LIVE - Tour de France Stage 2 - Could Pogacar snatch the yellow jersey from Vingegaard on Montjuic?
CyclingSunday, 05 July 2026 at 11:45
Good morning and welcome to the liveblog of the Tour de France! Stage 2 takes the peloton to the ever-spectacular, tough and explosive climb of the Montjuic. Thousands of cycling fans are expected to line the roads today, creating a stunning atmosphere for the world's biggest bike race. Stay with us throughout the day as we bring you all the action, key moments and emotions live, minute by minute.
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- Perfect time for the UCI to ban ice-socks. Absolutely morally bankrupt organisation.antipodeanpedalfan05-07-2026
- Correct First major test will be the Pyrenees, not because the route here is scaring, on the contrary it is relative mild. However the pivotal denominator could be the excessive heat, on Tuesday the temperature on much of the route is forecasted to be around 40-44 degrees C. The TDF riders react very different to heat. Despite specific heat training and numerous cooling devices it is still the genes that eventually determines the individual physiological threshold for heat. From previously we already have data that signifies to what extend individual riders performance are related to excessive heat, including heat for several days in a row. Getting rid of body heat relies on your body surface area to mass ratio (BSA/mass). A higher ratio means more skin area per pound of body weight, making it easier to lose heat. Conversely, heavier individuals generate more metabolic heat but have less skin area to shed it, putting them at a biophysical disadvantage. Very exciting days ahead - watch the weather forecast.Jakob05-07-2026
- Given that he's not even riding for GC this Tour, I'd say he's not "overrated" - he's probably going to be used as a luxury domestique/road captain if he changes teams. I don't get the feeling that the cycling media has ever hyped him as being anything more than he is: a solid diesel climber/stage-getter who tend to get underrated by other teams until he nicks off in a breakaway and lands himself in the top 5 or higher. The fact that those doco series' followed him and made him look he was some sort of tantrum diva isn't really his fault. The guy is incredibly hard on himself, and his dry sense of humour/self-depreciating personality type doesn't seem to translate well - Jonas has the same problems with some of his statements - so I guess people can think what they want, but seems to me that there's a lot of severely over-hyped/delusional riders out there and he's not on that list.antipodeanpedalfan05-07-2026
- Visma has poked the bear.Cooldude05-07-2026
- Pogi got the best climbing time, his usual levelabstractengineer05-07-2026
- Pogi set the fastest time on the climb. Its already over unless he cracksabstractengineer05-07-2026
- 8 Lipowitz Florian Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 0:35 9 Seixas Paul Netcompany INEOS 0:38 10 Foss Tobias Decathlon CMA CGM Team 0:39 he already transferredabstractengineer05-07-2026
- Racing against the clock is always boring for spectators. However, this format of TTTs is preferable over the others, in that the results are a good indication of where each rider would eventually finish in the standings at the end of the race, although that is not evident in this case, as we are getting ahead, this being just the first stage of a 21-day race. I guess that's because it shows both individual, as well as team capabilities lumped together, with a slight emphasis on individual abilities.FredMan05-07-2026
- He’s terriblemij05-07-2026
- 87 kg is a lot to carry around over rough cobbles and it's no surprise he's punctured so many times. As for Vauquelin, what comes around goes around (Onley at the Dauphiné)
Rafionain-Glas05-07-2026
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