Cmon Jimmy, Jonas was on the limit today. Tomorrow may be different, but today he didn't have more.

Just wanna say that I've been waiting for the episode every night and that you guys are KILLING IT on this series. This tour is great and so are you

Jonas looked quite coocked at the end..

Yates is the SUPER dom this tour.

Keep Chris around

I have to say... with the close GC battle, and all the media trolling, i was starting to lose faith in UAE and Pogacar... but never ever lose faith in Tadej Pogacar. This was the 9th time Pogi & Jonas have finished 1-2 on a stage of the tour de France.. the most of any 2-up rivalry (even more than Armstrong-Ullrich)... the greatest rivalry of all-time... and 4-5 more days of this ding-dong battle to go.

Same person threw chips in JV face that threw them in Pog's face. What a tool, they are not fans!

Not saying Jonas can't or won't come back and win this, but Jimmi is delusional to think Jonas wasn't going his hardest at the end there.

Disagree with you on this one Jimmy, all previous tours Jonas as followed all hard attacks of Pog, I think he’s missing that last few percent of fitness due to the crash which is completely understandable. I do agree it’s not over yet though

Adam Yates deserves a credit

I think this year the situations of Pogacar and Vingegaard are the reverse of last year. Last year Tadej was coming off an injury and his team was weaker than Visma. Granted his injury was not nearly as severe as Jonas’ but it did affect his training. This year crashes and illnesses have weakened the Visma team and it’s Jonas that is coming off an injury. That has put Jonas out by himself countering Tadej just like Tadej was isolated last year. Carbon monoxide binds hemoglobin reducing the oxygen carrying capacity of blood. Much like altitude training, that reduction will stimulate red blood cell production and perhaps improve the oxygen carrying capacity of those RBC’s. Dr. Robert Schmidt, an expert in the field, has stated it may be more effective than EPO.

Pog was actually chipping away, chipping away, chipping away in '23. chped away until lack of base from missed training caught up with him.

as a physician, i would be critical of the idea of carbon monoxide increasing performance when it permanently binds to hemoglobin. they would have to raise their hb to make up for that and I remember high hemoglobin levels being banned by the uci. now if it was carbon dioxide, i could see how that could have potential.

Guys tomorrow has 5000m climbing in 30 degrees with a 45min final climb then the alps… suspend judgement still!

This is seriously becoming better and better by the day. At this speed you guys will have 1 mil subs in no time. So hooked on listening to you every evening now. ❤❤❤. PS: Pogi for the win. It’s his year. What a monster climb today!

Jonas will be better in the really tough stuff later in the last week pogi knows this and wants a buffer.

Please do some research before you start talking about subjects like close tours. Dude says the other close tour he can remember most recently was Greg LeMond taking the yellow jersey in the time trial on the final stage. Really? You don't remember Pogačar doing the same exact thing in 2020? That would be good to remember since he is one of the guys in the race this year in the super close battle...lol.

'Tough Jimmy' intro! 🤣

Today's Fluff Up of the Day was ,,,, there was no Fluff Up of the Day!

Did your guest say the last time he can think of where it was close at the end was 20 years ago? Um, in 2020 Pogacar won it on the last stage, a TT, beating out Roglic to win by 59 seconds. Not as close as LeMond's win in '89, which was only 8 seconds, but 59 seconds is still really close. It's not Pogacar's fault Roglic's helmet nearly came off his head lol.

Am I the only one that thinks that Geraint Thomas riding todays stage after saying he had tested positive for COVID in an interview before the stage was stupid and very selfish and puts all the other riders at risk?

6:54 Pogacar today was all race in Jonas wheel, it’s good, very good strategy.

"Vingegaard all day" ??? Seems not today.... Tactics ? Tadej loves to race, tactics be damned.

Anyone who has watched this year saw the writing on the wall. In previous years, when Pog has attacked JV has at least held his wheel. So far this year, as soon as Pog has gone, he's gone, 3 times now. Tour is over, JV just isn't strong enough or race fit enough to hold Pog's wheel or attack himself.

Guys these have been fantastic top work

The fan crowding is potentially easily solved with some intimidating police on motor bikes and loud speakers riding ahead of the leads in the race announcing the limits (ie stay off the road). If a series of top riders express their frustration in an honest way in the media after such races fans will respond and self police too.

Hello from West Virginia, USA. Just wanted to say this is, by far, the best TDF commentary out there; you have a great team!

I like the fact that this race is a team effort as it makes the racing far more interesting but also wonder on stages like this where a rider like POG would finish without a super domestique like Adam Yates. Is Jonas getting this level of support from Jorgenson? If Jonas can conserve energy and Visma does use tactics to cause UAE to respond with too much effort it may come down to a tour GC being determined by the final time trial IMO.

What would happen if Jonas attacked Yates to stay on his wheel instead? The whole situation with sending out Yates was pretty obvious.

Jonas is REALLY missing Sep Kuss! His team is just not quite as strong as he needs this year. But what a performance from him and Pog! They really are the two best riders in the race by a long shout.

I disagree. JV came to the Tour thinking he could win. He wouldn’t be here otherwise.

Last week you said the Pag was over!

Nice format to review the TDF. I truly enjoyed this series❤

LOVE watching Healey race, just always giving it the stick.

4:04 Sorry Jimmy, but I have to disagree, if Jonas didn’t had enough confidence in winning he would never entered the fray, he is not in this momento worried about Evennepoel, he was in trouble and asking for help. Remco is running for a podium spot and ready to earn more if the conditions are right. I think be didn’t even tried to follow JV, he was riding his pace and it’s the smart thing to do.

Jonas was looking around for help. The last time he did that, he was able to get guys to work with him which allowed him to save energy and catch Pogačar. This time, guys were too smart to help him. Remco played it perfectly by getting to Jonas' back wheel and sitting on. With nobody to help, Jonas had to work the rest of the stage. The funny thing is that if Roglic had been there, he would have been stupid enough to work with Jonas eventhough Jonas was ahead of him by a lot in the gc.

Carbon monoxide treatments are not new. I give my GF a similar treatment in bed, it's called a dutch oven.

jimmy’s “just vibinnnnn” 🤙🏽 long live the jimster let’s get it on!

I rarely comment on videos but I logged in to say: I’m all in on these intros. Fire it the f*** up, Jimmy! Lets gooo

Interesting about this carbon story.. last year when Jonas was asked about doping.. his words were.. "I am not doing anything illegal. ".. implying he IS doing SOMETHING...

They should let the riders carry bear spray.

It is estimated that Pog did: 6.85 ᵉW/Kg for 27:50 min. For sea level normalised, it is 7.16 ᵉW/Kg.

You guys are doing phenomenal work with this series, the style and approach is making cycling super accessible and engaging to new as well as old cycling fans. May the channel grow!

For Sunday’s Stage, Bini would pull a Ewan-esque strategy, if anybody remember, there was a mountain stage in this years Giro where Caleb somehow snuck up on the early break therefore he survived the stage cause he was in the front.

You still haven’t learned, have you? Dissing Pog yesterday was a stroke of genius. Your podcasts should be renamed 'The Jonas Fan Club Chronicles'-with special episodes on why anchovies make the perfect podcast snack.

They need to put up more restraining ropes to protect the riders from a-hole fans.

I wanna believe it's a clean tour but we've not seen someone do the double for years and pog is just wiping the floor with everyone. If it's a fresh pog fine but I do feel it's suss with a giro in the same year.

When "WOPSTdF" happens again next year, I hope you guys have a fantasy league again and a part of your show use the players league update as a segue or tie ins on how the tour is doing. I find myself listening a bit more intently when I hear how your fantasy teams are doing.

Cade Media and Cris Horner the best channels

Jonas looking back, most likely looking for Jorgensen. Like the way Kuss role is. Jonas knew that he couldn’t close down Pogacar, so if he had Jorgenson paced he could save a little instead of him chasing Mano a Mano. I think Jonas played it smart today.. But I’m still waiting if “lack of preparation = lack of preparation.” Jonas is showing what Tadej looked like last year. Giving a proper fight, but logically it’s still hard to think that someone who has only 6 weeks of preparation can win the TDF unless Tadej finally runs out of gas from Giro fatique. Last year, Tadej with less severe injury, had 5 weeks training time,. We were also wondering about his form. He looked good, even dropped Jonas, before he blew up. And Jonas had been training with 2 altitude camp + race in Dauphine last year.

Exactly! That drives me up the wall as well, the spectators being so disrespectful and blocking the best line the riders wish to take. Arghh ....

Did you miss the fan yanking the other fan off the road? I wish more fans would do that. It happening while the Camera was on Mathieu van der Poel in the break away talking to his team car. Someone was running on the road with a flag around his neck. Another spectator reached out and hooked him on the arm and yanked him off the road. Admittedly I was cheering!

Great as usual. Love the coverage of women's races. More of this, please.

Second best 20 minutes of my life 😂😉 last night's stage asidem..maybe hehe..I did jump straight on KZfaq to see your episode though...waking up to it has been a great way to start my days in Australia. Lovin you're work! #dreamteam

I'm very glad I found this place. Thank you for the entertaining discussions.

Stage 14 suited Pogi and he needed that win and gap as stage 15 and other mountain stages are tougher stages that suits Jonas and can make time on stage 15. Jonas said it not think. Jonas said after stage 14 he can still win the tour

In love with these intros and this whole pro show in general!!

Super fun to listen to all of you three!

Jimmy can be sooo delusional sometimes xD The TDF was close when Pogi won his first

I’m so confused about what the current UK weather conditions are. One of the hosts is in a T-shirt. Another host is in a full winter wooly…and the remaining host is wearing a heavy room coat.

The winning formula: Be much better at everything than anyone else at the same time, and put in the best climbing numbers since the 1990's while destroying Armstrongs record. A simple formula, really.

Thank you all for the great no BS summaries of the races. Between you all, LR, and the Butterfly Effect, no need to watch anyone else

Yellow Jersey TDF Pod as always guys ( + Bella ) Wasn't that a Red Hot Chilli Peppers track ? 🎵 Chip it away Chip it away Chip it away now 🎵 Scary thing is Chris, that Lemond Champs Elysees 🎵 Seven seconds away 🎵 Victory over Fignon ? 89 !

Pog was probably told to ride defensively and try and win the sprint. He disobeyed could not contain himself that’s why team director was evasive!

Lemond beat Fignon in 1989 on the last stage, which was a TT. Lemond came from behind to beat Fignon by a total of 8 seconds. It was a strange win that year, as Lemond used an aero helment and aero bars (later banned), while Fignon went helmetless and used no aero equipment. The final TT this year provides a good chance for a similarly close race for podium places.

Chippin away... ridiculous, Jonas has never chipped away. He cannot attack, never did and never will! He is the glue rider, sitting in another rider's wheel. If he is not in yellow, I cannot see how he can narrow the gap.

2.43… Jonas looking around??? He ALWAYS looks behind, looking for someone to help him… thankfully no one was there!

I don't know who is going to win, but I do know that it take as much energy(burning match) for Pogi to attack and win as Jonas digging deep trying to limit the loss!

Ben Healy has been an absolute monster this year. I love seeing a combative rider just hammering away. Also think second and third could stay as is or swap, and both of those riders will call it a victory, given their injuries.

It's my birthday today. What a great birthday gift from the riders

I somehow haven't seen this channel before. Really great content. Subbed

What is jimmy talking about. You think Jonas decided not to loose 39secs on purpose or to go into the red? Jonas was cooked when he crossed the finishline. No rider will deliberately loose GC time thinking they will gain it back in another stage. I don’t like this notion that Jonas will get stronger and stronger and pog will fade. Last year pog came into the tour without proper preparation and no one thought he will get stronger as the tour goes. But Jonas with more sever injury will?

Weird that Jonas looked around before on a stage but then caught Pog

Tomorrow is the real test… Today’s stage favoured Pogacar… only 150km and the last “climb” had low incline and even downhill in the final 3ks.. and was low altitude… this was absolutely a Pog stage! Tomorrow is a Vingegaard stage… this has to be the day they drew a circle around on the calendar… 200km long… more climbs, 1000 MORE ft of climbing and the final climb is 5km longer and pretty much 8% + ALL the way up… no downhill in the climb… [AND high, high altitude]!! AND it’s not about burning matches per se… it’s being smart and burning the F out of matches when it MAKES SENSE to burn some matches when the probability of return on those matches is good!! Pog used his team well and was smart today 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@akirasuzuki8378 said "Pogacar is the race favorite. Do not underestimate him." The guy who said this in response, seems to really know what he's talking about: "He [Pogačar] is [the favorite] IMO. This year Pogacar is on the best team, he has a 66 second lead, and he's better than Vimgegaard in the time trial." He could have done a little better on spelling Vingegaard's name though and he missed the funny thing over the c in Pogačar's name.

Fluff up of the day: the food in Emily's teeth 😂 I couldn’t look away

Forgetting Contador attacking a Schleck in Yellow with a dropped chain, take 31 seconds and win by that margin... 2010 I believe it was? Of course Contador was later dispaulified, but in the road extremely close

9.02… that fan also threw crisps at JV too… at least he has full face view for the gendarme to follow up!

I’m not saying Jonas will win, but nobody should say he’s lost. Let’s not forget he put 1:38 into Pog in last year’s time trial, and then broke him completely 2 stages later. This year is very different, but don’t put it out of the realm of possibility

It is been profiles so far. Tadej is piling up the seconds on the flat and down hill. The difference so far in comparison to the last years has been that JV can't follow the attacks immediately, but he cuts into those gaps everytime as soon as TP settles in after going into the red. So far the profile of the race just fits TP better because there have quite honestly only been two real high alpine climbs. Today's final climb levelled off dramatically in the last 4kms. That is exactly where TP started to pull away again, because he obviously is a better classics rider than JV. The tactics of attacking on the steepest part of the climb which so far remarkably has always been perfecty close to the summit of the climb or - today - just ahead of the levelling. Hats off to TP because it works perfectly. We'll see on how this works on actual mountain finishes like tomorrow.

Carbon Monoxide ideally < 9 p per million. 800 fatal in minutes 200 fatal in hours. If you can keep it at say 20 for short periods probably safe and effective. I bet they are using it.

Love your shows, can you please stop putting spoilers in your thumb nails. Some of us in the southern hemisphere have to wake up and navigate to the replays.

Tadej? Defensive? He loves to race, he tries for everything, even the sprints. He makes cycling more exciting for the fans. The reason we love to watch him. Win or lose.

On the carbon monoxide training. Surely steroids are banned because they give an edge and they're dangerous so you'd assume.caebon monoxide would be banned eventually as it's performance enhancing and presumably unsafe

Hello, great content. Jonas wouldn't have started if he wanted a podium. Jonas cycles for one reason and one reason only - to win, esp. in the TDF. He will go for it in week 3.

Intro 👌 we vibin Jimmi

Yes Sir! Let's get it on!!!

Jonas kept looking back because he realized he was pushing the pedals and Pogi was still away. Looking for help that never came.

Assuming the crisps were Salt & Vingegaard

Police should find potato chip bag guy and put him in jail as a lesson to all the idiots that cannot respect the riders and the course they ride on!

Love the show but please stop putting spoilers in your title, many people like me dont watch the highlights until 8, once again today when I turned on my smart TV it popped up with your thumbnails😢

I know there are 6 more stages after tomorrow - but tomorrow could be the deciding stage for the GC depending on how it goes. Tadej looked fresher than Jonas today and beat him soundly. If he does the same tomorrow, that will be it. Jonas has nothing to be ashamed of, but I think it is already over.

Draft ideas to UCI, for charity: - Crossed white lines = 100 Euros - Smoke around cyclists = 1,000 Euros - Dropping items on floor near cyclists while cycling = 3,000 Euros - Flags/objects blocking cyclist’s sight = 3,000 Euros - Inappropriate/disallowed touching cyclists by hands/liquids/things = 5,000 Euros - Any other inappropriate actions = 100 to 10,000 Euros (depends on negative result they give to cyclists)

JV and Jumbo Lease a bike are just not a strong team this year.

Everything is intentional, maybe not expected but definitely intentional. He didn’t attack by accident.

i just feel like everyone is underestimating tadej. yes, jonas is very strong but tadej is already in the yellow jersey and is constantly getting more additional time. he is clear from everyone else

Jonas at best can finish half a bike length ahead. Now he needs to make up big time gaps to be in for the victory in Nice. But he is still doing well for the crash he had

That's one of the only good tactical stages I've ever seen out of Pog, and it was very very tactically good. Took enough of a gap on the climb by going near the end of the steeps, to make it man on man in a rolling finish because if it's steep to the end, Jonas could claw him back. In good shape, Jonas takes 2 or 3 minutes tomorrow. If he can take 45 seconds, tour isn't over. If they go even, or Pog wins, tour is done.

It looked like JV looked behind to see if one of his teammates could help him.

Love the intros 😂