Let’s just ignore toxic fans. I will proudly say in my old age that I lived the era of Tadej, Jonas, Remco, Wout, MDVP and Bini, etc. Tour is beautiful!!
I will proudly say that of the Lance era. It is what it is and was. It got me into cycling and I fell in love with road cycling from watching those years and the blue train. Same again now. Contador, the Shlecks, Jens Voigt, Cancellara....it's all fucking epic. I wasn't as excited during the froome/sky years...but it was an era. Cycling rocks...and it's a shame it has to end and we only have one more GT to enjoy.
What a tour. Jonas was incredible with 6 weeks prep, Tadej is on another planet and Remco is amazing and getting better and better. Binay winning green and Carapaz lights it up. One of the best tours I have watched.
There’s one thing that every professional commentator keeps overlooking: Jonas did this with some of his best teammates ABSENT this year. That just makes his accomplishment this year all the more stunning.
UAE Team were extremely good this year! Pogacar was on another level. Remco has bright future. Jonas has a lionsheart! Bini and Cav made history! What a great Tour!! Bring on 2025!❤
The gulf in the winner and the rest is unbelievable. The way he dominates is unreal, I'm not convinced he can be so much better than the rest of the world
You have to remember Jonas beat Pogacar the previous 2 years and Remco's performance was 3rd best since the 90s... better than Pogi 2020/21 vintage - if Remco had come to the sport sooner he may be even closer to those 2 - I don't know that he can compete, but I am keen to find out - ruling him out would be foolish
The start of video says it all... Jonnas absolutely trenched in sweat, broken, huge effort & pogi bouncing around as fresh as a daisy, huge energy like he is on magic beans??? This tour started great and Remco was the real winner here and seems a light in the darkness of how this ridiculous pogi show ended, but now the French press go to work. May be a new David Walsh is on his/her way..
Clearly never won anything - I've competed at a high level, won and lost with the same efforts - how you act and appear is night and day depending on the outcome. If you're basing it off of that, you're ignorant. If you're basing it off other factors I understand.
@@dpcater Yeah, everyone else is dead around you and your as fresh as driven snow. Yeah, you regularly get beat in the many competions that u enter and are really happy to be wiped the floor with by a guy with exactly the same stats, kit, team and support as you, and that guy is not even out of breath.... Mate you on the magic bean too 😉😉😉
@@THECONTROVERSIALCYCLIST No I've just actually competed. I'm not saying they're clean. I'm just saying you're using a moronic metric with which to come to the conclusion he is doping. You need only to look at the past two years so see Pogi in a completely different state exactly as I have described. You're also daft as fuck if you don't think Jonas is as sauced as Pogacar.
I discovered Remco, what a funny/warm guy! and he has talent to climb (my big doubt about him) . By the way, I also like the good relationship Tadej-Remco, they were constantly chatting and laughing.
What worries me is that Tadej in the last time trial when he crosses the line, starts to celebrate immediately with his team mates. Normally top TT riders need at least one minute to recover. Either Tadej did not have to go to his limit to beat Jonas and Remco. Or he dopes. But if he doped, he would pretend to be out of breath upon arrival. So, I believe he does not dope. Also, the whole top ten of this tour is driving 30 to 40 Watts faster then before the tour. Probably all the GC teams did an incredible breakthrough on recovery of their cyclists.
To be fair the injuries arent comparable. Both broke the collarbone and in addition to that Vingegaard punctured a lung, Got a bloodtransfusion and caught an inflammation. But yes both are amazing athletes
Awesome TdF! Chapeau to Remco. He's right, he did have to bust his a$$ and this is really the 1st time that I can remember that Patrick LeFevre team took GC seriously. Pogi CAN win everything. I'd love to see him in rainbow.
Tp is truly great, but it was a perfect storm. I think with all riders staying upright and healthy before and during the tour next year and teams as well, it will be a truer test of mettle or just also incredible to watch. The dominance factor might not be quite as much.... and to add, Remco actually got a little lesson in pr interviews ;)
@@veganpotterthevegan Remember the Tour in 201x where an even bigger clash was about to take place with lots of GC contenders but then Froome and Contador crashed early with one of them almost detaching a leg muscle. That year had lots of GC contenders but after that crash the Tour was a bit weird.
Hilarious that Remco says he hit back at critics when the fact is he had publicly accused Jonas of having no balls to race when speaking to journalists. Jonas simply let his bike do the talking and beat Remco by a significant margin. As to the two ITV commentators (both ex TDF riders), they were hilariously inconsistent in that last ITT. At times saying how Tadej was the very best rider ever as shown by the way he beat Jonas by many minutes and then a short time later saying Jonas was so brave to have ridden the TDF when no one expected him to do so after his very severe life threatening injuries in that crash in April and how Jonas had only had 6 weeks of training before stage one of the TDF so they said it’s no wonder Tadej beat him by minutes. Come on guys which is it? The reality is that it’s the second explanation thats the truth - Jonas was amazing both mentally and physically to come back to racing and with his first race being the world’s toughest, and to take on UAE with a fully in form Tadej and a fully in form UAE team whereas he Jonas lost Kuss his super mountain domestique a week before the start to covid. It’s no wonder the time gap between 1st & 2nd in GC was minutes. The person who should be concerned is Remco who is billed as the new wonder-boy and yet he lost to Jonas and that on a parcour that many said was deliberately picked to favor Remco (and Tadej) as it had no long big mountains (>15 km and average gradient >10%) which lighter climbers like Jonas (& an in form Roglic) excel at. Instead we had medium hard mountains like the final climb in stage 19 =10km and 8% , which suit Pog and theoretically Remco.
Remco saw Primoz as his rival for third place and Jonas sitting in the wheels on the gravel stage, scuppered the chance of putting big time into him. It is understandable Remco was annoyed, but Jonas did what was best for himself.
It is amazing how Remco, systematically ticks off, one by one his weak points. Ticked Off: Remco cannot descend, sprint, position in the peloton, climb in the high mountains, not explosive, not strategic, always has a bad day in a grand tour. It is true that there is still a considerable gap with Jonas and Tadej. But to Remco, those are just other weak points to tick off.
Honestly just about everyone in the top 10 suggests otherwise. He wasn’t the only one going faster than lances records. Jonas in top shape at the end of week 2 putting up record numbers (for himself). There’s been a huge increase in performance by everyone this year especially. Something is going around for sure.
I have two recommendations to improve cycling and its appeal: 1. Outlaw those ridiculous TT helmets they look silly. 2. Riders to stop flexing their arms during celebrations, it has the opposite effect than it's supposed to.
@@segdoc I'm definitely enjoying it. Who told you not to enjoy it? *The people who accused Lance were always right. If Lance never admitted it, the accusers would have still been right. Pogi would destroy Lance
