Tour de France 2025 (CONTAINS SPOILERS!)

[mididoctors]

They are not getting much leeway

 

[KingstonGraham]

I know he's had a tough tour, but with O'Connor, Rodriguez and Skeljmose up there, they aren't going to be allowed to ride away to win the stage by 10 minutes.

 

[mididoctors]

Milan lol

 

[mididoctors]

He has a point

 

[CarbonClem]

Tacks on the

I seem to remember Wiggins slowing the peloton.

Tacks on the road and earned him the 'Le Gentlemen' moniker. He was just on about it in his Cafe podcast.

 

[mididoctors]

I know he's had a tough tour, but with O'Connor, Rodriguez and Skeljmose up there, they aren't going to be allowed to ride away to win the stage by 10 minutes.

Not going to be allowed anything by the looks of it

 

[phreak]

He might do, but that would surely be a sign that they're getting under his skin

Honestly, he's been tetchy all Tour

So if he drops them, they clearly got under his skin, and if he gets dropped, they clearly got under his skin. Excellent.

 

[mididoctors]

What's remco doing off the back

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Not going to be allowed anything by the looks of it

I'd presume Visma wouldn't let the peleton pace drop too much to keep Pog simmering before the boil on big climbs.

 

[KingstonGraham]

 

[TakeTheHighRoad]

So if he drops them, they clearly got under his skin, and if he gets dropped, they clearly got under his skin. Excellent.

The fact that a rider crossed in front of him yesterday is because VLAB got under his skin

When he won de Ronde it was because WVA got under his skin by attacking on the Kwaremont

 

[No Ta Doctor]

So if he drops them, they clearly got under his skin, and if he gets dropped, they clearly got under his skin. Excellent.

You said: "also to put to bed the psychobabble about Visma getting under his skin"

If he's doing something specifically because people are saying Visma got under his skin then that's pretty definitive that they have, no?

 

[phreak]

You said: "also to put to bed the psychobabble about Visma getting under his skin"

If he's doing something specifically because people are saying Visma got under his skin then that's pretty definitive that they have, no?

I didn't say that he was choosing to act because of the rumours, more that it would put things to bed for us armchair commentators.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

The fact that a rider crossed in front of him yesterday is because VLAB got under his skin

When he won de Ronde it was because WVA got under his skin by attacking on the Kwaremont

Dunno about the Ronde, but the crash yesterday could theoretically be argued for - though very tenuously . Visma had been attacking, he was isolated and new attacks were just going. Instead of following, he took his right hand off the bars to get on the radio, just as the Uno-X rider came across him. If Visma didn't have him shook he wouldn't have been on the radio, would have had both hands on the bars and probably reacted faster.

BOOM! 🤯

For the record, I've never said that if Pog attacks today it's because Visma got under his skin. Phreak said that he would attack to make a statement and end the talk of Visma getting under his skin. The irony is that would clearly show they were successful.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

I didn't say that he was choosing to act because of the rumours, more that it would put things to bed for us armchair commentators.

You know we can see what you wrote, yeah?

"I can see Pogacar/UAE going for it today, both to show they're in good shape and also to put to bed the psychobabble about Visma getting under his skin."