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The Tour-Vuelta double definitely seems to be a more rare feat than the Giro-Tour one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Crown_of_Cycling Fausto Coppi (ITA) 1949 Tour + Giro 3rd place Fausto Coppi (ITA) 1952 Tour + Giro DNE Jacques Anquetil (FRA) 1963 Tour + Vuelta 14th place[4] Jacques Anquetil (FRA) 1964 Tour + Giro 7th place[5] Eddy Merckx (BEL) 1970 Tour + Giro 29th place[6] Eddy Merckx (BEL) 1972 Tour + Giro 4th place[7] Eddy Merckx (BEL) 1973 Giro + Vuelta 4th place[8] Bernard Hinault (FRA) 1978 Tour + Vuelta 5th place[9] Giovanni Battaglin (ITA) 1981 Giro + Vuelta 26th place[10] Bernard Hinault (FRA) 1982 Tour + Giro DNF Bernard Hinault (FRA) 1985 Tour + Giro DNF Miguel Indurain (ESP) 1992 Tour + Giro 6th place Miguel Indurain (ESP) 1993 Tour + Giro 2nd place Marco Pantani (ITA) 1998 Tour + Giro DNE[11] Alberto Contador (ESP) 2008 Giro + Vuelta DNF[12] Chris Froome (GBR) 2017 Tour + Vuelta DNE

Multiple TDF winner needs some asthma or another bout of bilharzia?

I would "like" your post, but we need @Matt to give us a puke emoji.

Movistar.

So, what are Bernal, Geohegan-Hart and Ivan Sosa? Chopped liver all of a sudden?

I've heard rumours. Fortunately I'm spared that as I watch GCN/Eurosport.

Upset that Ineos has started using the patented Movistar race tactics.

On an America channel. He's still saying the wrong names and dropping Liggets all over the show.

Hopefully they'll be able to keep it rubber side down. I remember Roglic descending in the Giro a few years ago, he was sublime. Poetry in motion. I wonder what happened to his skills the last couple of seasons.

Yeah. Movistar 2.0 isn't worrying anyone.

Oh, I meant retired from pro cycling, not just the race. Although the same could be said for van Avermaet and Gilbert (who I constantly confuse for one another).

Usually when he does that mid race, he's looking for the win.

Holy carp! A Nexthash rider made the move. I'm like Squirrel hearing about loadshedding. Also, I would have sworn blind EBH was retired.

If you have the legs, you don't necessarily need a team to get to or stay on the podium. Vingegaard can rely on others to be there and make a move, like yesterday's.

I'm not sure what you're getting at. But a GC contender trying to get away on a flat stage is a waste of time as the sprinters' teams will pull anything back either to go for green points or a stage win. The proviso being when massive crosswinds influence the GC battle on the flat roads, but today doesn't look like being that.

Realistically? Any doc will prescribe at you old man's age.

Pointless waste of effort. The sprinters' teams will see to that.

Are those van Poppel boys (no pun) related?

29 Sepp Kuss (USA) Jumbo-Visma 0:14:28 On the stage. Overall: 74 Sepp Kuss (USA) Jumbo-Visma 1:39:14 Maybe he hunts a stage in the Pyrenees.

Yeah, it would have made the Vingegaard - Pogacar battle more interesting. And Ineos (movistar v2.0) and carapaz could have detonated earlier...

I know no-one cares, but Maincheese moved up a few places in the GC yesterday. With a good run in the Pyrenees, he can be knocking on the door of a top ten. On the Pogacar thing, the bottom line is if he could have stayed with Vingegaard he would have. This nonsense of "he chose to not follow" is, well, nonsense. Sure, he didn't crack open like a piñata, but at the moment he simply didn't have the legs.

Crapapaz and Mick Jagger coming back to Pogacar.

Vingegaard dropping the boss.???? Jumbo Visma bringing all the riding today.

No threat if carapaz and imeos do a movistar. The bear will only react if poked today I think.

Popped king Kenny like the cork from his soon to be victory champagne.