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9 Jul | 9th stage | 184 km | Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat - Puy de Dôme | Mountain | Live Tracker | Results
Vinge looked gas yesterday and TJV burnt a few bikkies chasing the break for WvA. I reckon this one will be down to the line between Pog and Vinge.
Want to also say thanks to @Krob for putting up these threads. It's hard building a community from scratch, but it's great seeing these threads pop up consistently and reasonable participation here.
Cheers, I thought I would give it a go for the whole TdF and see where that brings the community. Would be great if the mods could add a banner and a logo for the community to make it look a bit more polished.
Thanks so much for doing this, definitely helping the community
I’ll see if I can add something to make the place more presentable. I’ve gotten pretty busy and my already weak mod efforts are basically nonexistent at this point
edit: the best 10 minutes of effort could come up with
That's a good idea. Would you or anyone else like to be a mod and help with this. I've not much idea what can be done!
This is a thing for which it'd be nice to have a bot. Would be cool if we could automate a race thread for every WT race.
Looking forward to this one hopefully we get a nice breakaway and then some good gc action behind. I have a feeling this is going to be for the Lidl boys Skjelmose and Ciccone.
What a final!
Brutal last 500m for Jorgenson.
I know! Poor guy, passed left and right too.
Look forward to the Puy de Dome, those last 4 km (without public to shield the riders from the wind) are going to be brutal.
Just caught up this morning. Puy de Dome was such a great and unique climb to watch. It was such a fantastic way to round out week one of racing.
With the GC gap down to 17 seconds between JV and TP, week two is going to be epic!
The question today I guess is breakaway or Pog/JV? I think Gall or Skjelmose might win from a breakaway
I'm still interested in whether Pogi can continue to bring the fight, whether or not the breakaway gets the stage.
Oh this tour is heating up and it's only been one week!
Pinot from the break? A man can dream.
I think that team Jumbo Visma really misses a strong climber to stick with Jonas alongside Kuss until the finish.
The way it looks now, the yellow jersey is far from secure around Vingegaard’s shoulders.
Just wondering : does that mean the pre-tour insecurity from Pogi was all a smoke screen? He was so strong today!
I don't know I feel like if those 2 go no one can follow anyway, so I don't know how much of a difference it would make. Definitely another 2 exciting weeks ahead.
JV is spending guys to make it hard earlier in the climbs. If they didn't have kuss rip everyone's legs off pacing he could stay with them later probably same with other top tier climbing domestiques (and if they only cared about tour they would definitely have had roglic here). I thought today it was a mistake pacing so hard because they could have forced pogi to attack Jonas while he still had domestiques. It's super interesting because they're so finely matched it's not clear what the best strategy is and it probably changes day to day.
I was wondering if we would ever see the GC teams taking it easy in this tour after pretty much the whole giro this year playing out just like this stage did in the end.
It's a bit sad that the return of the puy de dôme didn't see the biggest names fighting for victory, but the sport has got a lot less romantic since those days.
To be fair we saw some impressive performances, it's just that little thing I was missing.