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Never got caught up in all the Pinot excitement over the years, but it was definitely exciting to see him going on a breakaway bid for the stage today, but in pretty typical Pinot fashion he fell short in the end.

The Pog vs Jonas battle was a bit odd, though I think Pog played it very smart when he saw Jonas was still going to watch him like a hawk.

Felix Gall showing again that he is one of the best pure climbers.

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Final proper stage off the Tour (maybe next year we will get a final stage that isn't just a parade since it's not in Paris) and the end of what has been a very exciting 3 weeks of racing! Unfortunately the GC battle got snuffed out at the start of week, but we still got some unexpectedly exciting racing from "sprint stages" this week.

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Some people would almost make you think that breakaways never succeed anymore, but if you didn't think that was total rubbish beforehand I don't know how you could think it was the case after this TDF.

Defiant breakaway yesterday holding off the peloton with Asgreen saving Quicksteps Tour (Campenaerts needs thanks!) & today's stage looked total bonkers, but Mohoric, Asgreen & O'Connor just never stopped nailing it.

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To be honest though? My overwhelming feeling is just disappointment for Pogi, it was hard watching how much he was suffering just on that final rise to the finish line :(

Any word on what happened? Has he just blown up? Or is he sick or something?

Vingegaard though has been incredible though, these last two days especially. The TT performance was outstanding, though it did remind me why I hate time trials lol

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First things first, what a brilliant win by Felix Gall & AG2R! Biggest mountain stage of the Tour and from a breakaway that wasn't given much of a leash by the GC group, that was impressive! Also great to see how happy Ben O'Connor was for him.

His TT yesterday wasn't bad, but if he can improve that and most importantly his descending he could be a real GC contender.

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It's been a good couple of days for Ineos! Rodriguez rode really well today, but he definitely got that stage win thanks to Pogi & Jonas messing about, and if the crowd + motorbikes hadn't got in the way the race between them wouldn't have slowed up.

Real shame that such poor organisation hampered the racing. The ASO really should be doing better than that.

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Race organisation a bit of a shambles on Col de Joux Plane. Race motorbikes blocking Pogi's attack and zero crowd control in the final kilometer of the climb robbed us of a dramatic finish which could have changed the race.

Motorbikes also obstructing the riders trying to chase back on as well.

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Cofidis suddenly the best French team?!? Ion Izagirre taking a very impressive second stage win for the team who hadn't won at the Tour in 14 years 🤯

The first half of the stage today was just madness, really no idea what Vingegaard & Jumbo's goal was of just refusing to let any break go even though it could very easily have backfired as Jonas was by himself for a lot of time.

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Seems like I missed a bit of a crazy start to today's stage, but the last 70km or so that I saw gave us some great breakaway racing. No idea what MVDP and Wout where evening trying to do though.

This is the only thing that matters though, Pello Bilbao dedicating his victory to his friend.

"To believe that I had the good legs, that I could do the best for Gino.”

RIP Gino

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Absolutely gutted for Jorgenson to have been solo & looking so good on the final climb only to get caught in the last 500m and not even getting a top 3 :(

Phenominal climb by Woods though, he absolutely flew up that climb and showed just how good he can be in the maountains on his day

Pogi taking a few seconds back as well when I was a bit worried he was going to blow up due to the heat 🥵

GC Pidcock starting to appear?

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Just watching that final uphill sprint made my legs hurt, that looked absolutely brutal at the speed they did it!

Brilliant win for Mads Pedersen and Lidl-Trek who get him up perfectly. Philipsen taking a very impressive second, and Groenewegen very unlucky to not get third in a finish that I didn't expect would suit him at all.

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Never particularly been a Cavendish fan, but that is a pretty horrible way to see his final Tour end

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Poor Cav. Devastated for him. #TDF23 #tdf

That was one of those finishing where I wish I had muted the commentary rather than listening to the over excited rantings from Kirby.

MVDP dropped Philipsen off a bit too early, but he played it very cool and while Cav looked like he had got the jump on everyone he just got blown out of the water once Philipsen launched

Felt like Jumbo actually made things more dangerous trying to keep Jonas at the front until 3km

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