Recent content by gze

The typical MVP recipe is to cook the competition first with his superpower: ultra-explosive efforts combined with his ability to recover faster than anyone else. Once cooked, it will be hard to get him back. If competitors can create race situations against MVP that reduce the amount of...

Following the display of weakness by Remco's climbing domestics in stage 4, teams like INEOS and Jumbo may be motivated to ramp up the pace at the beginning of the climb to isolate him during today's uphill finish. However, if his domestics can handle the pace and take over, it would be a...

It was repeatedly mentioned on this forum that in his preparation for the Giro, Remco jeopardized possible wins due to impulsive, even stupid, decisions, such as launching a full-out attack in San Juan just 10 km from the 2,623 m Alto del Colorado top or attempting an overly ambitious 300m...

Purely looking at the results I would give the edge to Pogi for the Vélo d'Or 2nd place. On the other hand, WVA did some “impossible” efforts during the tour like a 10 km solo in YELLOW in front of a chasing peloton and a ~78 kg rider dropping Pogi on Hautacam… I think the panel of professional...

You have a dirty mind… If Hollywood has thought us one thing, it is that to reach peak performance one has to continuously was his car in the off season… “wax on, wax off” The friend of the friend of the friend of Omi was clearly referring to Remco washing his car, obviously…

Not everybody seems to agree with that… I (might have) heard from a friend of a friend of a friend of Oumi that in contradiction to e.g. in September, currently Remco’s 3 to 5 minutes efforts are out of this world!

It is very difficult to "objectively" compare the individual rider’s performances of Vingegaard’s tour win and Remco’s Vuelta win. The boundary conditions are totally different: -The level in the tour de France is much higher than that of the Vuelta. -Jumbo GT team is of a much higher level than...

Let me do one better. After the bike scanning he was not allowed to start… No motor was found in his bike but, Remco standing next to it, turned out to be a cyborg.