All Things 2025 Tour de France

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FinnGopher said:
Ben Healy with a surprising ride today. I always like watching the ride up Mont Ventoux. The average grade for the incline is 8% and the climb is for nearly 9 miles.
No doubt the nation of France is celebrating today's stage winner.
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Surprised Healy couldn't hold on for the Stage win, which would have been HUGE for US-based team EF-Education. Still a strong showing. Good for a Frenchman to win a Stage though.

How great Pogacar is, historically great, is really overshadowing just how good of a TDF Vingegaard is having. Visma has done some questionable shit and odd strategy during the Tour so far but it looked like their strategy today was absolutely perfect, and they still couldn't launch Jonas past Pogacar.

Lipowitz from Red Bull-Bora continues to impress, increasing his cushion in the White jersey competition, although 22-year old Oscar Onley isn't letting up one bit. Love seeing the young riders at least be competitive. Those two are going to be going at it for a while.
 

My legs were aching just watching today's ride. This ride was just ridiculous. Ben O'Connor was fantastic, but Onley and Roglic also made some noise. It will be interesting to see if Lipowitz can hold that third spot into Paris.
 

Well, you don't hear this every day. Tomorrow's stage, Stage 19, of the TDF to be shortened, because..... well, cows...

"Stage 19 of the Tour de France has been shortened due to the ‘distress of farmers’ after a herd of cows was slaughtered on Friday’s original route.

The cattle were culled after an outbreak of contagious nodular dermatitis was discovered in a herd on the slopes of the Col des Saisies, which was scheduled to be the second categorised climb of the stage.

As a result, the Col des Saisies will now be omitted from the parcours, with the stage being shortened from 129.9km to 95km as a result. The race will also start one hour later than planned, now becoming the shortest road stage of the Tour for several years.
 

Ogie Ogilthorpe said:
Well, you don't hear this every day. Tomorrow's stage, Stage 19, of the TDF to be shortened, because..... well, cows...
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It has happened before in sports, but a different sport.

wisconsin almost had to cancel a football game in 1987 when a herd of cows stampeded the field.

This herd was later identified as the wisconsin cheerleading squad, and the game did go on but was delayed, due to the manure clean up.
 

Pretty good race shaping up for both 3rd place on the podium and the White jersey between Florian Lipowitz from Red Bull-Bora and Oscar Onley from Picnic PostNL; Lipowitz holding just a 22 second advantage. Lipowitz did not race a very smart race yesterday, going out in front of the group on his own, doing so much work for so long, then kind of blowing up on the final climb.

Roglic out in front early this morning, maybe trying to shake things up a little bit; he sits in 5th, and 1:48 off the podium spot of his teammate Lipowitz. That's a lot to make up but Roglic is an experienced rider and it's been a long tour. Not inconceivable that Roglic overtakes both Onley and Lipowitz but Onley has looked just really solid for the whole tour, no signs of breaking.

EDIT: Wow. So much for Roglic. Dropping like a rock, already over 5 minutes behind the Yellow jersey group. With 5 miles of climbing to go
 
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For a moment it looked like Onley was going to move past Lipowitz, but now the four best in this tour are in a row.
Arensman is still 25 seconds ahead with 2 and a half miles to go. Can the yellow group catch him?
 

Weird finish. The 4 chasers looked a little indifferent, resolved to where they were going to finish in the final GC rankings. Thought Pogacar might make a run at the Stage win, but he didn't, and I have to say at the finish line he actually did look tired.

Incredible Tour for Lipowitz and Onley, and even so for Gall, Johannessen and Vauquelin.

And honestly it was a great, great TDF for Vingegaard, he distanced the rest of the field by 7 minutes; it will just go down that he got beat by almost 4.5 minutes by probably the greatest to ever get on a bike. Tough deal.

With two Stages left, all the jerseys seem pretty much set;

Yellow - Pogacar
Green - Milan (Yay, TREK!!!)
KOM - Pogacar
White - Lipowitz

I almost never watch Sunday's final Stage in the TDF and I'm not sure this year will be any different. It's really just everyone going through the motions until a bunch sprint finish. Not that exciting to me really.
 

Because of watching a number of tours, I have told my wife that if we go to France we can quickly leave Paris and head to various areas that I have seen via the tour. Man made stuff is not nearly as interesting to me as the land and geography of France. Show me the coastline, the grain fields, and the mountain streams and I will love France. Put me in Paris and I will feel confined by brick and steel.
 

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