19 Jul | 17th stage | 166 km | Saint Gervais Mont-Blanc - Courchevel | Mountain | Live Tracker | Results
Looks like a stage where big differences can be recouped.
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Hopefully we will see a all or nothing approach from uae after yesterday's stage. Don't know how Pogacar would make up the time he lost, but I would love to see him try.
PS - if someone else could post tomorrow's and Friday's thread that would be greatly appreciated as I won't have the time.
Hoping for GC utter madness.
Well, that's it.
It was good though.
Anybody got timings for the start and expected finish (I'm on GMT)?
Work laptop is acting so I need to head into the office after the start and hopefully get back before the finish.
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!)
Bring it home, Jonas! :)
And again Jonas proves he’s best in week three. My goodness!
I’m just hoping Powless will get King of the Mountain.
UAE seriously need to pull off something crazy to gain back the time.
Powless stands no chance. He won't even keep up with the break over the climbs. It is between Ciccone and whoever is first over Col de la Loze.
I'm going to claim that I fully anticipated that "first over Col de la Loze" would be Felix Gall and was thus bang on.
Was not expecting to wake up to that this morning. Pog has really cracked. I wonder if this is what his GTs will look like now or if his prep affected him significantly. His numbers have been huge this year, is Jonas just that one level above?
Jonas is an absolute weapon. Other social media sites are understandably asking questions regarding legitimacy, but I think he's fair dinkum. Disappointing end to the GC comp, hopefully we get a fight to the end next year.
I’m not disappointed. It wasn’t over even after yesterday, and a tour decided on the Queen stage is fine by me
Yeah fair enough. Disappointment is subjective, so we're all going to have different takeaways.
The disappointment for me was because the race was lost today. Pog cracked so hard his other rivals gained significant time on him while Vinge extended to an insurmountable lead. If Vinge attacked and Pog couldn't follow, it would have been one thing, but it's always disappointing seeing someone crack so hard they go backwards.
I don't particularly fanboy over anyone, so for me it takes a bit of the excitement away when someone dominates, as it detracts from the racing.