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

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That was an azzwhopping..
Shame for the tour 2025 as per se, as who really cares if it's some dude from Slovenia or Belgium or Denmark that win..I doubt it makes any difference.
Its about the entertaining aspect and see some competitive factor & them battle it out and taking turns, that is the aspect that caters cycling as a sport, just seeing some United Arabia-team with their Slovenian star cruising for 3 weeks gets old pretty fast, but at least now we can get out in this good weather,

Impressive stage from Remco.
 
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Doesn't happen a lot but I can actually proudly quote myself here.
Basically a repeat of last year just with Vingegaard significantly worse. He was probably overrated on a pure flat TT to begin with but looking at his and Jorgensons time, something definitely went wrong at Visma.
Even if Pogacar wins this Tour by twenty minutes, there will always be naive cycling fans who will claim his competitors have a chance in the next big race.
 
This was the result of last year's time trial.
The problem is considering that Pogacar's place is the ITT of Dauphiné behind Jorgenson and that a flat time trial favors Vingegaard instead of Pogacar who is more robust.

Pogacar had a similar time trial to last year's. Vingegaad fared worse.

 
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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.
Less than 20 seconds ahead of Affini and Armirail, even in the context of them being the best non-GC riders he would have been less than thrilled to hear that in the morning without further context. The 17 seconds to Evenepoel mainly tell me that Evenepoel was on the lower end of expectations, although the absence of Ganna leaves some room for interpretation.
 
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Congrats to Evenepoel, well done. He had to fight for it: wind made it more difficult for top guys in the first half of the course but in the second he beat Affini comfortably.

Great performance by Teddy. Just 16 seconds behind Remco. Better than I expected, pyjamas wasn't that bad. Forget about Dauphine, at the Tour he delivers in TTs most of the time. Over a minute better than Vingegaard! Considering the expectations this is demolition. All big mountains are still ahead but still this is an important step towards final victory.
 
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