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

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Red Rick

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If you look at the riders in breakaways, you can also quite clearly see the fatigue over the race. Healy, Arensman, O'Connor, they all essentially have 1 or 2 great days in the race, and then they get blasted out of the back in every other breakaway they're in.
 
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Pippo_San said:
Of course if you don't have a great player you can't win, and this Vingo just can't beat Pog but man.
Talk about Rabofail.
These bees really are serving this Tour on a dish to Pog.
And what about that Red Bull epic fail? I would go on a tantrum directly on the bus and just punch them in the face I was the DS. Or I would just punch myself because this is pure lack of competence.
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I don’t think the team will ever matter to roglic. He isn’t pulling for anyone. He didn’t move to bora to do it and he isn’t doing it today and probably not tomorrow
 
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Wow, congrats to Ben O'Connor on a well deserved victory in this Tour's Queen stage. Best ride of his career to date? He and his team certainly needed that one. Also looks like he has sealed 10th on GC so a massive result.

Pogi confirming he is unshakable, and tamed his nemesis mountain. He seemed under less stress than on Ventoux. Matching Vingegaard's attacks easily.
Jonas has almost run out of options now -2nd in Paris looks inevitable.
Most interesting is the battle for the last step on the podium - a 22 sec gap? Great ride today by Oscar Onley but Lipowitz cracking, looks like he was on a bad day.
 
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Great win from O'Connor, when he is on a good day he is always a force to be reckon with.

Regarding GC the stage ended up being a bit disappointing, Vingegaard did try but he didn't seem like a rider willing to risk everything and Pogačar always looked in control but didn't have the team to go for the stage win.

Very impressed with Oscar Onley, I already knew that he was a very talented rider than was in great shape but fighting for a Tour podium is something that I didn't expect. Lipowitz paid for his attack and Roglič once again suffers more in a multi-climb stage. Difficult to predict who will come out on top.
 
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tourmabet said:
I still don't get what Visma was trying with Jorgenson today. Some good posts from today

https://dnlbenson.substack.com/p/benson-bulletin-tour-de-france-stage-d32

https://cyclingreport.substack.com/p/caligula-seals-his-fourth
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I can only surmise they bit off more than they could chew. I am not even sure it was enough to shed second tier riders, much less Pogi.

When Vingo sat up I thought for sure there was a calculation to it. Now we know it was just pure self survival.
 
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Congratulations to Ben Alexander O'Connor for winning the queen stage.

All in all i enjoyed this stage and hopefully to get something similar tomorrow, hopefully for RBH to be rewarded better for the effort invested. Decisive moment of this stage IMHO being on where Jonas attacked on the penultimate climb and after not really having a plan, on what to do next. Both Pogi and Jonas waiting like helpless lambs, desperately needing their teams to do something, that almost made them look humans.
 
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