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

[Krzysztof_O]

Vingo helped by teammates tried hard to drop Pogi. A few attacks but no success. Credit to him for the efforts. Pogi also tried and couldnt drop Vingo. They were evenly matched today but its Vingo who has to attack and Pogi who is closer to final victory.

 

[dazaau]

Too bad the gap is so huge.

And half of it is just weird, like that flat TT and hauticam. I'm a Pog fan but that was just not at Jonas' level.

 

[MagliaNera]

Halland nowhere to be seen

Just finished at 5' 11'' down. Race for 8th is open again

 

[Miha81]

Urska wears her helmet everywhere

Everywhere? 🤣😂

 

[Heston]

Vinge hurt his shoulder due to the reporter running in front of him after the finish line. Hopefully nothing serious

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Urska wears her helmet everywhere

even in bed?

 

[Red Rick]

Vinge hurt his shoulder due to the reporter running in front of him after the finish line. Hopefully nothing serious

Spoiler

If I speak.

 

[RedheadDane]

Might be Vingegaard's advantage that they are (probably) unlikely to catch the front 3.
Bonus seconds being out of the equation.

As you have probably figured, I had completely lost count of how many were out front.
Imagine my surprise when first Buitrago popped up out of nowhere in the front. Then Alaphilippe popped up out of nowhere being caught by The Duo. Then Van Wilder popped up out of nowhere in the front.

 

[JosefK]

Old man Roglic still rocks it you young punks 👑

Today, he was stROnGLIC.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Urska wears her helmet everywhere

Better to be safe than sorry. There are potholes everywhere.

 

[iBanesto]

Urska wears her helmet everywhere

That helmet confused me.

I thought Pogacar was kissing Vingegaard.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

BTW UAE **** up todays stage. They did zero work uphill and let the breakaway a bit too much time on flat

 

[Lequack]

Old man Roglic still rocks it you young punks 👑

Great to see. At one point Lipowitz seemed stronger, at the other Roglic did, but they both were quite strong and equally matched. And they did manage to drop Onley in the end, if Roglic has good legs Red Bull might even do a 3-4, which is probably the best they could've hoped for honestly.

 

[Miha81]

Vinge hurt his shoulder due to the reporter running in front of him after the finish line. Hopefully nothing serious

Really???

 

[scribers]

Better to be safe than sorry. There are potholes everywhere.

My parents were fervent followers of Darwin

Wouldn’t let me wear a helmet on the playground

 

[Red Rick]

BTW UAE **** up todays stage. They did zero work uphill and let the breakaway a bit too much time on flat

Seeing Politt pace for 2 hours for nothing is a gorgeous sight to behold

 

[skippo12]

BTW UAE **** up todays stage. They did zero work uphill and let the breakaway a bit too much time on flat

Sivakov and Soler in the breakaway. If one of them is in the peleton and helps Politt they catch the breakaway.

 

[scribers]

BTW UAE **** up todays stage. They did zero work uphill and let the breakaway a bit too much time on flat

They might have done better without riders in the break today.

 

[jono]

BTW UAE **** up todays stage. They did zero work uphill and let the breakaway a bit too much time on flat

You presume a fair bit about what UAE's goals were going into this stage.

 

[iBanesto]

Vinge hurt his shoulder due to the reporter running in front of him after the finish line. Hopefully nothing serious

 

[fenns]

Jonas' mountain domestiques are not good enough to put pressure on Pog

 

[Skalman]

BTW UAE **** up todays stage. They did zero work uphill and let the breakaway a bit too much time on flat

They just want to defend, which they succeeded at. When the big break got away they kind of gave up on winning the stage

 

[Lequack]

This stage was as exciting as it deserved to be. All it was missing was Froome running up the mountain.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1947667363953873053

View: https://x.com/LeTour/status/1947667363953873053

 

[T-Nielsen]

even in bed?

Everywhere

 

[Valv.Piti]

BTW UAE **** up todays stage. They did zero work uphill and let the breakaway a bit too much time on flat

Soler and Sivakov er just worthless. Should use them on the flats to minimize the break and the Visma riders so they became irrelevant.. also threw a stage on Ventoux out the window. Amateur hour