Tour de France 2026 ***Spoilers***

[MasterDabber]

Years of training wasted by few selfish fans. I hope they realise that and behave themselves and advise others in the near future. Also, Why can’t the organisers have better security when incidents like above keep happening?

I think that if we expect that we'll be p*ssing in the wind. Btw, these aren't "fans" but disrespectful yobs.

 

[wakemalcolm]

Had a good lunch at the top of the Ornon last year, restaurant on the right the way they are coming up.

There was a brown cat sat in the middle of the snooker table when I went in. Thought it was harder than a cat 4 climb though.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

They seemed to suggest the back road will be closed off, so it'll only be the bit in d'Huez that might have fans.

Pack ‘em in.
And that worked so well on Ventoux when it was too windy to ride to the top.

 

[Pross]

The same drunken yobs will be all over tomorrow’s climb. Deep flipping joy.

It was ridiculous having two stages there, the fans have been on the lash for a few days already. It’s bad enough on a normal stage, the media / TV don’t help as on one hand they build it up and then they moan about the behaviour

 

[Webbo2]

It was ridiculous having two stages there, the fans have been on the lash for a few days already. It’s bad enough on a normal stage, the media / TV don’t help as on one hand they build it up and then they moan about the behaviour

They just need two motor bikes side by side with the drivers on piece work which is the more fu(kers they ride over the more they earn.
Problem sorted.

 

[spokeweasel]

Probably about 35.27 🙃

 

[spokeweasel]

Just finished watching “The Accidental Death Of A Cyclist - Marco Pantani” on YouTube. Fascinating watch.

 

[mididoctors]

Green jersey watch - it should be almost tied up now for Mads P

Assuming tomorrow's intermediate doesn't come into play - which is the other side of this:

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Sunday's Paris stage is no longer classified as a sprint stage, it's coefficient 2, so it's only 50 points on the finish line:

road stages with slightly rolling terrain (art.22-coeff. 2):
50-30-20-18-16-14-12-10-8-7-6-5- 4-3-2 points to the first 15 riders

Intermediate sprint points:
at each intermediate sprint, 25-20-16-14-12-10-8-7- 6-5-4-3-2-1 points to the first 15 riders;

Girmay is definitely out of it now
Mads leads Philipsen by 57 points

So if - hypothetically - Philipsen took the intermediate sprint on Sunday and Mads P was second, Philipsen could win the stage with Mads out of the top 15 (null point) and Mads would still win green.

Philipsen must win the stage and score seven more points in the intermediate than Mads scores in both intermediate and stage

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Another way of putting it is that Mads P needs just 18 points on Sunday to be mathematically certain of winning the green, should Philipsent win both the intermediate and stage

Well worked out

 

[mididoctors]

Stage 20 Le Bourg d'Oisans>Alpe d'Huez 170.9 km.

5000000000000m of climbing. Carapaz has a hell of a task getting that polka dot Jersey. Break formation is uncontrollable. Rollout 11.20 CEST long day

Insanity if mads gets here ahead

Here's the lumps

 

[Dogtrousers]

Soo... the mountains competition. I must admit I had the rules wrong, and I've never been very interested. I thought there were extra or double points at mountain top finishes. But there aren't. It's quite simple. All 25-15-12 ... down to 2 for 10th for HC climbs. Less for the others. That's it. No extras for the highest point of the race or for finishes.

The top 3 are: Carapaz 91, Pog 90, VPP 86. Next is Remco but he's way down.

There are 3 HC climbs tomorrow, worth 25-15-12... each and a cat 1 worth 10-8-6... I think we can assume that Pog will win tomorrow, because he always does, and that will involve winning the final HC climb. We can probably also assume that Pog doesn't give a hoot about the mountains comp so he probably won't score on the other climbs. So Pog will end the day on 115.

So if Carapaz can score 25 ot more points he'll stay the jersey. Failing that, if Paret-Peintre scores 29 or more he will take it.

Then on stage 21 there are four passages over cat 4 Montmatre. But they are worth only 1 each. So if either of RC or VPP is in the jersey after tomorrow, they would do well to have a lead of at least two, because there's a high probability of Pog taking at least one.

Exciting innit?

No? How about mildly diverting?

 

[Blazing Saddles]

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Is it a game of: ‘Spot the clean bloke,’?

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Anyhow, I don’t see Pogačar getting back to back wins without the help of the other podium contenders. His team did a great job today, but still needed some help.
Tomorrow is a lot longer and a lot harder.
A strong breakaway could make it, as long as there are no short, Work-shy French blokes in it.

 

[M.R.M]

Oh holy fark 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Some idiot fans made the UAE team car break hard and he went straight into the back of it

https://bsky.app/profile/domestiquecycling.com/post/3mrfqrxfzl222

https://www.domestiquecycling.com/e...s-into-uae-car-amid-frightening-crowd-scenes/

Honestly not surprising. Pog was waving people to get out of the way & dodged a large flag during his chase, moto was in the way of Remco after his attack. Half a meter more on each side would still deliver all the atmosphere and not infringe on the competition.

 

[M.R.M]

Anyhow, I don’t see Pogačar getting back to back wins without the help of the other podium contenders. His team did a great job today, but still needed some help.
Tomorrow is a lot longer and a lot harder.
A strong breakaway could make it, as long as there are no short, Work-shy French blokes in it.

Based off of today, Red Bull has every incentive to help UAE. Remco is in the form of his life and even able to attack a group he'd normally be dangling off of. Controlling the stage should cement his P2.

 

[Dogtrousers]

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Remco, del Toro and Seixas started the climb in the same group as Pog did they not? (If not, ignore me).

If so, Remco's time would be 37:56 putting him 7th between Ullrich and Armstrong's lower time.
del Toro and Seixas, at 38:08 and 38:12 would slot in between Zulle and Virenque at 11th and 12th.