2023 TdF

[warthog1]

Fell asleep in front of the TV last night so haven't watched it yet.
It sounds like Vingegaard likely has Pog covered on the climbs again.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour- ... 5/results/

[g-boaf]

Awesome work by Hindley!

Spoilers!

I haven't watched any of it - but well done to him.

[MichaelB]

and a great ride by Jackobsen. Stern stuff indeed !!

[warthog1]

Just watched the highlights.
They were banging on about Jai's effort. Yep great.
However Jonas went up the final climb 1 minute faster and descended and time trialled without help to the finish faster also.
Very early in the tour but I don't see anybody climbing with Jonas. The tour looks to be his so far. Yes things can change and perhaps Pog had a bad day. Needs to be a fairly big change though.

[find_bruce]

I'm always impressed by how well the sprinters calculate their efforts to stay just inside the time limit. I wish I had the ability to climb as badly as the grupetto.

It will be a huge ask for Hindley & his team to resist the relentless pressure over the next 16 stages, but he's fortunate to have Buchmann alongside him. He's got the climbing credentials & the short ITT shouldn't damage him too much.

I wonder how much of Vingegaard's effort was to keep Jai's lead manageable compared to distancing Pogacar

[elantra]

Awesome work by Hindley!

Spoilers!

I haven't watched any of it - but well done to him.

Cadel is very impressed with Hindley’s stage win

[P!N20]

Cadel is very impressed with Hindley’s stage win

But not very impressed with Slovenian pronunciation.

[MichaelB]

Tonight’s stage will be interesting- more attacking or just holding fort ?

[blizzard]

I imagine Tadej will be on the offensive tonight, should make for a good stage.

[warthog1]

Stayed awake for that one. The Pog looked good.

[warthog1]

"What can I say, it was just an epic day riding around in the yellow jersey doing some mythical climbs and to be honest I got my arse handed to me," Hindley said. "But I really enjoyed it."

https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour- ... 6/results/

I like Jai after that honest assessment

[find_bruce]

I thought time trials were meant to be the race of truth

[MichaelB]

"What can I say, it was just an epic day riding around in the yellow jersey doing some mythical climbs and to be honest I got my arse handed to me," Hindley said. "But I really enjoyed it."

https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour- ... 6/results/

I like Jai after that honest assessment

With one hand givers, the other takes away !!

Still won a stage and was in Yellow. Gotta be happy with that !! And he was !

[warthog1]

Yes the Pog and Jonas were just ridiculous!
Nobody else was anywhere near them.

He won the Giro and is the only Aussie to have done that.

[find_bruce]

Wondering what the euro media are making of Jai- they were struck by socks on centipedes, now he’s talking about giving it a red hot crack

[warthog1]

I liked the time trial race of truth one Bruce but that one has me stumped.

edit; got it I think.
https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/roa ... -the-giro/
struggling with his Aussie slang. Agreed

[Mububban]

Noooo, Cav's done his collarbone in a crash

[g-boaf]

Noooo, Cav's done his collarbone in a crash

That’s a shame - just read about it. Hope he mends fast. Not the way you want to go in your last TDF.

[celeste boy]

Im looking for a link to results in tdf. Not 1000 words on Cavendish crash just the results in each classification.
Following Caleb but if he is not in the top 5 finishers, he is not mentioned.
Thanks

[Retrobyte]

Im looking for a link to results in tdf. Not 1000 words on Cavendish crash just the results in each classification.

https://www.letour.fr/en/rankings

[warthog1]

Noooo, Cav's done his collarbone in a crash

I must admit I was hoping he got at least one stage win to get the sole highest all time.
Oh well, he'll have to continue to share that title.

[stevenaaus]

Im looking for a link to results in tdf. Not 1000 words on Cavendish crash just the results in each classification.
Following Caleb but if he is not in the top 5 finishers, he is not mentioned.
Thanks

Yeah, Caleb was there, but got exhausted/squeezed out i think after he had to make up ground in the last 10 km.

Shame for Jayco / Simon Yates to come off at about 5 km and lose a minute... He was sitting pretty in fourth, but now dropped to sixth.

[celeste boy]

https://www.letour.fr/en/rankings

Thank you for that.
Cheers.

[MichaelB]

Another cracking stage and well deserved win for Woods.

More GC action and whilst some changes, it’s really a race of two parts - 1st & 2nd and then the 3rd step with a gaggle of riders holding on !

Next week will be interesting !

[warthog1]

It was good.
The top 2 are going to be duking it out until the end it appears.
Jai fought back well at the end too.