re: le Tour '25: Tour de France: FIN We’re All Stars Now In the Dope Show POGGY WINS #4

Absolute bummer. He was certainly going to do well this year, shame his tour ends in day 3

Yikes.

several crashes in the last 3 km.

Photo finish. Merlier wins it by a fraction of an inch

These sprint points and finishes are like a demolition derby when everyone is all fired up. Chaos…like a monkey in a sidecar.

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in all his mullet and moustache glory.

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That would be Quinn Simmons on Lidl Trek. US road champion. Wearing the stars and stripes. He’s been pulling long days for the team.

Here he is at TD Suisse this year:



Jorgensen is on Visma-Lease a Bike. He’s sitting at #5 in the GC after today.

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Yeah and he’s better than 3 of the 4 by a wide margin and his only comp is Eddy. And even then Eddy was competing against a peloton that was nowhere near as professional as today’s peloton is.

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The Cannibal was just different. I am not very old-school biased, but if Eddie had come up in the modern professional cycling world with its training and chemistry, I think he would have been untouchable in the GTs. He likely wouldn't have been allowed to be the supreme all-rounder he was, but I think he would have won all the GTs in a year two, if not three times. His classics/monuments/sprinting numbers would be down, but I think his GT numbers would have been even more impressive.

I would love to be able to see a TdF with a modern trained Eddie, Pog and Lance all with equally strong teams and with a brutally hard course and see who could prevail.


Hate to see Jasper out. The peloton doesn't look nervous early in this tour; they look angry. I suppose it makes sense as the GC teams have been serious from the gun and smaller teams start to realize ink for their sponsers is going to be hard to come by.

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Absolute bummer. He was certainly going to do well this year, shame his tour ends in day 3

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DId the rider on his right have his foot come off the pedal and veer in to him? looking at stills.

How does your foot come off the pedal when clicked in? they were moving in a straight line and no drama/stress.

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Coquard came unclipped or unclipped in the process.

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Yeah just saw a better video angle.

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If the Cannibal was truly different he would be competitive with Pog across the classics and GTs,

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IMO a modern grown and developed Eddie would destroy Pogacar in most one-day races, but my point was a modern Eddie wouldn't have been allowed to race as many races if he was a triple threat to the GTs like I think he would be. I also think a modern Eddie would have been 10-12 pounds lighter and have a much higher power to weight ratio and FTP than classic Eddie. Everyone talks about them in the same sentence now, even Merckx himself, but I think Tadej needs a lot more added to his palmarès before I will call them equal.

One thing not to forget is a modern Eddie would have had his leg length discrepancy diagnosed at the very beginning of his career and bikes built and fitted to account for this. That change alone would have made him more formidable than he already was, even before modern training and chemistry.