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

[Peyroteo94]

Not that it says anything but Almeida still have finished ahead of both Remco and Rogla on both stages.

Yes but he struggles a lot in these hills. He is afraid of crashes just like Remco.

 

[Berniece]

Easy win by MVDP too, Pogacar didn’t even come close

 

[noob]

Skjelmose hit his head in his crash clearly too

 

[Cycling111]

Roglic's feeling is very bad.

In other years, he'd be at least third in this stage.

 

[ppanther92]

Not that it says anything but Almeida still have finished ahead of both Remco and Rogla on both stages.

While those hilly stages are probably his weakness actually

 

[noob]

Yes but he struggles a lot in these hills. He is afraid of crashes just like Remco.

rightfully so. Was he at Lombardia when Remco crashed btw?

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Jorgenson rocking a porn 'stache, this competition is tight!

 

[dobrien]

I got confused by it too. I kept waiting to see Andy Hampsten

That old Motorola kit was pretty nice looking imho.

 

[perico]

Enric Mas with 39 seconds on Remco and Rogla in GC.

Enric “Eeyore” Mas in 6th at +10 seconds.

Thanks for noticing me…

Actually not bad from my boy. He took the wrong line on the roundabout and ended up in Jasper’s split group (3rd group) and ended the day 12th in the sprint.

 

[Ulle97]

Cannot believe that this is only Van der Poel's second Tour stage win.

 

[Unchained]

Tudor really getting in the mix! Also decent jumps by other teams including it looked like Arkea tried to light a spark or 2. Trek uncharacteristically bad moves, pseudo chase by Simmons, show only almost all the catch was done by Alpecin race horses..they took responsibility and got a win for second day!! Impressive.. Now yellow!! Completely deserved both days!! Gregoire is a #$%cing good bike racer..he has had fantastic month!!

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Main takes from the Tour preparation:
1) Vingo has worked on his explosivity (famed muscle mass)
2) Pogi has worked on losing his explosivity
Let's see how it ends.

 

[Red Rick]

Not that it says anything but Almeida still have finished ahead of both Remco and Rogla on both stages.

Clearly just wasting more energy than either, which is very selfish considering it's his primary duty to help Pogacar.

 

[Cycling111]

Main takes from the Tour preparation:
1) Vingo has worked on his explosivity (famed muscle mass)
2) Pogi has worked on losing his explosivity
Let's see how it ends.

Pogacar already said last year that he lost some of his explosiveness for the Tour due to climbing training.
Last year in San Luca he lacked explosiveness.

He's more explosive in the spring, but this year he already said that in the second half of the year he´d focus on high mountains and lose some explosiveness.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Is there something wrong with WVA ??

 

[noob]

MvdP looks very good in the yellow!

 

[noob]

Is there something wrong with WVA ??

He's was ill at Belgian nationals so...

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Maybe the real fight is between Pog and Jonas for polkadots

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Also Johannessen, who was in the front group yesterday.

Only 6 guys who have been in the lead group both days

 

[Samamba]

every team between 4th and 10th is probably satisfied with their UCI points

4	Grégoire Romain	Groupama - FDJ	90
5	Alaphilippe Julian	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	70
6	Onley Oscar	Team Picnic PostNL	55
7	Paret-Peintre Aurélien	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	45
8	Vauquelin Kévin	Arkéa - B&B Hotels	40
9	Velasco Simone	XDS Astana Team	35
10	Berckmoes Jenno	Lotto	30
11	Delettre Alexandre	Team TotalEnergies	25

Why would Decathlon or Total care about UCI points? Or FDJ, but at least I give the pass cause Gregoire is actually good and deserves his chance in these stages.

Lotto also does not care, but they were at least in the break.

 

[ppanther92]

Is there something wrong with WVA ??

He was sick at the nationals but yes, so far way off pace

 

[Peyroteo94]

Clearly just wasting more energy than either, which is very selfish considering it's his primary duty to help Pogacar.

What the hell?

 

[awavey]

Well, I don't conclude from these attacks by Vingegaard that he's going to win the Tour; quite the opposite. Without needing to attack, I've seen Pogacar doing much more easily than Vingegaard. The feeling Pogacar is transmitting is incredible.

He hasn't really done anything, but it's noticeable in his ease in gaining positions.

Today he could have won with an early attack, but he chose to leave it to the sprint.

The feeling is that he'll finish alone in the first hard finish.

agreed, I mean yes its great to see a rider do something other than just sit on a wheel the whole time, but if the outcome is actually they achieve no gain from it, then kind of whats the point in keep doing it, Vingegaard didnt seem to be learning from it, other than its something different to try, and Pog looked to be very comfortable still whatever people were doing around him, so I think UAE will be quite happy with where they currently are in the race so far

 

[noob]

My colour sense is happy today. Now get just Jonas in the dot jersey and it's perfect!

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Pogacar already said last year that he lost some of his explosiveness for the Tour due to climbing training.
Last year in San Luca he lacked explosiveness.

He's more explosive in the spring, but this year he already said that in the second half of the year he´d focus on high mountains and lose some explosiveness.

Yup. I think that after 2023 Pogacar maybe realized that explosivity won't save him against Vingegaard on long climbs. I his case gaining the biggest sustainable w/kg at the cost of explosivity (if it's possible to train) should be the way to go in a GT.