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

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I don't really get this narrative... Vingegaard looked like he was trying to win the stage. He knows he can't drop Pogacar, so attacking low down the climb is a pointless endeavour. I think he made a mistake in the final km and left it too late, but in general the Gerrans approach was the best for the stage win. It's sad, but it's a reflection of the gap between the two riders.
Of course that's possible. But I don't believe it. He wasn't willing trying to win if it meant losing the stage to Pog
 
Everyone just looked cooked, if Pog could have won that he would have. I think Jonas could have taken that if he'd trusted himself to go just a couple hundred meters earlier but it is what it is.

Great win by Arensman, that one took some balls; two stage wins for him and his team is MASSIVE.

Very impressive by Lipowitz, and Onley as well.

I hope this shows how dumb it is to backload the Tour like this; the organizers don't want to spread the mountains out because they're afraid of the race being over too soon, but instead everyone just gets too fried to do anything but hang on by the end.

Final day road race in Paris is going to be EPIC; everyone is going to want to win that one.
 
It blows my mind someone trying to defend Vingegaard here, specially when a guy is leading the GC and won 4 stages and the other has 0 stages and nothing else to conquer in this Tour.
It blows my mind how people always know the correct tactics here after the stage is finished. If Vingegaard had opened up 500m earlier and then been passed by Pogacar before the line, he had been lambasted for being stupid. He had one shot at working out the dilemma of not leading out Pog while leaving enough time to catch Arensman. He mistimed it by a few seconds. I don't see what other strategy he could have employed. He's clearly not gonna drop Pogacar on a shallow-ish headwind climb when he hasn't dropped him one single time so far.
 
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the guy doesnt have a win all race , this was his last chance and he's still afraid of not losing a few seconds to Pogacar . Attack for the stage win mate, do it for the team , for the fans , for yourself, ffs .
Look I'm not a Vingegaard supporter and also not a Pogacar supporter. From that perspective I do not care which one of them takes the stage.
I did hope for more competition in GC earlier, that Vingegaard would catch up. But today that of course was not at stake, he's 4 min down. Why would he attack Pogacar? The best chance he has is to let Pogacar work the climb and try beat him at the end. And Pogacar also wanted to win right?
 
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I already said before the Tour he should give up on GC and target stage wins instead because it was a lost cause, but they never listen.

But the Tour "is not over" though..

If Pogacar didn't bother with the Spring classics, probably would have won by over 10 minutes.

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It blows my mind someone trying to defend Vingegaard here, specially when a guy is leading the GC and won 4 stages and the other has 0 stages and nothing else to conquer in this Tour.
It's not a video game. These are real human beings who are baked after three weeks. I know it's really super cool to get on the internet and $&)^ on people, but this is the hardest race in the world and they are doing their best.
 

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