Tour de France hotels on a rest day: Air conditioning fails Pogacar; Uno-X rider goes viral with footage of his room
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Follow us on GoogleAfter nine grueling and, above all, sweltering days, the Tour de France riders can enjoy a well-deserved rest day. As it happens, they’re staying in the Massif Central region, where (good) hotels are relatively scarce. Yellow jersey wearer Tadej Pogačar (UAE Emirates-XRG), among others, is finding this out first hand.
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Pogačar and his teammates are staying at a hotel where the air conditioning has stopped working. According to people on the scene, the power cuts out the moment someone tries to turn on the air conditioning. With temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius, that’s not exactly the perfect set up for a restful rest day.
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UNO-X Joking about the standard of Tour de France hotels
It’s not just the riders from UAE Emirates-XRG who are once again facing the complications of the Tour de France. Uno-X rider Anders Halland Johannessen watched the videos of Pogačar and his teammates and then shared videos of the hotel where they’re staying.
"It could be worse—this is our hotel," the Norwegian says with a wry smile as he shows his series of videos. Incidentally, the hotels for the Tour de France aren’t booked by the teams themselves, but by A.S.O. So the riders and teams are dependent on the hotels assigned to them for each night.
Videos from the Uno-X Hotel at the Tour de France
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- Movistar should be concerned with returing to a meaningful status, instead of criticizing their betters. Not to mention the fact, that for a critical stretch of the stage, it was NetZero, not UAE pushing the pace. BTW, I haven't heard any criticism coming from MVP.rjb13-07-2026
- We're witnessing an existential crisis, and waht it means to be human in the midst of a soul-crushing rush to achieve the maximum physiological performance and race results for the benefit of sponsors and the men who ride in the cars and who live their lives in air-conditioned splendor. It's sad, but inevitable, a by-product of the continual arms race to produce the best machines and the best specimens to ride those machines, whatever the cost to the riders' wider life (or life span). We have witnessed similar developments in many sports and other types of businesses, as well as in the actual arms race, involving weapons of mass destruction, and now A.I., which some of its leaders admit may bring an end to human life. But if it does, they want to get there First, before their tech competitors or a foreign government. And the band played on. PS Actually, I do seen one small glimmer of hope: an effective labor uprising by riders that would set limits on training scheules, and that would provide on-site accommodations for the families (or relationships) of riders, so that they could live their full lives while training, as do most other athletes and people, in general.rjb13-07-2026
- We're witnessing an existential crisis, and waht it means to be human in the midst of a soul-crushing rush to achieve the maximum physiological performance and race results for the benefit of sponsors and the men who ride in the cars and who live their lives in air-conditioned splendor. It's sad, but inevitable, a by-product of the continual arms race to produce the best machines and the best specimens to ride those machines, whatever the cost to the riders' wider life (or life span). We have witnessed similar developments in many sports and other types of businesses, as well as in the actual arms race, involving weapons of mass destruction, and now A.I., which some of its leaders admit may bring an end to human life. But if it does, they want to get there First, before their tech competitors or a foreign government. And the band played on. PS Actually, I do seen one small glimmer of hope: an effective labor uprising by riders that would set limits on training scheules, and that would provide on-site accommodations for the families (or relationships) of riders, so that they could live their full lives while training, as do most other athletes and people, in general.rjb13-07-2026
- We're witnessing an existential crisis, and waht it means to be human in the midst of a soul-crushing rush to achieve the maximum physiological performance and race results for the benefit of sponsors and the men who ride in the cars and who live their lives in air-conditioned splendor. It's sad, but inevitable, a by-product of the continual arms race to produce the best machines and the best specimens to ride those machines, whatever the cost to the riders' wider life (or life span). We have witnessed similar developments in many sports and other types of businesses, as well as in the actual arms race, involving weapons of mass destruction, and now A.I., which some of its leaders admit may bring an end to human life. But if it does, they want to get there First, before their tech competitors or a foreign government. And the band played on. PS Actually, I do seen one small glimmer of hope: an effective labor uprising by riders that would set limits on training scheules, and that would provide on-site accommodations for the families (or relationships) of riders, so that they could live their full lives while training, as do most other athletes and people, in general.rjb13-07-2026
- We're witnessing an existential crisis, and waht it means to be human in the midst of a soul-crushing rush to achieve the maximum physiological performance and race results for the benefit of sponsors and the men who ride in the cars and who live their lives in air-conditioned splendor. It's sad, but inevitable, a by-product of the continual arms race to produce the best machines and the best specimens to ride those machines, whatever the cost to the riders' wider life (or life span). We have witnessed similar developments in many sports and other types of businesses, as well as in the actual arms race, involving weapons of mass destruction, and now A.I., which some of its leaders admit may bring an end to human life. But if it does, they want to get there First, before their tech competitors or a foreign government. And the band played on. PS Actually, I do seen one small glimmer of hope: an effective labor uprising by riders that would set limits on training scheules, and that would provide on-site accommodations for the families (or relationships) of riders, so that they could live their full lives while training, as do most other athletes and people, in general.rjb13-07-2026
- We're witnessing an existential crisis, and waht it means to be human in the midst of a soul-crushing rush to achieve the maximum physiological performance and race results for the benefit of sponsors and the men who ride in the cars and who live their lives in air-conditioned splendor. It's sad, but inevitable, a by-product of the continual arms race to produce the best machines and the best specimens to ride those machines, whatever the cost to the riders' wider life (or life span). We have witnessed similar developments in many sports and other types of businesses, as well as in the actual arms race, involving weapons of mass destruction, and now A.I., which some of its leaders admit may bring an end to human life. But if it does, they want to get there First, before their tech competitors or a foreign government. And the band played on. PS Actually, I do seen one small glimmer of hope: an effective labor uprising by riders that would set limits on training scheules, and that would provide on-site accommodations for the families (or relationships) of riders, so that they could live their full lives while training, as do most other athletes and people, in general.rjb13-07-2026
- We're witnessing an existential crisis, and waht it means to be human in the midst of a soul-crushing rush to achieve the maximum physiological performance and race results for the benefit of sponsors and the men who ride in the cars and who live their lives in air-conditioned splendor. It's sad, but inevitable, a by-product of the continual arms race to produce the best machines and the best specimens to ride those machines, whatever the cost to the riders' wider life (or life span). We have witnessed similar developments in many sports and other types of businesses, as well as in the actual arms race, involving weapons of mass destruction, and now A.I., which some of its leaders admit may bring an end to human life. But if it does, they want to get there First, before their tech competitors or a foreign government. And the band played on. PS Actually, I do seen one small glimmer of hope: an effective labor uprising by riders that would set limits on training scheules, and that would provide on-site accommodations for the families (or relationships) of riders, so that they could live their full lives while training, as do most other athletes and people, in general.rjb13-07-2026
- No teammates on the Tourmalet. Too fast up the Tourmalet.
merganzer10-07-2026 - Reef is whistling past the graveyard by denying what was plain to see: Tadej crushed Jonas, beating him in the ascent and, even more decisively on the descent, where most of the gap was created. In the world of reality, rather than the fantsay that Reef related, Jonas will not become a better descender between now and Paris, and Tadej won't get less adept at the skill. Moreover, it wasn't only about the mano y mono, between the two Tour leaders, but the unraveling of Visma, and the dominance of UAE, especially IDT. Barring injury or some other anomalous occurrence, we'll look back at Tadej's win on stage six as the day he won the 2026 TDF.rjb10-07-2026
- Remco continues alternating between Dr. Jekyl and, as he did today post-race, Mr. Hyde, lashing out as others for not racing according to his preferences. This isn't the first time he's complained about opponents' tactics, but it's the first time I've heard him do it to a teammate, and that lack of discretion and team loyalty may come back to haunt him. I though he'd outgrown these childish pouts; obviously, I was mistaken.rjb10-07-2026
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