Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 2: Lauwin-Planque – Boulogne-sur-Mer (209.1k)

[Devil's Elbow]

Pogacar not wanting to risk it made all the difference.

Van der Poel shouldn't get dropped by Jorgenson here.

Pogacar would probably have risked it without the headwind.

 

[MagliaNera]

I wanted the french to have it. But Alaphilippe wasn't bad.

Agreed, but Hirschi was also in the group, why didn't he lead him out? Anyway the top 2 looked too strong today regardless of tactics.

 

[awavey]

Thought so too but the overhead shot showed it was about a bike length still, didn't close much.

yep it was one of those camera compressions as head on it looked like a tyre width at most, and then side on its like oh that wasnt that close at all

 

[Krzysztof_O]

The finale was interesting. Top GC dogs didn't attack on the steepest climbs (Vingo attacked once at the top) but the tempo by Visma/UAE was very strong. As I expected, MVP vs Pogacar at the end and Matthieu looks too fast on these kind of finishes. Congrats.

 

[Cycling111]

Pissed off with UAE already ....why must they take everything from people like Lipo and Vauquelin

Allaphillipe is alive

It is the only professional sport in which fans demand that athletes let themselves win.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

O'Connor, Thomas, Crass, Rodriguez, Kuss, (edit +) Johannessen ... lose 31 seconds.

 

[Mayomaniac]

O'Connor only loosing 30sec today after hurting his knee in that crash yesterday is actually not a bad result for him.

 

[Mayomaniac]

O'Connor, Thomas, Crass, Rodriguez, Kuss... lose 31 seconds.

Also Johannessen, who was in the front group yesterday.

 

[Samamba]

Van der Poel does not win this stage if teams who had no chance at winning here (which were like 15 teams) just tried to go in the break but yeah

 

[awavey]

lolled at Hatches comment about Rodriguez though, as if it was unexpected he'd ship time, did anyone expect him or Ineos to be able to get him to compete with these riders at the front ?

 

[noob]

Jesus he looks gaunt!

 

[Mayomaniac]

Seasoned Gall-observers know how promising this is for him, he must be pushing nuclear watts to be coming 21st here

He was near the front when Ala hit the front, then APP took over.

 

[movingtarget]

O'Connor only loosing 30sec today after hurting his knee in that crash yesterday is actually not a bad result for him.

I think he crashed again today ?

 

[titan31]

O'Connor, Thomas, Crass, Rodriguez, Kuss... lose 31 seconds.

Johannessen too

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Also Johannessen, who was in the front group yesterday.

Meant to include him, but forgot him while typing.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Der Commissar gave Jonas the same time at Mathieu. I thought there might be a second or two gap to Tadej.

Seconds last the same in Europe though and there was hardly half a second in-between them.

 

[proffate]

Vingegaard is very smart. He is always behind Pogacar and can grab a few seconds by just wheelsuck his wheel in the sprint.

like pog can cleverly steal seconds wheelsucking mvdp...? Let's just appreciate that ving is now outpunching Alaphillipe and Vaquelin (granted the latter wasted energy on some attacks)

MVDP's sprint was a work of art on a purely aesthetic basis. Only issue is that fugly visor a la Geordi Laforge

 

[scribers]

Those carpentry muscles paying off with Vingo’s sprint

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Gall and Buchmann (thankfully I got reminded of his performance by the excited German national television) without time loss on a stage like this!!!!
Only one take away from that: MVDP and Pogacar officially washed.

 

[Berniece]

Van der Poel does not win this stage if teams who had no chance at winning here (which were like 15 teams) just tried to go in the break but yeah

All of them think they can get a stage later in the Tour. And they keep saying this and then it’s over and they are surprised they didn’t win anything

 

[Mayomaniac]

Meant to include him, but forgot him while typing.

That can happen, hard to include everyone somewhat gc relevant...

 

[Tim Cahill]

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[fenns]

UAE didn't make hit hard enough on the climbs if they wanted to win the stage - MVDP was wobbling on the Cote d'Otreau but they didn't finish him off

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Vingegaard is very smart. He is always behind Pogacar and can grab a few seconds by just wheelsuck his wheel in the sprint.

Maybe you missed his attacks today ...

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Bad time to be an anti-Alpecin guy, for sure!

I'm going to be sad Chewy until Wednesday.