Ilan van Wilder

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• Pogboom05-06-2025
  I just simply don't believe team orders were at fault. In what world would a pink jersey leader knowingly throw away their lead just to follow team orders? Del Toro surely knew the gap to Yates was growing and he was going to lose his lead. So either Del Toro didn't have the legs or he was stupid and listened to alleged team orders to only follow Carapaz. It simply does not make sense - I mean even if the team orders were true, Del Toro shouldn't take it literally e.g. if Carapaz crashed and all the other top ten riders went 3mins up the road, would Del Toro really be stupid enough to "follow team orders" and stick with Carapaz? This is an exaggerated example, but it is exactly what Del Toro did with Yates. Del Toro only has himself to blame - if someone is threatening your lead, you chase, it shouldn't take team orders to tell you to do that!
• frieders305-06-2025
  Chris Froome...who cares yet he gets top billing here!
• abstractengineer04-06-2025
  "The idea was we’d race to win every day – or every day that suited me – and do the best GC I could." It was supposed to be "either or", not "and". The dreams of GC glory are confounded by the lack of recovery. He should have stuck to stage wins.
• abstractengineer04-06-2025
  There are three GT winners in that group and all different ones
• abstractengineer04-06-2025
  Nobody, it aint the TDF
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  santiagobenites04-06-2025
  RIP Mustafa Ayyorkun.
• Meeper04-06-2025
  From what I can gather, seems the DS had drilled into Del Toro before the race and again at the start of the long climb that he must mark Carapaz. Imperfect info made it difficult for the DS to directly tell Del Toro to close on Yates before the end of the climb, so it was mostly left to Del Toro's unexperienced judgement, who may have been near his limit anyways. In the end, probably either one could have lead the chase, but then would have come in third, while helping the other to first. Great execution of a great plan by Visma in Wout getting on top of the climb in advance and Yates being able to get that separation that caused the stalemate behind him. Also, in hindsight, big mistake by both EF and UAE in letting the break and Wout get so far out.
• Meeper04-06-2025
  Don't think Carapaz and Del Toro could have reeled him back in once Yates got to Wout; too big of an engine. The lead would have been stretched long enough to prevent them from closing the gap at the end.
• Phil9804-06-2025
  “And now, Visma try to take on a task that no team has ever been able to achieve before: Beat Tadej Pogacar at the Tour de France.” Odd sentence considering the fact that Visma has already beaten Pogacar twice at the Tour de France 🤔 Care to explain?
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  santiagobenites04-06-2025
  Even if he's on the form of his life, João Almeida's not going to be a Tour de France contender when Tadej Pogacar is on the same team.