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

[Eddy Evenepoel]

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

Given how aero he is (and was already as a junior) on the road bike I would guess that the aero difference between him and the rest would’ve been even bigger back in the days where aero focus were much smaller/less developed..

 

[Escarabajo]

Time to play the second cards!
For VISMA and Red Bull.

 

[burning]

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

Jalabert > Merckx for sure


Man, this TT was absurd

 

[Mayomaniac]

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

Ganna is the one who was born too late, the raw power guy.

 

[GroupDK]

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.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Giving up on Vingo is a mistake, I think. He was the only one who could follow Pogacar yesterday, and this gap is still not very large. Lots of racing to go before Paris.

 

[RedheadDane]

Everyone can top 5 the Vuelta on a good day. It's a lot harder at the Tour.

Not to mention that his* preparation wasn't exactly ideal.
Winning a new race in Andorra doesn't really change that fact.




*Yeah, this is about Skjelmose.

 

[Bolder]

Vingegaard looks like he has severe indigestion on that cooldown trainer...

 

[Danskebjerge]

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.

 

[Lequack]

So now the Tour is over, again.

 

[E_F_]

Giving up on Vingo is a mistake, I think. He was the only one who could follow Pogacar yesterday, and this gap is still not very large. Lots of racing to go before Paris.

He's still favourite for 2nd...

 

[Bolder]

Jalabert > Merckx for sure


Man, this TT was absurd

Was less absurd than 2023 Combloux TT.

 

[E_F_]

So now the Tour is over, again.

It was over in August, it was over after Dauphiné, it's over now, it'll be over on Hautacam...

 

[Danskebjerge]

Everyone can top 5 the Vuelta on a good day.

Especially if the other 20 stages are cancelled.

 

[burning]

Was less absurd than 2023 Combloux TT.

That is definitely true, but I actually enjoy this more recent type of cycling where they go all-in in every stage and still post insane numbers,

 

[Stablo]

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

Not really actually.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Pogacar will have a bad day...one day....maybe in he next year or two...or five, but hopefully in the next 2 weeks.

 

[RedheadDane]

but at least now we can get out in this good weather,

What's the weather like in Denmark?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Only hope for a close race now is that Vingegaard unearthed Mark Padun's old training files and managed to lose 5 kilos in the past few weeks.

Other than that I got nothing.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

What's the weather like in Denmark?

Cloudy with a chance of spaceballs.

 

[Cycling111]

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.

1	Evenepoel Remco	Soudal Quick-Step	210	100		28.52,19	52.581
2	Pogačar Tadej	UAE Team Emirates	150	70		0.12,36	52.208
3	Roglič Primož	Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe	110	50		0.34,32	51.559
4	Vingegaard Jonas	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	90	40		0.37,44	51.468

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Vingegaard had bad day

Only thing to make a Tour is for Pog to have a bad day ...but will he ? doesn t look likely

maybe Jumbo will come out now in the mountains and throw the sink at it ...S Yates, Kuss and WVA may need to be ready

 

[Peyroteo94]

Ganna is the one who was born too late, the raw power guy.

Ganna is not that powerful. One of the biggest lies in today's cycling.
He can't compete in PR, he loses TTs to Remco who is 25 kg lighter. Please...

 

[Devil's Elbow]

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.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

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.