Tour de France 2023 ** SPOILERS **

[GuyBoden]

I'd like to see him loose 5mins to GT...! 🤣🤣🤣

I seriously think that Vingegaard will win the Vuelta this season.

 

[Chislenko]

Imagine if he hadn't been here what the GC would look like.😁

G. Martin would be in the top 10 😊😊

 

[T4tomo]

I seriously think that Vingegaard will win the Vuelta this season.

I think its very very unlikely that he'll be racing it. Roglic will surely be JBV team leader for Vuelta?

It tends to be the norm these days that if doing more than 1 GT you do Giro and Vuelta.

Honourable exception if you crash out of the Giro early doors you might then do TdeF or crash of TdeF early and do Vuelta

 

[Dogtrousers]

G. Martin would be in the top 10 😊😊

There's a rather sad little group of French flags hanging off the top 10.

 

[gavroche]

I read that the bloke on the back of the motorbike that caused Jonas to stop on the mountain was none other than Tommy Voeckler.

That's correct and he is banned from today's stage.

 

[KneesUp]

The last person to win it, after finishing but not winning, was Bernard Hinault in '85.

Does Chris Froome still think he has another TdF in his legs? He was saying so much more recently than I’d have expected.

 

[T4tomo]

The last person to win it, after finishing but not winning, was Bernard Hinault in '85.

the above is clearly wrong. do you mean a former winner, i.e. multiple winner but with a gap, i.e win - complete it but not win and then win again? To be fair Hinaulkt only won in 85 because of team orders. Le Mond was stronger. He missed his "gap" years recoving from being shot didnt he?

most winners have completed it before winning it. i.e Vingegard finished 2nd in 21 and won in 22. G, Wiggo etc.

 

[Adam4868]

I seriously think that Vingegaard will win the Vuelta this season.

View: https://twitter.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1681921848773079042?t=K4IQXP7O8eIgav48y14SGA&s=19

 

[Dogtrousers]

The last person former winner to win it, after finishing but not winning, was Bernard Hinault in '85.

My correction in bold.

Here are all the editions which were not won by someone who had previously won, and went on to win again (does that make sense?)

They are the gap years where multiple winners did not win all their titles consecutively. They were the years that were followed by comebacks.

They are ... you know what I mean.

Philippe Thys 1919 - Did not finish
Firmin Lambot 1920 - 3rd
Firmin Lambot 1921 - 9th
André Leducq 1931 - 10th
Antonin Magne 1932 - Did not start
Antonin Magne 1933 - 8th
Sylvère Maes 1937 - Entire team withdrew from the race because of French chauvinism
Sylvère Maes 1938 - 14th
Gino Bartali 1939 - Did not start
Fausto Coppi 1950 - Did not start
Fausto Coppi 1951 - 10th
Jacques Anquetil 1958 - Did not finish
Jacques Anquetil 1959 - 3rd
Jacques Anquetil 1960 - Did not start
Eddy Merckx 1973 - Did not start
Bernard Thévenet 1976 - Did not finish
Bernard Hinault 1980 - Did not finish
Bernard Hinault 1983 - Did not start
Bernard Hinault 1984 - 2nd
Greg Lemond 1987 - Did not start
Greg Lemond 1988 - Did not start
Alberto Contador 2008 - Did not start
Chris Froome 2014 - did not finish

 

[Bollo]

Oo, this is unexpected.

 

[Mo1959]

That was much more exciting than I was expecting. I love when the breakaway holds on.

 

[Bollo]

That was the business!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

That was much more exciting than I was expecting. I love when the breakaway holds on.

Just logged in to say the same thing

 

[Mike_P]

I thought their was a gap but the first 76 have been given the same time.

 

[GuyBoden]

I can't believe the peleton let the break go for so long at about 2mins with quality of the riders in it, very foolish, they should have caught them earlier.

Hasn't Asgreen been the Danish Nat Champ TT winner for the last few years.