A HISTORIC Tour de France Starts TOMORROW 

Back when Chris was racing on a pro conti team before going back to the world tour he was always good for the best quotes about any race he was in. Super sharp and articulate. I'm sorry he's aged out of racing, but I'm super stoked about his insightful youtube channel!

Pogi is gonna run away with it this year. Jonas is recovering and no kuss to help. Roglic just doesnt have it to win/will crash. Remco is still not in that class of climbers. Thats my take!

Jan Hirt (8th in Giro) will also be there for Remco. Greetings from my chesterfield in Prague! ;)

Looking forward to this years take on tdf. Dont know how Chris does it, but watching tdf after listening to the butterfly effect, just makes mee able to see more.

Chris, just work up and watching TDF on Peacock. Just want you to know how much you are missed being in the broadcast. Outside of Bobke, you were always my favorite and really added some tactical insight that others may not even have been considering. Your passion for the sport is undeniable.

Thanks Chris and Garrett!!!

Family comfort blanket, I love that. I rly hope it makes all the difference for him. The Tour is already so chaotic to start, on top of all the media focus/scrutiny on his form this year. Will definitely be a huge boost to be able to shut that noise out and find some peace w the people who love and care for you aside from your cycling career.

I have my alarm set to watch at 330 am mst tomorrow on peacock! So stoked! ❤

Yeehaa, let the games begin. I love them all, but my chips are on Tadej. I'm hoping it is cool. The Snowman doesn't like the heat. Keep it fun folks!

I love that Peacock is broadcasting the whole stage every stage.

Tadej having Covid has really thrown everything up in the air again! Can't wait to see how it all plays out~but it's gonna be EPIC for sure!!! May the BEST man win!🙏✊️🔥🚲

There is no better view or analysis than when Chris sits on the Chesterfield. Way to go, Chris!

Here's an off-the-wall scenario: Remember 1990? A breakaway took 10 minutes on the first road stage. Several members of the break wore yellow until the final time trial on the penultimate stage when Greg Lemond (the previous year's winner) finally took over yellow.

That presentation in Florence was stunning

Let's go!!!!!!!! I'm so damn excited. This will be my third tour as a "serious" fan and I've been watching you the whole time. Feel like I'll have a better understanding of some of the tactical stuff this year. My "wants" are an Oier Lazkano stage win, Bini sprint win, and of course WVA to pull something crazy off. Hell, I think we're all hoping for some good attacks and counters from Pogi and JV too.

So unbelievably hyped for this race. Could be a legendary Tour!

Thank you, Chris: always very insightful.

Having been just casual fan of the TDF in the past I know know now that because I discovered your channel earlier this year I will get a lot more out of this years race.

Can’t wait! Ty Chris!!

My predictions! Yellow: Tadej Pogacar White: Matteo Jorgenson Polka Dot: Tadej Pogacar Green: Tadej Pogacar jk Wout van Aert

I have never ever seen Mads P as peeled as this year. He said that himself as well.

Since the 1989 tour de france when Lemond has beaten Fignon and takes the tour victory for 8 seconds, the French never again had put a ITT on the 21st stage, this tour finally will happen again, but only because of the Olimpics in Paris is not possible to have the traditional last stage on the Champs elysees!!

Let’s hope it turns out to be historic! Field is immense but so much uncertainty about the shape of especially Jonas and Remco. Fingers crossed!

How much of these stars commentary is accurate and how much is sandbaggery should start to become more clear as early as the first stage. Tomorrow could be really exciting.

Mads P going for Green Jersey this Year1 etape is on the limit for him. But don't be surprised if he can make It into Yellow😜🔝❤️

Tadej is better then ever and there will be no competition (even if Jonas is at 100%). Bruyneel just got insiders info that said that Pogacar is in form of his life and that he's numbers are much better then in Giro - raised his W/Kg by 15W and lost extra 1.5kg compared to Giro - everything said there sound scary! If there is no problems for him (crashes, illness) we will watch battle for 2nd. Let's hope that's not the case.

Let the Games Begin! 👍🏻🚵‍♀️🇨🇵💯

Chris. You're better than ever.. Informative, entertaining and hilarious.. Looking fwd to the next 21 vids.

From historical performances we also know that if VLB switch roles, Vingegaard is one of the best domestics there is and I think its also a role that he is happy to do and do to the best of his ability. I'd be keen to know which stage Rui Costa is going to give a master class on wheel sucking your way to victory.

Ready for all the question marks to play out on the race course.

how about Mark Cavendish ? Maybe, 35th tour de france stage win. good that Tadej may win the double but Mark Cavendish with a 35th win would be amazing at 39 yo.

Can't wait for tomorrow's 1st stage. Please add the stage number in your titles.

Also about WVA. He badly wants and needs to win one or more stages. That was the whole talk last TdF and he won none (all that talk about him helping his team and Jonas not doing a pull or chase in stage 1 last year). On top of that his archrival- MVP won two monuments this year and set up another one for Jasper. So, is Visma going to ask WVA to work like a horse again..and win nothing for himself?

I love to see Chris, Lance, and George together for a podcast during this Tour

dehydration surely will be a thing as you loose more water after a desease for pogi, but he was the same way last year and still won flanders, I dont believe it will be an decisive factor for his performance overall, maybe just not excessive atacks like we saw at the giro. Thanks for all work you guys put chris and garrett

This year’s TdF “news” sounds like the talk before my races where everyone claimed to be at death’s door before the starting gun then they PR. At least this year’s TdF will show the truth in stages 1 and 2.

A lot of smoke screens built by every squad. Perhaps the UAE comes up with "COVID" story to say "Pogi is not the only one you gotta watch for" and then put attacks by Ayuso, and Almeida, while letting Yates and Pogi ride conservatively and see who is going to waste energy covering the attacks. This may test Roglic's and Vingegaard's lieutenants

Absolutely STOKED! Put money on MVDP for stage 1 win. Hoping for Jorgensen to do well - some more vibes for my American friends 💪

Since I was at Morzine for his immortal/ignoble victory in 2006, I'd ❤❤ to see Tadej's team LAUNCH him up to the first four hills as PHONAK did for Floyd Landis, and make his opponents suffer every darned kilometer. How epic would that be? And it's doable.

I hope i have to eat a humble pie but i think Vinegard will win the tour. So far the first stage i saw Pogadcar nervous sprinting for a few seconds

Chris, been thinking about this for a while now, but is having the best riders outside of the team top stars riding as superdomestiques for the favourites a thing? I started thinking about this maybe last year when Vingegaard and Roglič went to the Vuelta last year, although there they weren't riding for anyone and even attacked the race leader on their own team, as well as each other, and even more so in recent months, when to me it became apparent that certain riders, like Ayuso, Adam Yates, Almeida for UAE, Jorgenson and van Aert for Visma, and Hindley and Vlasov for Bora would most likely be leaders for any team and thus able to add more entertainment by attacking the big 3 (or 4 if you count Evanapoel as a likely winner, which personally i don't). Even when Team Sky were dominant with Froome his super doms although great riders at they did weren't ever going to challenge and potentially beat the team leaders on the other teams and so they just did their jobs (when they left for team leader positions on other teams they showed they couldn't challenge for a GT win). Am I being unfair? I just see the growth of super teams with nearly all the top GC on a handful of teams stifles competition more than ever.

Hoping GC’s stay upright and give us a competitive race. Got to pull for the old man, Primoz.

Really excited for this years TdF, should be a competetive one. I hope one of the fellow slovenians gets the win.

3rd 1986 La Vie Claire strong team.

Not too late to see you get the call up for Trek's GC hopes with Teo out...hope you have a bag packed Chris!

Maybe this year gap between Jonas and Tadej will be under 5 minutes. Jonas will be TdF2024 champion.

After the last 2 years I think Tadej is going to blow the doors off this race.

Chris, I so miss you in the booth. I don’t know if that was your choice or theirs, but if it can ever happen again, I would so enjoy it. not to say that your RU-vid analysis isn’t great. I will watch it every day but I love seeing you sparring with the other guys with your in depth on spot analysis. You are sorely missed there.

Chris, from story time yesterday . . . what was wrong with your brakes at the Olympic RR?

Deng gonna be 96 degrees when they start stage 1 tomorrow

Hey Chris, I was thinking and think Jonas Vingegard losing Sepp Kuss is bad but not a total disaster. JV can just follow TP sticking behind him like a glue. He can force Tadej to isolate himself by burning his entire domestics, then follow him and bring the fight to 1v1. Or just let the other 2 (Remco anf Roglic) go up ahead which can force Tadej to close all attacks because psychologically he certainly feels this is his race to lose based on his attitude and physical language during interviews. If Tadej is dropped the only problem for JV is Roglic not Remco and I beleive JV can easily handle Roglic. Correct me if I am wrong, because surely you have a better knowledge and experience than me.

Pogacar with Covid-19 means that instead of winning by 7 min, he will win by 6.

No world feed on Peacock - we're all at the mercy of the NBC Sports feed in the US. 😭😭😭

First time in many years I won't be able to watch it as it isn't being shown where I live!

Interesting that Sepp Kuss is out due to a positive Covid PCR test. (Didn't know Covid was still a thing....) Pogacar, on the other hand, supposedly was Covid positive but is now fully recovered and cleared to ride the Tour. Wonder if they had the same PCR test? Hope Sepp is good to ride the Vuelta and Jumbo can put together a solid team so he has a legit chance to repeat.

Just saw an interview with Wout and he said this is the worst shape he's ever gone into the tour with.

You should have been one of the commentators on NBC! =

Finally the tour de France will end with a ITT on the 21st stage and is not a easy one, after 3500 km in the legs ,a ITT with about 34 km which includes a mountain of category 2 ,if the liders don't have a very good advantage, they have to give all they got to arrive with the win or the podium. With some of the best riders in the world on ITT ,those who want to take the first places should not let the time differences to small for that last stage!!

There is no drama. Tadej will be on top form. The Slovenians are coming into TdF on their best form. Roglic doesn't have the team that Pogacar has.

I have a bad feeling that Pogacar is going to dominate the first week and the GC race will be over.

Can't wait for tomorrow's TDF butterfly effect!

I have a clear memory of watching tour racers following F1 live together a couple years ago. The race car drivers are military pilots, if we could arrange a view through one of those observation satellite telescopes, there had better be drones on some of this stuff, maybe NBC could hire IDF drone pilots if they don't boycott 🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🇵🇸🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🕋🏕🧎‍♂️🙋‍♀️

Team Horner!🇺🇸🚴

Hi chris the race is betwen the two slovnaines ...jonas is not ready and remco is not stable still...😅 love your vidoes ....i wait for it all the time

If Tadej has dipped a bit in form after Covid, Adam Yates might be the strongest rider at the start of the Tour!

Best ever teams -- the ones with Hibault and Lemond.

One of these guys can seriously win this race in the first two days.

🦋 Hype level off the charts. Butterfly Effect on deck let's gooooooooooooooooo 🦋

If I was a betting man I'd put my money down on Pogi. I'd like Primoz to win, but must likely he's going to do what Roglic things do in summer...

chris, do you think tadej would make up having covid to alter the media perspective? wondering what you think about possible mind games

Waiting!

OMG, stage 1 looks like a beast. Can't wait for that flag to be raised.

They know they will be hurting. Can I survive? Crashes,sickness. Love hearing from Chris Horner.

Top contenders always play the humilty card to not give away ammunition to competition.

Can't see it happening but would like a dark horse to win.

Thays what ferrari said, 7w/kg for 30mins to win the tour. As true now as in 1995

No offense to all the pundits, but I'm glad the actual racing is starting.

I can't believe you guys are not talking about the new Star Jorgensen

Ready to see tadej pogacar retake his crown from jonas as long as this time there's no kuss to help him

Lance and Johan and Hincappie I think have it right. Remco is off the podium, not top 4. JV form isn’t good enough to podium he needs the week to get into form but UAE knows it and the early hills/mountains UAE is gonna hurt him. Also like Hincappie says Egan Bernal is up there, I think he gets #3 spot. TP, ahead of Primoz cause he’ll likely crash some time away and Egan Bernal. 1,2,3. JV and Remco are off the podium.

When you have a team of 8 people, there is nothing wrong with letting one or two guys go up the road in hopes of personal glory(a stage win). You don't need 7 guys pulling Pogacar up the mountain. Share the wealth a little Chris.

I keep hearing everyone saying how it's going to be a fantastic Tour and... well... it was gonna be before the crash in Itzulia. How certain are we that this won't be just a repeat of the Giro where Pog just wipes the floor with everyone? I really want Jonas to do well and Evenepoel too, so many haters on him, but i'm just not seeing it Chris...

João Almeida Rules 3th place 😁

I love that G man's wife brings his dog to the races.

Pogi still sounded stuffed up yesterday in the interviews.. there was rumors of stage 1 being altered due to flooding but that was 3 days ago and I haven't heard anything since.. If I was UAE Id send someone up in the break to take pressure off the team.. I expect Roglic to come out flying

Lets have a tip for each stage this years TDF ! I'll start with stage 1. Tom pidcock @ $19

Van Art said he has never started a Tour in such a bad shape

Second? ETA- assuming everyone isnt just playing mind games and BSing in the press the uncertainty of the big 4’s form will make this TDF a lot more interesting. If Tadej will really need a few days to get back on form it could give jonas the time he needs to get on form. And if Primoz CAN JUST STAY UPRIGHT this may still be an interesting TDF and not just 3 weeks of the Tadej Pagacar show

We know the riders are ready. Horner is always ready. We're ready. But is NBC ready? I think Chris may point out some knucklehead analysis and commentary on tomorrow's TBFE. 🛋️🦋

Starts in the morning. The four top riders in different teams and we have the best coverage on this channel. Can not wait. Don’t think we are going to have story time on what happened in the girlfriends bedroom to enable that relaxed feeling though 😉

I bet you came out of Ms. Horner's room REAL relaxed. Just kidding, sending lots of love to you all 🤣

Stages 4,14,15,19 and 20 is all I care about. Nah, I lied, CAN’T WAIT!!

I think that Jonas can ride himself into shape. Let Tadej can ride aggressively and burn matches. Hopefully, Jonas can loose seconds in the first week and make up minutes in last week.

🦋i wouln t like to have the yellow shirt before stage 7 !i think the race will start then 🚴🚴‍♂🚴‍♀ride fast die last!. njoylife 🦋

Seems like having family members would create a positive race environment.

my predictions. Jonas will try to limit his loses tomorrow. Soler will get the knuckle head award. :-)

Toooooo bad it ends going downhill 😢😢

I wonder if there will be outsiders or page 2 riders that will come out with suprises

Cmon pogi! ❤

Pogacar cannot simply bounce back from Covid within 10 days. The worry is about Covid potentially spreading within the Peloton. It is likely that his teammates were also exposed if he was training with them.