Tour de France Tour de France 2025 Stage 19: Albertville-La Plagne (93.1k) ‚Historic day, magnificent racing‘ ~ Rob Hatch, probably

[TrekCyclist]

Lipowitz super strong after yesterday's bummer. Well deserved.

 

[Vudy]

Jonas gained 2 seconds. Tour is not over!

 

[iBanesto]

Security tries to take out Pogacar at the line.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

I think everyone is cooked from the insane pace during this Tour, including Pogacar

Yep, everyone looked dead today. Pog, Vingo, Roglic, everyone.

 

[JosefK]

Pog and Vingo thrust back into the Mortals group. Crazy stage. Great day for Lipo! (Can't imagine the German press if he'd lost out to Onley for 3rd).

 

[Red Rick]

What exactly did he do correctly? He had nothing to lose and didn't try to win.

Perfect.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Vingegaard played it correctly today.

Pogacar hater spotted eheheh. C'mon Red, not even a single attack?

 

[dr.eve]

Absolute losers again at Visma. Stage win up for grabs and Vingegaard didn't even try

How so? What could he have won? He's 4 min down and Pogacar is the best. So I think it is solely up to Pogacar if he wanted to win. Why would the rest give the best rider a free ride?

 

[burning]

The good news is that Martinez is out out KOM contention, which is great

 

[Boehmand]

He couldn't drop Pogacar after a 8 km leadout

He could have tried

He could see Arensman in front of him the whole time - he didn't try until it was definitely too late

Utterly devoid of character

 

[Skalman]

Third week have truly been one long yawn. How unfortunate.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

The lonely Onley dropped painfully close to the top, wonder what they'll try tomorrow

 

[Lorzenz08]

Well he did, but I'm not sure what the point was, since Pog is the one who lost the stage win.

Unless he was actually on a bad day, but if that's so he has an amazing poker face.

Pogi almost never show his suffering face even when he does.
Loze 2023 he loses 5 minutes and you can barely see he is suffering.

 

[RobertCrawley]

What a weird finish. Vingo chickened out today: his goal was to make Pogacar lose the stage. Pogacar wanted to catch Arensman: he lead for no effect, Lipo helped but Pog didnt attack near the finish. Arensman won in this chaos.

Most importantly, Pogacar virtually seals 4th Tour.

Easy to say from the couch.

 

[Jumbo Visma Fan :)]

So?

He would finish second yet again, which he tried to rely on Pogacar to bring him to the win today and almost worked.

 

[pelotonIQ]

Rabofail, rabofail, rabofail. So amusing to see the reaction of Jonas when he realizes that Tadej is letting Arensman win and then panic attacking to no avail Great Tour, the Pogi-man wins again.

 

[Brullnux]

Vingegaard did leave it too late, rode the first part of the climb to win the stage but timed it badly in the last km. Arensman was too far away for a 250m attack

 

[dr.eve]

What exactly did he do correctly? He had nothing to lose and didn't try to win.

Because he had exactly nothing to lose, you answered your own question.

 

[Filippo_3467]

Yeah honestly that was totally ok by Vingegaard if he attacks earlier Pogi counters and gets the stage win. So in the end 2nd was the best placing possible. A bit curious why Pogacar did ride the way he was. Of course he's not on the pyrenees level but clearly also didn't had any problems with the increased pace by Lipowitz.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Massive moral victory for Pogačar, showing Vingegaard that he doesn‘t have the balls to win a Stage if he gets it served on a silver platter.

 

[Salvarani]

Vingegaard played it correctly today.

No, he didnt.

 

[Sciatic]

I've always been and will remain a Roglic fan (among other riders I like too). But he might as well give his team and the Tour the finger when he crosses the line today.

 

[Mac9]

Love his podcast and books, he's a really likeable fella, but Ned is turning into the new Carlton on ITV

 

[dobrien]

Lipowitz super strong after yesterday's bummer. Well deserved.

That was a VERY impressive recovery by him today, totally could have gone the other way for sure. He deserves this big time.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

The way people on here talk about the cyclists is mental.....they have just ridden one of the hardest Tours ever and such hard stages with multiple climbs....in their place you would all be in the broomwagon keyboard warriers

behave !!!