Recent content by pablohidalgo7

Roglic: could still be the third best or in total decline, nobody really knows after all the problems that started at the Giro. Remco: His absolute best seems to have no equal in this list besides100% Roglic (in my opinion), but with him you can never know if he has his GT and climbing legs...

No info about Pringle? Giving Putz another year (decent all-rounder and domestique but nothing crazy) but not to the kiwi seems strange.

Wakefield is finally promoted to performance director, a move far more significant than any staff change in recent years.

If he makes the podium yes, but I think is more realistic a place between 5th and 9th than a podium, not because prime/decline reason just becuase I think he'll take a risk and go full throttle on the Ganda Pass to be in the fight and he'll explode a bit if he has to chase with Remco for...

A pity that Primoz is not riding today in Piemonte to be rested for Lombardia, this year parcours is quite godd for him and is definitely in enough shape to contest the win here, also that Oropa one day race in Sunday was a perfect opportunity for him to raise the arms (or stop the powermeter...

He will be with the best riders behind Pogi in Ganda (he is in much decent shape than you and others claim) but he will blew up trying to follow Remco in the flat due to the legnth of the course and the crazy power and aerodinamic of Remco there. A similar perfomance to Ayuso the other day in...

1. Pogacar 2. Remco 3. Pidcock 4. Del Toro 5. Roglic

Well, I saw him doing well yesterday, perhaps even better than in Emilia, considering the route is less suited to him. Besides, I don't know where the claim that he didn't pull yesterday comes from. He certainly did less than Pidcock but similar to the rest of the group (except for Del Toro od...

It’s a combination of all the factors above (except the 2018/19 one) but also a team factor, this year they are underperforming in almost every race with all the riders but Lipowitz and Pellizzari. Primoz is maybe 36 but Vlasov, Martínez, Van Gils, Pithie, Welsford, Fisher Black, Aleotti...

The stomp seems definitely gone :cry:. Strange his lack of any sort of punchiness this season after his good display in Cataluña

Still not the same conditions as Sierra Nevada but yes, it's as if he added an extra few days to his high-altitude training (maybe that's why he only did 2 weeks). In any case, he should be better in Italy with some competition in his legs.

It's normal for your first effort after coming from training at altitude not to be the best, and even less so if it's such a violent one. It's usual to improve over the next week or two after altitude, so it's clear to me that his peak is scheduled for Lombardy (even though it's equally...

A decent performance. In his prime, he would have been fighting for the top five in a race like this instead of the top 10, but no more. He also arrived after months without competing only on Friday. Based on what I've seen from him (up to the 200km mark), I think he can fight for the win in...

Zimmermann is the first name that come to my mind, but just for the German link.

I think his set-up is great for hilly TT and only decent-average for the flat ones (Lipo and Roglic can do well in both sometimes due to great power), opposite to UAE and similar to Visma. Also I really believe that Bigham and Wale are in fact quite good preparing the pace of the distribution...