19 Jul | 17th stage | 166 km | Saint Gervais Mont-Blanc - Courchevel | Mountain | Live Tracker | Results
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This has been such a hard tour. Pidcock lost over half an hour today and is still in 16th on GC (2 minutes behind 14th!)
I'm not that into it. I like seeing guys at their superhuman best, not weaving across the road half dead like the finish today. Felix couldn't celebrate and even Jonas had no swagger.
Henri Desgranges would disagree. "In the ideal bicycle race there would be only one finisher." I'm not sure what he thought of swagger.
Seriously though, it is fair not to like it, but to me a stage like that is what the Tour is all about. Absolute limit of endurance stuff, everyone struggling.
I mean the OG tours were literally just attrition right? Barely had any aspects of what we would recognise as a race. Ultra endurance still exists, if you're into that, but obviously doesn't get as much press and also no TV coverage because it's dull.
Each to their own. If I wanted to just see people riding ragged I would put a mirror on my handlebars.