Tour de France Tour de France 2025 Stage 9: Chinon – Châteauroux (174.1k)

[QueenStagiaire]

Looks like Almeida is done

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Zimmermann into the grass

 

[Red Rick]

Visma should just bury Almeida here

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Ok, Almeida is back for now

 

[Rou]

Visma should just bury Almeida here

I hope your application for DS is approved. Hehe

 

[Danskebjerge]

This first half of the TdF hasn't exactly been mountainous. It reminds me of the Cippollini era. But how far back must we go to find a similar "flat" start to a Grand Tour (zero mountain stages before stage 10)?

 

[scribers]

Pogi is bridging across right???

 

[scribers]

Visma should just bury Almeida here

They might just win something this tour

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Unless there are echelons, they won‘t catch Van Der Poel

 

[yaco]

But indeed quite interesting that large breaks on flat stages simply do not exist anymore. If I look back to the TdFs of my childhood, you had them on each and every stage. I really wonder what the purpose of large parts of the peloton is if they don’t even try that. No GC rider, no sprinter, not going for a break. Just surviving 3 weeks? After all 1-2 of those breaks out of 100 for sure still worked…

Some underestimate the fight for UCI points. Better for teams ( which is nearly all ) to hold their team together on a flat sprint and get a decent result in the final.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I hope your application for DS is approved. Hehe

The only way Plugge could possibly set himself up for betrayal more than RedRick as a DS would be if the only other applicant was Revolver Ocelot.

 

[Red Rick]

I hope your application for DS is approved. Hehe

No I would fail the mandatory IQ test for DS's by scoring above room temperature

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Migels calling Tim Wellens Tom Willens, crazy misspelling

 

[Tim Cahill]

Good gap to be fair, they seem to have noticed too

 

[awavey]

This first half of the TdF hasn't exactly been mountainous. It reminds me of the Cippollini era. But how far back must we go to find a similar "flat" start to a Grand Tour (zero mountain stages before stage 10)?

its affected by where the TdF starts though surely ? youre not going to be dropping mountain stages in if there arent any mountains around the area you are in.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

There is a simple solution to motivate breakaways: make a rule that the front group of the road will ALWAYS be filmed from the front and the peloton will never have camerabikes in front of them. Then let the sprint teams proper work for it.

 

[Miha81]

Will Lidl-Trek find some friends or can I continue my nap?

 

[Samamba]

There is a simple solution to motivate breakaways: make a rule that the front group of the road will ALWAYS be filmed from the front and the peloton will never have camerabikes in front of them. Then let the sprint teams proper work for it.

Your solution is to let the breakaway cheat? 😅

 

[Cycling111]

Why is UnoX pulling? To finish 5-10 in the sprint?

 

[yaco]

I see irony in this break. We complain about teams who have little chance of winning the sprint not sending riders in the break, yet, when you have 2 strong riders with a decent gap then there should 10 or 12 teams chasing, but its left to one or two teams. Weird1

 

[P4rthen0n]

Unless there are echelons, they won‘t catch Van Der Poel

It's 99km to go and only 5m10s gap to a breakaway with only 2 guys.
Lidl + Uno pulling the peloton.

There's no way Alpecin takes this breakaway to the finish line, unfortunately.

ps: and if there are echelons and Visma/Soudal go to the front, then there is really zero chance for the breakaway.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Come on Pog
go solo
and chase the guy down

 

[Valv.Piti]

Completely unacceptable that no other teams joined this break. Mindblowing stuff. 75% of the peloton has no shot tomorrow anyways

 

[Rou]

So we've come to the point where a legend like MVDP is here to save this race?
Why are the Unos, Tudors and Totals in this race?
What was the point of adding an extra farmers' team to begin with?

 

[Red Rick]

And today, Uno-X are the terrorists.