Would be interesting to have a poll about what his career trajectory will look like. People seem certain that he'll crash and burn, but might backpedal into "I just meant he wouldn't win a GT".
To be honest, I think a lot of people would be very interested in seeing more of this analysis. If you have it available please don't hesitate to share findings (e.g. Top-10 of every TDF since 2010 and the results of the analysis for each).
I'm probably naive but I don't get why they couldn't have just communicated that Remco had a broken rib. It's not like Vinge or Pog would have had their team do their absolute utmost to take advantage of that.
He was the underdog. There was no urgent need to project as much strength as possible...
I prefer the Froome-Quintana rivalry. At least in that one there was sometimes a vague hope that enough time could still be clawed back.
The current time gap is comical.
I made a table including every ITT ridden in a GT since 2000. There I calculated the gap (in %) between the winner and 2nd place, the winner and 2nd place and between the winner and the rest of the top-10.
Original results were used regardless of if someone got disqualified later...
Wait.
Froome's 3rd place on Alpe d'Huez was in 2022?
I could have sworn it was last year.
Yeah it's over. Crazy how he never followed up on that at all.