Recent content by P4rthen0n

Paul was great, no doubt. But I think he's on his way to establish himself as an alien pretty soon, so otherworldy things are expected of him. And, somehow, he's still exceeding our expectations of what an elite 19 year old should be able to do.

What usual level? Roglic is almost 37 years old, come on... Roglic was absolutely fantastic today considering his age.

Demi Vollering has this one in the bag now. Great attack in the penultimate cobbled section.

Not really. Vingegaard went to the top of the peloton in the climb, right at the end of it, so that he could descend in a good spot. It's not about Remco, at all. It's really just about Vingegaard's racing intelligence.

Remco pulling for Lipo. This is very smart from Remco, because this is a very good reason for why he won't be able to keep up with Lipo and Vingegaard in the last climb.

Almeida yo-yoing too soon. He's suffered too much. Clearly not in his best shape (crashing yesterday didn't help).

Great solo effort from MVDP, but it's clear he's not in his top shape. Today, the group 2 did a fabulous job reducing the gap from 1minute to 2 seconds... and then they managed to massively sabotage themselves. Mental...

It's true. Visma is a great team and they do a pretty good job in supporting the leader. However, I place most of the credit on Vingegaard himself. Case in point: yesterday's stage. When Remco launched that beast of an attack, who was there to follow? The Visma guy was full sprinting after...

Almeida launched a 40km solo attack in last year's Tour de Suisse, in a stage similar to this one. Doubt he'll do the same today tho. This is looks perfect for the breakaway.

McNulty did a great job in MSR for Pogacar. He did more for him in those 10 minutes than he did for Del Toro in the whole Giro 2025.

If the chasing group would have enough quality domestiques to put in the work, then fine, Pog might have been in trouble alone. But if group 2 was something like Pidcock, MVDP, Wout, Ganna, there's a very high chance for group 2 syndrome happening. They may even lose time looking at each other...

Yup, decent showing today. He just went too early and did not have the legs for a long sprint. But Catalunya is a special beast. This race has too much elevation gain every single day and few serious mountains in a very short period of time. If everyone is on form, this is going to be a very...

Come on... this is not a big mistery waiting to be solved. Armstrong was 33 when he last won the Tour and he was an absolute beast for almost a decade. Cadel Evans was 34. Froome, Wiggins and Geraint Thomas were 32. Nibali was 30. Contador was 28. Roglic is 36 going on 37. What do you expect...

No issue? Last year MVDP gave everything he had to stay on Pog's wheel. Everything. This year Pogacar managed to climb the Cipressa in record time and cooked MVDP. When they got to the Poggio MVDP had nothing else in the tank.

Come on... lets not pretend that Pidcock is not one of the best puncheurs in the peloton and also a very good climber. This dude finished 3rd in last year's Vuelta AND Fleche Wallone. He's great in short climbs.