Since everyone's talking about Pogacar, i'll do it. Congrats to Dylan Teuns, the actual and deserved winner of this awesome stage.

Absolutely! Phenomenal performance.

@Simon Gale exactly

@Magnus Overgaard Schnipper also because the stage winner that is essentially his only day, mighty impressive but realistically he can not win the tour. Pogacar is gc hope he has 3weeks full on racing. Most single stage winners end up hour+ behing the overall winner. Essentially they are in slightly different races

​@T K @G @Haj Jalotjot @Magnus Overgaard Schnipper Ah, I see. Thanks guys!

I don't know if you're trolling or you don't know the rules of the this game.

Might as well make the thumbnail the GC classification, to go along with the spoiler title!

@GCN Racing Thanks GCN 👍

@GCN Racing Thanks -- much appreciated.

Apologies, that wasn't the intention. We've adjusted it now!

@German Londoño Thankfully, they've changed the title now. When the video was released, it contained all the important information about the stage and GC results. I have no problem with the new title.

@Desert Rain Frog ITV4 in the UK has a one-hour highlight show. But I was responding to a comment that suggested that people should watch the race live to avoid getting spoilers.

"Putting in a performance that we haven't seen for quite some time in professional cycling" I think the commentator says it all there really

Up a 12% grade in the big ring while seated and pulling away from everyone. And now fanboys are making all of the same COMICAL rationalizations that they made when Lance did similar shit. The fact that cycling powerhouse Slovenia can magically produce the two best stage racers in the world at the same time out of a population the size of Houston TX should be a signal.

@davidoffon Ya clean....right....never going to happen...spider skinny anorexic "men" eggbeating their way up a mountain...go back 35 or 40 years to see what real riders used to look like.

@Catherine Taylor Yup and too many doped up riders as usual.

@Aurora Boring Alice Lol I don’t even have a favourite. But if your favourite is beating Lance Armstrong on the climbs, you’ve got to ask yourself some questions. Or you think a natty rider can beat a juicy Armstrong?

@hannahtatou I do still love it - saw the final of the TDF live in Paris in 2016. Sad because I cannot be sure of the results. If they are 'clean' - amazing - if not, I feel for those that are, and have no chance

Pogacar was awesome today climbing on the big ring in some parts. Reminded me a bit of the 2018 Giro with Froome blowing up the Giro on that unbelievable stage.

Yes, then they arrested Freeman, Sky’s doctor doping, and now it feels like they are all riding beach cruisers

With the camera angle from above and behind, and Pogacar overtaking all the climbers from the breakaway, this looked like a cycling computer game on "easy" mode. All the way while looking more relaxed than me on my morning commute.

@Paolo Gardinali Never knew of the link with Riccò. Mauro Gianetti and Joxean Matxin who are the team managers at Uae Emirates were both involved in the doping scandal at Saunier-Duvalnelle involving Riccò. Ouch. I have been watching cycling since the days of Indurain and have seen all the big dopers like Armstrong, Ulrich, Pantani, etc. and throughout the years I don't think I have seen such a display of dominance as I am seeing now. Let's not forget Pogačar dominated the TT as well.

@Tow Hee ​ so you are saying that Pogacar is doping with some supernatural juice? Ok, lets put some logic into it: They are giving some next-gen juice to a rider from Slovenia which has 2 million people and sell maybe 100 Colnago bikes per year. Why would someone prefer a rider from 2 million market and not riders from Italy, France, Germany, Britain ect. where they sell bikes in tens of thousands.🎭 Basically, a lot of people from bigger countries have a "problem" with riders from smaller countries like Slovenia, Columbia, Ecuador, ect. A lot of funny people here , who have not achieved nothing in their lives so far.

@Paolo Gardinali I know the col de Colombiere and he raced up the harder side. I've never seen a pro do that on a 53 chain ring, ever.

I don’t know, @sandydenny lives … in the post Armstrong era it appears more remunerative to do things discreetly and avoid other major scandals

The crash on the 2nd or 3rd stage destroyed Roglic. He's the only one who could be a threat to Pogacar. Even though less good, on TT he's miles better than anyone other than Pogacar and about equal to Wout Van Aert, and he has a strong team. So he would have been a danger.

If Thomas, Roglic and Froome are still feeling bruised after their crashes, perhaps they should abandon so they can recuperate in time for the Vuelta, assuming they'll be riding that?

Geraint also had issues after the crash, so it seems these crashes have really hindered the tour this year

You’re right. The after effects of that crash are showing.

I can't even enjoy performances like this without being a bit suspicious even if the suspicions I have are really low. Lance's scandal had such a magnitude that people's assumptions today are 'guilty until proven innocent' instead of the other way around. Pog's a beast but the performance on this stage was just domination.

@Don Greek PEDs have killed a lot of cyclists. The discussions about fairness and realism of performance matter. Ultimately, we would be better served if they just said Pro Cyclists are the F1 of sport and they take it all. No illusions. Strongman and power lifting don’t test. Neither does arm wrestling. Abuse of gear is part of those sports. Sadly, they also die but what can you do? I want to see much shorter stages and normal human performance. Sadly, Le Tour is a freak show. End of story.

While I understand your suspicion, I would like to remind you that even with no PED there will always be someone who is in better shape or is having a really great day or has prepared better or whose body is just handling the stress of an endurance event better. That was always the case the PED came into play for those who could not compete on the same level no matter what they did. Then it just got to be the way things were.Of course Lance took it to another level entirely by really organizing it in a very pro corporate way. He did what most were doing but better and much more aggressively. Of course having said all that I still keep a grain of salt nearby. Just in case I have to eat my words later. Although I still like Lance and watch his show here I had to eat a lot of words when the scandal came out. Wow those were a lot of words just to say I agree with you.

Everybody hates lance.. Specially some commentators from this sports... But did u realize that all of rge great cyclist from his era... Found guilty on using drugs.. Leteraly drugs?? Some of them died coz of that.. I wonder why they hate lance so much... Hahahahaha

Yea but when Lance won his 6th an did it carrying his bike the whole tour you knew he was juiced.........

@Broccoli Wobbles same times as Contador and Armstrong?? 😂 yeah.....

Pogacar made most of them look like they were on a Sunday club run. Has to be the number one for podium. Can't see anyone beating him. Tremendous stage today.

@Dome stique Do you also believe in unicorns and the tooth fairy?

@Tanis Leach You’re absolutely right! That’s how they made it with medical exceptions for like Cortison for his „hurt“ butt......🤔

Not even Riccardo Ricco made a climb look so easy and Ricco was a pure climber that took everything illegal that there was to take

Armstrong cheated, but only because everyone was doping. There was pressure from sponsors to win at all costs. Whilst everyone was cheating, Armstrong merely perfected it. Still deservedly banished though.

@Xplora213 Lance did fail multiple tests. Himself and his team "justified" those tests by backdating fake prescriptions, or in one case (2002) paying the UCI to shut up. These are things found in multiple Armstrong documentaries.

I follow Pogacar on Strava and before this event he was out pounding mountains at amazing speeds. He's an animal.

Sean Kelly is a legend...I loved him on the bike...love him behind the mike....every time I listen to him it broadens my view of what is possible in the English language....now he's topping it with these laryngal indispositions of his... I think I need a glass of Connemara Peated Single Malt in order to come to terms with it all ;-)

Nice, Pogacar destroyed the peloton single-handedly, against other strong teams and without having himself a strong team by his side.

I mean, Formolo did set him up quite well imho. But it sure was funny seeing Formolo's pain face while Pogocar was "picking his nose" as the commentators put it :D

I've been watching cycling for more than 30 years. This stellar performance is too good to be true or otherwise he would be the best cyclist ever lifed. I hope the latter is the case. Would love to see the power data... Greetings from Germany

road.cc says commenting on the TT that most pros keep their power data hidden, so it's not just me. For context, Armstrong's goal was 6.7w/kg over half hour.

@Melanie Meyer Whats your source?

@Laszlo Zoltan we‘ll probalby never see…

That's a pretty nice climbing venue. Wish i could go some day.

I’d push hard for 2nd place... they’ll end up being Tour de France wins in 5 years time

basically, Movistar ended any chance of an exciting battle by chasing Carapaz on the last stage

Narrator: "It will take a monumental effort to change the course of this race " 2006 Floyd Landis: "Hold my blood bag!"

I meant what he must have been on in training leading up to tour but thanks I didn’t know that about the patches, yeah I really hope pogacar clean but I know what you mean he didn’t try to sprint for 2 nd or 3 rd

@Laszlo Zoltan legyen mar eszed. hogyan tudta volna azt mehatarozni hogy hanyan lesznek vele ott? amugy tesztelik mindegyiket. a sarga trikot meg minden stagenel.

@Laszlo Zoltan The overall leader is tested after each stage.

@tunaficiency 2006 it was testosterone- floyd blew up and lost the yellow the stage before so he O.D.-d on T patches that night. he drank water non-stop on his solo break-to flush out his system. It was obvious- you dont recover like that after you blow up. I dont like to cast aspersions - but pog's coming in 4th is ominous. Because they test the top 3, I would be less worried if he came in 2nd.

Hold my blood bags , epo , human growth hormone and pot Belge you mean 😅

Pogacar would`ve probably won the stage in dry condition. He had everything to lose and wouldn`t risk it on the wet downhill, Teuns had everything to win.

After watching the Tour for 20+ years... I can somewhat believe that someone can pull off such a race before a rest day and be able to compete again after a day of recovery. And even then, that climb, that was Lance Armstrong level superiority. Yes, I do understand that progress has probably been made in training methods, in understanding nutrition and all that, and Pogacar is only 22, that will help recovery a lot, but still, pretty much everyone in recent years who put in such an "unbelievable performance" had a bit of help, sometimes to the point where they put their own life in danger. We'll see, but I'm afraid if he can keep up this level of superiority in the mountains, few people will trust him. I watch it mostly for the individual races anyway, so if Pogacar leads by several minutes half way through the tour... good for him, I guess. I hope he won't have to sleep with an alarm strapped to a heart rate monitor so he doesn't die in his sleep like others had to do before him...

Thank God the racing has improved it seems to me that the athletes today are more concerned about how they look at the end of the race SMH

he wiped the floor w his rivals amongst whom Grand Tour Winners...stunning, epic

@FangRu oh please look at this time up the col du romme and the guys he beat up that climb. Especially look at what times the guys in 2009 did

@cftvgz123 so what? Still winner and legend until something its proven.. 😘

Epic doping, yes...

"Putting in a performance we have not seen in a very long time in professional cycling" This is in no way a very concerning sentance!

Now lets watch the tour for the second place

Destroys specialist TT-ers. Flies past specialist climbers like they're standing still. I hate to say it but it's been a very Armstrong-esque performance...

@R B That's why I say Lance in particular, his case proved beyond any reasonable doubt that cycling was dirty. No one could play devil's advocate anymore.

@Desert Rain Frog he was only the first big guy to get caught. But not the first in general. Indurain was doing the same stuff. No one really came after him though.

Remember when Roche came over the line needing oxygen and he didn't even win the stage. But they said he was on drugs. The rest barely needing to take a rest....Not sure about this lad. Always a chance no one is on drugs and the rest are just average

And no commentator says anything. C'mon GCN.

Concise and entertaining. Good job.

Hopefully with these demonstrations of such power, we are not in the presence of a new Lance armstrong

If it looks incredible,its because it is.

I was a strong advocate against the percentage Peloton rule. . In my mind , it was a copout . But looking at the pace and speed of today's race. It would have ,,, honestly eliminated most of the Peloton. These guys out front are just too good. On a side note, I was the one who said Bernal may win 1 or 10 tours, time will tell. These courses are not set up to his strengths. As the 1 he won was tailor made for him. I do hope he comes back healthy,,, because he is realistically the only one can challenge Tadej. Mikey Out. Oooohhhh Yeah!!!!

Primoz on a mission!!!…move to different team👍

Year 2018 I saw UAE team along the way practicing from Dubai to Ras Al khaimah. Never forget. I'm new into cycling sports and I really wanted to learn more. Impressive Pogacar!

#かならりやばかったですね！#１万人を超える人が見ていたも ん（#笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした #今後は気をライブ

Pogačar is unreal, climbing in the big ring making it look effortless!

I never cared about Doping and still don’t but seeing him fly up that mountain all I could think was not even Riccardo Ricco a amazing pure climber on every banned drug out there was flying a mountain up so easy

@Jo That's actually a fair point.

@John Andrews always an unbeliveable ride. Like doing something rare all the time. Suspicious. I only said that.

@Desert Rain Frog Also has a mental game to it. You just force yourself that this is the smallest gear you have, so you better push it : )

@Matt Buddery na he is not. In slovenia there are really good doctors and for that everyone has prove.

"Putting in a performance we have not seen in a very long time in professional cycling" This is in no way a very concerning sentance!

#かならりやばかったですね！#１万人を超える人が見ていたも ん（#笑）#やっぱり人参最高！#まさかのカメラ切り忘れでやら1かしたのもドキドキでした #今後は気をライブ

I'm very suspicious, Pog's super talented but he has no up and downs, he's dominating this year

MVDP: right, I'm off for a spin on my mountain bike.

@Jonathan Chester Nino enters the chat.

imagine his competition lining up against that guy who wore yellow for a week haha!

@Adam Morris thank you and agreed

@eatlocalhoney I believe that was the plan. He's done what he wanted to do at the tour and also done a great job boosting Alpecins profile..now a gold at the Olympics..whatever he does, he's a joy to watch.

Is he going to the Olympics?

with that gap in Gc Pog is virtually the champ 21'

Please stop with the spoilers in the titles, I subscribe add the notification bell as most channels ask and now the result has been ruined as I have worked this morning and am watching on delay 🤬 Not everyone is lucky enough to have 6 hours a day spare to watch it live a lot of people are working while the tour is on!!

Same with TSN and the Euro 2020 matches. They put the results in the title too. Super annoying!

Yes, this is really annoying. I remember how, the first year they posted these highlights videos, they proudly pointed out that the thumbnail would never be a spoiler. Well, they've kept that promise but...

Would love to see the power data... Greetings from Germany

'The Pog' is clearly 'Top Dog' ! 🚴‍😉

Oh boy i´d already have kissed the asphalt with this rain lol

I have been looking for news all week on how Mike Woods has been doing. Can someone tell me why he is so far behind in GC? Was he involved in a crash? I checked today and he seems to be about 29min behind the leader... Can someone please explain this to me...a casual cycling fan!

get caught in a crash one day, a bit behind the next, beat out on the ITT, it all adds up- but it's a long race though, we've seen riders come from way back to the front before (and later we discover why).

great performance by my guy Tadej "Lance Landis" Pogacar

You forgot Pantani !!

Pogacar had a great day, but the way commentators are talking you'd think he's now got the Tour all sewn up this year! Don't they realise it's still a l-o-o-n-g way to Paree and anything could happen..:) PS- are Thomas, Quintana and Froome still in the race, we've hardly seen them so far?

Thomas was till today, assume toll of earlier crash kicked in, i am sure if he could have helped Carapaz he would have

Pogačar was savage in this stage, the champion has landed!

@bluelotusflower evidence ? Use your brain and you will see ist, but i Help you. Pogacar cycled over 6.77watt/kg at Hills over minutes, only Contador, Armstrong and Pantani did that too, so now use your thing in your head and you have your evidence. Also Pogacar is 22, He cant cycle over6 Watt/kg in so Young years too.

@Oliver smarty i guess your surname is not very asociated with your comment ..

@Ales Novak I'm a huge pogacar fan mate, I'm a big fan of every Slovenian rider as I live 5mintues away from the border of Slovenia doesn't make it less suspicious tho

@Fragmate You are just jealous,because your favorite is not as good as Pogacar.

Notice Cavendish wearing a $275K Richard Mille watch during the race. Interesting choice for a ride through the rainy mountains in France.

Congrats to team UAE for having the yellow jersey ride safe

Doped to the gills. Clear as day. Dropping thomas and Roglic like they are riding training wheel bikes

There's a mountain on the tour , that when you get to the top doesn't go anywhere, it's called the 'cul-de-sac".

unbelievable performance-reminds me on the famous American.

@triathelete Wolf Greg was one of the very few clean riders. When you are born with exceptional gifts you don't need to dope. Todays snow flakes are whiners who want to be winners but have to cheat because they just can't face the reality that they are not good enough. Today everyone is a winner- it is the politically correct way. Wouldn't want to hurt anyones feelings might take years of therapy to get over.

Floyd Landis

Agree.

more evidence less old man grumping please.

🤫 shhhhh !!!

I hope to be wrong and yes, he is incredibly talented and obviously trained very well, but so are his competitors. the question I ask myself: what does he have what the others don't. just too strong.

Let’s go Wout!!!!!

We need to wait one more year till Bernal can give real competition to Pogacar. What a shame and so boring there are no close rivals near Pogacar this year.

@DaiBei Yes, he might be a close rival for Pogacar as well in the future

If thats a bore, I am into boredom big time!

We have to wait until Remco Evenepoel is really back.

@Allan Virimai Allright so pity, he is very talented and could have been one of the few who can really be a close opponent for Pogacar. But with chronical backpain it will be very difficult for him. Hopefully he can find a solution for this so he can really attack Pogacar in the future.

@Luis Suárez but he wasnt utterly dorminant his chronic back problems kept cropping up

You gotta have crazy power to climb 8% gradient with a big ring.

the last day was stage 3, roglic the only actual contender crashed out... we can stop the tour now the results will be about the same

very hard to like cav!delighted for Ineos!

Totally legit performance, nothing to see here ladies and gents, move along…

This tour is already over. Mark it as a 2nd win for pagočar

great performance by my guy Tadej "Lance Landis" Pogacar

Now lets watch the tour for the second place

This parallels Hautacam in 2000 in multiple aspects 😳

We know Mikaela was that good for that long. Yes,,Bolt really was that fast. Tiger is here and second place is up for grabs. Is Tadej ,,, really in this day of science and training ,,, super humanly above ,, head and shoulders above. That you win a time trial,, now,, by 2,, 3 ,, no 19 Seconds faster than Time Trial Specialist Stefan Kung. It's ,, like Daddy always said. Anything too good to be true son,,, I hope instead we are just seeing a once in a generation Rider. Mikey Out. Oooohhhh Yeah!!!!!

tragic day for French cycling...Alaphilippe lost too much time...now he's trailing over 18 minutes to the Yellow Jersey

Well, what did you expect? Alaphilippe himself said that he is not GC threat. The french hope is called David Gaudu.

Some performance but the tour being over in week one doesn't do it for me

Yep. Tour is gone. Not worth it.

@Simon Says agree

The unpredictable efforts of so many riders this stage you would say no, but now that Pogacar has the upper hand, I guess he should ride more conservatively with support from his team from now on. But on the other hand it seems like the old codes of riding just doesn`t apply anymore.

Roglic crash destroyed the biggest competitor, Roglic wouldn't have been able to win over Pog. But his very strong time trial potential, and very strong team... he wouldn't be more than 1 minute behind, and so still be a danger.

History will show there is a long way to go.

Pogacar the machine!!! Best cyclist ever!!

@Simon Says 😉

Now lets watch the tour for the second place

GCN daily TDF vids are class leading.

what are you talking about? highlights from a 4 hr+ stage? that's like showing a north korean what's on a fancy european menu

Carapaz lives and trains in the high mountains in the Andes. His daily training starts where only a some of the TdF peak; yet he gets dropped like a Cat 5 rider. Hmmmm🤔🤔🤔

@Румен Доспатлиев don't fool yourself

@Adrià Medina go see the documentary of Ineos about carapaz on yt

Get off your high horse. He won the Giro bc Nibs and Rog let him go while marking each other. He's below Bernal, who's below Roglić and who's the only one who could fight against Tadej, besides Tom Dumoulin if he comes back as a GC.

@pagoren Maybe he just took a week off or whatever. But clearly carapaz is not as strong as many think. He got catched by the rest.

@Adrià Medina Carapaz was training there before coming in Europe for tour of Switzerland

So that's why the pog was smiling at the start of the TT

@Matej Marincic Lance was also the first guy to base an entire career around Le Tour. Everyone before him was splitting their time over a bunch of races. Lance focused on one race for ten years of his life. But all his tricks are known now by all the teams. I struggle to believe it’s legit.

@Simon Says man lance was average cyclist nothing more even he said that he was not more then average. This guy is from 2011 on radar of trainers born rider

@Simon Says the boy is born cyclist check his weight/power/oxygen/cap and compare it with lance that was to big for cycler or froome that disappeared after no juice with asthma

Reminds me of Lance and Riis!

Pogacar is that strong that I start wondering whether he is clean hmm. I think even healthy Roglic would have no chances against him in this TdF. Unbelieveable power. That said I hope something will happen (even a crash :D) and we will have some fight for the win. Otherwise it will be boring TdF. But who can fight? Carapaz? Who else?

May as well give give him the title now,he could become the greatest of all time this kid

No He cant because He is full Like Armstrong.

I'm just watching coz i wanna know if WVA can finish top 10

He’s nuts!

That’s some pedaler right there

To say he is clean is like rolling in the mud and saying you are clean. The riders, UCI, ASO and every cycling body saying the sport is clean/cleaner. Then you have times being broken that you had during the everyone is on something Lance years. No chance the peleton is clean, Pogacar is just doing it better. Much like Lance did years ago. The only thing that I wonder is if he is smart and will either retire or not race the TDF for a few years. This of course after winning 3-4. Seeing if he doesn't then everyone is going to be looking for the needle in the haystack so to speak. With Lance it was the "saddle sore" medical that in reality started his downfall. True, buying equipment for testing and giving the sport money helps. Will Pogacar do it too? And will he be top 5 finishing tomorrow? You have to wonder how long until the team has him look like he cracks... even if it's not as bad as the Lance bonks and then rips the tour apart, from the sprinter section of the peleton (in the very back) to the stage win.

...Now...the tour starts..👊

What's he on? Hope it isn't illegal. Amazing handling in testing conditions.

It will be pogaçar victory until the end While MVDP will quit for upcoming Tokyo Olympics

Armstrong, Landis, Ullrich, Contador, Froome (?), Wiggings (?)... Can we really trust a Tour de France winner who crushes the oppositions nowadays?

@mama mia Agreed.

Indurain?

havent watched TDF for some years man but wheres quintana , froome , porte, molema etc ???!?

I reckon he’s on that special sauce. He legit wasn’t even tired after such a monsters effort. Kinda reminds of of Armstrong

@Kden Did you see him at the finish?

@Desert Rain Frog at what point did he show fatigue ? To me it looked like he effortlessly passed everyone at light speed

@Jo Well after his TT he didn't appear tired, and today he did show fatigue. So unless he displays the same level of fatigue differently on different days, his TT looks a bit suspicious. But who knows, it's all speculation.

What is your give away that he was "not tired"? Different riders express their efforts differently on the outside. Best examples are probably Qunitana vs Almeida. The first always looks exactly the same and at some point just gets dropped, the later basically looks like he is just about to blow into pieces from the start of every climb.

He was tired today when he crossed the line, that doesn't necessarily refute your claim though I suppose. He wasn't tired after his TT though.

100% on the juice, kinda reminds me of lance. everyone but one rider having to really struggle, and one rider has an easy stroll up the hill.

You are just jealous.

Pogacar será campeão, já era pros outros...

it began from the start well there's a novel idea?? hope it catches on lol

Carapaz will win the tour.. Pogo did too much too early… but he took his chance he will be out the back soon maybe not today or tomorrow or the day after but soon. Never underestimate growing up at high altitude.

First rider to win 10 Tours in a row? Hope not..

So why was difference so big? In one side differences were big between Pog and GC group. On other side he was saving strength entire week while others were running like crazy in one or other breakaway (best sample Carapaz in stage 7). And he also recuperate excellent with his 22 years. So now bill came for the others. He catch them literally on wrong foot attack and maximise difference. He rides excellent on records levels, while GC group was riding like beaten dogs All conditions are for repetition in stage 9.

Damn, where's MVDP in the GC top 10?

Another wild day !

This was not a good performance from Pogacar! It just leaves a super bitter-sweet taste afterward. And again i don't say he dopes, he might be a superkid who has such power but i can understand the people who see several red flags in his performance. For me i would advise him just to keep cool for now, the tour is long why make such moves and everyone starts again with this bs talk over such a crazy performance. You have much more time to show your potential why in a way like that? this just sets a spotlight on our sport which is not good and brings bad media with it.

Vamos Carapaz

2nd place wins... in about 5 years time

Awesome!!! Thx for this

Tbh, all climbers are doped up. At least most of them. Froome, LA, Pog you name it. The only genuine rider I see these days is Peter Sagan.

WUHOOOOO GOOD JOB MICHAEL WOODSS!!!!!!

I wonder how long it will be until the French fans turn on Pogacar.

@Jesse Härkönen that's why they don't like the UK.

@Jesse Härkönen I guess.. Like that woman who wanted to kill half of the cyclers hahah

The French don't like winners.

And why would that be 🤔🤔

serious question: how come everyone says to not cross chain, but I commonly see pro cyclists cross chain? e.g. 2:47 (big chain ring, big cog)... is there a reason for this?

@Jason Webb who cares what dopestrong said

@Desert Rain Frog Exactly. Having said that, if I'm going up a short hill that's a bit steeper than I expected, I'll stay in big-big to the top, rather than try to shift chainrings.

@julmeissonnier that's bollocks unless you buy cheap parts from China.

because it sounds like you are grinding coffee beans. It's just considered bad form, like tucking your shades under your helmet strap. All nonsense of course.

Excessive wear doesn't matter for pros. They can have a new chain and drivetrain every day if they want. It's not good to cross chain because of that, and the angle increases the risk of skipping a tooth as well as a bit more drag.

Seems like a stronger performance than Lance, 2003 - Luz Ardinen come back. Just saying. :(

Pogacar is a monster! Pogi-mon

Last time I saw such a dominant display of a rider in both the mountains and in TT was during the Armstrong era. 😉

ppl need to realize in many eastern European counties there is no such thing as antidoping

topping it with these laryngal indispositions of his... I think I need a glass of Connemara Peated Single Malt in order to come to terms with it all ;-)

underestimate growing up at high altitude.

It blew up as there is no team controlling the race.

They gave him the new go go juice

Pogacar is doing the Armstrong.

is pogacar on the gas ? this stage like the 2020 TT.