I hope he can survive. Thomas and Bernal got the better team but Alaphilippe is more deserving individually - in my opinion. Buchmann and Kruiswijk haven't been aggressive enough. So far the two Frenchmen are the most deserving but two more stages to change it. I expect one of the top GC riders to also take the stage win tomorrow.
He can do it for sure. The stage is not that long and he still has a solid advantage over the others. Tomorrow stage will be once again won by someone from the breakaway. Maybe Simon Yates again? Or Nibali? Looking forward to see :-)
@@noahhalbfoster6892 What about of the meaning of the titles he allready have in his pocket? Im not a big fan of Nairo and his style, but he´s the the second biggest winner in this tour and deserve respect.
Noah Halbfoster, Vuelta a España, Giro de Italia and a host of other wins. Add to that, two second and a third place at the Tour De France, you call that only winning when it does not mean nothing? What planet are you on brother? Yes, he has not won the Tour but has been close and most of the other riders do not have the Palmares Quintana does.
These videos are so well done. Review from the day before, great selection of highlights about the actual race tactics, standings, preview of the next stage. PROS covering PROS! :)
What a stage! Fans going crazy at the Galibier, Quintana very impressive, Ineos preparing Bernal's attack very well but boy did Alaphilippe put up a fight coming back! Loved it when he passed everyone on the descent and kept going after Bernal. Pinot also almost got separation at one point. Can't wait for tomorrow's stage, hope Buchmann looks a little stronger and more aggressive
Nice to see the little man with a giant heart, Quintana win the stage and bring out the skills. Hats off to the groups that did the break away, tough-guys all of them! thank you GCN for posting this videos!
Well done Quitana! True Champions never lose their class. Bernal is just starting to show his strengths and spread his wings. He will be in the yellow jersey at the end of Stage 19. Will he win it too? Thank you Alaphillipe for making the French crowds dream again.
Quintana a champ? He may have won a couple of races here and there but surely his palmares will be remembered for him staring at Froome's arse for 3 weeks every July.
@@iann23 It was more like "I like you so darn much that you would be a champ for me !!!!!" , Like you say to people or things you like ..... Not in literal terms , I like Quintana. So chill.......... I know race results as well and who does what, you are not the only one following cycling ............ but nonetheless happy cycling to you and people you like !!!! Hopefully we'll catch up on a ride somewhere sometime.
If I'm understanding well, Movistar rode behind quintana while he was leading. Without that he could have taken 1 or 2 more minutes and be on the podium...
Great work by Quintana, a true mountain man. If he can just attack tomorrow, like go all out before the mountain stages are over, he just might surprise himself. The pressure is off of him, so it will be interesting.
Glorious racing all round today New blood at ineos asserting his will, I don’t think GT has it to beat Bernal at this point. Cool defense of the yellow with an absolutely demonic descent buy our leader Quintana delivers a sound drubbing even with his own team basically sabotaging his efforts. I’ve said it time and again, this is a Tour for the fans. I think now Alaphillipe can do this and I very much hope he does for the TOUR !
Honestly, the barrage of the same videos in different versions just clutters up a user's timeline, and it is confusing to sort through. I like this idea, but can you guy sort this stuff out so we don't have to, it is a bit messy.
Wonder if Geraint's goal was to bridge to Egan and he slowed down when Pinot gave a chase or he was struggling as well. Looking forward to tomorrow. If something is a takeaway - if you are not performing in second week like Quintana you can turn it around in week two. Race is on!
Michal Maly apparently it was an attempt to try and drop Alaphillippe, which makes sense, as otherwise Alaphillippe would try and probably succeed to gain time on the descent.
Getaints dig made no sense to me at all. All it did was to animate a chase of Bernal. Impossible to say for sure but i reckon it may have cost Bernal 20 secs of his advantage
@@anthonypeterson428 Wow thank you captain obvious. While we're at it making stupid comments, how about the "slight difference" that Egan is riding a bike and Hamilton was driving a car. Please shut up from now on.
JTMarlin8 Sorry I wasn’t obvious enough for you. I’ll try and elaborate. The physical demands of a tour rider are infinitely beyond that of an F1 driver. In this regard, comparing a tour rider to an F1 racer is like comparing an F1 racer to a chess player. When you get off your couch and learn how to ride a bike, you may develop an appreciation for what these tour riders are doing.
@@iann23Haha! I am a 'cord cutter' so that is not an option. Also, i'm guessing you dont live in the USA otherwise you'd realize a TV wouldn't help! :)
Yes Matthew. The rider in 10th position has taken less than 20 minutes longer to reach the end of the most recent stage (including times of all previous stages added together). Many years ago there was a huge variety in the level of ability of cyclists, the margins were therfore bigger. More recently with similar standardised bikes and common training practices (possibly even common drug use) the differences are more likely down to mental preparation, genetics and the right friends in the bunch.
@@iann23 I don't mean tk be rude, but that doesn't exactly answer my question. If I may... To win the Maillot Jaune one must have crossed the line as the fastest combined time for every stage. Why is it that Julian Alaphillipe has held the Yellow over yesterday, him being in the chase group and not the lead? (this idiosyncrasy)
Champ Tech still he was surprisingly strong today considering he had no chance the last time he was in the break... I think riding 2000+ meters high is an advantage for the Columbians since Bernal and uran also did better than in the Pyrenees
NDDB96 it was tactical to ride on the front, to ensure Quintana won. By removing most domestiques from the Peloton, no team could take minutes out of Quintana on the Galibier. If Ineos had 6 riders for the Galibier, they would have set a blistering pace and took minutes out of Quintana. Overall, it meant that Quintana had a bigger gap.
WTF? Alaphilippe's passes on the downhill off the Galibier was the most dramatic scenes I have ever seen in 45 years of watching the Tour. And GCN ignored them... SHAME!😖😫😕☹
The stage was such a let down. Still cannot understand Bernal's attack; are Ineos that bad they want to 2 riders on the podium? Thomas got caught by the group so quickly, really thought both him and Pinot would gas Julian on the Galibier.
Clearly bernal was given freedom to attack, so he did. Its always better to have two on the podium than one, especially as ala got spat today on the climb. Idk what more you want from cycling if you think that was a let down. Go do it yourself.
Yes, the riding was impressive - but where’s the attack fm Thomas? That was the disappointment, w/Ineos slowing the peloton up to Galibier, then belatedly letting Bernal jump. Hope they let Bernal go tomorrow from the get-go.
@@louicooper2616 Honestly speaking, I would get the idea of having two on the podium instead of one but looking at former Sky, now Ineos' track record, it would be fair to say first place or nothing, hence the let down.
@@Parillamixta Second that. Ineos locked the peloton as if they already had a rider who bagged the tour. Started on the Izoar, until Bernal attacked and Deceunick would try to close the gap.
Awful teamwork. If you say that there are two leaders then you should mean it. The attack by Geraint Thomas today was honestly a backstabbing for Egan. If it wasn't for that, he could have taken a lot more time and maybe even the yellow jersey. I'm not blaming Geraint because maybe the order was given by the directeur sportif but surely it was not right at all. If Geraint is the real leader then you just have to be clear about it. Egan didn't deserved that behavior. Hopefully now that Egan has proven that he is in better shape than G, all the team support will go to him.
Vicente Guzmán G's attack was to try and gap Alaphillippe, or Alaphillippe would gain time on him on the descent. The demotivation of being dropped, and therefore setting recapturing as his target, meant that it actually helped Bernal gain more time on Alaphillippe. Also, Egan only attacked on G's orders, the plan to put them into P2 and P3 on GC so they can use brute force to beat Alaphillippe. It Is co-leadership still, merely the complicated tactics in an attempt to gap Alaphillippe. If G was outright leader, surely Bernal wouldn't have attacked in the first place?
Not sure whether an intentional backstabbing or perhaps tactical ineptitude at Ineos? Even if Thomas is the captain, the 1-2 is not a hard tactic to play, if Bernal has gone first then Thomas stays in the wheels, and if / when the others close down Bernal then Thomas is ready to jump straight away. Questions need asking of the team principal. With both riders riding into form they are the best place team to win the race, but if they employ such naive tactics they might negate their advantage.
@@Ewane if that was the intention it certainly didn't work. Before Geraint's attack Bernal had gained more time and after that he lost at least 20 or 30 seconds that he had gained. That would have worked if they had attacked earlier in the climb. At the end the strategy didn't work because Alaphilippe caught them in the descent anyway
@@easternbrown I hope that it was tactical ineptitude and that's why I think that is not fair to blame G because maybe that was a team order. Let's hope that they can use the next two stages to finally take the yellow jersey. Alaphilippe is clearly paying hard the efforts of the previous stages and if Egan is as strong at this point of the race as we think he is, Alaphilippe won't be able to sustain his attacks
Vicente Guzmán the plan was more to make sure Alaphillippe couldn't gap them, rather than keeping Alaphillippe away. He could have easily taken 30 seconds on them if they had been in the same group at the start.
What we saw today is absolutely bizarre. Unzue, Landa and Valverde will go down as one of the most deplorable manager and team mates in cycling history. This day will be revisited time and time again as one of the worst strategies & maneuvers ever by any team! What a shame for Valverde who had accumulated a great deal of respect from the pure cycling fans all over the world... he has tainted his legacy. Nairo was incredible, a display of tenacity.
Tony Martin DQ was a huge loss to his team?!? Someone hasn't looked at the rest of the TdF route. He was likely quite willing to drop out anyways. Luke Rowe was the silly one, costing this team a good train driver for the mountains. The team has one less now. Live and learn. (Right decision, by the way. Yellow cards ("warnings") are for football.)
Strangest tour I ever seen. Seems like all riders are exhausted ending each stage. If these stages were done in Southern Ontario last week they would have to cancel the stages for a few days. 46 celcius 98% nasty humidity, 30 km hr winds, not one cyclist was seen riding that weekend 😂. You can tell that drugs are not heavily being used anymore.
Alaphiliphe will fade tomorrow Bernal is taking the yellow jersey all the way to Paris. Thomas looks tired and Alaphiliphes legs are beginning to run away from him
Can Alaphilippe survive tomorrow? Who do you think will win on the summit finish in Tignes?
Egan Bernal!
P.S.: Julian, what a warrior! Impressive.
I hope he can survive. Thomas and Bernal got the better team but Alaphilippe is more deserving individually - in my opinion. Buchmann and Kruiswijk haven't been aggressive enough. So far the two Frenchmen are the most deserving but two more stages to change it.
I expect one of the top GC riders to also take the stage win tomorrow.
Wishing for solo win of Geraint Thomas as Froomey did on Giro last year. Attack at Col D'Iseran and then ITT to the finish!
He can do it for sure. The stage is not that long and he still has a solid advantage over the others. Tomorrow stage will be once again won by someone from the breakaway. Maybe Simon Yates again? Or Nibali? Looking forward to see :-)
I hope so 👍
Nairo, Bernal and Uran always bringing joy to our country in these hard times. True legends.
Quintana. What a race. Hats off to all of this group of cyclist. Tough sport to endure
funny he can only win when in means nothing
@@noahhalbfoster6892 What about of the meaning of the titles he allready have in his pocket? Im not a big fan of Nairo and his style, but he´s the the second biggest winner in this tour and deserve respect.
Bardet was clearly at his limit chasing him but the gap kept increasing up the Galibier. Very impressive
Noah Halbfoster, Vuelta a España, Giro de Italia and a host of other wins. Add to that, two second and a third place at the Tour De France, you call that only winning when it does not mean nothing?
What planet are you on brother?
Yes, he has not won the Tour but has been close and most of the other riders do not have the Palmares Quintana does.
He went to the front once for about 200 yds such a wheel sucker.
These videos are so well done. Review from the day before, great selection of highlights about the actual race tactics, standings, preview of the next stage. PROS covering PROS! :)
Proud of been Colombian. Que viva Nairo, que viva Colombia carajo.
Viva Bernal, amigo! Sou brasileiro e acho que o tempo do Nairo acabou. Viva a Colômbia!
@@wanderalmeida9584 Brasil y Colombia, países hermanos.
another solid recap, and excellent fast upload. great work GCN.
Kämna💪🏻👊🏻 certainly has the Talent to become a GC Rider one day
What a stage! Fans going crazy at the Galibier, Quintana very impressive, Ineos preparing Bernal's attack very well but boy did Alaphilippe put up a fight coming back! Loved it when he passed everyone on the descent and kept going after Bernal. Pinot also almost got separation at one point. Can't wait for tomorrow's stage, hope Buchmann looks a little stronger and more aggressive
Nice to see the little man with a giant heart, Quintana win the stage and bring out the skills. Hats off to the groups that did the break away, tough-guys all of them! thank you GCN for posting this videos!
No highlights can compare to actually watching the last climb and descent in its entirety. Most exciting stage by far.
Thanks for the quick post!
thank you for this highlights
1st time I've enjoyed TDF in a long time..
Well done Quitana! True Champions never lose their class. Bernal is just starting to show his strengths and spread his wings. He will be in the yellow jersey at the end of Stage 19. Will he win it too? Thank you Alaphillipe for making the French crowds dream again.
Whenever Quintana wants to win, his win will be overwhelming. This man has the power of supernatural will
Allez Alaphilippe !!!
Christy Dolan the descent was epic! Incredible speed and it looked incredibly graceful
Good job Quintana"
i was waiting to you!!
Thanks GCN for keeping us posted of the Tour dear France good job keep it up.
Disappointing ride and contest through col du galibier, Well done nairo , you was always a champ !! Amd oh !!1 thank you @GCN racing
Quintana a champ? He may have won a couple of races here and there but surely his palmares will be remembered for him staring at Froome's arse for 3 weeks every July.
@@iann23 It was more like "I like you so darn much that you would be a champ for me !!!!!" , Like you say to people or things you like ..... Not in literal terms , I like Quintana. So chill.......... I know race results as well and who does what, you are not the only one following cycling ............ but nonetheless happy cycling to you and people you like !!!! Hopefully we'll catch up on a ride somewhere sometime.
I'm amazed at this level that a rider can claw back that much on a descent... Outstanding
Really? Surely you've ridden down a mountain at full speed? It's damn scary. Having massive balls is different to having barely any body fat.
Posting quickly, thats great!
Congratulation nairo kintana 👏🏻
The best tour for a long time
I don't remember seeing that altercation in the stage 17 highlights
If I'm understanding well, Movistar rode behind quintana while he was leading. Without that he could have taken 1 or 2 more minutes and be on the podium...
Nicov36 yeah, that was highly questionable. Their tactics have been nothing but catastrophic this tour. I wonder what movistar is up to tomorrow
Great work by Quintana, a true mountain man. If he can just attack tomorrow, like go all out before the mountain stages are over, he just might surprise himself. The pressure is off of him, so it will be interesting.
What a magnificent race by Nairo Quintana. Don’t regard him as old hat, just yet!
Glorious racing all round today
New blood at ineos asserting his will, I don’t think GT has it to beat Bernal at this point.
Cool defense of the yellow with an absolutely demonic descent buy our leader
Quintana delivers a sound drubbing even with his own team basically sabotaging his efforts.
I’ve said it time and again, this is a Tour for the fans.
I think now Alaphillipe can do this and I very much hope he does for the TOUR !
I'd say it's the most exciting tour in decade, so many uncertainty
3:37 epicness!
Good to see Quintana take a win. And where did that blood on his jersey come from?
Not blood some gel he spilled on himself
Did Quintana get a bloody nose or crash on the decent? couldn't help but notice the blood on his jersey when he crossed the line.
not blood, looks like the gel they eat for energy
@@SRD45 that would make sense considering its not visible anywhere else.
Was that blood down quintanas Jersey on the finish line?
Probably just gel
he was doping
Everyone as a little extra..it's pro cycling 😎
Quintana covered in blood across the finish? Nosebleed?
Quintana looking like a beast!
Bianchi bicycles are very beautiful
They are very nice bicycles
Dan is a damn good presenter !
QUINTANA BABY
Alaphilippe using disk brakes, a lot of talent and courage probably just made the case for that tech if you want to descend that fast.
Bob About But good brakes just make you go slower 😏
Tremenda etapa la de los colombianos , El error de Nairo que no ataca en las etapas principles, como siempre hace el que gana
Alaphiliphe will have to use his descending powers tomorrow to cut back on any time loss from the extreme climb
I want him to win,but they are finishing on the accent.
@@reggienaidoo6514 there is a chance he will especially with all the local support
Honestly, the barrage of the same videos in different versions just clutters up a user's timeline, and it is confusing to sort through. I like this idea, but can you guy sort this stuff out so we don't have to, it is a bit messy.
5000m of climbing in a day at racing speed...and only the first of 3 mountain stages...brutal!!!
That was anything but a Nairo margin of victory.
Haha
Wonder if Geraint's goal was to bridge to Egan and he slowed down when Pinot gave a chase or he was struggling as well. Looking forward to tomorrow. If something is a takeaway - if you are not performing in second week like Quintana you can turn it around in week two. Race is on!
Michal Maly apparently it was an attempt to try and drop Alaphillippe, which makes sense, as otherwise Alaphillippe would try and probably succeed to gain time on the descent.
is that blood on quintana shirt? what happen?
1:22 The Avalanche seems to have been silenced 😁😁
The INEOS riders have to finally attack at TDF after 6 years !!
How the turn tables ..
You obviously haven't been watching then..
You know, I can't remember the last time any sky/ineos rider attacked the race. They just always seem to win by being defensive 😂
In addition to the length of the stage why not show total elevation gain? Or is it shown somewhere and i miss it
Looked around a gazillion metres to me.
Dan the man !
Getaints dig made no sense to me at all. All it did was to animate a chase of Bernal. Impossible to say for sure but i reckon it may have cost Bernal 20 secs of his advantage
Can anyone explain the blood on the front of Quintana's jersey?
It was actually just a red gel that ended up on his jersey instead of in his mouth somehow
Could be Cherry Active Red. Very good for recovery.
Nairos sponsors must hate that his jersey was dirtied. It doesn’t look good in photos but at least he has other stage wind
Why did Quintana have blood on his jersey?
C'mon Egan Bernal...Attack
..attack...win this TDF.
You're like young Lewis Hamilton in F1.
milo scoopy Yes, except with the slight difference that Egan is providing the power for his vehicle to move....
@@anthonypeterson428 Wow thank you captain obvious. While we're at it making stupid comments, how about the "slight difference" that Egan is riding a bike and Hamilton was driving a car. Please shut up from now on.
JTMarlin8 Sorry I wasn’t obvious enough for you. I’ll try and elaborate. The physical demands of a tour rider are infinitely beyond that of an F1 driver. In this regard, comparing a tour rider to an F1 racer is like comparing an F1 racer to a chess player. When you get off your couch and learn how to ride a bike, you may develop an appreciation for what these tour riders are doing.
Hey chill out, now Egan move to second place in GC list after etape 18. Hope he'll be in yellow in Paris
What's with all the blood on Quintana's jersey?
I think Bernal will win, Buchmann will finish on the podium
How do people watch the full tour de france stages in the USA? Anyone have ideas?
Apparently there is full coverage on NBC Sports Network (I don't live there so not sure if you pay for that)
They wake up 4-7 hours earlier than Europeans.
@@iann23 Yes, but how do they watch it?
@@ShermanSitter with a TV 😂🤣😂
@@iann23Haha! I am a 'cord cutter' so that is not an option. Also, i'm guessing you dont live in the USA otherwise you'd realize a TV wouldn't help! :)
What's the music?
How does a 20 minute gap not show on the top ten? Can someone explain this to me?
Yes Matthew. The rider in 10th position has taken less than 20 minutes longer to reach the end of the most recent stage (including times of all previous stages added together). Many years ago there was a huge variety in the level of ability of cyclists, the margins were therfore bigger. More recently with similar standardised bikes and common training practices (possibly even common drug use) the differences are more likely down to mental preparation, genetics and the right friends in the bunch.
@@iann23 I don't mean tk be rude, but that doesn't exactly answer my question. If I may... To win the Maillot Jaune one must have crossed the line as the fastest combined time for every stage. Why is it that Julian Alaphillipe has held the Yellow over yesterday, him being in the chase group and not the lead? (this idiosyncrasy)
@@mattbrownruns really? 🤣😂 You answer your original question in the second. Fool.
@@iann23 I don't understand.
If only it was a climb finish. The gap will change much.
It's almost as if the descent to finish was designed for Julian, who is known to have superior skills......
@@colingibson4146 even tomorrow also has a long descent before that kick up. maybe it is designed for a "descent-er" (is that a word?)
Yeah, cause Alaphilippe at the Tourmalet finished behind Bernal and G didn't he ?!
Mind you, that was in week 2 and we are week 3....
I thought more would happen on this stage. Basically only Bernal gained 30s. The rest of the leaders are still the same.
TeXoN quintana technically is in the conversation too but I doubt he’ll have the legs for tomorrow and Saturday after the effort today
Quintana is NOT back. They let him and Bardet go cause they won't make any difference on any of the top riders.
Champ Tech still he was surprisingly strong today considering he had no chance the last time he was in the break... I think riding 2000+ meters high is an advantage for the Columbians since Bernal and uran also did better than in the Pyrenees
he set new record for the col of galibier
if his own team didn't ride against him, he would have been able to compete at least for the podium. Movistar are definitely the kings of tactics...
Champ Tech I think we'll see tomorrow, if he loses several minutes or not.
NDDB96 it was tactical to ride on the front, to ensure Quintana won. By removing most domestiques from the Peloton, no team could take minutes out of Quintana on the Galibier. If Ineos had 6 riders for the Galibier, they would have set a blistering pace and took minutes out of Quintana. Overall, it meant that Quintana had a bigger gap.
what was that stuff all over Quintana jersey? Blood? Beet juice?
what it has is a gel
Forever Bernal....
WTF? Alaphilippe's passes on the downhill off the Galibier was the most dramatic scenes I have ever seen in 45 years of watching the Tour. And GCN ignored them... SHAME!😖😫😕☹
The stage was such a let down. Still cannot understand Bernal's attack; are Ineos that bad they want to 2 riders on the podium? Thomas got caught by the group so quickly, really thought both him and Pinot would gas Julian on the Galibier.
Clearly bernal was given freedom to attack, so he did. Its always better to have two on the podium than one, especially as ala got spat today on the climb. Idk what more you want from cycling if you think that was a let down. Go do it yourself.
Yes, the riding was impressive - but where’s the attack fm Thomas? That was the disappointment, w/Ineos slowing the peloton up to Galibier, then belatedly letting Bernal jump. Hope they let Bernal go tomorrow from the get-go.
Loui Cooper thank you, a lot of back seat riders out there, these are the greatest on the planet!!!
@@louicooper2616 Honestly speaking, I would get the idea of having two on the podium instead of one but looking at former Sky, now Ineos' track record, it would be fair to say first place or nothing, hence the let down.
@@Parillamixta Second that. Ineos locked the peloton as if they already had a rider who bagged the tour. Started on the Izoar, until Bernal attacked and Deceunick would try to close the gap.
Quintana feeling weird and free now that he doesn't have Froome's arse to stare at for 3 weeks.
@Ragnar Lothbrock I'd love to understand what that means.
Awful teamwork. If you say that there are two leaders then you should mean it. The attack by Geraint Thomas today was honestly a backstabbing for Egan. If it wasn't for that, he could have taken a lot more time and maybe even the yellow jersey. I'm not blaming Geraint because maybe the order was given by the directeur sportif but surely it was not right at all. If Geraint is the real leader then you just have to be clear about it. Egan didn't deserved that behavior. Hopefully now that Egan has proven that he is in better shape than G, all the team support will go to him.
Vicente Guzmán G's attack was to try and gap Alaphillippe, or Alaphillippe would gain time on him on the descent. The demotivation of being dropped, and therefore setting recapturing as his target, meant that it actually helped Bernal gain more time on Alaphillippe. Also, Egan only attacked on G's orders, the plan to put them into P2 and P3 on GC so they can use brute force to beat Alaphillippe. It Is co-leadership still, merely the complicated tactics in an attempt to gap Alaphillippe. If G was outright leader, surely Bernal wouldn't have attacked in the first place?
Not sure whether an intentional backstabbing or perhaps tactical ineptitude at Ineos? Even if Thomas is the captain, the 1-2 is not a hard tactic to play, if Bernal has gone first then Thomas stays in the wheels, and if / when the others close down Bernal then Thomas is ready to jump straight away. Questions need asking of the team principal. With both riders riding into form they are the best place team to win the race, but if they employ such naive tactics they might negate their advantage.
@@Ewane if that was the intention it certainly didn't work. Before Geraint's attack Bernal had gained more time and after that he lost at least 20 or 30 seconds that he had gained. That would have worked if they had attacked earlier in the climb. At the end the strategy didn't work because Alaphilippe caught them in the descent anyway
@@easternbrown I hope that it was tactical ineptitude and that's why I think that is not fair to blame G because maybe that was a team order. Let's hope that they can use the next two stages to finally take the yellow jersey. Alaphilippe is clearly paying hard the efforts of the previous stages and if Egan is as strong at this point of the race as we think he is, Alaphilippe won't be able to sustain his attacks
Vicente Guzmán the plan was more to make sure Alaphillippe couldn't gap them, rather than keeping Alaphillippe away. He could have easily taken 30 seconds on them if they had been in the same group at the start.
Stage 20 woulda been the hardest if it wasn't for most of the stage been taken out due to freakish weather.
Can Alaphilippe win it?
Yes. Just two more efforts.
It’s Tignes, not Tigné Dan!
Oops! Sorry. Dan.
“s” is indeed silent though
What we saw today is absolutely bizarre. Unzue, Landa and Valverde will go down as one of the most deplorable manager and team mates in cycling history. This day will be revisited time and time again as one of the worst strategies & maneuvers ever by any team! What a shame for Valverde who had accumulated a great deal of respect from the pure cycling fans all over the world... he has tainted his legacy. Nairo was incredible, a display of tenacity.
vamos
Tony Martin DQ was a huge loss to his team?!? Someone hasn't looked at the rest of the TdF route. He was likely quite willing to drop out anyways.
Luke Rowe was the silly one, costing this team a good train driver for the mountains. The team has one less now.
Live and learn.
(Right decision, by the way. Yellow cards ("warnings") are for football.)
You guys do the best replay highlights -- but maybe eliminate the previous day's stage and keep it to the stage in question.
finally got the medication adjusted
Lol the autogenerated captions at the end say to make sure to subscribe to jesus and racing
spanish is missing
It's on our Spanish channel, GCN en Español.
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Thomas just screwed Bernal’s chances of winning the GC, probably.
Rubbish. Two summit finishes coming up.
@@iann23 Let me change it to 'possibly' then.
Strangest tour I ever seen. Seems like all riders are exhausted ending each stage. If these stages were done in Southern Ontario last week they would have to cancel the stages for a few days. 46 celcius 98% nasty humidity, 30 km hr winds, not one cyclist was seen riding that weekend 😂. You can tell that drugs are not heavily being used anymore.
Quintana far from finished.
I’m glad he’s DQF, such a stupid way to send to trash 70 hours of effort, cheaters don’t fit
Alaphiliphe will fade tomorrow Bernal is taking the yellow jersey all the way to Paris. Thomas looks tired and Alaphiliphes legs are beginning to run away from him
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