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

[D. Pecher]

Gall be like: Let me get rid of all this energy...

 

[Lorzenz08]

POGGENHEIMER INCOMING

 

[Remy55]

Lipo for the stage?

 

[Tim Cahill]

The lesser seen second-Kuss leadout about to happen due to various instances of ineptitude.

 

[search]

Okay, Lipo now already has almost half a minute. What is he doing, trying to win the stage?

he imo looks good to win the stage. Pogi etc will end up back there with Vauquelin, so he'll have a 3-4 minute head start

 

[Miha81]

Pogacar and Roglic can't remember a stage that entertaining where they had prime seats to everything.

They seem to enjoy themselves out there

 

[nightowl]

So the master plan was to make Pogacar fatigued on Madeleine and then let him have a nice recovery ride in the valley before Loze apparently

 

[geisterhome]

Lipowitz surely needs 3 mins on vingegaard and Pogacar to go for the stage win

 

[Peyroteo94]

A shame Pogacar doesn't get more wins because of his mediocre team

 

[staubsauger]

Damn. Gall upped his hand in the exact wrong moment and ruined a perfect stage for himself. If he had gone with O'Connor & Rubio he might have won the stage and would have gotten 5th place in the general classification!

 

[burning]

Well, this defeats the purpose of putting Pogacar into difficulty

 

[E_F_]

why is vinge marking Gall and Arensman. Why?

To pace the climb, so he has some sort of chance to attack Pogacar.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

We all thought there was only the infamous Politt UAE blacklist but it turns out Visma have their own with Felix Gall at the top!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

What am I watching?? No one appears to have a brain

They may have removed parts from their brains in order to save weight. I am not sure why the DS'es have also done it though.

 

[TrekCyclist]

Loze is long - very long

 

[Lorzenz08]

Lipo for the stage?

90 seconds ? Gonna be hard

 

[Samamba]

Vauquelin the only guy wo actually made up time in the valley lmao.
Only group that was riding, cause he had help from his French comrades.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Jonas Vingegaard HATES this one Felix Gall trick

 

[Poursuivant]

Weird valley this

Has stemmed any momentum VLAB had

 

[Red Rick]

Lipo for the stage isn't that crazy because none of the UAE domestiques should be pulling him back so it would require Pog to take a big shift himself.

 

[Heston]

Picnic with 3 riders in the Onley group all of a sudden.

 

[madthebad]

Lipo 2 minutes ahead of Vingo . Disgusting behaviour by Visma 😂

 

[Red Rick]

Gall may actually be braindead.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Lipo with 2 minutes now on Vingegaard and Pogi, if that goes on like this brother has a chance to do it and get the stage. Would be insane.

 

[Gigs_98]

All Gall needed to do was to agree to relaying with Jorgenson. Instead he's now 3 minutes behind Jorgenson, 2 minutes behind Lipowitz and barely in front of the Onley group.