Recent content by Gigs_98

Pogacar wins MSR, Roubaix and the Vuelta but no other major race all season.

Bit of a sh*tty route if I'm being honest. The mountain stages are all a bit meh, I dislike TTTs in one week races even more than in GTs and if Pogacar is there he might as well end the race on stage 1.

Adam would never retire in such an interesting way...

Honestly a great moment to retire. The Giro 2018 collapse would have been the thing he was always gonna be remembered for and now instead he will always be remembered for one of the greatest redemption stories in the sports history. Can't finish on a higher note than that.

Perhaps "inviting" is too strong of a word. But at Hazallanas is a proper climb where, if you need to, you can really blow up the race without the move being completely suicidal. And I dont think you can say that about many final mountain stages of recent Vueltas.

Number of more or less flat stages a bit too high for my liking but perhaps some of them will go to the break or puncheurs since most of them are actually quite hilly. The mountain stages are a pleasant surprise though. Stage 20 is a proper queen stage inviting early attacks. Feels like we...

Are all riders accidently gonna turn left to ride up the Monte Grappa from the sh*ttiest side possible? Muscle memory might kick in...

So what? The point is that the Galibier from the north is often causing great stages even if the race ends up coming back together. Both Granon 2022 and Alpe d'Huez are among the best Tour stages in recent history, and all the favorites started the final climb together. Aside from that I also...

On the bright side, there is one well designed stage.

But then at least they went full gas on the Galibier.

I think Vingegaard is not good enough to be a consistant rival of Pogacar but he is good enough to always be a threat to him. We cannot disregard that on the majority of mountain stages last year Pogacar was not able to drop Vingegaard and as long as thats the case Pogacar will always be in...

I think with this route the ASO is essentially telling Pog, "if you want a big lead before the penumtimate weekend you'll have to work for" it and I kinda like this approach. People complain about artificially close races but I think I still prefer an artificially close race over Pog being ahead...

At least last year Pogacar dominating Lombardia like that was still a novelty. People easily forget the few editions prior to that were rather close. He won his first two Lombardias in a sprint and in the third one he created the crucial gap on the descent, not the climb. None of these races...

WIll this go down as the most forgettable monument in history?

I think it's quite important for Pogacar to keep this gap for a while. If it starts to come down the group behind will smell blood and keep working together. Once the group behind starts riding for medals Pogacar has won.