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

[Rou]

Which is?

Who's the boss. Mind games.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Honestly, it felt like he was either saving energy for the end of the season or just didn't have it today.

Tomorrow is another big day. Today is a win for Tadej anyway.

 

[Red Rick]

I'm not sure it was a total Rabofail, I think Vingegaard was just bad. Plan made sense, but he just looked poor.

Plan was good but the people involved just looked bad.

 

[Divergence]

to be fair, staying with Onley could have meant losing massive time to Gall and Roglic.

Yes, so RBH gets white with Lipo and podium with Rog. This way...

 

[Poursuivant]

Great win by O’Connor

 

[Escarabajo]

Pogacar and Vingo should enjoy these last placings, because Onley will destroy them next year!!!!!

 

[bah]

Who's the boss. Mind games.

Doesn't really feel necessary at this point.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Look at the guys still in this main group and tell me he's giving it his all.

Let's see if we get any numbers from the stage later. You can't say a rider has held something back just by looking at how his opponents did.

Vingegaard looked really tired after the stage. If he had had a lot of energy left, he wouldn't have given Pogacar that gap in the end, would he?

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Lipo should have stayed with Onley. That is his rival. Not his teammate who tried to get a stage.

Rog was never winning that stage

Lip should ahve stayed with Onley????...no rider ever before been dropped ?? ....His team mate should have helped him on that final climb ...that is what a team does

 

[Rou]

Honestly, it felt like he was either saving energy for the end of the season or just didn't have it today.

Following the plan. His season doesn't end with the Tour.
The Tour ended on Hautacam. Everything else is a filler.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

He lost a lot on the last climb

Lipo is young and should have ridden for his podium and white jersey

It is a big thing and he should not have done this

Overall he lost like 3:20 min on the climb. After the effort he put in and probably over doing it by attacking after not really resting after coming back, I think he did pretty well do limit his losses on a 26,k climb.

 

[noob]

I'm gonna semiquote Horner; the result doesn't always reflect the tactics. Visma clearly tried

 

[ashhutch1997]

Visma rode they best they could, nothing you can do if your leader doesn't have the legs.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I'm gonna semiquote Horner; the result doesn't always reflect the tactics. Visma clearly tried

Until the top of Madeleine, then it turned into bad Contador and Schleck on the Tourmalet (saved by freaking Ben O'Connor of all people).

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Pogacar and Vingo should enjoy these last placings, because Onley will destroy them next year!!!!!

Say goodbye to the Pogagaard era and hello to the age of Onleypowitz.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Great tour for anyone called Ben.

Benjamin Thomas begs to differ.

 

[Divergence]

Rog was never winning that stage

Lip should ahve stayed with Onley????...no rider ever before been dropped ?? ....His team mate should have helped him on that final climb ...that is what a team does

Maybe Lipo should have helped Rog in the valley.
I general VLAB rode like knobheads, as they do, and thwarted RBH's plan. But afterwards nobody could have guessed that the favorites' group would ride a granny's tempo in the valley. I guess RBH were pretty unlucky at the end of the day. Also, big bravo for Onley's teammates. They saved him there.

 

[Escarabajo]

Sprinters are going to be pushed up the mountain so much!!!!!

 

[Salvarani]

Overall he lost like 3:20 min on the climb. After the effort he put in and probably over doing it by attacking after not really resting after coming back, I think he did pretty well do limit his losses on a 26,k climb.

He lost almost his whole advantage on Onley and could pay for it tomorrow.

It is little to be happy about that he showed "courage" and "limited losses", when it was completely unnecessary.

He will have to hope Onley dug really deep today or he could be in trouble tomorrow.

 

[Rou]

Some people keep repeating the nonsense that Jonas does not care about 2nd.
If this was true he would have attacked earlier on Madeleine and went full gas without looking back.
He clearly didn't want to explode because he wants his 2nd.

 

[red_flanders]

Nice to see O'Connor get this win! Not a believer in GC O'Connor, but fantastic stage performance!

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

He lost almost his whole advantage on Onley and could pay for it tomorrow.

It is little to be happy about that he showed "courage" and "limited losses", when it was completely unnecessary.

He will have to hope Onley dug really deep today or he could be in trouble tomorrow.

True. I agree with you that it was a pretty stupid move. Just saying that it wasn't a bad ride if you ignore the consequences just from a performance perspective.

 

[Miha81]

Tomorrow is another big day. Today is a win for Tadej anyway.

He is in a cruise mode. Actually this Pog is more scary than Pog of old.

 

[Escarabajo]

As expected, PCS is completely behind!

 

[mountainroad]

Visma: *doesn't/can't attack. Keeps podium
Forum: "Boring!" "Idiots!"

RBH: *goes for it. Loses time and might lose podium.
Forum: "Idiots!"