Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2021 (Tour de France)

[hckošice 13,704]

Stage 17

Wednesday - July 14th, 2021

h. 12:10 (GMT +2)

 

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   Muret - Saint Lary Soulan

178.4km - High Mountain (Uphill Finish)

 

 

STAGE CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Tadej POGACAR

5:03:31

 

  Jonas VINGEGAARD

+3

 

  Richard CARAPAZ

+4

 

Complete Standing

HERE

 

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GENERAL CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Tadej POGACAR

71:26:27

 

  Jonas VINGEGAARD

+5:39

 

  Richard CARAPAZ

+5:43

 

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POINTS CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Mark CAVENDISH

287

 

  Michael MATTHEWS

251

 

  Sonny COLBRELLI

201

 

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CLIMBER CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Wouter POELS

78

 

  Tadej POGACAR

67

 

  Nairo QUINTANA

66

 

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YOUTH CLASSIFICATION

 

 

  Tadej POGACAR

71:26:27

 

  Jonas VINGEGAARD

+5:39

 

  David GAUDU

+15:42

[hckošice 13,704]

Stage 18

Thursday - July 15th, 2021

h. 13:50 (GMT +2)

 

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 "@heywoodupolis" Pau - Luz Ardiden

129.7km - High Mountain (Uphill Finish)

 

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[Grassmarket 2,986]

Ah, Pau at last!  Everyone's favourite Pyrenees health resort.  

[heywoodu 13,825]

Oh, that's why the guy who always writes huge daily previews for every GC stage on a Dutch forum today posted these in his preview:

 

Spoiler

 

 

'Ergens' is Dutch for 'somewhere', but I thought it was the name of some French town or something until I saw here that it starts in godawful Pau  Excellent Paint job  

[heywoodu 13,825]

Police is finding this year's Bahrain Bonus a tad suspicious, it seems. Police raid at their hotel.

 

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/police-raid-bahrain-victorious-hotel-at-tour-de-france/

[heywoodu 13,825]

Very curious to see how this is going to go. According to manager Erzen, they've taken training data and such. It was only a matter of time until at least some suspicion would come to some sort of action, now let's see if something will come out of this.

 

 

[Grassmarket 2,986]

You get a very distinct category of spectator at Lourdes.  

[Grassmarket 2,986]

Uran cracks for definite on the Tourmalet, will lose a lot of places.

[Quaker2001 250]

Pogacar is unstoppable.  He's going to take home 3 jerseys from Paris again

[Grassmarket 2,986]

10 minutes ago, Quaker2001 said:

Pogacar is unstoppable.  He's going to take home 3 jerseys from Paris again

Guess we will have to wait for another day till he gets his vengeance on Carapaz.  I’m thinking some elaborate 80s horror movie-style plot.