TDF 2024:- Stage 20: Nice – Col de la Couillole, 132.8km ***Spoilers***
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If you've got enough energy to hug it out, you've got enough left in the tank for a one handed wheelie.
That's all I'm sayin.
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Only mountain bikers and cross riders know how to do tricks on bikes... like descending.
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Read the post as Cav being LR. It’s still going to be hard to judge the times the fast guys to risk taking it easy and enjoying his final stage though.
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It would have been amusing if it had resulted in them giving Pog the KoM instead.
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Yeah, I thought JV did really well today. Remco tried to his credit but didnt quite have it. Be interesting to see how and even what Remco does tomorrow with next Saturday looming large.
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A few comments from Pog today on this subject. Hard to disagree.
"One stage win would be enough, the yellow jersey would be enough, but it is what it is. You don’t brake in cycling.”
“I didn’t want to work with Jonas, I wanted to recover on his wheel, and maybe let a chance for Carapaz and Mas to go for the victory,”
“We gave the breakaway enough time today. They had big chances. They had chances a lot of times. Sprinters also don’t say another sprinter can win, I will back off a bit."
"It’s a sport where you want to win, you need to win, and you’re paid to win. It’s a pressure, and you need to deliver, otherwise it’s not good for you. You alway need to go for the victory if you can.”
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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With the possible exception of Wout van Aert, I think Visma have ridden this third week of the Tour, exceptionally well and this final two days they have been outstanding.
Dick move by Jorgensen though.
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I threw in a couple of suggestions up-thread. I'm just wondering why you assume Jorgenson just randomly decides to be a complete prick without provocation? I mean, he rode all day with him yesterday and let him have 60 points uncontested.
I mean personally, I think something like:
UAE: Dont ride with Jorgenson and you can have the mountain points
Carapaz: OK
Jorgensen: Fuck you then, those points aren't UAE's to dispense
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Oh I don't think Jonas was ever going to beat Pog in a sprint today, and I don't think Pog was scared of that.
But he's been grooming Remco as his bestie so they can work together against Vingegaard, and he wasn't blowing that by putting time into him. He also didn't want the blame for pulling the break back, and wanted to keep his legs as fresh for tomorrow, where he hopes to convincingly win the TT
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Great day out, totally cooked myself on the return climb over Brauss, saved by a Snickers.
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Good day out?
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Nah thats the far more relevant (these days at least) "Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper"
Good luck finding the 2nd though. Good or otherwise
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Look.forward to them
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Back to this. It would be very rare for a rider who has previously won the tour, to then finish and not win it, and then come back to win the tour.
Pogacar is I think only the fifth man to do this after Magne, Coppi, Anquetil and Hinault. Pog will be the first former winner to come back and then win again, having finished two in between without winning.
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Firmin Lambot did it (I googled it)
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So he did. Lost by 8hrs + one year, won it the next. Doh. I was too busy looking at Thys from around the same time. Does show that losing the tour after winning it rarely leads to someone winning it again. It would be an achievement for JV.
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Managed to minimise the pics for posting. Rode out from west Nice. Col de Grauss first time was quite pleasant, hot but steady and quite fun. Turini was pretty tough, I wasn’t sure I’d make it in time but got there easily and got some drinks , no food though as queues were huge. Got a good spot on the finish ramp and enjoyed the moment(s). Decided to eat in the first town I could , Sospel, but the only place open was only selling ingredients as such , so I just got a coke and cracked on. One gel left. I properly cracked going back over Grauss. Saving my gel as long as I could. I ate it at the top thinking I’d use the boost for descending attention. Finally found a Spar , bought a double Snickers and made it home. Nice was rammed with no cycling allowed along the promenade. Just what you need at the end of a long day. Had to ride the final 500m climb to our accommodation and collapsed! Top day. 90 miles, 10000 feet.
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You took the tough way home. You could have follwed the tour down the descent from the Turini and then headed left to largely follow the valley home, though you would have still had to do the Col de Nice again.
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I did think I must have done as there were so few others on the road. I just reversed the route.
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The exact same speed as the rest of the yellow jersey group?
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Yeah, just in the pack as he passed. Watching back his finish against JV after another two climbs and after 20 stages you realise (again) just what extreme athletes they are though. Amazing.
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