Recent content by Jeatle99

Stelvio 2020 is on my list of great queen stages. 2019: I remember some attacks on Manghen and Roglic being distanced by Nibali and Carapaz. In the end, gaps were small (few seconds), just Roglic lost 54s. Carapaz won pink jersey with an attack on San Carlo, but I don't think too many thought...

Of course, fatigue was important in the stages you are talking about but two of them happen to be directed by Contador, who was smart and strong enough to smell this kind of stages, and the other one by Pogacar who was far better than other gc riders in TDF 2021. I'm pretty convinced that a...

Imo problem with queen stages is that they rarely deliver. None of the last 10 TDFs have been won with a big attack on the queen stage. The same could be said about Vuelta who usually uses Angliru for this role. It's true that Giro was the only gt in which the hardest stage led to big gaps or...

I am an avid reader of this forum, mostly of rumours threads, but never posted here. So first of all I would like to say that you all did a great job keeping this forum alive and sharing your passion and knowledge. Because I saw a lot of negative comments in last few hours, I have analyzed the...