I predict a big breakaway to get away, probably with some climbers who are 10-20 on GC. They’ll get 8 minutes before Col de la Ramaz. The KOM battle will be unrecognisable.
The GC battle will spark up, and the last survivor of the break will be narrowly caught near the top of the Joux Plane but not near enough to catch back on and deny Pogacar the win.
Pidcock will chase like a madman down the final descent, but was already a minute down over the top so it won’t be enough.
That is a very specific prediction and I applaud you for that :D
Those fucking motorcycles!
On that final ascent during Pog’s sprint, was it actually the motorbike wanting to be close or did it have to slow down due to the crowd being in the way? I couldn’t tell on TV, either way terrible luck for Pog.
I can see Pidcock winning this. He really is the biggest surprise for me in the gc, didn’t think he would be that good consistently.
While he clearly is surprisingly good, he still has to outclimb (and admittedly descent, where he is brilliant) the other two and with place 8 in GC I don’t think they will just let him ride.
