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Pogi yes, as he would likely have 2 more stage wins by now, then his whole team has ATM, Jonas, well that was at least the initial plan ... Now what, to keep the formation until GC battle starts to unfold, or not.

They tried and after decided to rather ease off and focus on GC, likely they realised they underestimated it a bit and turned out not as straightforward as they imagined. For example Pogi would likely now be around 5 stage wins. Anyway, if you are not Jonas good luck with breaking the Danish...

@Ripper As you say the climbs so far are not that hard and Visma eased off, torching of legs of doms hence likely less of an issue and GC favourites mostly finishing in a group. As for when you say Visma has been fine with the composition of the breaks, by Visma you mean Jonas or his aligned...

The way Visma is riding, saving themself for UAE, everybody at UAE bar Almeida must be volunteering to be a satellite rider of the day.

Stage 9 should be telling, will Visma go for it and if not will they react is UAE rider, like Ayuso, does go for it. Lets see on how happy mentioned parties really are. In terms of winning the stages and/or not losing any relevant GC time. What we can say is if Ayuso wins another one then...

@Ripper Nah, Visma in my opinion didn't came here just to win the overall, they wanted more stage wins too. In the process they realised it's not all that feasible. As for deeper into the race, for sure they are saying that is their terrain and they will ride conservatively till then and by...

On how Remco feels about it.

We'll see.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/its-just-a-safer-play-matteo-jorgenson-dampens-expectations-of-fireworks-by-visma-lease-a-bike-before-second-half-of-vuelta-a-espana/ This seems to suggest Visma will keep Danish aligned formation for now. Well, lets see if UAE will keep exploiting that by...

Jasper saved this disaster.

Hopefully for at least Šeško to attack today, the rest looks calm.

Yeah, it's truly crazy, what lengths sports media/fandom is prepared to go, basically never admitting any wrong doing. As we say in Slovenia "gliha vkup štriha". The only time i seen an official apology, commentator spreading unfunded BS, was NBA related and i was surprised by it, didn't in any...

I don't feel that Visma is happy, by UAE winning stages. At minimum it puts them under growing pressure, after all it's Visma that was supposed to do that, plan A. Being forced to switch to conservative mode all while watching UAE winning and Jonas not gaining any time on Almeida. That is...

AFAIR that was Rogla.

@bNator I see, you are still hooked on the worst domestique possible narrative. It'll come around.