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What is your definition of a pure sprinter?

Tour of Poland 2011

Recovery in itself clearly is not a question and of course he can contend for green. However requirements for a domestique+stage hunter are quite different from those for a serious PQ contender and he will have to race in a very different manner. As he did not ride in such a manner before, I am...

That's the point. We don't know whether Wout will be able to keep his form for three weeks and/or how good he is in the control who will be in the break game. OTOH after his crash at 2018 TdF (i.e., past his prime) Sagan won two GT PQ's and he finished in the second place three times.

What about Grand Tour Point Classification?

According to slovak media, Juraj Sagan signed an one year contract with TE. https://sportnet.sme.sk/spravy/cyklistika-juraj-sagan-zmluva-totalenergies/?ref=trz

Let us talk about numbers. What about this version : Of course they don't deserve to be in the top 100. Take away their trains and what would they have won? We are talking about greatest cyclist, not who could sit behind a train until the final 3000m. In other words, where is this magic line...

Petr Vakoc is retiring, too. https://www.idnes.cz/sport/cyklistika/petr-vakoc-rozhovor-konec-kariery-silnicni-cyklistika.A211012_133516_cyklistika_tm2

Top placed riders without a stage top 10 23 23 JONATHAN CASTROVIEJO + 01h 06' 20'' 29 104 XANDRO MEURISSE + 01h 40' 48'' 33 72 EMANUEL BUCHMANN + 01h 51' 05'' 34 7 RAFAL MAJKA + 01h 54' 04'' 37 42 JULIEN BERNARD + 02h 03' 32'' 42 87...

An interview (in Slovak) with DS Jan Valach. Google translate should be OK. https://sportnet.sme.sk/spravy/peter-sagan-jan-valach-rozhovor-tour-de-france-2021/ He said that the teams goals are a stage and the green yersey. Most of the article is about Sagan but Valach has some interesting...

Slovak NC 1.SAGAN Peter (BORA - HANSGROHE) 2.ŠTOČEK Matúš (TOPFOREX ATT Investments Pro cycling team) 3.KUBIŠ Lukáš (DUKLA Banská Bystrica)

Czech NC 1.KUKRLE Michael (ELKOV - KASPER) 2.NEUMAN Dominik (ELKOV - KASPER) 3.TUREK Daniel (Team Felbermayr - Simplon Wels)

Peter Sagan just won his 7th NC.

Break formed after a crash. They were unable to catch it.

Joint Czech and Slovak championship 64 km to go Break Sagan, Štoček, both SVK and Vacek, Klabouch, Camrda, Kalojíros, Turek, Petruš, Neuman Kukrle all CZE lead 11'46''