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

[Samamba]

0 reason for Red Bull to start riding as Onley group is just not trying either (Vauquelin is catching them soon).

 

[Tim Cahill]

Comical situation out there on the road

 

[kingjr]

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

Absolute piffle, they have more than 5 minutes on Gall. The thing you don't want is to lose the rhythm completely. It's not like Roglic has to drill it, just set a steady pace until, inevitably, Vingegaard attacks again, after which it is every man for himself.

 

[Red Rick]

Why is Storer riding in that group lol

 

[nightowl]

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

Not really IMO. There aren’t gradients to drop Pogacar until the last 6km or so, by that point Jorgenson will have been caught.

 

[kingjr]

0 reason for Red Bull to start riding as Onley group is just not trying either (Vauquelin is catching them soon).

That's exactly why they should ride, you'll never get 2 minutes that cheap again.

 

[jono]

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.

That's exactly what is happening now.

 

[scribers]

Is roglic has to pull so he doesn’t look like a complete ass

 

[Izzyeviel]

who had Roglic working for Jonas?

 

[OJRvE]

0 reason for Red Bull to start riding as Onley group is just not trying either (Vauquelin is catching them soon).

No reason Roglic shouldn’t pull. He can pass Onely and helping Lipo

 

[iBanesto]

FloLip attacks!

 

[kingjr]

Roglic hopes he can bait Lipowitz into blowing himself up lol

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Okay Lipowitz does his random stupid attack thing again.
Let's see how that goes, at least he's normally super good in not blowing up.

 

[Gigs_98]

Holy *** Felix, you've got to be kidding me.

Edit: Genuinely cannot remember someone fumbling a great position this badly.

 

[D. Pecher]

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

The Onley group is going backwards all by itself. Why should RBH waste energy?

 

[kingjr]

What the absolute *** am I watching

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Hahahaha, Lipowitz can't help himself, that boy is begging to experience an Ullrichesque bonk at some point.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Lipowitz is pure madness. I love it!

 

[No Excuses]

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.

Yes, not a smart move

 

[ontheroad]

Are you not entertained?

 

[Didinho]

They gonna pull Jorgenson back to catch Lipo.

 

[Samamba]

Painfull to see Gall.

 

[pastronef]

it's heart warming to see them attacking, but at the end of the day Pogacar will catch them and win

 

[Boehmand]

Vingegaard needs to attack on the first 11K of the climb, the next 9K are too easy to create separation, before it gets very hard for the last 5.5K

But 5.5K is not enough when you are 4:15 down with just 1 more GC stage to go.

Ideally he creates separation and catch Jorgenson to pull him across the middle 9K.

However - Pogacar looks good and will be very hard to drop.

 

[OJRvE]

Lipo attacking works aswell. But he probably should have done it earlier