Recent content by elguapo

Carlos Rodriguez would be the dark horse. He looked promising at LBL and at the Tour of Romandie races, after returning from injury like Remco and Jonas. After his two comeback competitions, he proceed to team training camp keeping a low profile and now ready to climb and descend with the best.

If UAE Team management could read this they better kick two or three of their Knucklehead DS and replace them with Chris Horner. Of course del Toro is young and inexperienced. He should be coached al the way in any given race scenario. Inputs from Pogacar given to del Toro are point of view of...

Lesson learned for both Isaac and his coaching staff who got used to the almost- invinvibility of Pogacar. UAE has no battle plans at all.

Simon Yates suicide attack was planned. The presence of Wout in the break was part of it. Yates did some "island hopping" until he bridged up to waiting Wout who in turn pedaled his heart out in fron of their GC man. That's how the coaching staff at the Dutch team works. They replicated almost...

No one to be blamed but the whole UAE coaching staff in this Giro. Zero battle plan.

Jan Christen, McNulty and Sivakov should impose their presence beside Pogi, to absorb some of the attacks, countering some dangerous moves of Remco and etc. Pogi's counter attack would be launched anytime when other favorites would just be content riding on UAE's slipstream.

No sweat. Pogi really involved his teammates to lay the groundworks When Healy attacked the UAE dou, almost everyone was already spent when Pogi countered.

If I were Matxin, I would allow Jan Christen to attack and to baffle all comers while favorites are glued to Pogi. Christen is strong and could easily negotiate the FW climb to up to finish. This is not a classic race, so Pogi would just wait for the weekend LBL.

UAE needs a team coach to plan and help execute race strateggies while the race is in progress. McNulty should have been told to join Skjelmose and Evenepoel when they chased Pogacar. Normally, DS gives eating advise, forgetting that his other riders could contribute too. I doubt if DS was...

ASO should now consider using the last 42 km of this Paris-Roubaix parcour as a feature ITT stage in future Tour de France.

Interesting to see how the young Pablo Torres of UAE would perform against the veteran climbers in stage 2. Unable to show his mettle during the Tour DownUnder due to his supporting role to Jonathan Narvaez.

Pidcock's Alpe d' Huez win was just a luck.

Bring it on. We'll see if his new team could really give him a better support than what Ineos has given him.

The Miami recreational ride and virtual faceoff, for some reason, El Pilstolero has rekindled Froome's enthusiasm to up his game next season.