Pro-cycling thread

I can't see Pog losing much if any time this week. Even if Ineos do go for the burning matches strategy with Yates and Pidders (closest on GC) then inevitably JV will cover them, in turn dragging Pog along for the ride. So either he really doesn't like the heat (bs) he really doesn't go well over 2k+ climbs (bs) or there's enough ganging up on him in the Peloton to unseat him (again bs). All Hail Pog. MVDP for the stage today 100km solo, surely he's recovered now....

Pogacar has said himself that he sometimes struggles when it's really hot. He cited this as a reason as to why he was dropped by Vingegaard on Ventoux last year.

He could hardly say ‘bad blood bag’ could he?

George Bennett has got Covid too. That doesn’t sound great for Pog.

Majka positive too, but with a low enough viral load to be allowed to continue.

Time to deploy Soler!

Is that a thing?
Weird even if from a personal health perspective.

@Hulsroy is already preparing to paint all of his bikes yellow

Jungels is only in the Tour as his viral load was low. But agreed, seems strange that they're leaving "Is it safe for the rider?" to the teams and "Is it safe to be around the rider?" to the race.

Jungels was completely asymptomatic, from what he said post-stage 9.

Yeah, and obviously it had no impact given the ride, but just replying as it's quite common to see riders in this tour test positive and still race (even to a stage win).

I am not completely sold on Vingegaard yet. Nor JV for that matter.

Fair enough. Temps look to be slightly cooler than Ventoux was last year. I still think the race is set to be pretty exciting still.

Froome Dawg on tha loose!

Edit. Back in the Pound. We live in hope.

I parked up on this road here in the past. I think it was a church car park.

A fair hike to the alpe but the traffic is manic any closer and you will spend hours getting off the mountain if you get any closer

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Go the supermarket in bourg near the roundabout then hike up cutting the corners . Follow your nose for euro pee .

Oh bastile day so maybe closed .

Wut?

Protesters

Wiggins is such a Tory isn’t he?

Wow Wiggins is such a prick

this

What's Wigginton referring to in the UK?

Lol gonna keep the autocorrect fail

Fuck know who cares he's an idiot

edit: excellent I like wigginton, makes him sound like a petulant choo choo doing laps of Sodor

What did he say?

There was a protest, he called them imbiciles and said didn't know what they were protesting about, "probably nothing".

Yeah can't think of anything in the world atm to protest about