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

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Any ideas for Jonas' performance this year? He's clearly an immense talent who isn't himself right now.
No, I expected more. Dauphine wasn't good, and it's still off. Mind you he is still great - head and shoulders above everyone not named Pogacar.

He has been shockingly good in more classic type stages and punchy climbs, I heard he had put on more muscle, perhaps if true that's been a mistake, esp because he does not engage in classic races and the tdf is the focus.

All of visma are a bit off to be honest.
 
Didn't bother to calculate it myself, but Bengsch on German ES said the old time limit, expecting a 22min winner time, would be 7 minutes. I guess that would put way to many riders in jeopardy for their taste.
Only one rider under 29 minutes so far, so it the fear may have been warranted.

It's hard to set time limits on an MTT when the likely winner is climbing as fast than anyone in history
 
Vingegaard is a specialist in 1-5 minutes climbs so this is above his striking zone. However, if he imagines it as 5 consecutive Bretagne hills he should be fine.
you guys laugh cause its funny but this is actually what the famous british cyclist bradley wiggins said when he started going fast uphill, he was just thinking about all of these mountains as a series of 4000m races one after the other
 
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Today's finish

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Yes, but Yates isn't even supposed up be at the tour, only recently came from Jayco. The Giro was a surprise, that's for sure. You can add Kuss to your list of where did his form go I reckon.
Kuss rode 3 GTs in a calendar year and then had a nasty Covid case. His struggles were kind of predictable. To be honest, he actually looked as good as he has in a long time yesterday.
 
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I hope you're right but I don't know; he looked like Death himself coming over the line yesterday, he went really really deep it seems. Trying to stay with Pog's initial attack just killed him; Lipo on the other hand had some real forward momentum on the climb and seemed a lot fresher afterwards. Remco, don't know about him, we'll see. I know I'm going against the grain but I'm kind of glad this is a short TT given yesterday and what is to come tomorrow.
This is kinda my point (the bolded). :D I think if Vingegaard did Lipowitz' pacing 'strategy' he'd have a bigger gap to Lipowitz.

Remco should do well today. At least 4th behind Lipowitz, if not 3rd.