Recent content by Karl Merckx

If the riders prefers to ride in the mountains than on MSR... that's his choice. Also in our days of marginal gains, riding a 300km classic (even with an easy course) is still a disadvantage compared to e.g. Vingo and he's probably planned to stay at altitude as late as possible making two...

he's riding catalunya 2 days later... no the best prep for this race.

yeah that's footage from october

Remco specifically said he'll only do the TTT

The big factor is that UAE tour has a nice place in the calendar if you want to combine it with Catalunya... Vingo wants to do Catalunya before Giro like everyone, and Remco wants to ride in the mountains with his new team.

i think that if he's riding tirreno, he'll do strade. It's one of his favorite races.

yeah that's the right interpretation of the article.

Not more than in amstel or some TDF stages...

Strade is one of his favorite races.

mostly worlds and olympics

Bruyneel has no inside info. He acts like it just to get his brand up.

He purposely kept some energy in the last 6 kms before the last climb where he gained like 12s on Ganna in like a 1km or so...

He obviously didn't had this problem yesterday (you could say it's not a real peloton which is true) and in general he doesn't really have this problem when the legs are good.

he rode in a put on the road before mt kigali then his saddle dropped and couldn't push as hard on the pedals as he would have otherwise.

a test event before the WC is a regular thing to do.