Tour de France Stage 11: Albertville - Col de Granon (151.7km)

You'd think that they have to try something early here, if to soften up the remnants of UAE and cause a bit of stress for Pog if nothing else. We've seen that if you leave it late to move, he's generally more than capable of covering moves himself, limiting losses and even using attacks as springboards for his own bid for the stage win.

Agreed, Jumbo and Ineos need to try get a rider each in the early break. Then attack with Roglic and Pidcock/Martinez on the Galibier to make UAE chase and soften them up early on. Vingegaard and Thomas/Yates then need to give it socks on the final climb and keep pinging attacks off him.

Mind you I could also see a scenario where Pog attacks solo on the Telegraph or the Galibier and holds it to the line.

Soler didn't need much encouragement to start chasing down that Movistar rider 😂

Soler would have chased that down even if he was still with Movistar

That helicopter shot of the climb hurts my legs!!

Wounded will the laughing group struggle today with the time limits given the fast pace already on show.

Van der Poel withdraws

love him but it goes to show that these days, you can’t do a Giro at full pelt and hope to do anything in the Tour

THIS IS BRILLIANT

This is mental