There’s no way this makes it all the way to Paris - TdF 2020

Whoever is the montage editor for itv has really bringing the krautrock. Neu and La Düsseldorf and plenty of motorik beats.

Nice. What a great break by Andersen! Roll on tomorrow...

Bee sting forces Tour de France rider Lukas Pöstlberger to withdraw with just two days left

Ayayayaya, I really don't want to think about that. He got stung in the mouth!

1. I’m aware of at least one other rider being forced out of the tour by bee sting (Vaughters while at credit agricole i think?), and 2) it won’t help if you get stung in face, but my number one reason to zip up jerseys prior to like 300’+ descents is to avoid hornets going into your jersey and then... about wherever, in stingy stingy mode (for me, more than once, into my bibs).

That sucks for postelberger

Absolute scenes

Damn I wish I could've watched this one live

Pogacar takes the yellow, mountain and white jersey. Unbelievable.

Sounds like he crushed it and roglic too

I faintly remember Fignon/Lemond but this was out of this world. Roglic just crushed.

welp. not close even, a whippin’.

i like to joke about porte, but ~respect~ i’m rather glad for him.

wow just caught up, Pog absolutely killed it today
happy to see Porte take 3rd too, he's had a rough few years at the Tour.

Just wow at it all. I’d half heard a spoiler that Pogacar had ridden the ride of his life but THAT commanding, goddamn. And yeah, cheers for Porte too! And Sam Bennett for that matter.

Gonna be a sad glass for Primoz tomorrow, can't fathom the emotion.

And also, per the thread title -- it'll make it to Paris. If anything the Tour this year has been a quiet triumph in actually being able to pull the darn thing off as COVID still spreads. That's not nothing, and it gives me hope on a variety of fronts going forward, including the Vuelta in a few weeks and of course next year's Tour, etc.

I’m hoping that Andre Greipel going home with ‘a cold’ yesterday isn’t the start of something.

Just about to start watching the TT, couldn’t hold off on reading the reports though.

That was hard to watch. Everything went wrong for roglic.

Heh, Pogacar turns 22 on Monday. Sunday night is going to be total oblivion isn’t it?

This Tour has been brilliant, I’ve absolutely loved it.

Same, it's been pretty great. Quite some complaining here and there about TJV's hegemony, but a) I think during the race it was logical they took the initiative, and b) it's not really hegemony if you lose on the last day! Add Sunweb's outlaws to the mix, and it's been a great tour imo. Perhaps it'd been too long before we saw some real cycling action this year but who cares.

Yeah, a treat these last three weeks and I've been glad of it -- really enjoyed just being able to properly watch a full Tour front to back thanks to working at home, as opposed to half-paying attention to streaming during workdays. I really liked last year's Tour a lot but this one was just as good in its own way. And worlds next week and the Vuelta in four weeks, works for me!

I was quite impressed that there were no covid positive DQs after test 2.

I enjoyed the racing. I think the possibility of an abrupt cancel early along with the bumpy parcours kept breaks on short leashes, but eh, that’s fine.

the only way tjv coulda enforced more discipline was to have roglic put a big hammer strike in somewhere earlier, and with no flat TT and no Kruiswijk, they just couldn’t Sky/Postal hard enough. They were great, but not great enough to put Pog away (if that’s even possible). Eh, I know, utterly conventional wisdom.

Ooh i just see merckx called tjv stupid i srsly cant wait to read

https://cyclingtips.com/2020/09/merckx-jumbo-visma-rode-stupidly-at-the-tour/

That clip of Roglic telling Pogačar, “You’re not dreaming, you’ve won it!” is just amazing

I've just been surveyed by a well known polling company about viewing the Tour de France. One question asked who II had predicted would win the TDF, and there were a ton of usual suspects to choose from, but poor old Egan Bernal wasn't even on the list!

RIP Bernal we hardly knew ye.

Just out of curiosity, who ordered that poll? The broadcaster you viewed the TdF on?

Don’t know, it was on Y**G** and it didn’t say.