MylesRyden<p>The question for the last two road/mountain stages is "How suicidal is Visma-LAB?"</p><p>The previous week showed that they are well below the team strength needed to crack UAE and Pogacar. Considering what they have been through, they actually put some pretty good pressure on UAE, but Pog is just too strong and ultimately the strategy of last year failed them.</p><p>I feel like if they try and blow up the field tomorrow, there is a good chance it will backfire, they will blow themselves up, leaving Remco with an opportunity on Saturday.</p><p>If they just follow, conserve their resources, let UAE set the pace, I think that will be too strong for Soudal and Remco. Jonas will lose time on Pog and gain time on Remco. I could see Jonas losing a couple of minutes (over the two days) to Pog, but gaining a similar amount on Remco. Not "ballsy" but it does secure second overall.</p><p>Which leaves open the interesting possibility of breakaways succeeding both days.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/TDF2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TDF2024</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ProCycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProCycling</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/CouchPeloton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CouchPeloton</span></a></p>