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

[hayneplane]

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.

Sprint point tomorrow is right at the foot of the first climb. Tough but doable for Milan to follow the moves on the flat if he is smarter and doesn’t try and force it in KM 0 again.

 

[Cookster15]

Congrats to Pog.
Great comeback by Vingegaard to only lose 36 seconds and pass Remco.
Good to see Roglic with a strong ride. He now looks like he can get the better of his young teammate. But another strong ride nonetheless by Lipowitz.

 

[KZD]

Another day, another stage win for Pogačar and another day closer to a 4th Tour win. 7.5w/kg, epic performance.

Very good response from Vingegaard today. He lost more than 30 seconds to Pogačar but destroyed the others like he is supposed to (having Remco as a target in the last ramp also helped).

Great day for Red Bull, Roglič doing a superb TT and still in the fight for a podium while Lipowitz was solid and strengthen his position in the top5.

Disappointing performance from Remco and getting overtaken by Vingegaard in the end was a real humiliation. I hope he gets better because a strong Remco is better for the race.

Plapp the surprise of the day losing less than 2 minutes to Pogačar.

 

[Sciatic]

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.

As others have mentioned it looked like Roglic was the only one who took full advantage of the TT bike. Although. We didn’t see much of Lipowitz so perhaps he did as well.

 

[dercuforever]

Can someone explain to me why aren't they all like 10% stronger with fresh legs ? While they usually do those climbs after 4hours on the bike.

 

[Rob5091]

Well Pogi won, Jonas second and the rest are fighting amongst themselves. At least Roglic has woken up and Remco's podium spot looks extremely unlikely with the upcoming mountain stages.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

As others have mentioned it looked like Roglic was the only one who took full advantage of the TT bike. Although. We didn’t see much of Lipowitz so perhaps he did as well.

I think the TT bike was actually not the best decision for Lipowitz. He said just after the race that for the last kilometers he had too much lactate in his legs, which might be because of the TT position.

 

[Didinho]

In the podcast of Laurens ten Dam and Thomas Dekker (with Lars Boom) they had painted 400m with START and FINISH lines somewhere on the climb today and the fastest rider could win a barbecue.

Here is Pascal Eenkhoorn talking about going full gas, supported bij DS Jo Planckaert and won. Sweeney was just behind him when he started to go all in. He must have thought “what in the world is he doing”.

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[Red Rick]

In the podcast of Laurens ten Dam and Thomas Dekker (with Lars Boom) they had painted 400m with START and FINISH lines somewhere on the climb today and the fastest rider could win a barbecue.

Here is Pascal Eenkhoorn talking about going full gas, supported bij DS Jo Planckaert and won. Sweeney was just behind him when he started to go all in. He must have thought “what in the world is he doing”.

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An actual competition for the win happened today. Beautiful.

This is pure Ciclismo at her finest.

 

[Boehmand]

Tomorrow is going to be really interesting IMO.

Visma and Vingegaard is not going down without a fight, and Pogacar has such a large gap that there is no more waiting for the last climb.

I think we could see them go full gas to Tourmalet and then drop the hammer there (might be wishful thinking but what they've done so far isn't working ).

At the same time the fight for polka dots is going to heat up, Lidl's DS Kim Andersen said in an interview after the TT that he expects Skjelmose to win the first 3 climbs tomorrow if he wants to keep fighting for polka dots - boom - no BS, the bar is set

I feel certain Woods will go for polka dots too, and I could see Healy, Armirail, and Storer go for it as well - and probably someone from Bahrain.

All those wanting polka dots will fight for the early break with several teammates, because if they wait for Tourmalet nobody is ever getting a real gap.

And then there is the fight for green and the contenders in that wanting the points 70K into the stage.

It's a wonderful mix of conflicting agendas, which will create complete anarchy from the get go.

 

[Didinho]

An actual competition for the win happened today. Beautiful.

This is pure Ciclismo at her finest.

Was close in the end. That’s why the Tour is the best! Pogi casually strolling along is insane.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

It's a wonderful mix of conflicting agendas, which will create complete anarchy from the get go.

I hope you are 100% right. I want to see a big battle tomorrow. Perfect stage for it.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Congratulations to Tadej Pogačar for winning the time trial.

Was a nice stage and a proper mountain ITT, Pogi, Jonas, Rogla all up there, Lipo good, Remco with slightly worse performance then i expected, likely still feeling stage 12 on where he did a massive pull back.

 

[DJO]

I have been very impressed by Onley here. His form at Suisse was good, this though is fantastic from the lad. A great chrono, and another move upwards, He is like a ninja, in the GC classement.