Loving the race this year. Honestly, I think Pogi went out front to get out of the dust and get some fresh air. This race has everything. A feast for cycling lovers.
Pog often races too aggressively (it can be to his detriment) but I think 1) he enjoys it and 2) he understands the entertainment aspect of spectator sports. Vingegaard doesn't understand #2. Either that or he puts a very low priority on it.
That was the best stages so far from one of the best first weeks of the Tour! Pogacar and Remco were racing so aggressively it made Jonas look scared. I cant wait to see what week two brings us!
This year i want Pogi to win because Vingegaard only follows for 2 weeks until he can drop Pogi in the mountains. It's a fair tactic but it's not fun to watch...
Honestly i do not understand this way of thinking. The dynamic between the two is that Pog is better week 1 & 2 so he has to attack to get ahead and JV needs to try to stay close and then win it back. For me it is very exciting to try to guess when the lead is enough or if JV can come back
Any true professional athlete will improvise adapt, overcome all obstacles to win that is a true champion he doesn’t cry like a little girl He just gets it done.
@@unknown23hornet22 They are not comparable. There were 6 categorised climbs in that stage, 0 tomorrow. You can decimate sprint trains with that many obstacles. Can't when there are no difficulties. The final climb was 800 m at 9%, where even GC contenders struggled to follow. Tomorrow will be at 3-4%, which is no problem even for sprinters. That one stage finished in Calais BTW, not Dunkerque.
Which is more entertaining to watch, this stage with all the variety and drama? or 200kms of nothing much ending with 5kms of sprint teams lining up for a 60-second blitz? Very much Simon's and Dan's point on GCN episode #599, I think.
Why not just do away with sprints and the green jersey then? Cav and the other sprinters should go home and flip burgers then? Go watch track cycling, you'll get a result every 15 minutes :)
@@jonathangoliath91 I don't think OP said anything against sprints, rather, this stage was entertaining from start to finish, rather than a monotone race on a perfect tarmac road where nothing happens until the final km's.
I thought for sure MVP was going to give this a crack. He really hasn’t been at it this tour for some reason. Did I miss something, was he injured or something in the lead up ?
What do you expect, he has nothing to gain by pulling, as he is too slow on the finish line, he would merely help Pogacar and Remco to gain bonus seconds. Also, he is recovering from injury, and he was not even riding his own bike
On paper pogacha needed to be 3 minutes far from Jonas at the end of the first week. But Jonas be able to cut 2 minutes deficit meaning visma did great job.
Pogi , in my humble opinion , made a bad jugment for this stage or maybe he wasn't his decision . He could have race with Remco and vingegaard till the and after they catch the brakeaway . Why ? Be cause : or they could've drop vingegaard or they could have do a battle at the end of the race and the winner would have been one of two Tadej or Remco because they have a good sprint better than the danish rider . And there is something else to add , they could have put a really nasty gap on Roglic . I think Roglic is the nemesis for Remco .😄 Well , I think this is a lesson to think about it .
It's a pity that Vingo refused to work with Pogi and Remco, when both attacked with over 70 km to go. For a few minutes, it seemed like this could become a stage for the history books! I would have loved to see an epic battle between the giants for GC and the stage win!
Seems like many people have no clue about bike racing. Pogacar is riding with his legs and not his head.... Jonas is riding with his head and his legs. If you wanna win the Tour you have to use both just like Jonas.
@@fangru7294 He had two punctures in a terrain that did not suit him... But it suited Pogacar and yet he did not gain anything... This race is about to tip in Vingegaards direction.
@@Gws525 Nah he is burning up his matches just like the last two years... Spending energy on nothing and will be like a flat tire in the last week.... And again cause he is not using his head or maybe he is worried about the last week and trying his hardest to gain the time he needs to keep Jonas from the #1 spot.... Pog will fail as usual.
Jonas Vingegard is the Alain Prost of bike racing. He is without charisma he is calculating and boring racer if we can even call a him racer.. Pogacar and Remco are like Schumacher and Senna. Always ready to race flat out and super talented.
@@sambitmishra1229bro you know that sponsor wants them to win because of people who watch, roght? 😂 If everyone was riding like Jonas there would be no cycling...
Turgis is literally zigzagging to left and right in fatigue at the final meters. How is this not considered deviation? He could be considered blocking Pidcock
visma was really amazing with those magnificent riders : Van Aert back and fort to help the front of the peleton , Jorgenson , such a powerfull rider that could manage POgacar's attack , WOW !!! , and the danish rider , after that bad and seriously crash with a short and not so good training , also managed to keep up the pace with the slovenian rider Tadej Pogacar ! Wow and WOW ! A blowing mind performance of visma lease a bike , for sure ! How are they doing such amazing races with cyclists so seriously injured ,especially in the Tour of France .All the spring till the Tour they didn't made anything at all , no noticeable achievements and crashed everywhere , no offense! I mean ... this is a wonder ! Isn't it ? It doesn't matter that Pogacar won so many powerfull races and Giro this year till now , it doesn't matter that Yates , Almeida and Ayuso are such good and powerfull riders ! It doesn't matter their results !?! All that counts is that , somehow , by pure visma miracles their riders are such astonishing riders with no match in peleton !?! Is UAE so weak and disorganized ? Just make a simple comparision between this two teams :visma and UAE . What their riders has in their records ? Or , how are their standings in this year achievements ? I mean , suddenly UAE riders have a bad condition or something ? I really don't get it ?
@@setlhabanesquiremoseamo1719Absolutely true. And if he wins in the end using this strategy, kudos to him. But people in the end like to be entertained, they like a show. And consequently like riders who offer them that. Simple as that.
Nine stages done Vingegaard has won 7 of the 9. Each time he ties pogacar it’s a win for v, b c he came into tour undertrained and fragile P has 1:15 here on gravel he needed to get approx 2:45 on v, zero he got B c in high mtns stages 14 15 v will get approx 3 min on p P lost tour today, on gravel What v has done so far on such training is spectacular
@@leonardo3399 precisely, sd be down approx 4 min but a spectacular vingegaard without training has tied p 7 times. v wont round into shape till approx stage 11, he is growing each day, each tie a win, while p is not growing in fitness. p needed approx 4 min on v b f stage 14 and 15, will not get it, cant stay with a fit v in the high mtns, tour won by v already.
He is Pog's nemesis you'll just have to suck it up. He was riding someone else's bike as his had a mechanical during the race. Why should he take the chance on a different bike. Jonas rides smart lets the other two showboat.
If I look at it from a different perspective, I would say "The others are not calculating and efficient enough. They don't deserve to win." But, that is not how it works, there are different riders and different ways to win races. It does not make any sense to say someone don't deserve to win because their way of racing is not appealing to you.
@@doommonger7784stop it. Visma guys already said that Tratnik was riding beside Jonas with almost same bike just for this stage so he can hand it to Jonas if he had mechanical...
Loving the race this year.
Honestly, I think Pogi went out front to get out of the dust and get some fresh air.
This race has everything. A feast for cycling lovers.
Thank you Eurosport for a thumbnail that doesnt spoil the result
Congrats Derek Gee all of Canada is proud of you!
Most of Canada is ashamed of the team he races for
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We want Lance! We want Lance! We want Lance! The USA needs another great cyclist to get America back interested in the TdF.
It's commendable how Pog takes the initiative and puts his face to the wind to get things done.
I thought that was Remco who started the ball rolling, with his burst from the peloton when they caught up with the breakaway.
@@doommonger7784 Pogacar pulled alone more than once, his breakaway with Remco and Jonas wasn't the only attack on this stage
Pog often races too aggressively (it can be to his detriment) but I think 1) he enjoys it and 2) he understands the entertainment aspect of spectator sports. Vingegaard doesn't understand #2. Either that or he puts a very low priority on it.
Good day for the Canadians! 🇨🇦
That was the best stages so far from one of the best first weeks of the Tour! Pogacar and Remco were racing so aggressively it made Jonas look scared. I cant wait to see what week two brings us!
Jonas the wheel sucker will fly in the 3rd week said the experts 😂
@@leonardo3399 I totally agree!
Fire cracker of a stage. Couldnt take my eyes off of it.
Wow those dust...
Love the Freibism ‘the criminally underrated Anthony Turgis’ as finally his hero makes his mark.
The best stage of the Tour so far.
so sad for Jasper 😢
Why, he’s a twat
Booo on Visma! Start pulling!!!
Gee third on the stage! WooT!
The dust kicked up will harm the lungs.
This is the best summary video
loved this stage. pogi made it even more entertaining.
This year i want Pogi to win because Vingegaard only follows for 2 weeks until he can drop Pogi in the mountains. It's a fair tactic but it's not fun to watch...
Honestly i do not understand this way of thinking. The dynamic between the two is that Pog is better week 1 & 2 so he has to attack to get ahead and JV needs to try to stay close and then win it back.
For me it is very exciting to try to guess when the lead is enough or if JV can come back
@@Petmagjak You're right but like i said, I think Pogi's way of cycling attacking more and making a more fun race in my opinion is more fun.
Thanks so much for posting
Why did Bob Rolle (sp?) keep saying cobbles instead of gravel? Same thing for some areas?
Bobke isn't the sharpest.
If they do the gravel going forward then they need to rearrange things so the riders are not breathing in dust from the motor vehicles
Was about to comment the same. Ridiculous that those motorbikes are just ahead of the riders.
ohh myy Girmay stayed in the top ten for the stage wowww
Any true professional athlete will improvise adapt, overcome all obstacles to win that is a true champion he doesn’t cry like a little girl He just gets it done.
Next stage has a small climb at the end. Might be some shenanigans.
Not really. The sprinters teams won't let anyone go also it's way too short to do any difference.
@@IzakPregeljKlemencic my thought was of that one stage where van aert win in yellow by Dunkirk.
@@unknown23hornet22 They are not comparable.
There were 6 categorised climbs in that stage, 0 tomorrow.
You can decimate sprint trains with that many obstacles. Can't when there are no difficulties.
The final climb was 800 m at 9%, where even GC contenders struggled to follow. Tomorrow will be at 3-4%, which is no problem even for sprinters.
That one stage finished in Calais BTW, not Dunkerque.
Surely inhaling that dust causes lungs problems. There will be some coughing tonight
Got to see this live at sector 5, straight to watch the big TV energy was electric for 5 hours ! Amazing stage
This was a fun stage to watch. Way more fun than a typical flat stage.
Next year's prologue: TT on a CX circuit, in a stadium setting, indoors, at night
Naaaah, two laps around the LeMans track..
@@Stefan_W. why bother gathering in the same place ? Let them do it from home.
In pitch dark wearing infra red goggles
Go Pogacar!
congra pogacha
Which is more entertaining to watch, this stage with all the variety and drama? or 200kms of nothing much ending with 5kms of sprint teams lining up for a 60-second blitz? Very much Simon's and Dan's point on GCN episode #599, I think.
Why not just do away with sprints and the green jersey then? Cav and the other sprinters should go home and flip burgers then? Go watch track cycling, you'll get a result every 15 minutes :)
@@jonathangoliath91 I don't think OP said anything against sprints, rather, this stage was entertaining from start to finish, rather than a monotone race on a perfect tarmac road where nothing happens until the final km's.
Yeh I think the point is the mix, having a bit of different conditions that bring different riders with different skills to the show
@@Atlas_21 you just described a sprint stage
I thought for sure MVP was going to give this a crack. He really hasn’t been at it this tour for some reason. Did I miss something, was he injured or something in the lead up ?
Racing on unpaved roads was common back in the day. Awesome.
Awesome stage!!
Very great first week. Jonas wise to race his own race. He need not cooperate with anyone. Class act.
I still think Vingegaard has the potential to take minutes back in the big mountain stages yet to come.
Yes, like he did on Galibier 😂
@@faminm like he did on the 7km uphill to Courchevel last year.
Jonas will fly on the third week. Just wait for it 😤😂
Fly where? Back home......😂
@@leonardo3399you are way too confident.
Always cool to be the first comment. Love these gravel races, these guys are true bike heroes.
Agreed. Great stage to mix it up!
Was a great stage
May Creator keep us on asphalt...what is it...dust, dirt, mud if it rains...🥵
If I was riding I'd hate the gravel. As a fan it's really fun. Great tour so far. Too bad the Anchovy wouldn't pull when he, Remco and Pogi got away.
What do you expect, he has nothing to gain by pulling, as he is too slow on the finish line, he would merely help Pogacar and Remco to gain bonus seconds. Also, he is recovering from injury, and he was not even riding his own bike
@@satori8626too many excuses. Just admir that he’s a boring rider 😂
Anchovy....😂😂😂
@leonardo3399 Let him be a boring rider... why didnt Pogacar attack in the third week last year?!
😂 come on! If he had pulled together with them, everybody would have said Jonas made a gigantic tactical error.
에펙 레이스가 아니라 에픽 피이스가 맞는듯. 그래블이 별다른 변별력도 없고 그냥 선수들 힘들게만 했다. 중간에 업힐 큰 거 몇 개는 넣어줬다면 더욱 흥미진진했을 건데...아쉽다.
The dust will effect their lungs into the next day or more, not the smartest idea
On paper pogacha needed to be 3 minutes far from Jonas at the end of the first week. But Jonas be able to cut 2 minutes deficit meaning visma did great job.
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Pogi , in my humble opinion , made a bad jugment for this stage or maybe he wasn't his decision . He could have race with Remco and vingegaard till the and after they catch the brakeaway . Why ? Be cause : or they could've drop vingegaard or they could have do a battle at the end of the race and the winner would have been one of two Tadej or Remco because they have a good sprint better than the danish rider . And there is something else to add , they could have put a really nasty gap on Roglic . I think Roglic is the nemesis for Remco .😄 Well , I think this is a lesson to think about it .
Vingegaard wasn't doing any work. It wasn't Pogacar.
Exactly JV drafting like always
@@danielschupmann8094Jonas the wheelsucker
Throwing away your bike seems to be a thing now
It's a pity that Vingo refused to work with Pogi and Remco, when both attacked with over 70 km to go. For a few minutes, it seemed like this could become a stage for the history books! I would have loved to see an epic battle between the giants for GC and the stage win!
I think it still is a stage for the history books. The constant change of who is in which groups and attacks were amazing.
This is Remco-copium... hoping to decide a Tour de France before mountains is pathetic
Jonas would not stand a chance.. that would be stupid of him
@@Dagensmandiskysovs-ew7wdhe specifically said “stage win”. No-one thinks this stage would decide the overall GC.
@@Mockle07 Yes, and fighting for a stage win would put vingegaards overall win at risk. He is not as explosive as the other two.
Windbreaker fan ??
Seems like many people have no clue about bike racing. Pogacar is riding with his legs and not his head.... Jonas is riding with his head and his legs. If you wanna win the Tour you have to use both just like Jonas.
Legs? He was almost done today, thankfuly there was Laporte and Mateo who had to wait for him and drag him to Tadej...
@@fangru7294 He had two punctures in a terrain that did not suit him... But it suited Pogacar and yet he did not gain anything... This race is about to tip in Vingegaards direction.
Seems like you have no clue. You are aware Pog has also won two tours, and will win this one too ‘using his legs’.
@@Gws525 Nah he is burning up his matches just like the last two years... Spending energy on nothing and will be like a flat tire in the last week.... And again cause he is not using his head or maybe he is worried about the last week and trying his hardest to gain the time he needs to keep Jonas from the #1 spot.... Pog will fail as usual.
@@KnowIt74 Jonas is going to crumble in the 3rd week. His form is nowhere near last year.
JV makes chris froome sky train very entertaining
Sky never won calendar grand tours.
😂😂😂
Not even.
Jonas is such a boring rider ngl hope pogi wins it
Jonas Vingegard is the Alain Prost of bike racing. He is without charisma he is calculating and boring racer if we can even call a him racer..
Pogacar and Remco are like Schumacher and Senna. Always ready to race flat out and super talented.
dumfck, hes being tactical, that isnt his terrrain.. You just wait for the mountains.
They are not there to entertain you. They are there to win for the sponsors.
It would have been plain stupid for him to race with Pogi and Remco. He would gain nothing from it in this terrain.
@@sambitmishra1229bro you know that sponsor wants them to win because of people who watch, roght? 😂 If everyone was riding like Jonas there would be no cycling...
Jonas didn’t have the power to attack today, he is still recovering. Plus he had two punctures and wasn’t even riding his own bike
I thought Pidcock was going to win 😢
Turgis is literally zigzagging to left and right in fatigue at the final meters. How is this not considered deviation? He could be considered blocking Pidcock
He is french.... no way they gonna strip the victory from him😉
He wasn't riding a straight line, but if Pidock really had the power, he had room to go past. No need for the race jury to be invovled.
driving pharmacy 🤣
visma was really amazing with those magnificent riders : Van Aert back and fort to help the front of the peleton , Jorgenson , such a powerfull rider that could manage POgacar's attack , WOW !!! , and the danish rider , after that bad and seriously crash with a short and not so good training , also managed to keep up the pace with the slovenian rider Tadej Pogacar ! Wow and WOW ! A blowing mind performance of visma lease a bike , for sure ! How are they doing such amazing races with cyclists so seriously injured ,especially in the Tour of France .All the spring till the Tour they didn't made anything at all , no noticeable achievements and crashed everywhere , no offense! I mean ... this is a wonder ! Isn't it ? It doesn't matter that Pogacar won so many powerfull races and Giro this year till now , it doesn't matter that Yates , Almeida and Ayuso are such good and powerfull riders ! It doesn't matter their results !?! All that counts is that , somehow , by pure visma miracles their riders are such astonishing riders with no match in peleton !?! Is UAE so weak and disorganized ? Just make a simple comparision between this two teams :visma and UAE . What their riders has in their records ? Or , how are their standings in this year achievements ? I mean , suddenly UAE riders have a bad condition or something ? I really don't get it ?
I'm sorry but Vingo is just annoying. Never cooperating, refusing to help anyone, never pulling a single watt for anyone or come out front.
It's a 3 week stage race and you're allowed to your use brains to figure the means to an end goal - it's called strategy!
@@setlhabanesquiremoseamo1719Absolutely true. And if he wins in the end using this strategy, kudos to him. But people in the end like to be entertained, they like a show. And consequently like riders who offer them that. Simple as that.
Why would he help his two direct rivals?
Nine stages done
Vingegaard has won 7 of the 9. Each time he ties pogacar it’s a win for v, b c he came into tour undertrained and fragile
P has 1:15 here on gravel he needed to get approx 2:45 on v, zero he got
B c in high mtns stages 14 15 v will get approx 3 min on p
P lost tour today, on gravel
What v has done so far on such training is spectacular
I hope you prepared full box of Kleenex cos you'll need it when Vingo gets cracked big time. So much I fear for his podium chances.
Has won 7 out of 9 but is down 1:15 mins??? 😂😂😂
@@leonardo3399 precisely, sd be down approx 4 min but a spectacular vingegaard without training has tied p 7 times. v wont round into shape till approx stage 11, he is growing each day, each tie a win, while p is not growing in fitness. p needed approx 4 min on v b f stage 14 and 15, will not get it, cant stay with a fit v in the high mtns, tour won by v already.
@@paulsolon6229 nah, mate. V is cracking each stage. V will crack in the mountains as he will be isolated. V has weak teammates this year, sadly
@@leonardo3399 we disagree.
so does history
JV really embarrassing…
As I thought, the course wasn't difficult enough to make a real GC race.
Jonas is a boring fellow. He doesn’t deserve to win.
Who decides that?
NOOOO man he is a jing to Pogi's jang or vise versa....
He is Pog's nemesis you'll just have to suck it up. He was riding someone else's bike as his had a mechanical during the race. Why should he take the chance on a different bike. Jonas rides smart lets the other two showboat.
If I look at it from a different perspective, I would say "The others are not calculating and efficient enough. They don't deserve to win." But, that is not how it works, there are different riders and different ways to win races. It does not make any sense to say someone don't deserve to win because their way of racing is not appealing to you.
@@doommonger7784stop it. Visma guys already said that Tratnik was riding beside Jonas with almost same bike just for this stage so he can hand it to Jonas if he had mechanical...
I wish that Vinegard wouldn't be such a coward and actually take a turn at the front. He always does that and it drives me crazy
So you think Vingegaard is in the race to entertain?
He’s here to win whatever it takes as every world class athlete would do
all dopers
Girmay was in another group behind…what he talking about? If Girmay was there he would’ve beaten him