🏆 Alpe d'Huez man! #TDF2022
The Tour de France has seen it's final day in the Alps today, as the peloton climbed three mythical passes en route to Alpe d'Huez, where Tom Pidcock attacked to the win from a successful breakaway, and Tadej Pogacar tried to dislodge the Jumbo-Visma mountain train - unsuccessfully.
The day saw two long descents and a tense start which have seen the following riders in the day's medical report:
(155) Hugo Hofstetter - Epistaxis.
(152) Warren Barguil - Multiple road rash on the right elbow and right hip.
As for the day's fines, they were given to:
(131) Alexey Lutsenko - Refueling not authorized in the last 5 kilometers. 200CHF fine and 20 seconds in overall classification; Astana Qazaqstan Team DS Alexandr Shefer - Fine 1000CHF.
(61) Enric Mas - Urinating in public. 300CHF fine.
TotalEnergies DS Benoit Genauzeau - Non-compliance with marshal's intructions. 500CHF fine.
Both UAE Team Emirates and Jumbo-Visma missed the signature check at the start of today's stage. Fines have been given to the following:
UAE Team Emirates DS Andrej Hauptman & Jumbo-Visma DS Frans Maassen - 500CHF fine.
(1) Tadej Pogacar
(3) Mikkel Bjerg
(5) Rafal Majka
(6) Brandon McNulty
(7) Marc Soler
(8) Marc Hirschi
(11) Primož Roglic
(12) Tiesj Benoot
(13) Steven Kruijswijk
(14) Sepp Kuss
(15) Christophe Laporte
(16) Wout van Aert
(17) Nathan van Hooydonck
(18) Jonas Vingegaard
Fine of 500CHF and penalty of 15 UCI points for every rider mentioned above.
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- Most of these have nothing to do with rider safety or are completely unachievablevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
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- Some things sound crazy until they aren't, what if he's actually right? 🤷vappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Why make a comment to state the obvious? Of course MvdP is much better at CX than Pogacar, does anyone doubt that But that wasn't his pointvappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- If you look at road alone obvi Pogacar is the better rider. But maybe MVDP is the better overall rider since he can win in three plus disciplines?mobk23-12-2024
- Correction on 2021 Olympics. It was mainly the Dutch ladies who didn’t know who was leading the race. Other teams like the Germans and Italians knew that Kiesenhofer was out front.mobk23-12-2024
- A champion turning into a sore loser. Or is he on coke again?
UltimateOpportunist23-12-2024 - If you look at the major races they’ve both been in, van der Poel had the early edge as lately Pogacar has had the advantage. It’s all on procyclingstats.RidesHills23-12-2024
- I wouldn’t assume Tadej can’t win at cross. He did a cross race, not a World Cup, a few years ago and crushed the field. It was a minor race. But he can win anywhere.mij23-12-2024
- I wonder what would happen if Pogacar attacked on the Cipressa instead of the Poggio in San Remo? Would MvdPoel still be able to follow?Ride197423-12-2024