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Nice old-school racing towards the end of this 3rd stage.

Zero chance of Magnus Cort achieving a result at Dauphiné. He's not even sure he can complete the race. "I simply couldn't keep up. I was really struggling. I got tired towards the end of the stage, even though I hadn't been riding at an impressive wattage." (Tv2.dk) This sound so serious that...

After a good run in early spring (including top 10 finishes in a couple of classics), Cort has performed badly for a long time. We've seen this very often. He starts off well in the season, then doesn't get any results for months. The first stages in the Dauphine haven't been promising either...

Mads Pedersen jumped to 3rd in the UCI ranking after his successes in the Giro. Of course, in the next couple of months he won't be scoring many points, as he's not going to the Tour.

I wonder if Poole can beat Hoole. (Just writing it because it looks good.)

Healy wouldn't gain time on Pogacar on the flat sections even he had ten motorbikes right in front of him. He knows that, and that's why he spends most of his energy on attacking on the climbs. He did this in LBL as well as in Amstel.

The audience barely applauding.

It would be funny if the second guy to cross the finish line raises him arms and afterwards states that he didn't know Pogacar was out in front.

The most fascinating race since yesterday.

Healy can't do much on the flat section.

From Danish TV2 this evening: "One of Fuglsang's best periods in his career came in 2019, when he finished third in Amstel Gold Race, second in Flèche Wallone and then won Liège-Bastogne-Liège. He has repeatedly expressed a desire to have those legs again, but that's no longer the case. ‘I...

A 6th place for the 40-year-old in the Tour of the Alps. That's nice. Not enough to score a single UCI point though. He got a couple via the GC. It would be amazing if he could get a top result this year, maybe just in a small race. But I'm afraid even Tour of Denmark is ridden too aggressively...

That's how I saw it too, until around ten years ago. Then Valverde won the race four years in a row, and that's one of the problems: With so few other key elements in the race, the chance (risk) of the pre-race favourite winning comfortably is overwhelming. This year's edition was of course the...

I used to love the Mur, but the race has become too predictable. As we know from Amstel and many other races, it's better to place the finish line further away from the top of the climb. The main argument I see for not changing Fleche Wallone is that it's tradition. And tradition is -...

As I wrote after Fleche, I feared that Skjelmose's injuries were more problematic than explained by the team. And now they say that he's suffering quite a bit from the wounds. His two recent crashes caused solely by his own recklessness have really proven costly.