hey, my man great video as always. You should look at how to pronounce penultimate, I have recently rewatched your echoes on redoute video from 2 months ago and in todays videos you say it interestingly. Seriously, no hate amazing and informative videos, just mentioning the word pronounciation.😢
Not surprised that as an American you focused so much on Armstrong – yet almost completely overlooked the undoubted 'King of Alpe d'Huez', Marco Pantani. Not only does Pantani still hold the record for the fastest ever ascent of the Alpe [37 mins 35 secs] in 1997, but has the three of the five fastest ascents of the legendary mountain.
I understand Alpe D'Huez gets the views, but obviously you're good at this. Don't stop here. I hope you do more famous mountains, stages or even classic routes and their history. Well done.
Carlos Sastre attacking very early and then his teammates Frank and Andy Schleck attacking the chase group relentlessly behind in 2008 was also a great stage. Sastre was a poor timetrialist and took enough time that day to win the tour ahead of Cadel Evans.
I would remove the entire section on Lance Armstrong and replace it with Tom Pidcock's 2022 win on Alpe D'Huez – a technical masterpiece on climbing and descending to become the youngest rider to win on this legendary mountain. Do I need to mention that this was Tom Pidcock's Tour debut?
An important piece of the lore of the race was the first stage finishing in the Alpe D'Huez in 1979, won by Agostinho, which mounted a great comeback after his hopes for the GC were crushed in the Roubaix stage. Still considered to this day the greatest portuguese cyclist of all time, his conquering of the mountain is his crowning achievement, in a Tour where he finished in the podium for the second time. Although the victory of the WC by Rui Costa is objectively the biggest win of a portuguese rider, and Acácio da Silva wearing the maillot jaune is the biggest achievement of Portugal in the Tour, this victory of Agostinho can be considered the pinnacle of portuguese cycling, so far.
As a side note, him sharing the bend with Carlos Sastre it's pretty cool.
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another bangerrr
Edit: can we get tony martin 4 wins?
What a channel, 2k subs should easily be 100x that! Keep it up mate these are great
Well done and nice inclusion of the tour de femmes.
Amazing as always
Beautifully done, love the resonance in your naration, I can feel your excitement ❤
I was hoping you were gonna get a massive algorithm boost after the Giro
Great stuff as always 💪
hey, my man great video as always. You should look at how to pronounce penultimate, I have recently rewatched your echoes on redoute video from 2 months ago and in todays videos you say it interestingly. Seriously, no hate amazing and informative videos, just mentioning the word pronounciation.😢
Sorry .. when you have Armstrong .. you get a dislike and a block
Great episode but what about Tommy Simpson?
Not surprised that as an American you focused so much on Armstrong – yet almost completely overlooked the undoubted 'King of Alpe d'Huez', Marco Pantani. Not only does Pantani still hold the record for the fastest ever ascent of the Alpe [37 mins 35 secs] in 1997, but has the three of the five fastest ascents of the legendary mountain.
I would remove 2001/2004
you missed Guiseppe Guerini´s crash from 1999! and then went on to win. Thats a legendary one and should be included.
Thank you for not pretending that Armstrong was never there, that his Le Tour victories never existed
You forgot the time they raced up it two times in the same stage!
I understand Alpe D'Huez gets the views, but obviously you're good at this. Don't stop here. I hope you do more famous mountains, stages or even classic routes and their history. Well done.
Should have left Armstrong out of your video. Never celebrate a cheater.
Carlos Sastre attacking very early and then his teammates Frank and Andy Schleck attacking the chase group relentlessly behind in 2008 was also a great stage. Sastre was a poor timetrialist and took enough time that day to win the tour ahead of Cadel Evans.
I would remove the entire section on Lance Armstrong and replace it with Tom Pidcock's 2022 win on Alpe D'Huez – a technical masterpiece on climbing and descending to become the youngest rider to win on this legendary mountain. Do I need to mention that this was Tom Pidcock's Tour debut?
An important piece of the lore of the race was the first stage finishing in the Alpe D'Huez in 1979, won by Agostinho, which mounted a great comeback after his hopes for the GC were crushed in the Roubaix stage. Still considered to this day the greatest portuguese cyclist of all time, his conquering of the mountain is his crowning achievement, in a Tour where he finished in the podium for the second time. Although the victory of the WC by Rui Costa is objectively the biggest win of a portuguese rider, and Acácio da Silva wearing the maillot jaune is the biggest achievement of Portugal in the Tour, this victory of Agostinho can be considered the pinnacle of portuguese cycling, so far.
As a side note, him sharing the bend with Carlos Sastre it's pretty cool.
Love this video! All the stories are amazing, and the writing especially hits. Very well done!!
Pure climbing performance…. Marco Pantani? 😂
"Marco Pantani . . . with fire in his legs and poetry in his motion." Yeah, and EPO and cocaine and Zeus only knows what else in his veins.
This channel is a gem. Thanks for putting these out.