Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 3: Valenciennes – Dunkerque (173.8k)

[Sciatic]

Some pretty disgusting comments here regarding the place of Conti team riders in the Tour: basically, "just be happy to be in TV breaks and let the real riders do the job".
Maybe some here would be better off watching "TikTok cycling", where we would only see the same A-class riders fighting with each other, in pure fake-wrestling style... Quite revealing of the sad state of the sport right now, and the type of spectators that ony live for yet another MvdP vs Pogi duel...

What wrong about wanting them to be in breaks? I also thought that was the idea to get TV time (brand exposure) for their corporate sponsors, and at an individual level, to at least try to animate a race?

 

[noob]

How long is 3km rule today?

 

[Peyroteo94]

How long is 3km rule today?

5 km

 

[Rou]

On Stage 1 we saw a WWE crash for this random hill. Today we see some conti level s***. Welcome to the Tour de France.

 

[Sciatic]

He wasn't squeezing into a tiny gap, and as I have already said, philepsen himself has numerous relegations for dirty moves and dangerous sprinting. So many sprinters do similar things in basically every sprint. I don't think coquard is without fault but people are attributing too much blame to something that happens in a split second, and now want to crucify the guy just because he's from a smaller team

Yes, overreacting. . . nothing better to do. Can't crucify someone if they can't hear/feel it.

 

[Peyroteo94]

I was thinking about this DNF of Philipsen and Pogacar may have a chance of winning green.

 

[Jagartrott]

Some pretty disgusting comments here regarding the place of Conti team riders in the Tour: basically, "just be happy to be in TV breaks and let the real riders do the job".
Maybe some here would be better off watching "TikTok cycling", where we would only see the same A-class riders fighting with each other, in pure fake-wrestling style... Quite revealing of the sad state of the sport right now, and the type of spectators that ony live for yet another MvdP vs Pogi duel...

What a lazy misrepresentation of an argument. Coquard can obviously go for intermediates, but that's something else than riding like it's the Champs Elysées sprint. He should have been more careful, that is very obvious.

 

[E_F_]

How can cycling expect to be taken seriously when this is the third stage of the race that basically is cycling in the eyes of the public...

 

[RedheadDane]

How long is 3km rule today?

Aaah, yes... that's a sentence.
"Four Days of Dunkerque" is 5 days + one, and sometimes the 3km rule is 5km...

 

[QueenStagiaire]

What a lazy misrepresentation of an argument. Coquard can obviously go for intermediates, but that's something else than riding like it's the Champs Elysées sprint. He should have been more careful, that is very obvious.

You think different things should be allowed in the Champs sprint than at an intermediate sprint? How would you apply that?

 

[noob]

Aaah, yes... that's a sentence.
"Four Days of Dunkerque" is 5 days + one, and sometimes the 3km rule is 5km...

I always wonder what to call that rule as it's called "3 kilometer rule" still

 

[Tim Cahill]

Visma should've chased it down for the mind games, full leadout train Niermann shouting from the car Cam on Yonas

 

[Jagartrott]

Ah, the „Let The big boys play, get out of the way“ approach

No. Is this really that difficult? No-one should do these things in an intermediate sprint - whether Coquard or Philipsen.

 

[titan31]

Making an example of someone suggests that you want to put everyone else doing what he did.

To put people off being smaller than others?
Put them off trying to stay upright when in the middle of the road and at the front of the peloton?
Put them off trying to overtake other people in a sprint?

To put him off sprinting wildly and swerving in a sprint he has no right to be in. Yes.

I know plenty on here complain when the GC teams start getting involved in the last few KMs trying to keep their guys safe as it just makes things too dangerous and the same is true here imo.

Being small isn't an issue here, if he was bigger, he likely causes Rex to crash instead of Philipsen. How he rode is the issue.

 

[bigloco]

Seems pretty obvious to me that the peloton has neutralized the stage (or this part at least) after the crash out of the green jersey. Wellens seemed to ask permission when he "attacked".

 

[scribers]

If the goal was the KOM only why didn't he do a 500 m sprint then? Jokers... lol

It takes less energy to gap earlier than to engage a sprint with pretenders for tv time

 

[titan31]

Ah, the „Let The big boys play, get out of the way“ approach

Tbf I know it's the Tour but if the GC was fought between Buchmann and Cras and sprints were fought between Coquard and Jeanniere, the Tour is probably in financial trouble with how little people will watch it.

The Tour needs the big riders.

 

[E_F_]

Seems pretty obvious to me that the peloton has neutralized the stage (or this part at least) after the crash out of the green jersey. Wellens seemed to ask permission when he "attacked".

It was just as neutralized before the crash - which only happened due to the sprint anyway.

 

[ppanther92]

It would be doing the peloton a favor giving them something to chase

I don't think it would be that easy to bring back though

 

[Poursuivant]

I was thinking about this DNF of Philipsen and Pogacar may have a chance of winning green.

He definitely can win it but MVDP could have four stages in the bag by this time next week, and can go in breaks to sweep up points.

 

[Sciatic]

Seems pretty obvious to me that the peloton has neutralized the stage (or this part at least) after the crash out of the green jersey. Wellens seemed to ask permission when he "attacked".

My impression is that the stage was neutralized well before that!

 

[noob]

Procession stage lol

Even a noob called it

 

[Rou]

It takes less energy to gap earlier than to engage a sprint with pretenders for tv time

Yeah, that's what I think now as well. We don't want Benjamin Thomas crashing out Wellens.

 

[Unchained]

He wasn't squeezing into a tiny gap, and as I have already said, philepsen himself has numerous relegations for dirty moves and dangerous sprinting. So many sprinters do similar things in basically every sprint. I don't think coquard is without fault but people are attributing too much blame to something that happens in a split second, and now want to crucify the guy just because he's from a smaller team

Gotta second this.. Sprinting, even in non cramped open road conditions for an intermediate point or two is not for the faint of heart. Rider made a minor mistake at high speed.. Part of the job of dedicated sprinter is falling hard and often..

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BGUcWnX-RdI&pp=ygUSYWJkb3VqYXBhcm92IGNyYXNo

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

So when will Vingegaard attack today? Finisseur move 1,5k to go?