Official 2023 Tour de France Thread

Remcoe Evenopoel is probably in no hurry now to race the TDF. It’ll be interesting to see whether Primoz races next year and for which team.

Sounds like Vingestrong just had an “Oh, shlt” moment, much like Nesta Carter had when he went 9.78

No doubt Vingegaard went full on stupid. It's looks even more ridiculous when you look at the average speed of his TT compared to everyone else:

In terms of average speed, Vingegaard’s 41.2 km/h pace was over 2 km/h faster than Pogačar and a stunning 3.3 km/h faster than van Aert, a two-time silver medalist in the World Time Trial Championship.

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Tour de France stage 16 report: Vingegaard dominates TT - Escape Collective

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Vingegaard's virtuoso performance cements his yellow jersey while the race for third tightens.

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Vingegaard was aero af the whole way. Like picture perfect, aggressive and powerful.

Pog was taking a lot of air, especially after the bike switch. Maybe the optimal TT position is painful with his wrist.

Most insane ITT since Pogacar in 2020.

Pogacar obviously didn't warm up properly, especially after the rest day, which cayches a lot of riders out.

Vingegaard did warm up properly and was much more focused.

Have you no shame. Claiming Pog was going to average 500 watts, then the nerve to post this.

Well this website is run by trolls, so there's that.

Well this website is run by trolls, so there's that.

Maybe a bad day by Van Aert? He was still 3rd, but he used to crush everyone else in the peloton, not beat them by seconds, and he hasn't looked as good this year in general

So you haven't been following the race?

Hardly worth apologizing. JV f*cked up by not even trying to make his performance believable. Looked like Makhloufi in London if Makh won by another 30 meters.

There was a lot of climbing in this tt which is not particularly compatible for Wout's size

If Vinny was holding back the last few mountain stages, with how hard the tour has been so far, it’s not inconceivable that he was that much better than Tadej, but the gap back to 3rd is pretty crazy. We can only hope everyone is wrecked from today and tomorrow (the hardest stage in the race) is a sh!tshow with lots of fireworks!

Clearly I have no shame. And are you that gullible you simply believe Vingegaard that he was only outputting 380 watts on the flats? 380 watts doesn't allow you to blow everyone away like they are standing standing still. That was a calculated move by Vingegaard and the Jumbo-Visma PR officer to try to cover up their full e-throttle mistake.

Both Vingedope and Dopacar are using electric motors to get near 500 watts average, Vingedope a lot more than Dopacar.

As I stated earlier in the thread, simply don’t care. Name a clean tour… The racing has been exciting, and we may be in for more tomorrow.

He has looked very good this year. Just unlucky with some sprints.

This kind of TT, short with a tough climb makes it more of a fair match for climbers vs Van Aert. Guys like Bilbao, Gaudu did well while they are not great at this kind of effort usually. But Van Aert still won the "human race" as he said. It was a very good performance by him.

I think the real question is how they'll compare in stage 17 after the TT. Big mountain stage. Did Ving's big TT effort set him up for a bad day in the mountains, or is that not a concern?

The race has been very exciting so far. Hopefully there is more to come.

Pogacar knows he messed up yesterday and will be out to make amends. But Vingegaard will be just as deter