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Your boy's taking a pasting here Dave. I'm not sure the mountain will recover from this!

Erm :hayee:

Sorry, did you watch a different Dauphine? When did he reel him in? Pogacar destroyed him on the big stages. If you mean the stage when Pog eased off and sandbagged over the line... well... There hasn't been any mountain attacks at this tour yet?

In the Dauphine you can see what Vingegaar was doing: experimenting. He allowed the gap to appear and then kept Pogacar at that distance and even reeled him in a bit. This years TdF mountains the attacks from Pogacar have been shut down straight...

Other than the Dauphine, the last race they rode together?

The road will ultimately decide. Today should give us an indicator of how things are. I'd imagine Pogacar will want to lay down a marker, both to show that he's not impacted by the crash and to put to bed the nonsense that Visma are crushing him...

The rider who crashed into him has apologised, saying it was his fault.

Good that the rest waited. An enjoyable stage all told. The steep climb towards the end didn't do as much damage as people expected.

With not much before it, you'd expect the Soulor to be ridden at a ferocious pace. We'll see what the shake out is from that. They're probably doing the harder side of the Soulor, but it's also a fair descent down to the foot of the Hautucam, so...

Almeida is a loss, for sure, but they still have pretty much the Dauphine squad left, which did the job perfectly well there. I suppose we'll see on Thursday, if JV manage to shred the field over the Soulor and have numbers left on Hautucam. The...

Based on what though Dave? The Giro was a perfectly staged smash and grab, but up to the Finestre you wouldn't have said JV were doing that well at all. Similarly, in the races between then and now, they haven't been able to lay a glove on...

Since the start of 2024, when Pogacar has clearly gone up a level, the head-to-head between him and Vingegaard reads 32 v 9, and only one of those from Vingegaard saw him win the stage. By contrast, Pogacar has won 13 stages.

I'm not sure he has it in him tbh.

UAE are down a couple of strong riders (Almeida and Sivakov) so a long attack from Jorgensen would make sense once they get in the mountains.

A bit of huff and puff from JV, without ever looking like they'd do much. Both Pogacar and Vingegaard are so far ahead of the rest, I just can't see how Jorgensen et al can do any damage at all.