Recent content by kiszol

He didn't, but LPDBF is twice as long and similarly steep so the switch could be more profitable I guess. Even for Tom whose climbing style suits the TT bike.

Well I fail to see why Pog is the one with the nice position... Roglic still has a 40 second advantage and he is the better time trialist of the two. Yes, Pog beat him in the nationals but that was a 100% MTT while this will be a flat / rolling ITT for 30 km with a 6 km long hill at the end. I...

Jumbo had a monster season so far. All of their riders seems to be in tremendous form. It's not just the Dauphine. They won the most races after DQT so far and they are not far behind btw. I wrote that based on the names AND the current form Jumbo is stronger than Ineos despite the desperate...

Yeah, probably Kwiatkowski is better (not as a rider as that is obvious but a GC helper) than Gesink, and van Baarle can match an aging Tony Martin but all things considered Jumbo is still clearly stronger. This doesn't mean that Bernal (or Pinot, Quintana, etc.) can't win, of course they can...

I think Jumbo is still stronger than Ineos based on the names and its riders has the better form. Roglic >= Bernal Dumoulin >= Carapaz Bennett = Sivakov Kuss > Amador Gesink = Kwiatkowski van Aert > Castroviejo Tony Martin > Van Baarle Jansen = Rowe

Pretty much. Sending Carapaz to the Tour is desperation. He is not ready for a podium fight but might make a good superdom for the final week(s). And as Froome and Thomas are both terrible they had to do something to give Bernal at least an accepatable team against Jumbo. They are still weaker...

Yes, they don't need more climbers. This is a good decision. The Gesink - WVA duo is scary good, they will do massive pulls for the team. When the time of Kuss and Bennett comes the bunch will already be decimated. And Kuss and Bennett are in the best 10-15 climbers in the world right now going...

Btw a fractured pelvis is not necessarily a very uncommon / serious injury. View: https://twitter.com/velofacts/status/1294714926444019716

Terrible thing to happen to anyone, let alone the biggest prodigy of cycling since Merckx. Sad thing is that probably Nibali decided the winner of this Lombardia, but it wasn't and couldn't have been him or any of his teammates. Remco most probably would have won, but he will have plenty more...

Attila Valter was interviewed after Pologne. He said that Remco has very thick thighs ("twice as thick as mine although I don't have particularly thick legs") and his whole build is very "thick", so it's even more apparent IRL. Ha also said that during the Queen stage he had bad luck with the...

Desperate times needs desperate measures. Maybe we will witness two Giro d'Italias in 2021. ;)

It's hard to digest but I think the most probable outcome is no Giro this year. It's hard to imagine that especially the Italians would agree to such a big event with so big crowds for three weeks happening in their country after these terrible pandemic. See ya at Giro 2021 starting from Budapest.

Some snippets: "The decision had to be made early", said Révész. Hotel bookings for hundreds of people, lot of stuff to move here, etc. "The health of the Hungarian people is the most important." They are in a continuous conversation with RCS. The goal seems to be a later date in the calendar...

Italy announces 1492 new cases and 133 deaths in the last 24 hours. Both are record numbers. 87% of the victims were over 75. Total number of infected people is 7375, of which 622 are recovered. Things are not looking good in Italy, and I fear the lockdown achieves too little too late. Most of...

Bad news. I think all races in Italy will be cancelled in the foreseeable future including Strade Bianche, Tirreno and MSR. Probably other forthcoming European races as well.