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

[Red Rick]

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.

 

[scribers]

As it turned out: 8 points in the mountains classification.

Hit him where it hurts. That was bad looking to see the mountains jersey being towed up to the only marker he would contest.

 

[scribers]

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.

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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I see Hulk Hogan has died now, just after finally making it into a race thread on the Cyclingnews Forum.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

I see Hulk Hogan has died now, just after finally making it into a race thread on the Cyclingnews Forum.

Yet he‘s still my favorite to win Stage 20.

 

[YavorD]

I see Hulk Hogan has died now, just after finally making it into a race thread on the Cyclingnews Forum.

Did anyone bring Ozzy as well?
Damn

 

[Cookster15]

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.

 

[bah]

I don't want to scare people, but Pog is younger than Armstrong was when he "won" his first Tour in 1999, and about 15 years younger than Chris Horner was when he won the Vuelta.

Depressing thought.

 

[RedheadDane]

As it turned out: 8 points in the mountains classification.

Why 8, though. Why not.... 20?

 

[Didinho]

Don’t know if it’s been posted already. The break check pre start.

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[bah]

Don’t know if it’s been posted already. The break check pre start.

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Don't ride so close behind a motor vehicle is surely the lesson here.

 

[Red Rick]

Don't ride so close behind a motor vehicle is surely the lesson here.

Pog's just gotta have that car draft man.

 

[KZD]

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.

 

[Red Rick]

It's unreal how everything about tomorrow may unfold the exact same except at 75% of the duration.

 

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It's unreal how everything about tomorrow may unfold the exact same except at 75% of the duration.

who will take Enric Mas' role of attacking, getting dropped by Luke Plapp, and abandoning right after?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

who will take Enric Mas' role of attacking, getting dropped by Luke Plapp, and abandoning right after?

I can volunteer if you want. Otherwise Lenny Martinez sounds like the right man for the job.

 

[Red Rick]

who will take Enric Mas' role of attacking, getting dropped by Luke Plapp, and abandoning right after?

Vlasov.

 

[Rob5091]

It's very obvious why the group didn't work together at all after the Madeleine. Guys were simply gassed.

Tourmalet 2023 all over again ...

 

[Danskebjerge]

Why 8, though. Why not.... 20?

Good question. Maybe the UCI said 20, and then the French organizers objected: "Hey, he's French!" And so it was a compromise.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Hit him where it hurts. That was bad looking to see the mountains jersey being towed up to the only marker he would contest.

Yes - but then think of all the similar situations that aren't filmed. 😐

 

[tourmabet]

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

 

[OJRvE]

Why 8, though. Why not.... 20?

Yeah what they did now doesn’t make sense. They should have taken the Glandon KOM away and further deduct 8 points to discourage such behavior.

 

[scribers]

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

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.

 

[CyclistAbi]

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.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Well you might not like Rog, but he was better than those pretenders on Ventoux.

its nothing ot do with like or not like...in fact i have no feelings either way for any of them ...I watch the race and say what I see....i dont even know who is the pretender you speak of...your comments are just irrational bias