Recent content by hayneplane

Itzulia has been a disaster class other than Seixas. Van Wilder and Tiberi both 20+ minutes down on GC in a race with the likes of Baudin, Tejada and Champoussin around the top ten is an epic fail.

Completely botched from Philipsen to manage to get himself boxed in from A1 position in second wheel.

A demolition job today against a field packed with most of the best riders in the tiers below Tadej and Jonas. If he is as convincing as this in the hardest stages this week then with his development arc you have to start thinking seriously about him finishing 2nd in the Tour this year at 19.

That would be a mistake. Del Toro is still a vastly superior climber and puncheur to McNulty and Grosschartner and this route is hard enough to produce differences every day.

@Pantani_lives where would Pogacar place in the all time list just from his 3 race days this season?

This looks to be a really good parcours and strong field. Expecting a battle Royale of the young guns with Roglic showing he can still threaten.

He rode a very strong race, no shame in being second to Tadej. In a world where Pogacar stayed in one lane and just did the modern traditional mix of grand tour racing and a few hilly classics we would now be saluting MVDP winning 5 RVV in a row.

More records. 4 consecutive monuments, an accomplishment even Merckx never managed. The stakes are enormous for next week but for now just basking in the glory another sensational ride.

I mainly just hope he avoids bad luck so we get to see a true taste of his potential for the race. If it all goes right he could podium but I have a hard time envisioning him beating Pogacar.

Pretty much their A team barring Felix Gall who is on a different schedule all year. The vast majority of that line up will be in the Tour de France 8. A fit Benoot will make it for sure but time may be running out for Kooij to get over illness and demonstrate race sharpness. If Seixas gets...

I like it. He was pretty good at DDV this week so the form is on the up and punchy short climbs are his key skillset.

Technically yes but he didn’t win it on the road. I still think of that as a Contador win.

To further underscore how unique what he is doing is, when you look at how many monuments all TDF winners have have won, Pogacar has won more of them than the entire combined total of every TDF winner post Merckx who won his last monument 50 years ago. Pogacar x 11 monuments Hinault x5...

Would love to see some Derek Gee action at the top of GC but his season so far is very underwhelming. Pellizzari is shaping up as the only one with the improvement in him to at least make Jonas click through the gears a few times.

Feels likely that he will be super for a few days then get dropped on a descent of the 3rd last climb of the day and end up in Narnia.