Tour de France Tour De France 2025, Stage 17: Bollène - Valence(160.4K)

[AnotherArmChair]

No guarantee that this will be a sprint stage

in other news Tour viewing figures are down

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I knew the Americans had a different way of listing dates, but there seems to be something very wrong with the year in this case

When it rains, it pours, so Démare will continue the French streak today.

 

[Earns1985]

Danny van Poppel DNS today..

At first, I was concerned about a wave of illness at Red Bull, but he only left to be present at the birth of his first child.

 

[Gigs_98]

This should be a nailed on bunch sprint but I think a lot of riders are very tired right now. In the third week of the Tour it wouldn't be the first time that a seemingly clear sprint stage goes to a break of rouleurs instead.

 

[Red Rick]

Thought this was pretty cool

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*** hate this. And by 'this' i mean not linking to the academic paper

 

[Rackham]

Danny van Poppel DNS today..

At first, I was concerned about a wave of illness at Red Bull, but he only left to be present at the birth of his first child.

Now we just need Mrs. Hansen & Urska to spontaneously deliver babies out of nowhere and the dream of a first Tour for you-know-who would be a little closer.

 

[E_F_]

in other news Tour viewing figures are down

As in for this year's edition? Damn, perhaps people really do find predictable domination uninteresting - or I suppose perhaps Pogacar just isn't going all out, and people would tune in if he did more W/kg than on PdB.

 

[Red Rick]

Now we just need Mrs. Hansen & Urska to spontaneously deliver babies out of nowhere and the dream of a first Tour for you-know-who would be a little closer.

Spoiler: Roglic if that happens

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Looks like the riders might get wet today by the way, we‘ll see how that might affect the race.

 

[YavorD]

Looks like the riders might get wet today by the way, we‘ll see how that might affect the race.

THey will probably get wet in the Alps as well.
Rather cold and re ainy weather is expected.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Since the thread title is a bit confusing, I‘ve checked and the 23rd July 1925 was also rainy in this area. Can‘t tell you about the year 225, though.

 

[Red Rick]

THey will probably get wet in the Alps as well.
Rather cold and re ainy weather is expected.

Do I even need to say the magical words?

 

[YavorD]

Do I even need to say the magical words?

Luck is good, but overrated.

 

[Pantani_lives]

Carlos Rodriguez is aiming for the Zubeldia award. He's in the GC top 10, but he hasn't made the top 10 in any of the stages.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Carlos Rodriguez is aiming for the Zubeldia award. He's in the GC top 10, but he hasn't made the top 10 in any of the stages.

He can even out do Zubeldia here, who (even though invisible) got a Top 10 stage result in all of his Top 10 GC runs at the Tour.

 

[ice&fire]

Carlos Rodriguez is aiming for the Zubeldia award. He's in the GC top 10, but he hasn't made the top 10 in any of the stages.

But he has got more than 10 minutes on camera going on breakaways in stages 12, 14 and 15

 

[search]

IPT will apparently go for Stewart today, which honestly is a bit of a surprise. Ackermann still sounded confident yesterday.

 

[DarkBlue]

I hope Alpecin hammer the climbs and try to drop Milan

 

[RedheadDane]

Alpecin guy with a brilliant - and delicious - cooling strategy.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

IPT will apparently go for Stewart today, which honestly is a bit of a surprise. Ackermann still sounded confident yesterday.

Performancewise it isn‘t surprising but I didn‘t expect them to change it either.

 

[Samamba]

Strong guys attacking immediately.

 

[Samamba]

Everyone trying to attack immediately and then they just stop. Great.

 

[T-Nielsen]

Alpecin guy with a brilliant - and delicious - cooling strategy.

What did we miss?

 

[Valv.Piti]

Ah yes, blocking the road

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Everyone trying to attack immediately and then they just stop. Great.

Kind of hard to attack when there‘s a road block in front of you