Seconded. I remembered why I always fell asleep during the tour as a kid as soon as I watched the first 15 minutes of the NBC broadcast. And this seems like a key part of why there are so few American cycling fans. Who could watch that broadcast who wasn't a fan already?
I appreciate your comment. In Canada we need a subscription to Flo Sports (around $200 per year)to get and yes, I do it for the Tour but also a ton of other great racing as well.
Incredible descent from Pogacar, Evenepoel was the smartest among the other riders, descended carefully and did not take any risks and then finished 2nd
@@julianschmidt147 Remco surprised me very positively. He doesn't have the punch that Pogi has, but I think he's a bigger threat to Pogi than Vingegaard in three weeks. Precisely because its engine is bigger. He looked extremely relaxed on the climb.
@@FloydDiamond True, but don’t be mistaken: if it goes into the Pyrenees, he will have to let him go. It does not look like there is a serious threat to Pog right now, if Jonas level stays where it is right now. The last time trial might be a way to secure second though for Remco, would love to see it!
Remco knows his strengths and uses them optimally. When the road is straight and he is on form nobody can beat him, once it goes down or the course turns into a circus attraction of bends he knows he is at a disadvantage. Next friday will be exciting.
I am getting more and more grateful I did not pursue my wish to become a pro cyclists in my youth more. I would have been pro in the 90s when all the cheating and lying and manipulation took place. It would have broken me. Also the trauma of the deaths. These days I do see how fake and hypocritical this sport is. I guess that comes with age. This sport is brutal. Not only physically but perhaps even more mentally and emotionally. If I ever will be in it it will be as a mental coach. I look at Remco and wonder when he will burn out. So much pressure at such a young age.
UAE really improved their GT teams, specifically for Tadej. Visma lost a lot with Roglic leaving and the crashes earlier in the year. Kuss being sick also hurt a lot. It's UAE's to lose.
@@mariusmanoiu2228 yeah but why did he stay behind when Almeida started to push? It was obvious that the team strategy was for Yates, Almeida and Ayuso to interchange equally when Sivakov, Soler and Wellens stopped working. Their strategy was all about maintaining those 3 super domestiques GC position while also isolating other team's leaders. Obviously Yates was dropped cause he didn't have the legs, but Ayuso stayed behind for some time and he obviously had the legs. Even Pog and Almeida started to communicate with the team to know if he actually had the legs and suddenly he came up and started working too. Strange behavior if you ask me. He needs to work on his team skills cause it might bite him in the a*s in a few years from now.
Lets PLEASE say congrats to Juan Ayuso !!! What a monster domestique and GC guy in case Pogacar has to drop. Today taking bonuses from other GC guys, pulling Pogacar almost all the way, etc, etc.. VIVA AYUSO !!!
Are you crazy? He hid behind in the group to not help his teammates and especially Tadej. Almeida had to shout to bring him to the front. Bad attitude from the spanish rider and I doubt he'll return to the tour next year if he does that stunt again.
The speed Pogi attacked the last 2km of the Galibier was pretty sus to me!.. He went around hairpins so fast he had to stop pedalling, and this was a 9%+ gradient! 😮
I expected to see Pogis attack with either 4km from the summit of the Galibier or 1km from the summit because both those markers said the climb went up to 11% so it was perfect springboard for anyone attacking Great choice to attack with 1km from summit and putting the nail in the coffin on that descent!! Remco and Jonas were BOTH shy on that descent which is understandable but still surprising to see. Remco was more shy on the descent than Jonas tho 🤘🏻🏴
I know pog is on a whole different level but he burnt a considerable amount of matches in the 1st week in 2022 (that famous shot of him smiling to the camera) and paid heavily for it in the 3rd week . Really hope that is not the case here! It will be wonderful for the sport for a rider to do the double racing clean! I just cant accept pantani did the double no matter what the record books show.
I see A LOT of Remco fans counting their chickens before they hatch!! This is only day 4 people. There's a WHOLE LOT of racing to come but yes Remco had a great day but he was shy on that descent!! 🤘🏻🏴
That was impressive. Pogicar showed dominance and is capable of winning this race. It's still early in this race though. Pogicar can have a bad day or two, so we'll see what happens.
He can win the stage but remember Pogi beat Ganna in a tt in Giro and finished like 20 sec behind in the second ; no way Pogi loses 45 sec in the tt he wi go full gas he might even challenge Remco for the win on a great day
@@mariusmanoiu2228 the first giro itt had a fair climb at the end, before the climb Ganna had a 47s lead over Pogacar. The itt on friday is basicly flat but shorter. I never said Remco will win yellow, but he has a realistic chance.
It still is amazing that riders can ride so hard up an 8 to 10% slope, that they need to almost break to make corners. Journalist claim we can not call them modern gladiators or super soldiers, but they themselves use superlatives like galacticos and the magnificent 6. What did we watch this afternoon? Tadej rode this like he was riding a mountain bike downhill track or a Formula One driver. He warmed up his tyres for 120km and then had optimal grip. Remembering Gino Mader, I had a very hard time watching Tadej's descent. Nobody should go and risk his or her life to win a game. Again what have I been watching this afternoon?
Now that UAE is as strong, in fact stronger, than Visma was last year, I wonder if the same people will say that "[Tadej] won because of his TEAM", not HIS strength, like they did about Jonas.
Let's remind riders, there are other two weeks of Tour, no matter how far or behind, they have to care about the final classification because you never know, the proper day to gain positions, all riders are very good, very strong and tough guys, very exciting Tour this one🎉❤🎉
I thought it would be Almeida or Yates instead of Ayuso. Remco, Roglic and Rodriguez did a great job. It's not over for JV - he can still win this. Punctured lung? No problem...
If you want to see something close - possibly it will. However, Pogacar is the kind of rider who'll keep attacking regardless of how big his lead might be. He might just try to get the most amount of wins he possibly can just for the fun of it. Anyway, that's what I'm hoping for. If he sits on his lead and does nothing .... yeah, that would get boring.
Yeah Remko did really well today. While I always believed he could climb. Being small light yet having really good FTP power. He rarely showed it to the world. He was Really impressive today
Pogacar no sorprende, lo que sorprende es un Vinko regresando de un colapso de pulmon sin entrenamiento ideal para la gira y tener ese nivel 💀 el tour es de Pogacar “el mejor pogacar de todos los tiempos” vs un Vinko en recuperacion de plena forma
As an American, I really miss the Eurosport coverage of the Tour de France. The commentators and race coverage is so much better than NBC Sports.
Seconded. I remembered why I always fell asleep during the tour as a kid as soon as I watched the first 15 minutes of the NBC broadcast. And this seems like a key part of why there are so few American cycling fans. Who could watch that broadcast who wasn't a fan already?
I appreciate your comment. In Canada we need a subscription to Flo Sports (around $200 per year)to get and yes, I do it for the Tour but also a ton of other great racing as well.
Eurosport wayyyyyy better
NBC sucks.
Man..thinking the SAME THING................. BOB and PHIL are terrible................................................... ugh
after Lance won 7 times no one wants Amercans racing!
Incredible descent from Pogacar, Evenepoel was the smartest among the other riders, descended carefully and did not take any risks and then finished 2nd
He is also the one with the biggest motor on the flat, so he could afford it. I think he is not the best bike handler as well.
@@julianschmidt147 yep, he can't do anything other than descend carefully 😆
@@julianschmidt147 Remco surprised me very positively. He doesn't have the punch that Pogi has, but I think he's a bigger threat to Pogi than Vingegaard in three weeks. Precisely because its engine is bigger. He looked extremely relaxed on the climb.
@@FloydDiamond True, but don’t be mistaken: if it goes into the Pyrenees, he will have to let him go. It does not look like there is a serious threat to Pog right now, if Jonas level stays where it is right now. The last time trial might be a way to secure second though for Remco, would love to see it!
Remco is back!
But why did he lose so much time on the descent😢 that hurt me. He lost less time on the climb. I hope he can keep going for the next few weeks.
Remco is always there... in week 1,
@@Maxibsa he is not a bike handler so he lost time on the technical part but made up for it when the road straightened out and still finished 2nd
Good rider but still has a good way to go and reach Pogi and Jonas. Absolutely not on the same level. A very young rider tho
@@lofifordreamers but still stronger than primoz roglic
Every day is a banger in this tour already.
compared to the Euros, this is proper sport and so entertaining. These are real athletes. Brilliant to watch
Yeah, most of the time
lmao
Sport VS games
Football ⚽ is the biggest, the greatest, the most influential sport on the planet. So stay salty, mayte...😂
Remco knows his strengths and uses them optimally. When the road is straight and he is on form nobody can beat him, once it goes down or the course turns into a circus attraction of bends he knows he is at a disadvantage. Next friday will be exciting.
May be Trauma from Lombardia crash? understandable
@@sambitmishra1229 he was also in the race where Mader died, and part of that scary basque crash.
@@sambitmishra1229 ooh Remco already had trouble with downhills before that. It for sure does not help.
I am getting more and more grateful I did not pursue my wish to become a pro cyclists in my youth more. I would have been pro in the 90s when all the cheating and lying and manipulation took place. It would have broken me. Also the trauma of the deaths. These days I do see how fake and hypocritical this sport is. I guess that comes with age. This sport is brutal. Not only physically but perhaps even more mentally and emotionally. If I ever will be in it it will be as a mental coach. I look at Remco and wonder when he will burn out. So much pressure at such a young age.
Every single rider in UAE Team is on fire!🔥🔥🔥
strange that...
on fire = on juice ?
Very good alchemist/doctor? We will find out within next few years :-) Good show today for sure!
Nbc needs to put it back free on one of their channels instead of only on peacock!! Theyre shutting out millions of fans@^%$$
6:00 was pure class from JV when he gave those behind him a hand sign
scenery is always BEAUTIFUL
Great job for Almeida.
bota lume
There's still 17 stages who knows what could happen
Vingo will abandon on Monday
It's not over til It's over😉
Really? Wow. I will return here and see you if your arm chair prediction is correct. If you speak to him, wish him well.
@@nakawesiabia6311 What?
All I said was it's not over relax@@lazlo2511
UAE is a powerhouse team this year compared to everyone else apparently. Wow.
This stage demonstrates the dominance of team UAE/Pogacar. Team Visma will face a tough challenge this year.
Uae and pogi are like one unit
Teamwork makes the dream work.
UAE really improved their GT teams, specifically for Tadej. Visma lost a lot with Roglic leaving and the crashes earlier in the year. Kuss being sick also hurt a lot. It's UAE's to lose.
UAE yes but not Ayuso
UAE riders are locked in, they're very strong ayuso finishing with GC level riders
*Maybe UAE will give him protected status at the Vuelta for this work.*
@@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 It would be cool, but they might send Tadej for the triple.
And almeida wasn’t that far back.
UAE is pulling a Jumbo Visma 2023 on Tour de France 2024
Why are u surprised ? Ayuzo would finish on the podium if not pulling for Pogi
@@mariusmanoiu2228 yeah but why did he stay behind when Almeida started to push? It was obvious that the team strategy was for Yates, Almeida and Ayuso to interchange equally when Sivakov, Soler and Wellens stopped working. Their strategy was all about maintaining those 3 super domestiques GC position while also isolating other team's leaders.
Obviously Yates was dropped cause he didn't have the legs, but Ayuso stayed behind for some time and he obviously had the legs. Even Pog and Almeida started to communicate with the team to know if he actually had the legs and suddenly he came up and started working too. Strange behavior if you ask me.
He needs to work on his team skills cause it might bite him in the a*s in a few years from now.
This is one hell of a stage!! Glad Pogacar won, we want to see the double 👍👍
Domination begins! May God grant him good health and strong legs! Strong to victory Pogi
Ganó el mejor ciclista del mundo pogacar dios te cuide ❤❤❤
Awesome, just awesome!👏
Lets PLEASE say congrats to Juan Ayuso !!! What a monster domestique and GC guy in case Pogacar has to drop. Today taking bonuses from other GC guys, pulling Pogacar almost all the way, etc, etc.. VIVA AYUSO !!!
Are you crazy? He hid behind in the group to not help his teammates and especially Tadej. Almeida had to shout to bring him to the front. Bad attitude from the spanish rider and I doubt he'll return to the tour next year if he does that stunt again.
@@fiendersPT but he prevented bonus seconds from going to a rival, that alone was worth more than a death pull because Pog can handle himself
Are you serious??? Today he showed what a bad teammate he can be.
Phenomenal descent from cetonaboy 👏its just incredibly, where is vinni ?😮
4:00 - Evenepoel had a map on his Garmin! I didn't thought that they use it while racing.
Sharp! Nice :)
The speed Pogi attacked the last 2km of the Galibier was pretty sus to me!.. He went around hairpins so fast he had to stop pedalling, and this was a 9%+ gradient! 😮
His attack was in the last km
Not having Sepp on the tour is making this much harder for Jonas.
also primoz..last tour they tag team pogacar.after primoz attack pogi.next is jonas will attack.pogacar got tired.but im rooting for pogi
W Stage and Congrats to Pogi🎉🎉🎉
UAE really put the hurt on .
I like Remco so far, he might land the podium this year.
now we know ... vingegard isnt 100%
Mabye like 85-90%
Still recovering from that fall
he lost most of the time on the descent
@@cipher.u.justicebecause he was not able to push like the others. Maybe he will get stronger towards week three
Or maybe Pogi has improved
Poggi .. brutal !
I expected to see Pogis attack with either 4km from the summit of the Galibier or 1km from the summit because both those markers said the climb went up to 11% so it was perfect springboard for anyone attacking
Great choice to attack with 1km from summit and putting the nail in the coffin on that descent!! Remco and Jonas were BOTH shy on that descent which is understandable but still surprising to see. Remco was more shy on the descent than Jonas tho
🤘🏻🏴
Iove this race sooo much.
Juan Ayuso did a fake game with he's teammates
I saw when Almeida wave his hands to Ayuso like go in front bro. So it was all their acts?
I know pog is on a whole different level but he burnt a considerable amount of matches in the 1st week in 2022 (that famous shot of him smiling to the camera) and paid heavily for it in the 3rd week . Really hope that is not the case here! It will be wonderful for the sport for a rider to do the double racing clean! I just cant accept pantani did the double no matter what the record books show.
Clean 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I see A LOT of Remco fans counting their chickens before they hatch!! This is only day 4 people. There's a WHOLE LOT of racing to come but yes Remco had a great day but he was shy on that descent!!
🤘🏻🏴
That was impressive. Pogicar showed dominance and is capable of winning this race. It's still early in this race though. Pogicar can have a bad day or two, so we'll see what happens.
Pogi took some very aero position there. Must have been working a lot of TT and getting into proper position.
🔥🔥🔥
I was expecting something from Tom Pidcock. It seems he was cooked before the descent.
Remco looked realy good today, I think he has a shot to conquer yellow on fridays itt.
He can win the stage but remember Pogi beat Ganna in a tt in Giro and finished like 20 sec behind in the second ; no way Pogi loses 45 sec in the tt he wi go full gas he might even challenge Remco for the win on a great day
@@mariusmanoiu2228 the first giro itt had a fair climb at the end, before the climb Ganna had a 47s lead over Pogacar. The itt on friday is basicly flat but shorter.
I never said Remco will win yellow, but he has a realistic chance.
Me want video clip before the start of galibier😢
It still is amazing that riders can ride so hard up an 8 to 10% slope, that they need to almost break to make corners. Journalist claim we can not call them modern gladiators or super soldiers, but they themselves use superlatives like galacticos and the magnificent 6. What did we watch this afternoon? Tadej rode this like he was riding a mountain bike downhill track or a Formula One driver. He warmed up his tyres for 120km and then had optimal grip. Remembering Gino Mader, I had a very hard time watching Tadej's descent. Nobody should go and risk his or her life to win a game. Again what have I been watching this afternoon?
y Ayuso number is upside down? 😅
Everyone is superhuman this year! Must be eating a LOT of chick peas....
Remco might take back time on Pogi during tt
He will lost the tt time in the mountains...
First TT-for sure. Second-no.
Pogi will double the time in the Mountains TT.
*Not so sure about that, did you see Poggi's TT in the Giro?*
😂😂😂
Now that UAE is as strong, in fact stronger, than Visma was last year, I wonder if the same people will say that "[Tadej] won because of his TEAM", not HIS strength, like they did about Jonas.
He even made more gap on the downhill
You have to wonder yet again…is Pogacar burning too many matches too early in the race?
Anyone who tried to follow him has burned as many matches if not more.
2021 pogi is back 🔥🔥not to mention he had COVID
Crazy trip 🤪
So vingegaard came second? We didn't see him finish I think.
4th place r 5th, got swallowed by the chasing group
Evenepoel came in second.
😂😂😂😂without Carlos remco roglic and ayuso he was going to lose 5minutes 😂😂😂
@@nakawesiabia6311 Nakawesi gyebale ko.
SuuuuPer
Remco
Great race. I love that Remco did well today. I’m hoping he has a good first Tour 👍
Plus the best looking presenter via Breakaway. (But worst dressed)
Extremely impressive by Pog. First dropping Vingo, then holding off that strong group with Remco, the best time trialist.
so i guess Racing Downhill with wild abandonment
isn't so cool now!!
Let's remind riders, there are other two weeks of Tour, no matter how far or behind, they have to care about the final classification because you never know, the proper day to gain positions, all riders are very good, very strong and tough guys, very exciting Tour this one🎉❤🎉
Juiced off his biscuit!
Why did remco lose so much time on the descent 😢😂
He doesn’t like taking risks on descents like with such speed very dangerous. Safety first.
Go Pogacar ! vingegaard is a cold fish. I much prefer humans to robots.
Whoa!..NBC kicked out The Phil an' Bobke for som' Euro yakkin' dudes..oh mon dieu!
The one, is Sean Kelly.
If it were golf, anyone could do it. Real men don’t need motors.
You're, they need needles
notice fans DO NOT THROW GARBAGE ON GROUND LIKE HERE IN AMERICA
I thought it would be Almeida or Yates instead of Ayuso. Remco, Roglic and Rodriguez did a great job. It's not over for JV - he can still win this. Punctured lung? No problem...
😂😂😂😂 not this year
First of all Nils Politt did an amazing job, 100km ahead of the field at cracking speed. That's one tough guy!
@@scotchgod8478 all uae team,DSs did amazing job so far in this tour
@@scotchgod8478 all uae team,DSs doing amazing job so far in this tour
Wish this commentator could pronounce Jonas’ name properly Jesus …
triple GT
show
And the French keep using French in these international happenings. So primitive
Pogi is not clean.....
And you ?
This is a terrible highlight. LOL! All the action has already happened.
Read the title first. its the final kilometeres!
UAE team all doped.
Sure… and no other team 😂
As long as Pogacar rides the Tour, Vinnengaard will never win again......Nostradamus. 😁😁
You mean like we saw in the last two years?😂
@@scotchgod8478Jonas had the better team back then, it's the other way around now.
LOL this happens every year Tadej starts well and then get crushed by vingegaard later in the tour
This is going to get boring.
Not sure, Remco might take back time during tt
If you want to see something close - possibly it will. However, Pogacar is the kind of rider who'll keep attacking regardless of how big his lead might be. He might just try to get the most amount of wins he possibly can just for the fun of it. Anyway, that's what I'm hoping for. If he sits on his lead and does nothing .... yeah, that would get boring.
Yeah Remko did really well today.
While I always believed he could climb. Being small light yet having really good FTP power.
He rarely showed it to the world.
He was Really impressive today
Lmao just stage 4 done and you thought all is over?. Alot of high mountains are waiting, we have 17 stages ahead. Dont say anything too early
You can watch Wimbledon
That guy needs to be fined for wearing his numbers upside down.
it’s common practice for number 13 at the Tour
Pogacar no sorprende, lo que sorprende es un Vinko regresando de un colapso de pulmon sin entrenamiento ideal para la gira y tener ese nivel 💀 el tour es de Pogacar “el mejor pogacar de todos los tiempos” vs un Vinko en recuperacion de plena forma