Recent content by Põhja Konn

The level Remco showed at last years Tour is probably the highest any of those in the poll have shown in last couple of years, but he needs everything to go absolutely perfectly to achieve that kind of level. And when he hasn't been able reach his best level he usually has cracked badly at some...

Up until 2023 this pretty much summed up my view on Pog. At the 2020 Tdf he was basically alone against the arrogant and overpowering Jumbo-Visma machine, had agressive and proactive racing style and as such was very easy to like. Although never a true fan, I generally liked him as rider during...

The end of the Pog and Vingo era in GTs will probably come before many of those in the poll age out of their peak years. End of such an era usually means a more open season for everyone else for at least a season or two before the next dominant force emerges. So the likelyhood is that someone...

Vingegaard rode exactly the same way in the Dauphine and the Tour so it shouldn't be such a surprise he's doing that approach again now . He has clearly improved his explosivity and tries to gain us much from it as he can. Pog aside, he was clearly stronger than the others for the rest of the...

Roglic was impressive, but don't know much one can read into it, as this kind of effort just suits him specially well. In 2023 Giro he was also a lot stronger compared to his rivals on a MTT than on road stages in the mountains. But it does give his fans reason to hope that his could improve...

Don't like that kind of waiting at all. Race was on before the crash and Pog's own inattention to what was going on around him played a significant part in him going down. Continuing racing and ramming home the advantage would have been the right thing to do for his rivals there instead of the...

Could it be that the course is just too flat and windy for Vingegaard. Remember reading from the OP that the Tour hasn't seen a TT as flat as this in quite some time. And although he is excellent on hillier terrain, Vingegaard losing more in relation to Pog and Remco on a completely flat one is...

Given how Lenny Martinez has done here France will finally have its next Tour winner.;)

As soon as Romeo got the small initial gap, the DSs of every other rider in the break should have been on their earpieces yelling: Work! Work! Work! Wasting time trying to save something in their legs was the only thing they couldn't allow themselves to do or the stage win was gone. Yet all...

Vingegaard outsprinting VDP, even considering the circumstances is just ***.

7. Showed the adage that the riders make the race has a lot of truth in it, but also a lot of limitations. Generally, when the terrain allowed, the riders were prepared race, not just wait and save the energy. In case of stage 15, some of them even wanted to race when the route design actively...

Looks like the pre-race worries about this stage being ruined by bad placement right before Finestre stage are being at least partly substantiated. I won't blame riders at all this time, they have wanted to do more than route has allowed for most of the race, so one subpar big stage is not...

True, but that is something we only find out when the race is underway. It only can have an indirect influence on pre-race expectations - through the nature of conteders on the startlist.

Most of the difference in perseption between current and 2023 version comes from the differing expectations we had going in. 2023 route was quite good, startlist solid and expectations from fans high as a consequence. In reality, one disappointment followed another and mood soured rapidly...

Basically they are actively sabotaging their own product with decisions like that. Given that doing the worst possible with terrain available is a running theme with this years route design, it almost looks like Vegni or whoever is at charge of this race in RCS curently is doing this on...