Tour de France Tour de France 2025 Stage 20: Nantua-Pontarlier (184.2k)

[QueenStagiaire]

Foss sending the moto away with nobody at the front in the break. Genius

 

[Heston]

Very impressive from Groves and Stewart to even be in the break at this point after such a difficult start to the stage.

 

[broppo]

Foss sending the moto away with nobody at the front in the break. Genius

Watson will win this stage

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Ineos, UNO X, Cofidis all unhappy but they can‘t coordinate

 

[JosefK]

Wellens on his way to another stage win.

 

[Rou]

El Patron and his Ecuadorian bodyguard bullying Cofidis.
Love it!

 

[Samamba]

What is the time limit going to be?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Camera motor should be thrown out of the race for being way too close to the peloton, came very close to running over Champoussin.

 

[YavorD]

El Patron and his Ecuadorian bodyguard bullying Cofidis.
Love it!

They deserve that.
They were crashing people on KOM sprints, they crashed Philipsen on the intermediate sprint...and honestly, is there something else that Cofidis have done in this Tour?

 

[AmRacer]

Finally, coffee ride pace

 

[Heston]

Finally, coffee ride pace

Schmid made it back from his crash and is pulling again. But a stitched up Schmid vs such a strong break is not a very even battle.

 

[search]

What is the time limit going to be?

if they complete this stage in 4 hours, 48 minutes

Tour de France 2025 time limit calculator

 

[QueenStagiaire]

if they complete this stage in 4 hours, 48 minutes

Tour de France 2025 time limit calculator

Ah yes, for the very likely case that they ride a 38 average today

 

[Samamba]

Hahaha there it is, the rumors they are going to ruin tomorrows stage are increasing. Have been saying it all week.

 

[Brullnux]

Hahaha there it is, the rumors they are going to ruin tomorrows stage are increasing. Have been saying it all week.

In what way?

 

[Samamba]

if they complete this stage in 4 hours, 48 minutes

Tour de France 2025 time limit calculator

Allright so no reason to worry for anyone now that De Lie made it back to the grupetto

 

[Samamba]

In what way?

Some rain predicted. They've always said they might neutralize it or even skip Montmarte if it rains.

Let's hope at worse they just neutralize GC times as no one cares aboutt hat anymore anyways.

 

[yaco]

Schmid made it back from his crash and is pulling again. But a stitched up Schmid vs such a strong break is not a very even battle.

There are teams in the peleton with multiple riders who have no stage wins but will not try to give themselves a chance to win a stage. Then again the last week has been a tactically strange week.

 

[Brullnux]

Some rain predicted. They've always said they might neutralize it or even skip Montmarte if it rains.

Let's hope at worse they just neutralize GC times as no one cares aboutt hat anymore anyways.

Even if it's light showers? I get it if it's chucking it down, would be a bit farcical for the Tour to be decided by a cobbled crash on the final day, but surely not if it's light rain.

 

[yaco]

Hahaha there it is, the rumors they are going to ruin tomorrows stage are increasing. Have been saying it all week.

The riders have been in discussion since stage one about neutralising GC for the ascents of Montmatre. I see no problems as we will have an exciting stage.

 

[Samamba]

Even if it's light showers? I get it if it's chucking it down, would be a bit farcical for the Tour to be decided by a cobbled crash on the final day, but surely not if it's light rain.

Yeah that's my preditcion. Hence why I've been making jokes about it all week haha. One drip of rain and some teams will start crying.

But yeah don't really care about neutralized time. GC is set anyways

 

[Samamba]

There are teams in the peleton with multiple riders who have no stage wins but will not try to give themselves a chance to win a stage. Then again the last week has been a tactically strange week.

Who has the team to do that? No one I think. Who has a sprinter left? Nys is there, but Trek can't do it on his own. This break will stick imo.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

German ES saying Luke Plapp should be in the group but it seems like he somehow isn‘t. It‘s obvious that he wasn‘t up there at first because it split on a wet descent, but guys like Politt and Soler who are also bad at that made it back. Very bad showing by Jayco today.

 

[search]

O'Connor will need to bridge on the steep climb, I guess. No idea if he is able to

 

[Tim Cahill]

I saw Plapp getting dropped very early, don't think he made it back? Bad news for a Schmid who is trying his best has already fallen with a difficult climb coming up.