Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 18: Vif - Courchevel Col de La Loze(171.5k)

[iBanesto]

Lmao what is Jorgenson doing? Undoing all of Visma’s work

Riding for a GC podium finish obviously.

 

[Samamba]

Gall is clearly riding for 5th, that's why he was waiting for Lipowitz. Now Roglic probably also starts working.

They are not riding. Onley is still far behind, not really a reason to for them.

 

[Rollthedice]

All these shenanigans just for Pog to crush everybody on Loze.

 

[Peyroteo94]

They need a 4 minutes gap to win this

 

[OJRvE]

Roglic should have followed the attack. Now the team should order him to pull the valley to increase the gap back to Onely

 

[Red Rick]

I mean this is a great example of why this parcours was terrible.

 

[Boehmand]

All these shenanigans just for Pog to crush everybody on Loze.

Would you rather they did nothing?

 

[nightowl]

Bait for pogi. Or bridge for Vingo

Vingegaard isn’t dropping Pogacar on 6-7%, at least not without a monster lead-out. A lead-out which is now up the road where it isn’t useful.

 

[geisterhome]

Lipowitz stronger than pogacar, vingegaard, roglic, gall and jorgensen together.

 

[ontheroad]

Its entertaining though, a lot of dynamics going on and it beats the usual predictable Vingo v Pogacar final climb duel.

 

[kingjr]

Does Bora realize they can seal the podium right now?

 

[Divergence]

VLAB tactics...

 

[E_F_]

Obviously this is Visma adapting to the situation. Means that Vingegaard can attack on the climb, have Jorgenson take a turn at the front - attack again. Also the chaos behind is more tiring than a consistent pace.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Vingegaard doesn't use the sticky bottle method. 👍🏼

He wouldn't give a sticky bottle to his son, so he obviously won't take one himself. That goes for pacifiers as well, unlike Carlos Sastre.

 

[dgodave]

Glad we got some river boardwalk time!

 

[Red Rick]

Does Bora realize they can seal the podium right now?

Your biggest threat right now is collapsing and somehow losing it to Gall. Lipowitz needs to chill at all costs. Roglic isn't an endurance guy, so he should normally minimize his effort too

 

[YavorD]

Does Bora realize they can seal the podium right now?

I think they knew they are on podium even before today.
Lipo comfortably the 3rd strongest.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Visma is doomed. Who is gonna put a hard tempo before Vingegaard's attack?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

I mean this is a great example of why this parcours was terrible.

Well, it‘s all terrible if Vinge and Pog stay chained together

 

[Filippo_3467]

I think RBBH is overthinking that mahjorly. Just pull a bit with call keep the gap at 2 minutes to the Onley group. happy days.

 

[Eyeballs Out]

No reason for Gall to be riding here. Let RedBull ride

 

[E_F_]

Vingegaard isn’t dropping Pogacar on 6-7%, at least not without a monster lead-out. A lead-out which is now up the road where it isn’t useful.

No, it's up the road, where it's useful...

 

[ontheroad]

Looking back now it was an opportunistic move from O'Connor and a very good one at that.

He had no chance of a stage win without doing something. He still probably has no chance but kudos for trying anyway.

 

[Red Rick]

Well, it‘s all terrible if Vinge and Pog stay chained together

That's like 80% of their duels.

People act as if Pogacar vs Vingegaard is like Federer vs Nadal, but it's really just Djokovic-Murray

 

[geisterhome]

For a moment i thought Bora should put Roglic in front to chase those 3 in front back in but then I remember that Lipowitz probably will drop the rest and chase back everyone on his own strength since thats what he just did already