Tour '25, Stage 1: Why Not?

As the peloton neared the top of the final climb of the day, there was no one off the front of the race.  It looked odd, but Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) saw the opportunity to gain a single point in the race for the King of the Mountains title.  He was followed by his teammate Matteo Jorgenson.  They team saw an opportunity to push the pace on the descent.  As they hit the base and the cross winds, they continued with the help of Alpecin-Deceuninck and UAE Team Emirates.  The result was they blew the peloton apart dropping both a couple of general classification hopefuls as well as some sprinters.  The early stages of the Tour are always referred to as the stages where you can't win the Tour, but you can definitely lose it.  

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"Why Not? TdF25-5" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Criterium du Dauphine '25, Stage 1: Watching Everyone

Using the final ascent of the Cote de Buffon Jonas Buitrago (Visma-Lease a Bike) jump cleared of the peloton.  It was Mathieu Van Der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) was able to go with the Dane, but the trio of Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), Remco Evenpoel (Soudal-Quick Step) and Santiago Buitago (Bahrain-Victorious) quickly joined the leading duo.  The quintet had opened a small gap on the rest of the peloton.  They still had the small problem of chasing down Fred Wright (Bahrain-Victorious).  That may be why Buitago wasn't offering to help in the other four's efforts.  With just six kilometers to race, it was looking good for Van Der Poel who is the only sprinter in the group.

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"Watching Everyone CdD25-4" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Men’s Race: Who Do We Have Now?

With a teammate up the road, both Wout Van Aert and Christophe Laporte (Visma-Lease a Bike) soft pedaled to discourage others from chasing Matteo Jorgenson.  The problem was, that allowed those chasing behind to join in to the mid race break away.  Toms Skujins (Lidl-Trek) seems to be scolding Laporte for letting Ivan Garcia Cortina (Movistar), Dylan Teuns (Israel-Premier Tech) and Tim Wellens (UAE Team Emirates) back into the race.  Just behind this group, another was just seconds behind.  After looking like the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad was going to come down to a six man race, everything suddenly changed with just eleven kilometers left to race.  It was looking like it may come down to a field sprint after all.

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Tour de France 23, Stage 15: Locked Together

Despite all of Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) attempts to get away, Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) remained stuck to the wheel of the Maillot Blanc.  With another fifteen riders already having finished the stage there were no time bonus on offer for these two.  As long as the two cross the line together there will be no time gains (or losses) today.  As a show of defiance, Vingegaard pulled along side Pogacar as the pair crossed the line to finish stage 15.  So they will go into the rest day with the same ten seconds between them and wearing the same jersey as they started the day with.  When racing resumes on Tuesday it will be the individual time trial.  Vingegaard will ride last and have the advantage of knowing just how well Pogacar is riding.  Whether he can do anything about it remains to be seen.

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Tour de France 23, Stage 15: The Battle Is Behind

Stage 15 became a story of three different races all being fought out in a single stage.  First was the battle to become the new leader in the King of the Mountains competition.  That was decided in favor of Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek).  Then there is the race to win the stage.  That is about to be decided about seven minute further up the climb of the lower slopes of Mont Blanc.  And then there is the race to decide who will wear the Maillot Jaune at the end of the day, and eventually at the end of the day in Paris.  That was the race that these fans (and most of us) were most interested in.  Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) was staying glued to the wheel of the guy in second place (although he is leader the best young rider competition) Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates). Pogacar was the one who still had a teammate to help with the final climb.  Adam Yates road hard on the front making sure that Vingegaard couldn't attack.  Plus he was used in a double bluff in hopes the Vingegaard would go deep in an attack.  Just now Pogacar lets the wheel go to Yates, who rides up the road.  The ploy was to make Vingegaard think Pogacar was on a bad day and get to the front an push the pace.  This would set up a counter move by the guy in the Maillot Blanc.  The Maillot Jaune didn't fall for it, but the announcing team on NBC did.

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Tour de France 23, Stage 14: They Fought to a Draw

Both Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) and Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) had traded attacks all of the way up and down the Col de Joux Plane.  But by the time they swept into Morzine, the two found themselves chasing a lone leader, Carolos Rodriguez (Ineos-Grenadiers).  The two were so focused on each other over the top of the final climb, they didn't jump onto the wheel as he went pass.  Each wanted to catch the guy up the road, since there was an eight second bonus for the stage winner.  Second and third place carried five and three seconds respectively. Vingegaard had gained a net three seconds over the bonus point atop the climb increasing his virtual lead to eleven seconds.  The way they are flying into town, it is highly unlikely the jersey will change hands today.  It is even more likely that tomorrow's stage is going to be bonkers.

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Tour de France 23, Stage 14: Keeping Him in Sight

Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) did his patented attack with just under two kilometers left to climb on the Col de Joux Plane.  He quickly got away and built a lead of six seconds on the fan packed climb.  To his credit, Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) didn't panic, nor go deep to match the Slovenian's acceleration.  Instead, he should some maturity and stayed within his own rhythm and slowly bridge back up to the Maillot Blanc.  After they rode together for a couple of hundred meters, Pogacar tried again but was block by a pair of motorcyles trying to get still and TV images of the move.  Whether their presence ruined Pogacar's chances or not, the pair stayed together to just shy of the summit.  Then it was Vingegaard jumping Pogacar and grabbing the maximum bonus seconds on offer, a feat everyone expected his adversary to accomplish.  Now it was time to fly to the finish and contest the sprint for those bonus seconds.

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Tour de France 23, Stage 13: Second Will Mean Seconds

 

I find the title very witty, even if you don't.  Problem is Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) wasn't able to get second, only third on the stage.  The does mean that he grabbed the last bonus seconds on offer.  He did get a bit of a gap on Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), so now the Dane only has nine seconds on the Slovenian.  Behind these two is the fading James Shaw (EF Education First)/  He did hang onto seventh of the stage, however.  So at the end of the 138 kilometer stage, and the brutal climb up the Grand Colombier, Pogacar was only able to cut his deficit in half.  He now trails Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) by just eight seconds.  It should be a very exciting couple of days in the Mountains starting tomorrow.

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Tour de France 23, Stage 13: Stocking Up

Now that the road was beginning to head up despite that this is not a categorized climb, Felix Grosschartner (UAE Team Emirates) dropped back to the team car for some bidons for his teammates.  Grosschartner has the job description of Domestique.  It is on him to drop back to the team car to get food and bottles for his team leader or to get onto the front of the group and ride tempo.  It is a tough job where the only glory is the success of others on your team.  Given that his team leader, Tadej Pogacar has won a stage and sits just seventeen seconds off the lead, he has certainly done his job well.

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Tour de France 23, Stage 10: Attacking Early

The return to racing after the race day can be a weird one, and that certainly describes this one.  With a climb right at the start of the stage, the summit of the Cat 3 Col de la Moreno was just seven kilometers into the stage.  The attacks came fast and furious right from the get go.  Once over the top it seemed that Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) went on the attack.  He was immediately covered (or joined) by the Maillot Jaune, Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma).  The top two in the general classification in the early break is just about unheard of.  Their presences in the break made for a mad scramble to be in their move.  This went on well into the 167 kilometer stage, with many wondering just what was going on.  This Tour is not following any previous script partly due to the thrill that these two find racing their bikes.

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Tour de France 23, The Race Behind

With the winner on the top of the Puy de Dome already settled.  Now the camera turned its attention to the race for the Maillot Jaune.  As soon as the peloton of favorites hit the lower slopes of the Puy du Dome, the race for the general classification was back on.  With about three kilometers to race to the summit Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) jumped out of the group of all the hopefuls.  The only one with the legs to cover his move was the Maillot Jaune of Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma).  Pogacar did open a gap over Vingegaard that ever so slowly grew to eight seconds.  Try as he might, that was all the more time Pogacar could claw back on this Danish rival for yellow in Paris.  

Each can claim victory on the day.  Pogacar regained more time and let Vingegaard, the contestants, and the rest of us that he was still very much in this Tour.  Conversely, Vingegaard had the legs to make sure Pogacar didn't gain more time, and rode smart enough to not go into the red and blow is Tour on a single climb.

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Tour de France 23, Stage 6: "I'm Not Done Yet!"

All of yesterday's commentary, and even the start of today, was about how the Tour was over and Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) was just going to ride away from everyone else in the field as he had in Stage 5.  Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) had something to say to everyone about that in the final three kilometers of the final climb of the day.  Just as Vingegaard had attacked him on the Col du Tourmalet, Pogacar went hard with just two and a half kilometers to climb.  Flipping the script, this time it was Vingegaard unable to match the climbing prowess of Pogacar.  There wasn't enough road left for the White Jersey to reverse all of his lost time from the day before, but this move had to be a huge lift to the morale.  Conversely, while I am sure Vingegaard would love to have taken out the stage, but I am sure he will consoled by his new Maillot Jaune.

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Tour de France 23, Stage 6: Fliming the Favorites

It takes quite an operation to get all of the shots of the Tour de France that tell us this exciting story.  This shows us two of the ways that is done.  We can see the cameraman on the back of the motorcycle filming Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) glued to the rear wheel of his primary rival, Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) who in turned is tucked in behind his teammate, Wout Van Aert.  Just peeking into the frame is the Maillot a Pois Virtuale, Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost).  This quartet had just another eleven kilometers to climb up the Cauterets Cambasque and the end of the stage.  Will they simply ride together to summit, or is somebody going to attack the other?

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Tour de France 23, Stage 5: Further Down the Mountain

Behind the actions playing out from the early break away and further down the Col de Marie Blanque, the two favorites for victory in Paris had rid themselves of most of the other contenders.  Along with shucking the contenders, Sepp Kuss's (Jumbo-Visma) efforts on the climb on behalf of his team leader (and defending Tour champion) Jonas Vingegaard also dropped all of Tadej Pogacar's (UAE Team Emirates) teammates.  Once the Maillot Blanc was isolated, it was time for the two Jumbo-Visma men to ratchet up the pace in hopes of gainning time on Vingegaard's main rival.  They all had another problem up the road in the form of Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe).

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Tour de France 23, Stage 2: Fifteen Years!

I original wrote the title as "Sixteen Years!" because that was how long Phil Liggett said it had been since Cofidis had won a stage in the Tour de France.  As a French team, that is a terrible stat!  It is slightly better, it has been fifteen years (I reworked the title after photographing the painting). Victor Lafay (Cofidis) took full advantage of his outsider status, jumping from the back of the group with one kilometer to go.  Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) had chased everyone else down, so he didn't jump right away perhaps because he was confident that Lafay didn't have the legs to hold them all off.  Clearly, Wout miscalculated.  After the finish he pounded his handlebars in frustration.  Taking third (again) was Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) but that meant even more bonus seconds on the day.  Pello Bilbao (Bahrain-Victorious) did well to come back from his first attempt to finish fifth, and you can just make out Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech) finishing in seventh over Lafay's right shoulder.  Tomorrow the race will cross back into France in a day seemingly tailor made for the sprinters.  Will Cav get the magical 35th stage win in the Tour de France?

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Tour de France 23, Stage 1: Embracing Yellow

The Yates twins did managed to hold off the peloton to fight out the win in Bilbao between themselves.  Adam Yates (UAE-Team Emirates) was able to come around his brother Simon (Jayco-Alula) to claim the first Maillot Jaune of the 2023 Tour de France.  Simon had done a lot of the work to keep the two away so just didn't quite have the legs to stay with Adam in the final meters of the stage.  Adam gained four seconds on his brother at the end of the stage, and had a 12 second gap back to the rest of the contenders.  Since he will be pulling on the Maillot Jaune, Simon will start stage two in the Maillot Vert as the second place rider in that competition.  Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) will wear the Maillot a Pois, and it should come as no surprise that Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates will wear the Maillot Blanc of best young rider due to his third place finish on the stage.

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Paris Nice 23, Stage 8: Going to Nice Alone

Simon Yates (Jayco-Alula) may have been the first to attack, but it was Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) whose attack stuck.  On the final climb of Paris Nice, the Col d’Eze, the Maillot Jaune counter the attacks by those just behind them in the general classifications.  He opened up a forty second gap on them in an amazingly short amount of time.  He looked back as he neared the summit, but I doubt he could see anyone such was his advantage on the others.  As he said in his post race interview, the best defense is a strong offense.

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Paris Nice 23, Stage 8: Nice Try

“Nice Try,” is what Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) seemed to say over his shoulder to David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ).  Gaudu had set out to gain some seconds using his teammate, Stefan Kung, but discovered that Pogacar still had his sprinting legs.  The Maillot Jaune had been picking up bonus seconds all Paris Nice long, in fact without them he wouldn’t be in yellow.  Gaudu did get second, so he only lost four seconds to the race leader.  The pair have another 35 kilometers to race after crossing sprinting swords in Eze.

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Paris Nice 23, Stage 7: “There Goes Tadej”

Despite all of the effort by both the team of Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ), Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) still had the legs to launch an attack on the closing kilometers of the climb up the Col de la Couiollole.  The pair would get back up to the Maillot Jaune, perhaps even go on an attack themselves, only to be dropped yet again.  It does seem appropriate that the top three positions on the general classification were fighting it out on the highest point of this year’s Paris Nice.  It didn’t seem like Vingegaard was going to be pulling back 45 seconds on either of the other two.  The only question was, “Is Gaudu going to be able to pull back six seconds of Pogacar?”

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Tour '22, Stage 5: Sensing His Moment

With many having troubles with the cobbles, Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) knew he had a chance to gain time on the lion share of his rivals.  On Sector 5 he went to the front a raise the pace.  On his wheel was Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost) helping in the chase, for some unknown reason.  After the stage, it was argued that his efforts in this chase cost his teammate, Neilson Powless the Maillot Jaune. But I am not sure that is accurate because Van Aert finished just over a minute behind the stage winners and he didn't join this group until the very end of the stage.  It is Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) on the Italian's wheel making sure his team leader will finish the stage close the the Maillot a Blanc of Pogacar.

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