Recent content by hayneplane

Nah that’s just standard GC leaders racing. If you were to cite Pogacar jumping every time time Jorgensen made a move in the Tour then that would be fair to call that out as petty.

Which would just be karma for Van Hooydonk sitting on Pogacar on Champs Elysee stage 3 years ago when he was 6 minutes behind.

What era did the race start to become hillier?

That’s a magnificent feature. Looking at it for now my riders are being very lazy and waiting until closer to spring to start their seasons unless they are just being shy about announcing their plans for the early season schedule.

A lot of highly promising riders but yes definitely rich potential for things to get very messy with squabbling over workload and hierarchical pecking order.

He doesn’t have to build the totals in exactly the same way. Are you going to run down Merckx because he didn’t win as many Lombardia in his entire career in as Pogacar has already won with many years left in his career?

It’s a good schedule. I think they saw with the way Tour de Suisse went that GC isn’t going to be his bag as recovery isn’t his forte. Will be fascinating to see how his puncheur skills translate to the cobbles and if the pumped up E3 parcours will allow him to flourish.

I also have both and my confidence in the picks is bolstered by the knowledge they have been selected by the defending champion 😁. Van Wilder looks like he has the potential to do top 10s in the Ardennes this year as team leader.

I had him last year and was on course to be a great pick until a big crash derailed his season.

3 unique picks of which 1 was a neo pro zero pointer. Just 3 zero pointers as I don’t think this years crop will come close to replicating the Seixas/AWP cohort. Was surprised at how many of my higher point GC oriented picks are quite high up on the rarity score so they will make or break my...

I also didn’t realise he has won 11 Grand Tour stages as well as the 2 GC wins. That’s pretty high up the modern ranks for climbers.

If he was simply pragmatically targeting the gaps then the lowest hanging fruit would be to tick off the stage races this year including Vuelta while waiting out a year or two on full focus at PR and MSR when MVDP is either full time on the golf course or sufficiently past his prime to no longer...

True up to a point. Indurain never got himself a Vuelta win but I doubt anyone other than the Shark of Messina’s biggest superfan would claim Nibali has a better Grand Tour record than Big Mig just because he has the full set.

More that it is every bit as much a rarity for MVDP to win on cunning rather than brutal power.

I thought Jakobsen was a prime bounce back candidate. He wasn’t.