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This is some ride from Lenny.

He is still very easily the second-best GC rider right now, also with quite a gap still to the 3rd-best GC rider (whoever you think that is).

MVDP's always had that explosiveness though. I don't think it was a surprise. It would be different if let's say, Del Toro attacked with like 1 km to the top, MVDP snap closes him, and then holds the wheel to the top while Del Toro is going all out.

What choice did he have? He was pulling all in for GC. Pellizzari looks like he pulled the "Roglic" card while MVDP was just thinking about the stage win.

More like that 40-50s gap was to the Ganna group and it took a while for the broadcast to take note that a large chasing group was only around 20-30s back.

According to PCS, Novak is riding MSR. If McNulty and Politt are riding MSR, it can still be a good team. I do hope Christen is also there after his performance at Strade. Even without Wellens and Narvaez, it is still a solid squad to try and do damage on the Capi and Cipressa. Definitely not...

As cliche as it may sound, time will tell. Seixas is only 19. He's got a long way to go before reaching peak Remco's level in those types of races, let along Pog's level.

Pogačar must be pretty happy right now knowing he doesn't need to ride the UAE Tour for the coming years.

Jebel Jais is replaced by the much steeper Jebel Mobrah, which is like 7 km at almost 12%

Funnily enough, the original plan last year was for Narvaez to not do any leadout and to simply let the wheel of Pogi go to force the others to close the gap.

That's unfortunate. He seemed in really good form especially on the climbs. At least he was able to finish TDU despite the fracture on the last day.

'25 MSR: Pogi drifted back to try and use the slipstream of both Ganna and MVDP. MVDP saw this and that's why he started his sprint early to catch them by surprise. '22 RVV: In the final kilometer, Pogi already refused to go to the front because he wanted to let MVDP lead it out. MVDP probably...

2023 Il Lombardia? Don't know if that qualifies as "winning based on race intelligence" but that was when Pogi attacked just as the descent from Ganda started and the G2 syndrome just immediately kicked in.

This race, for some reason, is 250+ km long.

His most recent performances in the cold/wet conditions in the Tour happened when he was slightly sick/had that knee issue though. In Fleche this year in the rain, he still crushed his rivals (but that was just a 500 meter max effort).