Tour De France 2024 - chasing yellow

[beesonthewhatnow]

Some folk on twitter appear to be bored with Pogacar winning everything. Weird really.. I don't watch as much cycling as I used to.. but this is vastly more interesting than peak-Froome era..

He may be winning everything, but the way he does it is far from boring.

The Skytrain plodding up a mountain locked to a power meter was boring…

 

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If it wasn't pogacar, it was Froome, if not Froome, Armstrong or indurain or antIquel

 

[moomoo]

Some folk on twitter appear to be bored with Pogacar winning everything. Weird really.. I don't watch as much cycling as I used to.. but this is vastly more interesting than peak-Froome era..

It’s very boring writing the same names on my wallchart every day!

 

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It’s very boring writing the same names on my wallchart every day!

Put stage winners and also rans

 

[moomoo]

Put stage winners and also rans

I want to put Degenkolb on it purely because he’s my favourite

 

[pbsmooth]

Pogi barely looks like he’s trying or out of breath when he attacks. Crazy.

 

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Pogi barely looks like he’s trying or out of breath when he attacks. Crazy.

He doesn't have much weight/fat to carry

 

[twistedAM]

Some folk on twitter appear to be bored with Pogacar winning everything. Weird really.. I don't watch as much cycling as I used to.. but this is vastly more interesting than peak-Froome era..

He didn't win the tour in 22 and 23 (when Vingo was fully fit) and he's not been world champion (yet).

That's impressive though winning 2 GTs and a Monument and a podium in another Monument. He might as well bring his bicycle. some headphones and his favorite podcasts to spin around Spain and add the Vuelta.

 

[stavros]

He doesn't have much weight/fat to carry

According to Wiki he's 8kg heavier than Vingegaard, and almost exactly the same height. Remco's apparently between the two of them, although he looks a lot more squat than either.

 

[pbsmooth]

They’re certainly a lot lighter than some of the stars of previous decades. And the bikes etc.

 

[twistedAM]

According to Wiki he's 8kg heavier than Vingegaard, and almost exactly the same height. Remco's apparently between the two of them, although he looks a lot more squat than either.

Remco has problems getting his weight down as he's the perfect build, if not a little short, for a football midfield general (he played for Belgium up to under-16 level).
I hope he has saved something for the Olympics.

 

[Hollis]

I think the folk on twitter are saying it's boring cause the breakaway aren't getting a chance.

Now much as I rate Thomas De Gendt's 2019 stage 8 victory as one of the greatest moments in cycling history, I'm not sure that's true.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

There’s idiots online saying Pog is “greedy” and should let more breakaways win.

Errrr, no.

 

[Richard46]

Anyone know what the 'feud' between Carapaz and the Visma team is about?

 

[DJWrongspeed]

There’s idiots online saying Pog is “greedy” and should let more breakaways win.

Errrr, no.

Today Pog just sat on and won anyway. I can see how people find it a bit annoying stage after stage.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Today Pog just sat on and won anyway. I can see how people find it a bit annoying stage after stage.

Yet when sprinters get loads everyone raves about them

 

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Sadly pogs lead is too great for it to be challenged in tomorrows TT, which I gather is quite technical with a hill or two. It won't be the last gasp finish the organisers hoped for.

 

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Cav was bawling his eyes out as he finished today. Relief at finishing another tour, his last one?

 

[stavros]

Anyone know what the 'feud' between Carapaz and the Visma team is about?

I think someone nicked the solitary KoM point for the peloton from him on the first climb. I can't remember who, but it may have been a Visma rider.

When was the last time someone won more than six stages in a single Tour. I remember Cav getting six one year, and Wiki says the record is eight, last done by Maertens in 1976. I ask because Pog will be on six tomorrow if he wins the TT.

 

[Richard46]

I think someone nicked the solitary KoM point for the peloton from him on the first climb. I can't remember who, but it may have been a Visma rider.

When was the last time someone won more than six stages in a single Tour. I remember Cav getting six one year, and Wiki says the record is eight, last done by Maertens in 1976. I ask because Pog will be on six tomorrow if he wins the TT.

Yes a Visma rider did nick an unneeded Mountain point for no reason but it looks like that was a consequence of something previous rather than the cause.

 

[twistedAM]

There’s idiots online saying Pog is “greedy” and should let more breakaways win.

Errrr, no.

To hell with breakaway wins. Bugs me all these people putting more acclaim on a breakaway stage win (eg Van Aert on Ventoux, Pidcock on d'Huez) when the main guys were keeping an eye on each other, than on a one day Monument.

 

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Pog v. Pantani; how much better is modern equipment/clothing than that used by Pantani

Was Pogačar actually better than Pantani on Plateau de Beille, or did he just have faster equipment? We did the maths to find out

Just how much of Pogačar’s 3:30 advantage can be attributed to developments in bike tech and cycling clothing?

www.cyclingnews.com

 

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Matt Stephens is on great form this evening.

 

[stavros]

I must've heard it before, but the Slovenian national anthem is a bit of a dirge, isn't it? Shite as it may be, at least God Save the Queen/King is short.

I'm surprised Cav didn't ask not to wear the stupid helmet.

 

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You would expect him to be fatigued or is it that he can't be arsed as there is not enough money?
Pogacar pulls out of Olympics with extreme fatigue - Tadej Pogacar: Tour de France winner withdraws from Olympics because of extreme fatigue

 

[Hollis]

The gossip is it's because his partner was snubbed..

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Or he’s wanting to recover for the Vuelta

 

[Hollis]

It'd be interesting if he did... from what I read this week they're saying it's physiologically pretty difficult as you train to peak for 1 tour, and if you're doing, say the Giro/Tour double... you use the first half of the Giro to train up, and hope you don't burn out towards the end of the Tour..

 

[petee]

til that americans who are neither Lemond nor Armstrong have won both the Vuelta and the Giro , and an irishman who is not Roche has won the Vuelta.

 

[1927]

You would expect him to be fatigued or is it that he can't be arsed as there is not enough money?
Pogacar pulls out of Olympics with extreme fatigue - Tadej Pogacar: Tour de France winner withdraws from Olympics because of extreme fatigue

Or could it be the tighter doping control at an Olympics.