Tour de France (2023 from p54)

ForeverAddickted said:

Bit sad really...

Letour.fr has the fourth Group on the road today as follows



Is great seeing Cavendish winning again, but those three great riders on their own at the back, feels like the end of an Golden era for British Cycling at the Tour.

Tao is still up there with the yellow jersey and Fred has just got 15 points in the sprint.

The Yellow Jersey going backwards now.

Pogacar looks like he is out for a casual Sunday afternoon ride. 

stonemuse said:

Pogacar is going to walk this race ... getting harder to believe he is racing on the same basis as others 

And when will the mainstream media start questioning it? I’m surprised the French papers haven’t yet. I seem to remember a lot more allegations being made about Froome without anywhere near the number of red flags Pogacar’s performances over the last 12 months have produced.

Leroy Ambrose said:

FFS - this is ridiculous. Someone on his team should have a word with him, he looked like Ricco when he dropped Carapaz. 

Riding on the big ring and overtaking everyone on a major climb. Nothing to see here.  

That was incredible, in the true meaning of the word. 

SomervilleAddick said:

ForeverAddickted said:

SomervilleAddick said:

Leroy Ambrose said:

FFS - this is ridiculous. Someone on his team should have a word with him, he looked like Ricco when he dropped Carapaz. 

Riding on the big ring and overtaking everyone on a major climb. Nothing to see here.  

Millar's comment was ridiculous when he said that... Surely that has to raise doubt in your mind when Pogacar does that

I’ve got Phil Liggett and Bob Roll - they almost wet themselves telling me how good he was, with no notion that this was a bit odd. Obviously the French cameraman thought it was noteworthy. 

More than once the French TV highlighted his gear. 

ForeverAddickted said:

SomervilleAddick said:

Phil Liggett just told me Podacar is the greatest rider the TdF has even known. 

ITV mentioned that it was like watching Merckx

I'm trying to keep an open mind because we had incidents like when Froome blew everyone out of the water on the Giro that Stage, but the time gap that has suddenly opened between Pogacar and everyone.

Might as well skip to the Champs Elysees now!!

Well, Merckx was caught doping multiple times.  Just saying. 

Live view of Lance watching today

SomervilleAddick said:

Leroy Ambrose said:

FFS - this is ridiculous. Someone on his team should have a word with him, he looked like Ricco when he dropped Carapaz. 

Riding on the big ring and overtaking everyone on a major climb. Nothing to see here.  

In David Miller’s book he referred to riding out with the peloton early on and them going up climbs in the big ring and realising that they were all doped, I don’t think what we were seeing was lost on him or the French cameraman who kept filming his gearing.

Perhaps the solution here would be for a rule to be inserted that prohibits cross chaining as he was in the biggest ring and biggest cog, which in itself is cycling cuntery.

Anyone know if they made the time cut off? 

ForeverAddickted said:

Cafc43v3r said:

Anyone know if they made the time cut off? 

I think they were fine, last I heard Cavendish etc. made it back to the main peleton with 166 riders in it - Even if he was outside the limit, they usually let it slide else they'd have to eliminate nearly the whole peleton.

Good news.