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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.

Maincheese still with the yellow group.

Can we revive the "NTT better start winning or else" thread yet? I see writing on the wall, especially since their new sponsor seems to be a bit of an iffy prospect financially.

Easy. He wouldn't ride a Pogacar or Carapaz off his wheel on Ventoux. There's a difference between the pack filler in the break and climbers.

Why the **** is Mollema dragging Alaphillippe back towards his own team mate? FFS!

Oooooh! Is Matt gonna come ban us for being off topic?

Oh. It wouldn't change my appreciation and enthusiasm for the sport in any way. Also, I don't like talking to people that use the word rad so many times in a conversation.

I'm still not sure what the point is. Are people suggesting that the sport is changed to accommodate society's angst?

They isolated Pogacar on Tignes. It didn't help them, but they did shell all his team mates.

Luckily Pogacar is so strong. I mean, Formolo looks like a dog just licked a wasp, and Rui Costa (no disrespect) a mountain domestique? Tadej has to do it all himself.

Soccer is embarrassingly chocolate then? I'm very confused at your comment.

I'll wait for Carapaz to attack, and then Pogacar to look at him slightly bemused and ride away, just like Tignes?

World champ and the dotty shirt on the attack. Nice.

Hipster doofuses will never win. Even when they finish first.

I never knew Bob Dylan took performance enhancing drugs. What's the link between these names?

Well then you have to bar riders like Yates from even starting, as they stated before the start that they are going there simply to try and pick up a stage win. That negates the focus on three weeks of overall contention right off the bat. Keep in mind, the reason Van Der Poel left early is the Olympics. That's very possibly a once in a lifetime chance at a gold medal (yeah, he's young, but a lot can happen in 4 years, and it's one day, injury or illness cannot be ruled out).

The trick is to lose some of the weight and retain the same (or increase) the power output. (Speaking of Hunter, a pure sprinter, sure. I remember when he was riding for Mapei and he came back here to ride the Jock. He made our "climbers" look like a girls u/12 netball team on bicycles the way he left them for dead...Euro pro's are on a completely different planet)

Yeah, I'm confused still. I dunno how his comment makes him a ****. Anyway. he was as tough as a badgers arse to do what he did, and continues to advocate for african cyclists as an agent for a lot of cyclists coming out of the continent.

I'm confused. Vindicated?