Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 16: Montpellier to Mont Ventoux, 171.5 km

[Ilmaestro99]

Looks like Cofidis wants to set up Emanuele Buchmann for a big victory!

 

[Samamba]

Merlier should really win tomorrows stage with QS not having to babysit Remco and Milan having spent so much energy for green.

 

[Rou]

The Lidl goons should get on the front and start riding like a team.

 

[Boehmand]

UAE is letting nothing with a Visma rider go.

Everything else they don't care about, but any Visma attempt gets shut down instantly.

The break will go when Visma stops trying - provided Milan/Girmay is in it.

 

[solo80k]

UAE is letting nothing with a Visma rider go.

Everything else they don't care about, but any Visma attempt gets shut down instantly.

The break will go when Visma stops trying - provided Milan/Girmay is in it.

They already have one stage win with Yates, more than most WT teams this TdF.

 

[Red Rick]

Wait, are commentators talking crap or are they really gonna do experiments with speed limits in cycling?

 

[Red Rick]

Primoz Roglic has fought, battled and conquered his way to his preferred position in the peloton. The single last wheel

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Wait, are commentators talking crap or are they really gonna do experiments with speed limits in cycling?

For the riders or for how fast commentators are allowed to speak during sprints and crashes etc.?

 

[Boehmand]

They already have one stage win with Yates, more than most WT teams this TdF.

It's about the GC

With headwind on the 2nd half of Ventoux, it is really valuable to have someone out front if you manage to create a little separation from Pogacar.

 

[Rou]

Good job from Wout to do some pulling.

 

[Boehmand]

WvA trying again, Soler shutting it down.

 

[Samamba]

Alpecin protecting a 3 man break

 

[Red Rick]

Alpecin trying to roadblock - just delete that team from this sport please and let Matty take a transfer

 

[Samamba]

Just let the kid go Politt

 

[Rou]

The flying dentist is a bully?

 

[Peyroteo94]

Just let the kid go Politt

For what? It is very clear Tadej will try to win today.

 

[Boehmand]

UAE doesn't want anyone out there except for the 3 that made it - everything is getting shut down.

 

[Samamba]

For what? It is very clear Tadej will try to win today.

So you think they can't control a 4 man break? Give smaller teams a break jeez. It's a Total rider, let him be. He's not changing the outcome of the race anyways. He probably won't even make the front.

He finally realized it too.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Some of these UAE and Visma guys hit the big old age of 14, stood up, clapped their hands together and decided well that’s enough emotional development for me.

 

[Rou]

Keep the pace high. The faster it is the worse for the Dane.

 

[Boehmand]

UAE changed their mind on Delettre and let him go - and instantly other teams start to try again

 

[Boehmand]

It seems Visma is now helping shut down further moves - maybe the two teams have agreed on a ceasefire until the climb?

 

[Peyroteo94]

So you think they can't control a 4 man break? Give smaller teams a break jeez. It's a Total rider, let him be. He's not changing the outcome of the race anyways. He probably won't even make the front.

He finally realized it too.

Teams are no longer interested in showing their jersey so what would this change?
But it's pointless to discuss this.

 

[scribers]

That was brutal looking

 

[Boehmand]

Eros Politt might end up get ferried all the way to the foot of the climb