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

[D. Pecher]

He was expected to be before Onley though.
And he was one of the main contenders for the podium even before the Tour.

Not in RBHs planning. His season objective was the Dauphiné where they tried him as a Captain for the first time. Then he was expected to use his remaining form to help Roglic in the tour. They never had him on the cards for a podium. That happened because Roglic couldn't follow on some of the Pyrenaes stages.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Imagine Higuita wins a bunch sprint of 15 riders on top of Loze after the queen stage with +5000m altitude.

 

[ashhutch1997]

I mean hed did alot of work earlier in stage. Wellens is long gone as comparision

Was just joking lol

 

[Poursuivant]

Damp squib

 

[AmRacer]

When will Rogla attack Onley

 

[Boehmand]

They hit 2K at 8% now - after that it's 2-6% for the next 6K

 

[ontheroad]

Jonas has to start attacking now if he wants a chance to win the Tour.

That very slim chance evaporated over an hour ago. Win the stage might be another matter.

 

[BubbaChuck]

so remco to visma after fiasco.

 

[Brullnux]

GC group going O'Connor pace, bit a disappointment so far to be honest

 

[burning]

More importantly, sprinters are 28 minutes behind and can lose 20 more minutes or so, they should be safe to finish

 

[scribers]

Jorg could suddenly appear 3 minutes ahead of the yellow group and I wouldn’t question it.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

When will Rogla attack Onley

He looks like he’s going to attack out the back at 5 k to go

 

[Miha81]

Hates fakepace, if Pogacar wants the stage then his lot should just pace, don't think Vingegaard has it today.

Why bother and risk anything?

But hey, maybe another Narvaez bomb leadout incoming.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Lipowitz has lost like 50 seconds in more than 10k of climbing. It's not that he's exploding. Just not fast enough. But the climb is still soo damn long.

 

[dazaau]

How does what Lipowitz is doing have any bearing on Roglic? Visma would be setting the pace one way or the other.

Only that he is ahead of him/ gaining time if he is actually worried about Roglic stealing third 😅 what lipo is doing makes no sense at all

 

[E_F_]

Damp squib

Story of the whole Tour. Entirely predictable after last year - especially after they released the horrible parcours.

 

[VayaVayaVaya]

Damn. When I went into a meeting, Roglic was ahead of Lipowitz and Onley was 2:30 back. I come back and Lipowitz is a minute up on Roglic, who is with Onley. WTH.

 

[Peyroteo94]

When will Rogla attack Onley

Onley will attack Lipo

 

[D. Pecher]

so remco to visma after fiasco.

According to German media he's going to RBH.

 

[SHAD0W93]

I actually think Visma is riding for team GC, they are not just admitting it

Taking Armstrong’s tactics in 2010 to get on a top step to heart.

 

[yaco]

Yates is losing time to O'Connor. This is going nowhere for the GC group unless Vingegaard or Pogi attack in the next 3kms.

 

[Gigs_98]

Simon Yates is now losing time to Ben O'Connor. Either soft pedalling or he is cooked.

The problem is, the next kilometers are quite easy and Visma only has two helpers left. If they switch to Kuss now they essentially give up on ever setting a high pace at a spot where the gradients are high. It was either gonna be an attack on the first 10 km or Yates pacing for close to 20 km

 

[Izzyeviel]

Imagine Higuita wins a bunch sprint of 15 riders on top of Loze after the queen stage with +5000m altitude.

would it really have hurt you to imagine that pogacar would win the stage?

 

[Boehmand]

I think Visma's plan now is, to have Yates and Kuss drill it over the "easy" 6 K, and then Vingegaard goes deep the last 6.5K in a last desperate attempt.

 

[kingjr]

Only that he is ahead of him/ gaining time if he is actually worried about Roglic stealing third 😅 what lipo is doing makes no sense at all

I don't understand that part, can you rephrase it?