Tour de France 2025 (CONTAINS SPOILERS!)

[stage hunter]

Is Roglic really going to pass Lipowitz and try for third in the coming stages? He always thrives in the late stages if he hasn't crashed and withdrawn earlier.

You mean like stage 20 2020. Or last week Giro 2019. Or final TT in TDF 2018. Fading too in Vuelta 2021 or 2020 but hung on.

Better latterly- 2023 Giro, 2024 Vuelta, but always thrives in the late stages is absolutely not Roglic.

 

[T4tomo]

Doesn't Valentin Paret-Peintre have the coolest name in the peloton?

Nah that's Aurélien Paret-Peintre

 

[T4tomo]

Zwift doing group rides up Ven Top (Ventoux) at least today, next one starts 2100 BST I think, with option of late join up to 30mins after.

New Zwift account gets 14 days unlimited on pc, accounts that don't have subscription get 25Km free every calendar month.

Full Ven Top route approx 21Km.

Zwift

 

[T4tomo]

Definitely going from Sault! The photo at the top is the same no matter which route you take!

It will be less crowded from Sault and yes not as unrelenting as up thru the forest from Bedoin. I did it years ago (from Bedoin), back down to Sault for lunch and then a lovely ride thru Gorge de la Nesque back to Bedoin - which if you can incorporate any of that into your itinerary I would strongly recommend, it was breath-takingly beautiful.

 

[mididoctors]

Nah that's Aurélien Paret-Peintre

Both late era Roman emperors

 

[Shadow]

Nah that's Aurélien Paret-Peintre

Err, see post # 3471, previous page:

Doesn't Valentin Paret-Peintre have the coolest name in the peloton?

I would contend that his brother, the wonderful Aurélien Paret-Peintre, is well up there!

 

[Dogtrousers]

Nah that's Aurélien Paret-Peintre

In the Giro last year when I was doing my Velogames team I thought "I'll pick that Paret-Peintre fellow, he seems handy, I often hear his name in commentary". I didn't realise there were two of the buggers and I picked the wrong one.

 

[T4tomo]

In the Giro last year when I was doing my Velogames team I thought "I'll pick that Paret-Peintre fellow, he seems handy, I often hear his name in commentary". I didn't realise there were two of the buggers and I picked the wrong one.

I nearly had one in my team this year, instead of Soler, but I don't know which one so I don't know whether to be disappointed or not? It probably was Valentin given he's previously won a GT stage

 

[matticus]

In the Giro last year when I was doing my Velogames team I thought "I'll pick that Paret-Peintre fellow, he seems handy, I often hear his name in commentary". I didn't realise there were two of the buggers and I picked the wrong one.

How much evidence is there that the stage win was purely down to the one brother? Hmm?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Intermediate sprint at 50k Surely today Lidl et al aren't going to let a break go before that. And there's not the incentive for breakaway riders that there was yesterday.

 

[ddraver]

Good holiday location scouting potential today...

 

[No Ta Doctor]

In the Giro last year when I was doing my Velogames team I thought "I'll pick that Paret-Peintre fellow, he seems handy, I often hear his name in commentary". I didn't realise there were two of the buggers and I picked the wrong one.

*Looks sadly at a Velogames team containing the surely underpriced EDWARD Theuns*

 

[T4tomo]

Today looks odds on to end in a sprint. Add in the fact that it's a headwind all the way. Maybe a day to do jobs around the house...

Maybe but can Milan get his fat arse over the Cat 4s or will some enterprising breakaway roulers get too much of a lead for diminished sprint teams to pull back. GC teams will want a day off controlling the peloton.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Maybe but can Milan get his fat arse over the Cat 4s or will some enterprising breakaway roulers get too much of a lead for diminished sprint teams to pull back. GC teams will want a day off controlling the peloton.

You think the stage might get Asgreened?

I don't think Milan will have issues, and Trek need to make up for their terrible performance yesterday

 

[Pross]

I'm hoping a break stays clear so we don't have to watch Milan's horrendous sprinting 'style'. It's like watching Degenkolb on steroids (no aspersions being cast!)