Posted June 28, 20232 yr The Tour is back on Saturday so here's a thread to discuss all the thrills and spills of the biggest race in cycling. Whether you're an avid fan or just want to make a passing comment about a headline, you're more than welcome in here! Full coverage will be shown on ITV4 as usual, with highlights at 7pm.
June 28, 20232 yr Author Stage Guide: 1 1-7 Bilbao – Bilbao 182.0 hills 2 2-7 Vitoria-Gasteiz – San Sebastián 208.9 hills 3 3-7 Amorebieta-Etxano – Bayonne 187.4 flat 4 4-7 Dax – Nogaro 181.8 flat 5 5-7 Pau – Laruns 162.7 mountains 6 6-7 Tarbes – Cauterets 144.9 mountains 7 7-7 Mont-de-Marsan – Bordeaux 169.9 flat 8 8-7 Libourne – Limoges 200.7 hills 9 9-7 Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat – Puy de Dôme 182.4 mountains 10-7 rest day 10 11-7 Saint-Ours-les-Roches – Issoire 167.2 hills 11 12-7 Clermont-Ferrand – Moulins 179.8 flat 12 13-7 Roanne – Belleville-en-Beaujolais 168.8 hills 13 14-7 Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne – Grand Colombier 137.8 mountains 14 15-7 Annemasse – Morzine 151.8 mountains 15 16-7 Les Gets – Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc 179.0 mountains 17-7 rest day 16 18-7 Passy – Combloux 22.4 ITT 17 19-7 Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc – Courchevel 165.7 mountains 18 20-7 Moûtiers – Bourg-en-Bresse 184.9 flat 19 21-7 Moirans-en-Montagne – Poligny 172.8 hills 20 22-7 Belfort – Le Markstein 133.5 mountains 21 23-7 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – Paris 115.1 flat
June 28, 20232 yr Author Yellow Jersey Odds: (Coral) Jonas Vingegaard 11-10f Jai Hindley 18-1 Enric Mas Nicolau 25-1 Ben O'Connor 33-1 David Gandu 40-1 Richard Carapaz 40-1 Tim Pidcock 40-1 Adam Yates 50-1 Egan Bernal 50-1 Simon Yates 50-1 Carlos Rodriguez 66-1 Mikel Landa 66-1 Daniel Martinez 80-1 Romain Bardet 80-1 Wilco Kelderman 80-1 Julian Alaphillippe 100-1 Wout van Aert 100-1 Points Classification Odds: (Coral) Jasper Philipsen 11/10f Wout Van Aert 3/1 Fabio Jakobsen 4/1 Biniam Girmay 10/1 Mads Pedersen 10/1 Dylan Groenewegen 20/1 Christophe Laporte 25/1 Caleb Ewan 33/1 Jordi Meeus 40/1 Mark Cavendish 40/1 Peter Sagan 50/1 Tadej Pogacar 50/1 Mathieu Van Der Poel 66/1 Sam Welsford 66/1 Alexander Kristoff 80/1 Matteo Trentin 80/1 Phil Bauhaus 80/1 Bryan Coquard 100/1 Corbin Strong 100/1 Jonas Vingegaard 100/1 King of The Mountain Odds: (Coral) Tadej Pogacar 7/2f Giulio Ciccone 9/2 Jonas Vingegaard 6/1 Richard Carapaz 16/1 Thibaut Pinot 18/1 Michael Woods 20/1 Simon Geschke 25/1 Simon Yates 25/1 Felix Gall 25/1 Julian Alaphilippe 25/1 Ruben Guerreiro 33/1 Jai Hindley 33/1 Johan Esteban Chaves 33/1 Tom Pidcock 33/1 Wout Poels 33/1 Wout Van Aert 40/1 Egan Bernal 50/1 Romain Bardet 50/1 David Gaudu 50/1 Mattias Skjelmose 50/1 Pello Bilbao 66/1 Warren Barguil 66/1 Alexey Lutsenko 80/1 Antonio Pedrero 80/1 Ben O'Connor 80/1 Carlos Rodriguez 80/1 Dylan Teuns 80/1 Guillaume Martin 80/1 Jack Haig 80/1 Louis Meintjes 80/1 Mikel Landa 80/1 Neilson Powless 80/1 Adam Yates 100/1 Daniel Martinez 100/1 Enric Mas Nicolau 100/1 Marc Soler 100/1 Pierre Latour 100/1 Tobias Halland Johannessen 100/1 Valentin Madouas 100/1 Victor Lafay 100/1 Young Rider Classification Odds: (Coral) Tadej Pogacar 1/4f Carlos Rodriguez 8/1 Mattias Skjelmose 8/1 Felix Gall 16/1 Tom Pidcock 16/1 Matteo Jorgenson 33/1 Tobias Halland Johannessen 33/1 Clement Champoussin 50/1 Maxim Van Gils 100/1
June 28, 20232 yr That's come round quickly! Excited to see Vingegaard and Pogacar duelling it out again (hopefully - provided there are no unfortunate incidents!) and a decent number of other riders who could make the podium as well.
June 30, 20232 yr Team presentations happened yesterday - a moment of silence for Gino Mader, fittingly so. The real thing starts tomorrow!
July 1, 20232 yr A fantastic way to kick off the Tour! I don't think I've ever seen twin brothers on different teams attack together and finish first and second. Congrats to Adam on his first win and the yellow jersey! Losing Mas and (probably) Carapaz so early on is sad to see though. Victor Lafay could potentially be a dark horse though, he did pretty well keeping up with Vingegaard and Pogacar on that climb.
July 3, 20232 yr A fantastic win yesterday for Victor Lafay! The first win for Cofidis in 15 years apparently. Really interested to see how the rest of the tour pans out for him.
July 3, 20232 yr And a win today for Jasper Philipsen - a good win, but he did have the world's best leadout man in Van der Poel! Another sprinter's opportunity tomorrow.
July 4, 20232 yr Another win for Philipsen today! Although a lot more crashes (on what should've been a 'safer' finish), hope no-one else is forced to abandon. Into the Pyrenees tomorrow!
July 4, 20232 yr Would be great if the final stage was on the main channel, ITV. That would be nice! Although the Tour is a weird one for that as the winner will almost certainly have been decided by then, so one wonders whether that would be the best stage to show on the main channel.
July 6, 20232 yr What an exciting last couple of days! Yesterday overall contender Jai Hindley was allowed to get in the break and took a minute on Vingegaard (earning yellow in the process), and Vingegaard dropped Pogacar finishing a minute ahead of him. Today, Pogacar bounced back, finishing half a minute ahead of Vingegaard and 3 minutes ahead of everyone else! So Vingegaard is in yellow, Pogacar is 20ish seconds behind him, Hindley a minute and a half back and everyone else over 3 minutes behind (and we're only on Stage 6!) We certainly need the couple of sprinters' stages on the horizon to calm ourselves down :lol:
July 7, 20232 yr yes the last 2 days have been a fantastic watch yesterday was really surprising cos for most of the race Pogacar looked defeated (to me) but he was clearly faking it the moment he escaped and Vingaard couldn't follow was something to watch
July 7, 20232 yr ^ Interesting thoughts! There was certainly that part yesterday where he was pulling all those faces which I didn't really know which way to take :lol: Philipsen got his third win today, just ahead of Cavendish, although a bit of controversy over him pushing Biniam Girmay into the barriers. Speaking of Girmay though it was nice to see him finish third overall, really hope he makes history and gets a stage win at some point.
July 8, 20232 yr And so it ends for Cavendish, as he pulls out with a broken collarbone in a seemingly innocuous crash. A stage win for Mads Pedersen today though which is great to see! Simon Yates was held up in a crash and lost 40 seconds, but other than that the GC remains the same going into the hills again.
July 9, 20232 yr Author Mark Cavendish's team are to offer him the chance to attempt to win a record 35th Tour de France stage in 2024. The British rider, who is set to retire at the end of this season, abandoned this year's race after breaking his collarbone on Saturday's eighth stage. Cavendish is equal with five-time Tour winner Eddy Merckx on 34 stage wins. "I hope we will see him soon back in the race. In my opinion, his career cannot end here," Astana Qazaqstan team manager Alexandre Vinokourov said. He admitted it was "too early to say something about his race program", but continued: "I crashed out in the Tour of 2011 but I came back to win Olympic gold one year later. It would be nice if Mark comes back to the Tour for a 15th time and wins that 35th stage."
July 10, 20232 yr ^ Not sure what to think of that - he's very publicly annouced his retirement, so to carry on another season would certainly be interesting! Pogacar took a few more seconds away from Vingegaard yesterday, so very close going into Rest Day number one. The battle for the win was a lot more exciting though, would never have gone for Mike Woods looking at where he was at the bottom of the climb!
July 11, 20232 yr A win for Pello Bilbao - poignant to see a rider from Bahrain Victorious win following Gino's death. And it's shot him up into 5th in the General Classification as well.
July 12, 20232 yr Aaand another win for Philipsen today! He really is the sprinter of the Tour this time round.
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