Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 5: Caen – Caen (33.0k, ITT)

[Stablo]

Not so sure I'd call losing only 16 seconds to the World Champion 'humbled'. Vingo, yes, vingo was humbled.

I was totally serious of course 😉😅

 

[Danskebjerge]

Has Skjelmose really shown yet he can sustain a week of high mountains? 10th on GC would be pretty impressive result given what's coming.

Perhaps I'm being too optimistic. He did finish 5th in his last Grand Tour though.

 

[scribers]

Red dots deflect wind. That’s science right there

 

[Kedjan]

Hahaha, like I thought, Dauphine tt was an anomaly.

The only downside is that all the excitement is gone — Pog got this in the bag.

 

[Berniece]

Evenepoel winning was expected, great ITT. But Pogacar was more impressive

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Pog deciding what to wear tomorrow...

 

[Bolder]

I'm generally a fan of Jonas but that was, well, maybe not pathetic, but they certainly messed up something big.

I thought Pog and Jonas would be roughly equal, about 30-45 seconds back, maybe favoring Pog a bit because of the parcours. but to lose that much time seems like a huge mistake from a team that hasn't made a lot of TT errors in recent years. And yet Affini did well. So maybe just a bad day for Jonas -- if so, this was not the day for that to happen.

 

[P4rthen0n]

Jonas and Jumbo did something wrong ...he may not have beaten Remco or POg but he shouldnt have lost so much time

I'm looking forward to the pics of Vingegaard and Jorgensen inspecting Pogacar's TT bike.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Pogacar being good, or Vingegaard having a bad day?
I might be biased, but I seriously don't get the dislike some people have for Vingegaard.
Because he beat Pogacar twice?
Because he prefers to concentrate on stage races?

You can support a rider and not dislike his opponent. Am I wrong?

 

[red_flanders]

Pogi:
YELLOW JERSEY
GREEN JERSEY
POLKA DOT JERSEY

Sadly NO WHITE JERSEY (LOL). This is amazing.

Keep it through the entire Tour and we can talk about Merckxian feats!

 

[Mayomaniac]

Jumbo on Bianchi TT-bikes > Jumbo on Cervelo TT-bikes, at least in flat(ish) TTs.

 

[movingtarget]

Nice rides by Vauquelin and Lipowitz also VDP. Rest day for WVA. Evenpoel as expected. Off day for Vingegaard and more disappointment for Roglic.

 

[Escarabajo]

Well,

 

[Rou]

The Dauphine was a good reference, right?

 

[RedheadDane]

You can support a rider and not dislike his opponent. Am I wrong?

No, you're not.

 

[dobrien]

Nice ride for Vauquelin.

I guess it's never over until it's over, but for folks hoping for a legendary
big GC showdown this is pretty disastrous. Has to be a pretty big morale hit
for Jonas and if I'm Pog I'm planning on sticking the knife in hard tomorrow
and Friday; it's a brutal sport, kick him when he's down.

 

[Bavarianrider]

Unfortuantely for him, Evenepoel was born 25 years too late.

 

[Didinho]

 

[Poursuivant]

One second between the Red Bull chaps

 

[Miha81]

Pogacar being good, or Vingegaard having a bad day?
I might be biased, but I seriously don't get the dislike some people have for Vingegaard.
Because he beat Pogacar twice?
Because he prefers to concentrate on stage races?

Pog being great and Vinge subpar. Not good for the rest of the race.

 

[scribers]

A weakness of Vingo is mental. He’s cracking on himself this year. Maybe he can gain over the next two weeks. But he looks very much defeated when he should be stronger than ever

 

[Red Rick]

Unfortuantely for him, Evenepoel was born 25 years too late.

25 years ago they didn't have good aero bikes and I'm pretty sure the wind tunnels still had cave paintings on them.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Very much not an exceptional TT by Pogacar, especially not when compared to 2020 and the first one in 2021. The first and only story for GC here is Vingegaard, unless he somehow turns it around.

Not an exceptional TT by Pogacar, only 17s from Evenepoel on a flat 33k TT. And you want to compare it to a MTF TT and one where he had no competition. Ok.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Perhaps I'm being too optimistic. He did finish 5th in his last Grand Tour though.

Everyone can top 5 the Vuelta on a good day. It's a lot harder at the Tour, especially if your preparation hasn't been perfect.

 

[Netserk]

What a stinker. Even on a flat and windy route, Vingegaard should have been 30-40 seconds quicker.

Far worse than I feared.