In the course of this stage, the Tour disaster for Team RBH begins with the fall of Roglic’s noble helper Vlasov. At around 60km/h, Vlasov accidentally crashes into a ditch [22], sustains serious injuries and has to give up the race after the stage [23]. This means Roglic loses the most important domestique for the high mountain stages, a bitter setback for his GC ambitions.
The sub-segment analyzes during the stage once again leave you speechless when it comes to the performance indicators completed. The entire stage is raced at an hourly average of 46km/h [24], mind you on gravel bike material with significantly higher rolling resistance than the high-tech road cars otherwise used and 17 profiled gravel sections, where the racers had to climb the slopes on foot. Even on the rough gravel roads, the peloton travels at almost 40km/h.
There are two additional curiosities on the sidelines of the stage that require special attention. On the one hand, the astonishing performance of the breakaway king Jonas Abrahamsen, who circled tirelessly in front of the peloton and took over both the dotted jersey of the leader in the mountain classification and the green jersey of the leader in the sprint classification in the first third of the tour. The man not only astonishes with this achievement, but also his morphological history from a slight ectomorphic leptosome to an athletic body type, with a weight gain of 20kg (sic!), reduces all basic knowledge of ecotrophology to absurdity [25]. Even pharmacologically trained bodybuilders command the highest respect for this abnormal increase in obviously performance-enhancing and high-quality muscle mass.
The Belgian Victor Campenaerts delivers another urological artistic feat in the finale of the stage. At a speed of 48 km/h, Campenaerts releases his kidney filtrate into the previously emptied drinking bottle and thus maintains his assistant position in front of his sprint captain Arnaud de Lie [26]. He then disposes of the urine sample properly in the ditch, thereby also removing it from the reach of the doping controllers.
[1] https://wedu.team/blogs/the-move -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9vaAX7s_mc How Efficient Is Pogacar? | Tour de France 2024 Stage 6 | JB2
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TWZTD-c1jk Wie Pogacar kaum zu schlagen ist! TOUR DE FRANCE 2024 Etappe 4 Analyse SCYENCE
[4] https://www.sportschau.de/radsport/tourdefrance/5-etappe-die-stimmen,tour-etappe-die-stimmen-100.html ab 10min
[5] https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_138751.htm Tour-Jury hebt Strafe nicht auf Es bleibt dabei: Bauhaus auf Etappenplatz 171 zurückgesetzt
[6] https://www.welt.de/sport/article246215402/Tour-de-France-Deutscher-Radprofi-Bauhaus-verweigert-ARD-Interview.html, https://www.welt.de/sport/article246227940/Tour-de-France-2023-Drei-Strafen-fuer-Sprinter-Phil-Bauhaus.html
[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbnhIZMQEUo TOUR DE FRANCE 2024 – La palette du coup risqué mais gagnant de Cavendish lors de la 5e étape, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md6eoERSxOc So holte sich MARK CAVENDISH den Rekord I TOUR DE FRANCE 2024! SCYENCE
[10] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steherrennen
[12] https://www.classified-cycling.cc/en/products/tri-tt https://granfondo-cycling.com/de/classified-getriebenabe-2020-test-2/
[13] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwLuikU3mbw Breaking Down the GC After the Time Trial | Tour de France 2024 Stage 7 | JB2 -> bei 20min:20s
[14] https://ww w.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_138769.htm Eingeklemmte Kette kostet Top-Ergebnis im Zeitfahren Küng bleibt bei der Tour der France das Pech treu
[16] https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_138774.htm Wer hat hier eigentlich dem Image des Radsports geschadet?
[17b] https://www.sportschau.de/olympia/luecken-geruechte-frust-paris-droht-londoner-horrorbilanz,olympia-paris-doping-kontrollen-wada-china-zwischenbilanz-100.html, s.a. die tolerierten perversen Auswüchse im Reitsport https://taz.de/Tierschutz-bei-Olympia/!6025150/
[18] https://www.doccheck.com/de/detail/articles/37599-trimetazidin-doping-bei-olympia
[19] https://www.sportschau.de/radsport/tourdefrance/die-9-etappe-der-tour-de-france-am-0707-ab-14-uhr,livestream-tour-etappe-9-100.html John Degenkolb im Zielinterview
[20] https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_138783.htm Riesiger Aufwand für die 9. Tour-Etappe Red Bull – Bora bereitet 102 Laufräder für Schotter-Etappe vor
[21] https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_138799.htm Niermann erklärt die 100km auf fremdem Arbeitsgerät
[22] https://www.sportschau.de/radsport/tourdefrance/vlasov-stuerzt-in-graben,tour-de-france-574.html
[23] https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_138812.htm Vlasov mit Knöchelbruch raus aus der Tour Roglic muss auf seinen besten Berghelfer verzichten
[24] https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-france/2024/stage-9
[25] https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_138707.htm Abrahamsen nahm 20 Kilogramm zu Zum Kletterkönig der Tour gefuttert
[26] https://www.express.de/sport/sportmix/tour-de-france-pinkel-aerger-mitten-im-peloton-ekelhaft-826291
The author studied chemistry and sports science, worked, among other things, at the Institute for Biochemistry and Doping Analysis at the German Sports University in Cologne, worked in clinical research for years, has supported professional cycling in various functions for decades and is still involved in cycling intensively to this day. He also worked for decades in the fitness industry as a development engineer and in the areas of product and quality management.
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