Recent content by Carl0880

I wonder how much the teams current situation in the UCI ranking factors in this considering they are rock bottom of the Pro Tour teams going into final week of TDF. This maybe a factor in both his GC ambition and staying on till the Giro.

I don't entirely cut him out for having a chance to win a GT. This year so strange, Some are saying the younger generation is emerging, but you could argue that it was just as much it was far easier you the youth to be to handle the revolving schedule. It probably easier to build to a peak...

Taking a closer look at the last 3 years though for the non Ineos/Jumbo: 2020- I mentioned Pogacar when i said it was hard to see outside of Ineos/Jumbo and Pogacar as a winner. This was the only one out of these 3 where both teams sent a team with the intention and the capabilities of winning...

Actually his odds were 50-1 according to this article https://www.thespread.com/sports-betting-articles/070712-2012-summer-olympics-cycling-odds-mens-road-race-cavendish-favored Eventhough he was 38 and going to retire, towards the end of that tour he was showing a little bit of form when in...

I didnt get in to vote in the poll but I guess i would have to go for Remco, eventhough its a wait to see how he recovers from his injury. As for the others, its just so hard to say, especially not knowing any of the routes next year outside of the Tour. Also, with the Ineos/Jumbo rivalry...

I image another reason why Quickstep and Movistar have been able to get top riders with medium budgets is also the stability in management. Lefevre and Unzue has been in charge of those teams for 20+ years with a history of winning, plus you rarely hear about a lot of in fighting in the team...

I think what you do with Soler, you count him as Domestique deluxe. Maybe early in a GT, let him get in a Mountain stage breakaway, and if he happens to get in one that goes the distance and get some time (A la Alaphillippe 19 Tour or Porte 10 Giro) then you let him try and ride the 3 week tour...

I think what makes it intriguing is having 2 riders that are dominant, to where they go a mano v mano battle, where they both try to destroy the other. Then something like the 19 Giro, where a upstart takes advantage of the feud of 2 riders and then that puts the 2 riders forcing to be more...

The plan is to Stick Valverde, Mas and Soler in the break, and then have Rojas jump across to them on the next to last climb,, have all three of them work for him so Rojas can then finish the attack off on the descent so he can use his climbing legs to win the stage and further the Team...

You can, but it probably be illegal. Obviously I hit the wrong key, but I hated that Giro so much that I can't bring myself to call it a Giro

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Re: Re: Also you must factor in that the guys in the grupetto im sure several of them sat in the middle of the pack out of the wind, thus conserving even more energy, while all the guys in front of the time cut im sure spent a fair amount of time in the wind. So its not just the extra 20-25...

Re: They need to kick them out because I would wager that Team Sky told most of their riders to take it easy so they maybe can unload a possible ambush on a stage coming up figuring that Movistar and Tinkoff wore themselves out. This, and having the thinking that has been mention that their is...

Something I just thought of. Brambilla and Rovny were both in the break today I believe. Weren't these 2 riders ejected from a stage a few years back at the Vuelta for fighting with each other somewhere around this point in the race? If memory servres right, it was Brambilla who was in the...

Re: Re: I think something that may not get written up or talked about is the Movistar attacks and rtiding early on in the Froome group. It seemed strange with the fact that Nairo was in front, but what it managed to do was keep the Sky domestiques to catch up with the Froome group, and...