Thanks Johan and JB2 for the conversation. Stage 11 is going to reveal these riders' strength and weakness. There is no hiding in the mountains. The strength of each team will be tested and the best will cone out on top. Excited to see this unfold.

Merckx rode 96 days in the yellow jersey.

Love the show! So in depth

Hi from Denmark. Jonas responded to Remco, saying it´s not about balls, but about racing smart (boom). He wen´t out of his comfortzone there. Normally Jonas is extremely introvert, but learned over the years, to handle the pressure around him. He is also a very gentle person, who sometimes seem fragile, and that´s why it´s so important for him, to have he´s wife and daughter close. That helps him focus. Everyone can see, that he feels more relaxed now, then for 1-2 years ago. When Pogacar was jumping backwards in the pool, on the restday last year, before the TT. Jonas was reaxing with he´s familiy. So there u have it. 2 very different personalities, that suits each other perfectly, for us to witness. Let´s take this show into the last week. Cheers from Denmark and thx for this podcast show.

I honestly don't get the hate towards Jonas, that he only sits on Pogi's wheel. Last year's Tour it was Pogi on Jonas' and Kuss wheel most of the Tour. Just respect they're different riders and have different personalities. Of course in a perfect world it would be exciting if every rider in the peloton was like Pogacar, but that's just not the case. Football would probably also be even more exciting if there was 11 Messi's on the pitch but that will never happen. So let's just enjoy the race and let the best man win without being disrespectful towards any of the riders :-)

We haven’t seen anything yet. The headwind on Galibier was not conducive for attacking. Who will crack first, idk. But get ready for fireworks. Because we all know who will attack first.

just love it!

It’s a fascinating Tour this year. I still have to think Pogacar has the edge. Yes Jonas has a history of being strong late in the Tour but this is not a normal year for him. His body was significantly traumatized with fractured ribs, fractured clavicle and a punctured lung/pneumothorax. There is also the surrounding soft tissue injury of skin, muscle, tendons, ligament etc. All that injury requires rest/detraining and energy from body stores to heal. The healing process is a logarithmic one with the initial stages being very rapid but the later gradual stages extending for months. That plus the human species detrains more rapidly and retrains more slowly than many animal species, dogs, cats, horses etc. All this means Jonas body is still utilizing some of its energy to heal his wounds plus his body is not trained to its normal level upon starting the Tour. It’s a toss up as to him improving because he is essentially training during the tour thus improving his body’s efficiency or whether the burden of healing/inactivity plus the enormous demands of the Tour will gradually weaken him over time. Could go either way but we’ll know fairly soon.

I would like to hear more racing stories from Johan's racing days.

Brains over balls any day of the week and Sunday too

Just a little correction: the Tour de France JB is referring to is NOT the one in 1986, instead it is the one in 1989 (!!!) which ended with a thrilling ITT where leading up to that stage Greg LeMond was behind Laurent Fignon by quite a big margin. By using aero equipment of triathletes he won that stage and finished the whole Tour de France 8 seconds in front of Fignon. Imagine that: riding more than 3200 km with lots of mountains and then losing (or winning) by a margin of only 8 seconds!!!

Sport unite people.. Ertreans are united forever.. From now on

JV wins the Tour in the final week of racing 🏆

IF Pogacar drove off road Jonas would follow

18:06 Remco stirred shits up. Because the last 4 TDFs was very respectful and ect. Until Remco came into the picture. 😂

Lovee both of them (pog&remco). We need fire at the tour

Please try to get Wiggins more. He's fantastic

WHY IS IT A SHAME ?..CYCLING HAS RULES AND PHILLIPSON DESERVE TO BE RELEGATED. He been bullying his way in the peleton for quite a while., its a SHAME he keeps getting away with it

LET US NOT FORGET!🙄😉😀

Jonas is recovering from recent injury his only hope is to pace and wait for Pog to hopefully have a bad day. Excellent job JB2

Tomorrow is 1 of 7 showdowns we have coming. How many does Tadej need to win for the Tour? How many does Jonas need to win the Tour? How many does Remco, Primoz, or Carlos need? Love to hear everyone’s opinion!

According to Google, 😮 Eddie Merckx wore the yellow jersey in TDF a record 96 days 😮

stage 11 may not separate the GC but it may indicate their intentions and more so where Jonas is with his race fitness, would like to see Remco go on the attack just to add more spice. I'm reckoning on stages 14 and 15 to start showing gaps (possible the defining gap) but hopefully not and this goes all the way to the final stage (just for us fans).

If you guys want non stop action forget road racing and watch mtb or cyclocross. None of this 120 mile bs only to be decided in less than the last 1K

Like JB’s shirt.

whether you like him or not. straight up flat sprint jp is the best in the world for a few years running. the sport needs villains and heroes and characters. personally love him.

There's a saying when two dogs fight over a bone, the third one darts in and steals it away. I don't know if the same will happen between Pog and Jonas, with either Remco or Rog springing a surprise on them in one of the coming mountain stages. It seems unlikely, but then we have seen stranger things in cycling.

Jonas Vingegaard is more like Alberto Contador. He is very family oriented and seriously somewhat fragile sometimes.

MVDP first caught Pogi in Milan-San Remo. So not just leading out Philipsen.

Why was Biniam Girmay not relegated because he changed the lane and boxed in Ackermann and also give onother guy a shoulder push arround 250-350 m before the finish?

I don't know if Remco can stay on Pogi-Vingo tandem in Puy-Mary/Pas-De-Peyrol. Rogla is keeping his rust legs warm. Ineos will help CRC on this stage. Almeida-Ayuso-Yates will explode this climbs so watch out.

Do you think TdF should add the Golden Kilometer to some of the sprint days. It would relieve some of the boredom. They could have each team designate one rider eligible for the points. This way a break away can go and it wouldn't spoil the show.

Philipsen was frustrated with the lead out, till today.

Jasper looked very relexed at MVDP wheel, MVDP was working very hard. The speed diference is huge between them. Btw, when will Johann reviel the device results that he promised he would?

Even if Pogacar has already the Giro d'italia in his legs ,due to the crash of Jonas and his lack of time to stick to planned preparations for this tour, Pogacar or even Remco or another rider arrives to beat Jonas Vingegaard is absolutely no shame for him, after he had endured to be in the tour fighting for the first place is already a great achievement!

Stage 11,14,15 ,18,19 ,20 and the ITT on the 21st stage have 2/3 of the elevations in this tour!

aside from double exposure for sponsors, why Joyan left from the main course?

Teams that could end up with no stage wins. Ineos EF, Visma Leaseabike

Soler on breakaway tomorrow? Agree?

Girmay is more versatile of a rider in comparison to Philipsen.

Bini or Tom Pidcok?

Jonas "always"gets stronger in the last week. This year probably a lot stronger. Poga "always" gets weaker ..

Philipsen would be close to green if he didn’t get relegated

Johan saying tadejs biggest rival is himself never makes sense to me he has lost to tours to jonas jonas is the only one in the world that can produce same watts as tadej only difference is jonas has been more consistent in the tour last two years we will see this tour but put some respect on vinge

What is WvA doing in this TdF so far? Nobody is talking about him nor his performance. He hasn't seriously tried to win a sprint. He isn't doing anything extra for Jonas. What is his plan? 3rd week?

4th

pogacar currently looks very tired and sad. He's not as laid back as usual. The Giro is in his legs. It will be very difficult for him, especially on the long, high climbs against Vingegaard

The elephant in the room that no one is taking about Poga did the Giro!!! I don’t care who you are , you will accumulate fatigue !!! I think Tade is going to feel the 3rd week

If I were UAE team director, I just go ahead copy and paste Visma plan! have Tadej, Yates, Mikkel wheel suck Jonas every stage and all day long, in current form, it is very unlikely that Jonas can drop Tadej! it will be the most boring tdf ever! but who care! 2 can play the game!