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

[Red Rick]

Alpecin making me a lot happier about UnoX and other loser teams chasing Van der Poel for no reason the other day

 

[scribers]

Nightmare fuel : Neil’s Politt breathing down your neck on open road

 

[Samamba]

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

Obviously Total is if they did that

Literally should've let him go and kept the block.

 

[Boehmand]

This stage is pure anarchy, the GC teams seem completely unable to control it

 

[Peyroteo94]

This stage will finish very fast.

 

[Boehmand]

The attacks have stopped, UAE controlling the pace, they will probably keep the 3 rider break at around 2 minutes.

Pogacar clearly wants to win the stage otherwise there would be no need to keep the break in check.

To me that significes that Pogacar feels no weakness which is bad news for Vingegaard.

Showdown on Ventoux to come in 100K and in the meantime nothing much will be going on, unless the wind picks up significantly in the next hour.

 

[Brullnux]

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

This is clearly not true, at least not for a stage like this.

 

[Boehmand]

And as I wrote that Schmid and Plapp tries, but UAE is shutting it down, the die is cast.

 

[Peyroteo94]

This is clearly not true, at least not for a stage like this.

This is clearly true for what we have been seeing in the last 5 years (specially sprint stages).

 

[Danskebjerge]

Illness may be Vingegaard's biggest ally in the fight for the GC win. On the other hand, how often has Pogacar abandoned a race due to illness? It's rare.

 

[Boehmand]

Now Movistar tries, many teams are not ready to accept the UAE dominance.

 

[Rou]

Politt is getting angry. Lol

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Personally I'm happy to see the 'smaller' teams do whatever they want and at least try something instead of knowing their place and making up numbers behind the superteams.

 

[Boehmand]

Politt is getting angry. Lol

How can you tell?

 

[Rou]

How can you tell?

Him screaming at Rubio like at a kid from the kindergarten.

 

[Rou]

UAE are dumb.
Just go to LIDL and tell them to start pulling if they want green.

 

[Peyroteo94]

UAE are dumb.
Just go to LIDL and tell them to start pulling if they want green.

They don't care about green. They care about the stage win.

 

[Rou]

They don't care about green. They care about the stage win.

LIDL should care about green. They should ride for it. If a break goes Johnny Milan will not be in green after today.

 

[Faserr]

If UAE tries win everything, which they are allowed to, then they can't complain that. Every other team also wants to win.

 

[moljoh]

Nightmare fuel : Neil’s Politt breathing down your neck on open road

Neil chaising today

 

[Boehmand]

Movistar, ISN and Total insisting on the attacks - Cofidis, Uno-X and Picnic also starting again.

At some point UAE will have to make a choice, because Politt can't keep handling it alone, and then they are looking at compromising someone they want to save for closer to (or on) the climb.

 

[Samamba]

They don't care about green. They care about the stage win.

You don't understand his comment. He's saying that UAE might be interesting to help if UAE promises them that Pog will take 0 points at the intermediate. Hell, say that if they don't pull Pogacar will go for green, maybe they help.

Better than acting like arrogant brats.

 

[D. Pecher]

I think this is becoming personal now. UAE want the three-man group to go and have made it clear they don't let any other riders go. That only spurs on the other teams. That will be one fould mood in the groupetto up the Mont Ventoux.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Politt's blacklist getting longer, haha.

 

[Boehmand]

Only 7 seconds to the break now, on the back of a stream of attacks from the peloton.