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🎶 "Chasing Pogi" Tour de France Showdown Anthem (Verse 1) Out in the Alps, the sun starts to rise, Three warriors stare at the mountain skies. Lipo’s got fire, he's young and he's bold, Remco's all heart with legs made of gold. Vingo’s a shadow, ice in his vein, Eyes on the prize, through the...

Remco uses his TT bike with a bit higher position of the steer for easier breathing during the climb.

Pogi will be the obvious winner pushing 0.5 w/kg more than the second but I can see Remco and Lipo beating Vingegaard.

“I imagine that if he didn’t crash, he would have won by four minutes,” Wellens said, tongue-in-cheek, but definitely not tongue-in-cheek. So now we know why Pogacar's effort was only marginally super-human today.

A normal winter and a top GT team are needed to be competitive.

The necessary 2% he needs to be top.

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Unfortunately that kind of evidence we will never see when a tiny motor has a huge advantage such as during the climb to Hautacam today.

Or PEDs have him so pumped up that he can't control himself.

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I would say Hilly ... I mean Healy but as he is in yellow that won't happen.

In all his enthusiasm, the Lipippotamus will blow himself up while trying to follow the raptor mutants. I expect Pogacar to win huge in a never-seen-before watt/kg effort with Vingegaard 2nd at 5 minutes. Remco and Roglic battle for third (which keeps the GC somewhat interesting) at a 10 minutes...

I generally agree. I have the same feeling. I just want to give him the benefit of the doubt and wait until the high mountains.

In his defense I should mention that he did limit the loss to a few seconds and excluding 26 seconds of boni's and 39 seconds during the echelon stage, his loss to Pogacar in the uphill sprints is just 11 seconds. Apart from Vingegaard and Pogacar, he performed better than the rest. It's clear...

Remco said he wants to win a normal stage too (so not a TT). This one is probably high on his list. He gives the stage 5 stars and expects a hard race. However, it's not a classic but a stage in the TdF. So, yes, he needs to be lucky. If Vingegaard and Pogacar stay on his wheel he won't win.