. When you have three contenders, and the least of them is the only one who doesn't crash out, it's a worst-case scenario.

It was more memorable to me than all the Froome wins - even though I stopped watching halfway through... But the other editions just blend together.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Very good performance by Roglic
Great performance by Vingegaard
Thermonuclear performance by Pogacar

The difference between Pogacar & Vingegaard (36 seconds) is moderate and more or less what I expected if Vinge performed at his best level (yesterday he was worse and positive split on Hautacam killed him). Generally the gaps were quite large for such a short climb. Vingegaard passing Evenepoel at the finish was the moment of the day. Wow. Grischa motivated him strongly. Poor ride by Remco. Lipowitz getting closer to the podium.

 

[Gratemans]

Vingo would be smashing this in Pog's absence. You'd need to remove both Pog and Vingo to have a competitive Tour.

I gotta admit, yesterday and today that was all I could think about: how much fun this Tour could be without the two aliens.

 

[Didinho]

 

[staubsauger]

This would be like the 2022 Giro d'Italia without Pogacar & Vingegaard. No fun at all!

 

[YavorD]

Vingo would be smashing this in Pog's absence. You'd need to remove both Pog and Vingo to have a competitive Tour.

I guess a lot of people don't really care about competitive Tour (even though they act like they care).
They just want a certain crider (in this case Pogacar) not to win.

 

[TrekCyclist]

not sure if the TT bikes really helped. if there was a difference, I suspect rather the other way. Evenepoel for example was not much in TT position during the climb.

 

[Danskebjerge]

When you have three contenders, and the least of them is the only one who doesn't crash out, it's a worst-case scenario.

That in itself is by no means a worst-case scenario. In most cases it would make the race more interesting to watch. (Just imagine if Evenepoel was suddenly 1st in the GC now - that would be very entertaining.)

The problem in 2014 was that there was little suspense in the last part of the stage race, but I could live with this because the Paris-Roubaix stage was jaw-dropping. Much more entertaining than most real Paris-Roubaix editions. The crashes, well, unfortunate, but unfortunate in a quite different way than when there is a random crash in a peloton.

 

[Boehmand]

That helmet looks even crazier from that perspective. But it surely helped taking 2 min out of remco.

It looks like he's wearing Papa Smurf's house on his head.

 

[kingjr]

That in itself is by no means a worst-case scenario. In most cases it would make the race more interesting to watch. (Just imagine if Evenepoel was suddenly 1st in the GC now - that would be very entertaining.)

The problem in 2014 was that there was little suspense in the last part of the stage race, but I could live with this because the Paris-Roubaix stage was jaw-dropping. Much more entertaining than most real Paris-Roubaix editions. The crashes, well, unfortunate, but unfortunate in a quite different way than when there is a random crash in a peloton.

Let me rephrase this: only three contenders