In the Tour de France 2024, Tadej Pogacar showed a historic performance on Plateau de Beille, crushing a long-standing record time on the climb by minutes. I am interested in if a similar phenomenon will occur on the Hautacam climb this year. The Hautacam climb has a very strong record time set by Bjarne Riis in 1996, who later admitted to illegal use of EPO during that Tour.
I will resolve as best as I can to credible reporting of the fastest rider's Hautacam KOM segment time, or via manual timing from the KOM start to the finish banner if I am unable to find a credible source or there is disagreement on the time in question.
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@MachiNi Visma may set a brutal pace for the peloton and send one of their lieutenants to the front to launch Vingegaard. This might be enough for KOM if Pogacar responds. But if Pogacar attacks and they can’t follow he may not need to go fast enough for a KOM. Or maybe he’ll just go for it. So hard to predict. Should be an awesome stage.
@MachiNi My guess is that we aren’t going to see an all-out leadout a la Plateau de Beille, because UAE don’t have the personnel, Visma won’t want to sacrifice Jorgenson so early, and the stage is not the hardest in the Tour so Visma may opt to save their bullets for stages with more elevation. Who knows for sure though, we’ll see!
@RedzoneITG do you know that the referenced times both use the same timed segment? Is this tied to a Strava segment or some points on the road?
@Eliza Not certain. My reference for the times listed is http://www.climbing-records.com/2022/07/vingegaard-seals-tour-victory-on.html