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As soon as they put on that Yellow jersey on his shoulders on the Final Podium they need to SERIOUSLY think about his objectives for the rest of 2024. When again will he be served up with such a golden opportunity to take three GTs in the same year? Drop the priority of all the other races. Even the Olympics and Worlds IMHO. "If we had to, how could we get Pogi to ride Vuelta?" He doesn't have to be at his peak ability, just 80% Pogi should take it at a canter...

I agree the GC riders will attack each other, but they are not bringing back a 6min lead on these 2 remaining climbs. Tiesj to take it from the 4 man breakaway...

Maybe not... GC group now 5'48 behind front riders.

Fascinating stage. 100km done, 78km remaining and attacks are still flying. Pogacar is taking this one...

Much more interesting start to the stage then yesterday. Seems far from settling down anytime soon

Surely the Breakaway will be given this stage, as long as it doesn't contain any GC top10 threats...

Yawn. Can anyone organize us some crosswinds or something?

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Tadej is the only guy that seems to be in with a realistic shot of matching the record set by Cav: Currently on 14 wins, he needs 21 more. Assuming he keeps his hit rate of three wins per tour, he could actually make it by age 32, which seems doable. (PS. Three more Mountain stages left in this edition, so he could be on 6 wins in Nice if he and UAE wants to..)

Man vs Man 8km of climbing. This sets the scene for the rest of the week

Very true take. Tomorrow's stage could prove pivotal.

Kom Meintjies. Hulle weet nie wat ons weet nie. (Sadly I think the current gap isn't big enough to stay away from Pogacar and Jonas once they start swinging apples)

Nevermind

Crosswinds...

Yates and company caught... these 4 are left...1min20s up the road. I'm going with Magnus Cort holding off the chasing peloton by 3s....

Sanity starts to prevail: Drop Yates out of the Break and it has a chance of survival:

And then crosswinds + visma creates a mountain of chaos. This might not be a straightforward day after all

He is in the 22man breakaway currently, really helps his chances. 👍

Cool pic, far from "half-way" down.

I could be difficult and say it was more a case of 1st vs 2nd and then 3rd vs 4th, but there is still plenty of KM's until we reach Paris Nice, so Remco might still come back into it. Fingers crossed for a three-way fight.

I think it was a masterstroke... he got the same time as Remco without expending the same amount of energy...

Or, take it to the Private Messages. The rest of us on this thread aren't interested.

Pogi looking dodgy on some of these turns on the descent. Will we see a repeat of the one stage where Pogi went down and Jonas waited for him...

Vingegaard riding back to Pogacar. Bloody impressive! Pogi will still take the stage methinks...

Pogacar goes nuclear!