Tour de France 2026

[MongooseMan]

1 hour ago, Bro Derek said:

Did I watch the same race as everyone else?

Jonas attacked 7 times the other day, from 50km out and all the way to the finish. 

The next day he attacked at least 3 times pretty early and continued to attack closer to the finish.

He couldn't drop him and if he did he couldn't stay away.

Pog is in a league of his own. IMHO Jonas needs to race more. Race more 1 day races and get used to (or more in tune with?) the flat taps racing that happens these days.

No more sky/Visma train controlling the race and others sitting up accepting it. It is balls out racing.

Being in that environment more would benefit him. But I do think current Pog is untouchable by anyone currently riding 

This. Jonas launched numerous attacks, and it seems we’ve got short memories, forgetting how boring TDF mountain days were in the Sky days. Yes, he wasn’t good enough, but he didn’t die wondering.

 

On the last mountain day; he was clearly going for a stage win, and got to within 2s of pulling it off.

[babse]

2 hours ago, MongooseMan said:

This. Jonas launched numerous attacks, and it seems we’ve got short memories, forgetting how boring TDF mountain days were in the Sky days. Yes, he wasn’t good enough, but he didn’t die wondering.

 

On the last mountain day; he was clearly going for a stage win, and got to within 2s of pulling it off.

Shew, i was worried i was the only 1 that saw it this way... 

 

Why on earth he'll waste more energy on pulling pog to the line after he tried that with 5 plus attacks without success just a few days back. 

 

They literally tried it all!!!

[Guest Mike Dewing]

11 hours ago, milky4130 said:

You do know that Jonas won 2 x Tours beating Pogacar, right?

No I didn’t know that 🙄.. 

 

Edited July 27, 2025 by Mike Dewing

[MongooseMan]

9 hours ago, babse said:

Shew, i was worried i was the only 1 that saw it this way... 

 

Why on earth he'll waste more energy on pulling pog to the line after he tried that with 5 plus attacks without success just a few days back. 

 

They literally tried it all!!!

I will say, if forced to be critical, the visma jorgensen Strat on the last mountain stage was confusing at best. Riding off the front,  bombing, and letting Pogi’s team come back was a head scratcher. But that’s not Jonas, just his team.

[Eugene Oppelt]

The run-in to Paris promises to be like a one day classic, with cobbles, a hilly circuit finalé with none of the routine laps around the Champs Elýsees. Many considers this to be the annual World Championship for the sprinters and most of the peloton appears to be edgy about this alteration to ‘tradition’.

14 teams thereabouts have not touched glory during this Tour. It’ll be a battlefield today. 

[Eugene Oppelt]

The most combative rider award for TdF 2025 goes to:

📸@gettyimages

[RobynE 🚵‍♀️]

WvA takes the stage after beating TP on the final climb. A proper bike race for the finish! TP takes the tour from JV and FL. 

[justinafrika]

Supremely exciting stage 21 (new) parkour and contest.  Since 2014 I've missed just a handful of days watching grand tour stages in real time, and today was the most spectacular final day of racing.  Much respect for Wout van Aert.  Whataguy!

Edited July 27, 2025 by justinafrika

[Vetplant]

Wout you biscuit! What. A. Finish! 

Sorry sprinters, but THIS should be the final stage of the TDF. 

I was hopeful that Wout could beat his breakaway riders in the sprint, never in my wildest dreams did I think he can drop Pogi on the climb. That was great to watch. 

[cadenceblur]

I reckon this change was a massive success and leave it to Pogacar to light things up!

a great showing by the yellow jersey - a real racer at heart

a real spectacle all in all. 

[RobynE 🚵‍♀️]

If Wout knew then what he knows now… 

[Vetplant]

34 minutes ago, RobynE 🚵‍♀️ said:

If Wout knew then what he knows now… 

"The course is obviously something that suits me, especially when that last climb is 6km from the finish. That opens up perspectives for classic riders like me."

Seems he did

The wet weather also played to his strengths.

ADD: Oh, Jorgensen needs full credit too for that stage win. He played the PERFECT teammate role in the lead-up to that last passage of Montmartre.

Edited July 28, 2025 by Vetplant

[IceCreamMan]

13 hours ago, justinafrika said:

Supremely exciting stage 21 (new) parkour and contest.  Since 2014 I've missed just a handful of days watching grand tour stages in real time, and today was the most spectacular final day of racing.  Much respect for Wout van Aert.  Whataguy!

Belgian power!!!!!

[NGM]

1 hour ago, Vetplant said:

ADD: Oh, Jorgensen needs full credit too for that stage win. He played the PERFECT teammate role in the lead-up to that last passage of Montmartre.

100%. That "festival of watts" he produced just before the last climb forced pogi to close the gap twice, tiring him out. Wout drafted pogi and had a bit more in the tank to attack on the last climb. One of the best day's racing I've seen.

[justinafrika]

I suspect JV's week-long wheelsucking TP was exactly the Visma plan for a tiring JV.  Irritate and push TP so that Wout can pounce and pull away from a tired TP on that last climb of an exciting crit-like city centre last stage.  Spectacular win!  Wout's the man.

Edited July 28, 2025 by justinafrika

[peepeekaitjie]

So Wout crossed the line first in Paris, which means he wins the Tdf. Excellent strategy using Vingegaard to tire Pogi out the entire tour