Tour de France 2022 with SPOILERS

[Dogtrousers]

Boom! Pogi attacks. Vingegaardi sticks with him

 

[Peter Salt]

Would love to see their HR at the moment. McNulty still there so assuming they're not giving it the beans just yet.

[EDIT]: Pog cross-chaining like nobody's business

 

[Sittingduck]

Pog still on the big-dog chainring needs to make the attacks more devastating though...

 

[Beebo]

Pog bluffed the finish, almost came to a standstill. Then attacked.

 

[Sittingduck]

Lol - my HR went up to 175 just watching that last 300m

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Supposedly Brandon McNulty, Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard faster on Col d'Azet than Marco Pantani, Jan Ullrich and Richard Virenque in 1997.

 

[DCLane]

Supposedly Brandon McNulty, Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard faster on Col d'Azet than Marco Pantani, Jan Ullrich and Richard Virenque in 1997.

I wonder if UAE have been saving Brandon McNulty for the 3rd week, getting him to take things easier so he can be put to work later on?

 

[Peter Salt]

On a side note, and I do not want to open a can of worms here, but is anyone else slightly annoyed whenever they say that 'women will be given the opportunity to compete in the Tour for the first time', seemingly ignoring all the previous editions/attempts?

Isn't this undermining achievements of all previous winners? That are, by the way, still alive and could be highlighted in the promotional materials as true trailblazers?

 

[Dogtrousers]

On a side note, and I do not want to open a can of worms here, but is anyone else slightly annoyed whenever they say that 'women will be given the opportunity to compete in the Tour for the first time', seemingly ignoring all the previous editions/attempts?

Isn't this undermining achievements of all previous winners? That are, by the way, still alive and could be highlighted in the promotional materials as true trailblazers?

It is, rather. And it's a bit much to ASO to expect gratitude for "giving women the opportunity" when they sued a pervious women's tour of France race ( "La Grande Boucle") for infringement of their intellectual property.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

On a side note, and I do not want to open a can of worms here, but is anyone else slightly annoyed whenever they say that 'women will be given the opportunity to compete in the Tour for the first time', seemingly ignoring all the previous editions/attempts?

Isn't this undermining achievements of all previous winners? That are, by the way, still alive and could be highlighted in the promotional materials as true trailblazers?

Lizzie Deignan was saying something similar yesterday on the ITV coverage

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I wonder if UAE have been saving Brandon McNulty for the 3rd week, getting him to take things easier so he can be put to work later on?

Might well be, but I have a suspicious mind whenever I see an outstanding performance in any sport.

 

[Chislenko]

On another side note has Bradley been banished from the back of the bike because of his views on protesters?

 

[Aravis]

Aerodromes are the new velodromes.

 

[Adam4868]

UAE were class today....there really wasn't anything more they could do.Mcnulty did almost a hour on the front !
Chapeau Pogi for the stage win....and for his interview "tommorows a harder day and I'm still optimistic for the win" 😁

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

On a side note, and I do not want to open a can of worms here, but is anyone else slightly annoyed whenever they say that 'women will be given the opportunity to compete in the Tour for the first time', seemingly ignoring all the previous editions/attempts?

Isn't this undermining achievements of all previous winners? That are, by the way, still alive and could be highlighted in the promotional materials as true trailblazers?

An interesting interview from The Cycling Podcast with Marianne Martin, winner of the first one…
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aH...m9vbS5jb20sMjAyMi0wNy0xODovcG9zdHMvODEyMjU2OQ