TDF 2022:- Stage 11: Albertville to Col du Granon, 157.1Km ***Spoilers***

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Really hope it isn't Covid taking effect as I want to see Pog trying to fight back.

    2' 52" lost on the line.
  • phreak
    phreak Posts: 2,953
    2m52s. Wow.
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,655
    I may have mentioned this, but I think Jonas might be a genuine threat to Pogacar
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    these are gonna be some great interviews.
  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933
    Stage. Tomorrow should be fun, or not if they're all knackered
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    Roglic committed like a team player
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Jtomesgreen
    Jtomesgreen Posts: 190

    Carlton with the nonsense as vinegar crosses the line is a cherry to top off a fantastic stage

    "He used to pack fish... He's landed a big one today!"

    I actually thought he was alright today, maybe it's the shorter bursts they're using him here.
    Yep I've not had to mute him yet this year. Maybe I've softened to him
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    And they've got to cycle all the way back down now.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Lol they all look ruined
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,057
    Wow, hopefully Pog is simply suffering from the 2000m+ elevation and not Covid, great win by Jonas.
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  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    S T A G E
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    edited July 2022
    Well, so how are everybody's words tasting?

    I think I need to chase mine with some of that larch liquor that BS was on about in the stage description....
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • Jtomesgreen
    Jtomesgreen Posts: 190
    That was some serious heavyweight racing. I am exhausted
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Little Jonas on the phone to his mum.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908
    High intensity glycogen burning efforts cost races .. ask Yates
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    The gap that Gaudu and Yates created shows just how much Pog was suffering. Did Thomas lose a place of GC despite gaining over a minute on Pog?

    One of the better GC mountain stages I can remember in the Tour for a long time. I thought they'd gone too big too early when it all came back together at the bottom of the final climb.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Christ alive.

    Hunger knock, Corona or lack of legs?!
  • bianchi_dave
    bianchi_dave Posts: 933
    1st chance to watch the whole stage live, I got lucky!

    I reckon that's the best live stage I've seen since Froomes Giro stage 18, probably even better as a whole spectacle, so much going on
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  • Jtomesgreen
    Jtomesgreen Posts: 190
    Pross said:


    One of the better GC mountain stages I can remember in the Tour for a long time. I thought they'd gone too big too early when it all came back together at the bottom of the final climb.

    Me too. The years of Mountain Trains really put me off watching mountain stages but this has certainly gone some way to undo that. Couldn't take my eyes off it
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463

    Christ alive.

    Hunger knock, Corona or lack of legs?!

    Someone was saying on comms that he hadn't yet been properly tested at higher altitudes, could be as simple as that.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686

    Christ alive.

    Hunger knock, Corona or lack of legs?!


    Corona, UAE heavily depleted... and maybe he also has a dose?

    Proper racing though.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,698
    I'm helping my coffee van mate out today with it streaming on a tablet.

    There were a number of...

    "can i have a..."

    "No, no you can't, in a minute"

    ...type convos just then
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  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    Thomas's ride has almost made up for the travesty of a neglected Cav for me.

    Nice touch for Pog to smile and acknowledge Vingegaard's ride.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    Pross said:

    Christ alive.

    Hunger knock, Corona or lack of legs?!

    Someone was saying on comms that he hadn't yet been properly tested at higher altitudes, could be as simple as that.
    Yeah the last Tour we had these +2000m climbs was 2019.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • mididoctors
    mididoctors Posts: 18,908

    Christ alive.

    Hunger knock, Corona or lack of legs?!

    Got a good kicking off jumbo... It worked
    "If I was a 38 year old man, I definitely wouldn't be riding a bright yellow bike with Hello Kitty disc wheels, put it that way. What we're witnessing here is the world's most high profile mid-life crisis" Afx237vi Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:43 pm
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    If it wasn't for Vingegaard dominating the race it would be really close :wink:
  • N0bodyOfTheGoat
    N0bodyOfTheGoat Posts: 6,057

    Pross said:

    Christ alive.

    Hunger knock, Corona or lack of legs?!

    Someone was saying on comms that he hadn't yet been properly tested at higher altitudes, could be as simple as that.
    Yeah the last Tour we had these +2000m climbs was 2019.
    Wasn't that the one Bernal left everyone for dead at altitude before the stage was ended early?
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    edited July 2022
    French existentialism...


    Correlation is not causation.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,726
    Pross said:

    Christ alive.

    Hunger knock, Corona or lack of legs?!

    Someone was saying on comms that he hadn't yet been properly tested at higher altitudes, could be as simple as that.
    He's also being wastefully using energy like a Russian oligarch.
    Not just today, but how many stages has he put in an all out sprint at the end for little no profit?
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  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406

    Pross said:

    Christ alive.

    Hunger knock, Corona or lack of legs?!

    Someone was saying on comms that he hadn't yet been properly tested at higher altitudes, could be as simple as that.
    Yeah the last Tour we had these +2000m climbs was 2019.
    Wasn't that the one Bernal left everyone for dead at altitude before the stage was ended early?
    Yep that's the one. They went over the Iseran and the day before the Izoard and the Galibier.
    Correlation is not causation.