Today's Cycling

[henbet22]

Big day tomorrow. Get the popcorn out.

[Lynskey888]

Yeah, this is an awfully difficult stage. I’m watching live today, but I’m resolved to keep BA closed!

[henbet22]

It's like Pavlov's dog. Sport and BA. Enjoy.

[henbet22]

What a stage. Jonas has him covered but think Pogi is digging in at the moment. Drifting to 1.28. There is a duel in the high mountains brewing.

[Lynskey888]

Yeah, that was brilliant to watch. The big mountain days and opportunities for the break always produce the best markets, too. More than 100K matched.

I think Pogacar’s still in complete control myself. He’s riding more conservatively because Almeida’s out and Sivakov was having a bad day, but he’s got one eye on the Vuelta, too. We’ll see big Pogacar attacks at some point, but I expect there will be more economy of effort overall.

PS I swear I didn’t trade it or log on to BA. Hardest thing I’ve ever done.

[henbet22]

Nicely done. Sometimes pure sport for pure enjoyment is the better option.

A minute plus is a lot to make up through. It means 2 great day for Jonas or 1 very bad day for Pogi. Which at the moment does look very unlikely.