Just a special mention for my fellow South African, Louis Meintjes who has gone from something like 26th to 7th in just a couple of days. Great fight. So few S-Africans in pro-cycling and Daryl Impi got Covid just days before the TDF. Incredibly, even if unlikely, Meintjes now even has an outside crack at a podium finish.
I remember watching Jalabert win that stage in '95. And yeah, I was watching the Tour for many years before that. I remember when all the racers in the Tour were my age or older. Now I'm old enough to be the dad of any racer in the Tour. Time does fly by.
1988 TDF.... Greatest EVER............ Gregg Lemond STILL the greatest USA cyclist ever........... Lance Armstrong STILL SUCKS!!!!!! Doping scum who ruined others lives
Fabulous coverage, GCN. Best in the biz and many thanks. Looking forward each day to these reports. Fantastic race this year; great to see the crowds back.
Bettiol almost got it! Happy for Matthews, though. Wish Powless would have been contesting it, this type of finish suits him down to the ground, but Bettiol put up a good fight and Matthews won fair and square.
You are correct, increasingly all the Grand Tours not just the TDF have fewer and fewer of the 'old' flat stages that were suited to pure sprinters and their sprint trains.
So strange how they present these highlights, with comments always forecasting what eventually happens. Why not just narrate what is happening during the highlight, rather than forecasting the final result ? Not everyone is watching these having already seen the result.
i wonder what happened. Just after winner crossed the line I noticed one of the TDF staff run up along the barriers and forcibly rip something out of the hands of a spectator. 🤔
V is a deserverd champion however I think Pogachar should wear the yellow jersey. White jersey, second in green, high up in polkadot, 2 stage wins, second overall and unquestionably talented. Just one bad day unfortunately.
Noob question but shouldn't basically every stage (except the last) be one for the breakaway right now? Jumbo Visma wouldn't want Pogacar to gain any bonus seconds by finishing among the first riders, so they should always let a break go. UAE need every rider possible to aid Pogacar and get him in a 1v1 scenario with Jonas like they did today, so they can't waste to much manpower on chasing that break. And additionally Sprinter teams like Lotto are weakened.
Yes unless it is pancake flat stage or hard mountain stage it should be for breakaway, only jumbo can bring the breakaway with their manpower, and like u said bringing the breakaway is the last thing they want unless WVA is capable of winning the stage
True. Working to bring JV to winning position in a non sprint finish is same as towing TP to bonus points or an attacking position unless TP dropped, so Jumbo need only defend and UAE must attack to find time and tire JV as TT won't be enough
classic MATHEWS -AUSTRALIAN team shouldn't be questioned all teams had issues last few years - financially and riders race fitness auzzies have to develop talent pool
Pogacar can’t count on more 45 secs in tt, perhaps 10 bonus secs. Not enough. Looks like pogacar cannot dislodge vingegaard on any climb. Thus x probable vingegaard wins tour Vuelta cd be great race. Roglic second tier here at tour. But has champions mindset. Already he has been thinking of what race (vuelta) he can win to redeem himself. And roglic need a win there to enhance his value. Vingegaard now is top dog at jumbo. Perhaps roglic leaves jumbo for Ineos or movie star or bora or Israeli. He’s gotta win. (Same mindset for washed out mvp, but worlds, tho he may use 10 stages of vuelta for worlds prep). Pogacar if loses tour may say let’s do vuelta. Bernal may be healed and want vuelta for a return Valverde last racing days at vuelta Carapaz not at tour, at vuelta. The customary quite weak field at all vueltas cd be v different this yr
@@akshittolia8974 if pogacar loses tour he will have to sit and stew till worlds Someday he wants to have won all 3 grand tours. I believe that that someday will be upon him this yr if he loses tour We will see
There are rumors that UAE team will make a deal with one or two top teams to help Pog with beating Jonas and his Jumbo Visma team. This is going to be interesting.
Maybe, but if Pogacar is going to test him every day, it will only take one bad day or a bit if bad luck for Vingegaard and things could switch around.
@@discbrakefan Pogacar should have left the 3 Ineos men to attack the yellow jersey instead of doing it himself and let Jumbo Visma do all the chasing work... Poor strategy by Pog in my opinion
@@franciskurt4708 It's exactly because he has no support that he should have left Ineos and Jumbo Visma fight each other and then take advantage of it at the right time instead of wasting energy directly attacking Vingegaard
Que vergueza ver campeones cojer pela de una ventaja de casi 13minutos suerte que estos corredores no esta en la clesificacion por que sino, hubiera nuevo lider
Great Stage. All of a sudden, the Lazy-Boy, Wanna-be Racers are calling Doping...we know that 99% of the Peleton use sone kind of Enhancer, so what are you on about. Relax and Enjoy the Le Tour.
I love the highlights, however if you don't show, I don't care. In fact that you get us a little addicted . I'm giving up now. Its just a bunch of cheaters. Electric bikes ?
I wish the narrator would pronounce vinegaards name properly he's seriously doing my head in with the way he says it. How does he even get to that pronunciation? Please get him to stop or change him altogether.
With 6 stages we shall soon see how STUPID QUICKSTEPs decision not including Mark Cavendish on this tour... Curse this team! I hope they lose sponsors!!!
Haven't UCI and WADA been doing drug testing at the end of the stages ? Don't they normally test the top three on gc, along with the riders in the special jerseys ( Kom, points, best young rider in addition to race leader) along with a few other riders as test controls ?
I live in France and we are curently experiencing an historic drought. The Verdon (biggest canyon of Europe) has never been that low since 1964. The river Drome is completely dry. We also have an heatwave that will perhaps compete with the deadly 2003 one. And i learn today, that because the asphalt of the road is becoming soft due to the heat, the TdF organizer is watering the asphalt by truck before the race comes !!!! We are desperately lacking water, and THEY ARE WATERING ASPHALT ! Lets remember that some of the tops sponsors of the TdF are petrol, gas and coil companies/countries : UAE, Bahrain, Ineos, Total, etc. They are among the top responsible for that situation. I can not stand seeing them destroying the world and my country for their greed. That whole event is more than a joke, it is an insult to human lifes. Please do not support this race towards our death.
@@tongobong1 The pressure is on Pog to take back yellow since he was 2x previous winner so of course Jonas will just defend for now. If Pog struggles on Hautacam Jonas will try to leave him.
Going SOLO with FIFTY Ks to go!?!? 😧 Matthews is either MAD or MAGNIFICENT! 😍👍 Well, he's an AUSSIE. So maybe he's BOTH! 😂 Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. Oi! Oi! Oi! M 🦘🏏😎
Just a special mention for my fellow South African, Louis Meintjes who has gone from something like 26th to 7th in just a couple of days. Great fight. So few S-Africans in pro-cycling and Daryl Impi got Covid just days before the TDF. Incredibly, even if unlikely, Meintjes now even has an outside crack at a podium finish.
How do you pronounce "Meintjes" I say à la flamande "Meint - jes" I don't finde a k sound?? He has my support,
@@ilsefluck1200 lol yeah the commentators really struggle.. The "Louis" is a silent "s" - so it is "Loo-he" and Meintjes is "Main-kiss"
Great comment !! What a ride up Alpe d’Huez as well and today 💪🇿🇦 Podium why not! 😃
AHH good old Dutch names
@@petesmart1983 Hehe - we are part descendants of the Dutch East India Company landed at the Cape in 1652..
I remember watching Jalabert win that stage in '95. And yeah, I was watching the Tour for many years before that. I remember when all the racers in the Tour were my age or older. Now I'm old enough to be the dad of any racer in the Tour. Time does fly by.
The good old days when we could tell the riders apart because they weren't wearing huge reflective sunglasses or even helmets.
1988 TDF.... Greatest EVER............ Gregg Lemond STILL the greatest USA cyclist ever........... Lance Armstrong STILL SUCKS!!!!!! Doping scum who ruined others lives
..wow ..time flies!!
Good pressure putting on by Pogacar.... good sportsmanship too
Not good pressure. It didn't take any time back, just unnecessary wasted energy
Well deserved winner. Watched him a few stages this Tour and he's always putting the extra effort and just missing out. Good on ya'!
Absolutely love your pronunciation of the French names and words!
Have waited a long time to say this. Congratulations Michael Matthews!!!
Another great Stage, this TDF has been a treat so far
Fabulous coverage, GCN. Best in the biz and many thanks. Looking forward each day to these reports. Fantastic race this year; great to see the crowds back.
5:15 I like the scene!
Bettiol almost got it! Happy for Matthews, though. Wish Powless would have been contesting it, this type of finish suits him down to the ground, but Bettiol put up a good fight and Matthews won fair and square.
Congrats Michael, the heat sure does help the Aussies.
What's the name of the commentator on these videos? Top job and easy to listen to.
Great sportsmanship exhibited by the leaders.
I agree! They're constantly giving each other respect after their numerous hard battles. Really great to see.
…along with magnificent effort, strength, perseverance and expertise.
Thus making them more respectable.
Nice one Michael Matthews!!! 👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼
Well say..
Beautiful racing today. Congratulations to all
Thanks for these recaps! Much appreciated
great ride by matthews what a legggend
Jonas is defending intelligently. He does not need to widen the gap, just keep the loses minimal and barring a nasty incident, he will win the yellow.
Cleaver strategy by Jonas, just stay on Pogacar wheels to get the 2.22 gap hahaha 😝 hopefully TT stage don’t mess up
Good tactics by Jonas
yeah..just stick to poga..he can do it😁
That's not a battle I'm looking for
Mende climbing record! 9:03 for Jonas and Pogi same as it was in 1995 (Pantani, Indurain, Riis)
They matched the superdopers? (27 years later!!)
Great ride by Bling. Well deserved.
Thanks so much for posting.
Great to see Matthews win from Australia. Who hoo.
Fantastic ride meintjies go for the win.
Jonas just streched his legs. Today was super easy for him.
Easy day for Jonas
He looks very comfortable… and his strategy to attach himself to Pogecar seems a good one
@@byza101 he has more than enough gap not to do anything, just follow Tadej.
He look like he could barely hold on to Pogacar at the end.
He look like he could barely hold on to Pogacar at the end.
Vingegaard reminds me of Rasmussen in the Rabobank time....both great mountainklimbers
You should search for Jonas Vingegaard's last name on wikipedia!
@@PaulRiezebos Rasmussen is one of the most common last names in Denmark
Well done BEX.
Brilliant racing. Lov it.
Am I right in saying the sprinters have got a bad doing this tour? Apart from the start most stages are better suited for beakaways
You are correct, increasingly all the Grand Tours not just the TDF have fewer and fewer of the 'old' flat stages that were suited to pure sprinters and their sprint trains.
@@epincion Good riddance.
@@epincion much more exciting this way
Excellent cycling
Good onya, Mike. After two stage seconds, you deserved this brilliant win.
Beast mode activated
Let's go bling! Giant!
Michael Matheus Monster!
Matthews should get an award for attractiveness.
The Jonas crack will be tremendous
Look at the sugar drink JV is guzzling post stage. Looks like a thick maltodextrin mix in a Vittel bottle.
So strange how they present these highlights, with comments always forecasting what eventually happens. Why not just narrate what is happening during the highlight, rather than forecasting the final result ? Not everyone is watching these having already seen the result.
i wonder what happened. Just after winner crossed the line I noticed one of the TDF staff run up along the barriers and forcibly rip something out of the hands of a spectator. 🤔
It's a flag against some sort of shopping center that is planned in Tameiga, Spain.
@@audiostrife Interesting - I was also wondering what flag it was.
i had a look at the replay, it was some green flag with a NO and something written. underneath it.
At what time does this happen please
@@simonknowles4267 4:04 Green flag on the left. But they don't show security taking it
Michael is an Aussie Great!
Louis mentjies ❤️❤️❤️
50km on his own! Mad!
this year cyclist are not acting
like tourist they're attacking
every opportunity they can get
Last day in yellow for TJV ... tomorrow some will cough out the blood from their lungs because Pogi sure is hungry for that yellow
Damn this new propel can climb
Go South Africa !
Go Bling
Just over 150 kmremaining
Vingegaard will win Le Tour 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰
V is a deserverd champion however I think Pogachar should wear the yellow jersey. White jersey, second in green, high up in polkadot, 2 stage wins, second overall and unquestionably talented. Just one bad day unfortunately.
Maybe Pogachar peaked too soon. Taking the yellow jersey early means more work to defend it and I don't think his team is that strong.
@@zacharycat603 There are plenty of races to go. Vingegaard already looks tired to even stay right behind Pogacar.
@@martinpospisil3747 Ohh does he?
His team just isn’t a full as it was last year. Even if they were not strong they supported him more than they did these past few stages
@@martinpospisil3747 In your dreams!!”😂😂😂
Noob question but shouldn't basically every stage (except the last) be one for the breakaway right now? Jumbo Visma wouldn't want Pogacar to gain any bonus seconds by finishing among the first riders, so they should always let a break go. UAE need every rider possible to aid Pogacar and get him in a 1v1 scenario with Jonas like they did today, so they can't waste to much manpower on chasing that break. And additionally Sprinter teams like Lotto are weakened.
Yes unless it is pancake flat stage or hard mountain stage it should be for breakaway, only jumbo can bring the breakaway with their manpower, and like u said bringing the breakaway is the last thing they want unless WVA is capable of winning the stage
True. Working to bring JV to winning position in a non sprint finish is same as towing TP to bonus points or an attacking position unless TP dropped, so Jumbo need only defend and UAE must attack to find time and tire JV as TT won't be enough
Giant the best
classic MATHEWS -AUSTRALIAN team shouldn't be questioned all teams had issues last few years - financially and riders race fitness
auzzies have to develop talent pool
Pogacha? Vingego?😃😃😃
Pogacar can’t count on more 45 secs in tt, perhaps 10 bonus secs.
Not enough.
Looks like pogacar cannot dislodge vingegaard on any climb. Thus x probable vingegaard wins tour
Vuelta cd be great race. Roglic second tier here at tour. But has champions mindset. Already he has been thinking of what race (vuelta) he can win to redeem himself. And roglic need a win there to enhance his value. Vingegaard now is top dog at jumbo. Perhaps roglic leaves jumbo for Ineos or movie star or bora or Israeli. He’s gotta win.
(Same mindset for washed out mvp, but worlds, tho he may use 10 stages of vuelta for worlds prep).
Pogacar if loses tour may say let’s do vuelta.
Bernal may be healed and want vuelta for a return
Valverde last racing days at vuelta
Carapaz not at tour, at vuelta.
The customary quite weak field at all vueltas cd be v different this yr
Don't see podgacar riding vuelta... Roglic vs carapaz is on cards ... Also Bora might go with hindley
@@akshittolia8974 hindley with Buchmann could be dangerous
Yes.. already hindley beat carapaz at giro so vuelta might be a great race this time over the giro ( giro barring 4-5 gc was terrible)@@ALPHA_153
@@akshittolia8974 if pogacar loses tour he will have to sit and stew till worlds
Someday he wants to have won all 3 grand tours. I believe that that someday will be upon him this yr if he loses tour
We will see
Could not have scripted it better.
Vingegaard will win Le Tour
There are rumors that UAE team will make a deal with one or two top teams to help Pog with beating Jonas and his Jumbo Visma team. This is going to be interesting.
Maybe, but if Pogacar is going to test him every day, it will only take one bad day or a bit if bad luck for Vingegaard and things could switch around.
@@discbrakefan Pogacar should have left the 3 Ineos men to attack the yellow jersey instead of doing it himself and let Jumbo Visma do all the chasing work... Poor strategy by Pog in my opinion
@@alex-p You do realize he has NO support - you obviously don't
@@franciskurt4708 It's exactly because he has no support that he should have left Ineos and Jumbo Visma fight each other and then take advantage of it at the right time instead of wasting energy directly attacking Vingegaard
Que vergueza ver campeones cojer pela de una ventaja de casi 13minutos suerte que estos corredores no esta en la clesificacion por que sino, hubiera nuevo lider
Looks sweltering
Great Stage. All of a sudden, the Lazy-Boy, Wanna-be Racers are calling Doping...we know that 99% of the Peleton use sone kind of Enhancer, so what are you on about. Relax and Enjoy the Le Tour.
I love the highlights, however if you don't show, I don't care.
In fact that you get us a little addicted .
I'm giving up now.
Its just a bunch of cheaters.
Electric bikes ?
I wish the narrator would pronounce vinegaards name properly he's seriously doing my head in with the way he says it. How does he even get to that pronunciation? Please get him to stop or change him altogether.
*_Best time to slam a Coke- the end of a TDF stage. LeMond fancied Orange Fanta._*
SBS does provide a great coverage of Le Tour , however why do we have to have a transvestite as a commentator 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
With 6 stages we shall soon see how STUPID QUICKSTEPs decision not including Mark Cavendish on this tour... Curse this team! I hope they lose sponsors!!!
Tadeh on juice.
No fatigue not even breathing on hard efforts.
Red flags
Pffft... Stupid assumption... go play with Barbie
Haven't UCI and WADA been doing drug testing at the end of the stages ? Don't they normally test the top three on gc, along with the riders in the special jerseys ( Kom, points, best young rider in addition to race leader) along with a few other riders as test controls ?
Go Pogacar for 3 times champion tour de france
First🥳
I live in France and we are curently experiencing an historic drought. The Verdon (biggest canyon of Europe) has never been that low since 1964. The river Drome is completely dry. We also have an heatwave that will perhaps compete with the deadly 2003 one. And i learn today, that because the asphalt of the road is becoming soft due to the heat, the TdF organizer is watering the asphalt by truck before the race comes !!!! We are desperately lacking water, and THEY ARE WATERING ASPHALT ! Lets remember that some of the tops sponsors of the TdF are petrol, gas and coil companies/countries : UAE, Bahrain, Ineos, Total, etc. They are among the top responsible for that situation. I can not stand seeing them destroying the world and my country for their greed. That whole event is more than a joke, it is an insult to human lifes. Please do not support this race towards our death.
Danish MEN know how to dope.
Take that back
You can say that he same about UAE. Their manager, Matxin, knows doping very well.
@@TBATTIECYCLING Riis, Rasmusen doped heavily, from where they were, Mars, Pluton ?, think before you write.
@@Kanonka28 don’t know never heard of them
A bit of doping would do wonders for your brain, Marcin.
Boring stage, there should be no climbs or TT's, only sprints.
they see me trollin', they hatin'
What a bad take lol
Jonas is boring because he is always ridding behind Pogacar.
@@tongobong1 The pressure is on Pog to take back yellow since he was 2x previous winner so of course Jonas will just defend for now. If Pog struggles on Hautacam Jonas will try to leave him.
@@gregoryschreiter Jonas is now making the Tour boring. Shame on him.
Going SOLO with FIFTY Ks to go!?!? 😧
Matthews is either MAD or MAGNIFICENT! 😍👍
Well, he's an AUSSIE. So maybe he's BOTH! 😂 Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. Oi! Oi! Oi!
M 🦘🏏😎