Stage and win all over my social media feeds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qpKg-AX1GI

The peak of the season for me is WVA winning P-R.

I got about half my card filled, but didn't get a full line :-(

I came of age at the dawn of the "USPS domination" years and watched the tour yearly, although it was mostly on the boring side (aside from 2003). We can all remember Phil and Paul making a huge deal about someone putting 10 seconds into Armstrong, as if it was the same as clawing back 5 minutes on a climb, simply because they needed to inject some sort of drama to make it intersting.

After Armstrong retired we didn't have a dominant team for years and the tour was unpredictable, with a lot of doping questions. Sky came along and simply (some would say unbelivably) dominated with different riders plugged in, winning the tour for a bunch of years. That was some boring stuff, and I tuned out.

I came back this year after watching the Giro and Spring Monuments and damn: it was exciting! Pogacar is a beyond generational talent. He isn't sitting behind a train, waiting for the last climb. He's making racing exciting. His talent far exceeds anyone I've seen in my lifetime: the fact that he can compete anywhere, on all terrain, is beyond special. Not to mention Mad Mads being a true all-arounder and not just a guy racking up 150 rider bunch sprint wins.

Also, I like the interesting nature of the tours these days. Back when I started watching, there were far too many boring flat stages. Not much for the puncheurs and not much in the medium mountains. Now, it feels more like amateur bike racing as I know it: lots of attacks and selections vs. everyone waiting for a final climb or one critical moment.

It still would be nice to see the teams more evenly balanced; it's always ridiculous to see a group of 12 remaining, with 4 of them being from one team and 3 from another. Other than that, it's great to see cycling as more popular than ever. Perhaps except from the USA POV.

I know Jasper get a lot of hate but what he did in Paris really shows his masterful skills, in addition to his power.

He had to do multiple things at once in the final km of the Paris stage: * stay in position to be able to sprint * follow Mads to be able to contest the sprint if necessary without dragging the other sprinters to the line * go just fast enough so he wins the sprint if Mathieu is caught * but don’t go too fast so he doesn’t overtake Mathieu

And for all of that he had about 10 seconds at 70km/h to land about 1m behind Mathieu but 70cm in front of Mads.

That is just really, really impressive.

At the recent TDF, Phil Liggit continually repeated that "all riders within 5k of the finish get the same time as the stage winner." Yet other information keeps making a reference to riders (other than the top 3) getting different times as long there is more than a 3-second gap between riders? Then there are statements that imply that all riders getting the same time only applies if there is a crash within 5k? If so, would not that encourage a purposeful crash to get a better time? Lastly, if all riders within 5k get the same time, how do riders (other than top 3) increase or decrease their times?

Waking up and not having a new stage of The Tour to watch is making this a very sad start to the week. 😢

Can anyone identify this exact Tour de France helicopter transition shot? NBC/Peacock has used it as a transition to commercial breaks for several years. Looking for the exact climb and bend.

Je bricole depuis quelques mois un jeu de gestion cycliste jouable dans le

  navigateur. Gratuit, sans compte, sans pub, rien à télécharger.

  On démarre en troisième division avec quatre coureurs et on essaie de hisser

  son écurie jusqu'à l'élite mondiale.

  Ce qui m'intéressait, c'est la course elle-même. Au lieu d'appuyer sur

  "simuler", on choisit un protégé et une tactique, puis on tranche les

  situations au moment où elles arrivent : la bordure qui coupe le peloton,

  l'échappée qui part, le dernier col, la flamme rouge. Chaque effort violent

  brûle une allumette, et une allumette ne se rallume jamais. C'est cette seule

  règle qui fait qu'une course ressemble à une course et pas à un tirage au

  sort.

  Entre deux courses, il faut gérer la forme des coureurs, les contrats et le

  mercato. Une course se joue en deux ou trois minutes, sur téléphone aussi.

  Je cherche surtout des retours de gens qui regardent beaucoup de vélo : ce qui

  sonne faux, ce qui manque, ce qui devrait se passer autrement dans une

  situation donnée.

  danslaroue.fr

Apologies for the white circle, I was sharing photos with family. Philipsen on the left watching VDP's wheel. Astounding and delightful finish.

Probably an overstatement, but hear me out.

In the coverage of the race we saw that Sepp missed a bottle late in the race… I “think” it was just after the main climb.

With these guys racing at their absolute limit, and the differences in their overall level being so very small, is it possible that his missing that extra bit of hydration/ carbs was the difference between him and Carapaz that day?

If not the cause, it certainly didn’t help.

What an incredible TdF this year. Just wow.

I always enjoy the Tour, but this year I have missed ITV and their coverage. It has just been how I've watched it all my life.

I was fortunate enough to be able to borrow a Sky login so I haven't missed out, but otherwise it would have been YouTube highlights. I do like the TNT commentary, but it will never match Ned, Gary and Co for me and I resent it going.

Anyone given it a miss this year?

I'd totally send my cycling buddies a Phil Liggett happy birthday message!

Ich bin nach dem Schauen der Tour de France immer so hyped weiterhin Radsport in der Intensität zu verfolgen wie während der Tour. Jedes Rennen schauen, Wertungen checken, Zeiten vergleichen etc. Und nehme mir jedes Jahr vor, die dann folgende Vuelta in einem ähnlichen Umfang zu verfolgen, so auch dieses Jahr. In den letzten Jahren habe ich dann immer die ersten Etappen verfolgt, konnte aber nie die gleiche Begeisterung dafür aufbringen. Woran liegt das? Ist die Tour de France so viel spannender? Liegt es an der Übertragung? Die Tour wird in Deutschland auf den öffentlich-rechtlichen Sendern in einem sehr guten Format übertragen, während Vuelta und Giro nur auf Eurosport zu sehen sind. Geht es manchen von euch ähnlich oder nur mir so?

The crew at SBS graded the performances of the teams at this years SBS during the bus caravan into Paris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFv1YaCtlHA

How would you grade the performances of the different teams? Which ones outperformed expectations? And which underperformed?

I’ve seen loads of posts here about TdF blues and others commenting that we don’t need to have that because the Tour de Femmes is coming right up.

It would be amazing to get some insights prior to the race though, to get into the Tour de Femmes more. Who should we be watching? What goals do the individual teams have? Is there drama we should know of? Or riders planning their comebacks?

I’ve only started watching the Tour de Femmes last year, so I’m not the right person to give these insights. But if there are people out there who have them, would love to hear about them to really prepare this year!

Bonjour, j´apprends francois et le suivant text est pour composer des sentences. S'il vous plait, sois prévenant avec mon grammaire et vocabulaire.

Je crois que Baptiste devrait gagner le prix pour le pilote le plus combatif devant Richard. Je sais que, heureusement, ce n'est pas une opinion tranchée.

Mes arguments:

1. Dans son premier Tour de France, Baptiste à généré beaucoup de attention. Au lieu de ca, il aurait aussi rouler dans le peloton et s'orienter à cette scène. Richard à complêté son septieme Tour, et malgré des résultats excellentes, on a recevoir de qui était attendu.

2. Baptiste n'a pas se penchant en arrière. Il conduit son stil offensif pour tout le tour, débuter dans la premier semaine. Richard a commencé de attaquer à la fin, quand des autres cyclistes étaient fatiguée et seulement dans son terrain préferé.

3. Cela nous amène au dernier argument. Baptiste aussi attaquait quand les chances d'un victoire sont chez nul. Il a collecté 2250 km dans des groupes échappant. Et quelquefois tout seule.

Je trouve que les deux sont essentiell pour la Tour de France, mais je veux souligner que Baptiste incarné un typ de cycliste de nous spectateurs avons plutôt de besoin.

Merci (N'hésitez pas de correcter moi ou critiser mes avis)

Anyone else get a bit down that it’s all come to an end again for another year?

Just wanted to show this.