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

[Netserk]

Maybe too short now.

 

[Kedjan]

Just turned on the TV and I was like WTF?
Very strange behavior by MVDP.
I don't get the reason behind this Alpecin breakaway.

Hoping echelons will split the peleton and then f**k up the chase?

 

[tobydawq]

The main complaint this year is how late that is. So if you ignore that by design, you don't engage with the criticism.

When you say "it has been a great first week", would that really only be compared to the first three stages last year and not the gravel stage??

No, but it subscribes to the condition that they start in the north of France which puts a natural constraint on the possibility of inserting mountain stages early on the route. I think they have done a terrific job to solve that problem with the design (okay, you could probably have gone for a Massif Central stage more today) and the way it has been ridden has made it even better than 2015 and 2018 which had the same issue and even included cobbles.

 

[Pippo_San]

Hoping echelons will split the peleton and then f**k up the chase?

Wishful thinking 🙄

 

[Tim Cahill]

Roglic being deployed in a sort of cobbled-hardman role, right at the front of the wind, practicing for hie Flanders debut next year.

 

[Netserk]

No, but it subscribes to the condition that they start in the north of France which puts a natural constraint on the possibility of inserting mountain stages early on the route. I think they have done a terrific job to solve that problem with the design (okay, you could probably have gone for a Massif Central stage more today) and the way it has been ridden has made it even better than 2015 and 2018 which had the same issue and even included cobbles.

2022 started further north and had a better first week. That they needed to visit Bretagne is debt from previous years, but entirely self-inflicted.

 

[Samamba]

Wind just doesn't seem to be strong enough or from the right direction

 

[Didinho]

Sprinter teams gone. Come on Alpecin duo!

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Whoever that was from Tudor on the left gravel, next to Pog, needs to be punched. Stupid riding.

 

[tobydawq]

2022 started further north and had a better first week. That they needed to visit Bretagne is debt from previous years, but entirely self-inflicted.

I saw you write the same thing on Twitter and still has no idea what you mean by that.

 

[Netserk]

I saw you write the same thing on Twitter and still has no idea what you mean by that.

They have many degrees of freedom and can plan ahead several years.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Visma DRILLING it right now

 

[Samamba]

Visma going hard

Wind isn't coming from the right direction. It looks like tailwind by the way they are riding

 

[Heston]

Not sure if Visma have noticed Pogacar is right on their wheels

 

[Tim Cahill]

Jonas Van Vingegaaert

 

[Netserk]

Van Aert fails.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Pogacar having to do quite a bit to position himself as Wellens is a few positions out but Vingegaard also working.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Okay, Jonas on the front is stupid. Why is he pulling? Does he not realize that they are riding a sawtooth stage tomorrow?

 

[scribers]

Little being accomplished by visma with Milan right there

 

[Danskebjerge]

Loads of motorbikes ahead of the first peloton. 🙄

 

[Samamba]

Merlier's leadout dropped

 

[Peyroteo94]

Okay, Jonas on the front is stupid. Why is he pulling? Does he not realize that they are riding a sawtooth stage tomorrow?

Better to work a little bit and be in the front.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

2nd day in a row the pundits fall for Van Aert‘s reverse psychology.

 

[Miss Violet Smith]

Going out for a ride now.

When I come back, I would like to see MVDP take yellow and Rickaert the stage. Also, peloton in pieces after echelons. While we're at it, Almeida miraculously cured and a pony.

So, Almeida abandon, wrong wind, break about to be caught by Visma.

I suppose a pony is out of the question.

 

[Didinho]

Give them 2 minutes again now.