Recent content by Supimilian

17% at the steepest part. About 3.1 km I believe. Average 9 or so.

Re: Same, but Dumoulin ;)

Terrible weather, and I think the course is tougher than on paper, but we'll see. The climb is actually more like 1km+1false flat and then the climb. It will drain them over the unusually long distance and especially in those conditions. Pedersen, Tiller, Skaarseth those kind of strong power...

If he doesn't lose minutes in the wind today I think Barguil should give it a go. The parcours makes me think Froome is gonna crack at some point. This should be a wide open race, but I think someone like Barguil, Zakarin or Lopez even will take it. If I had to bet I'd spread some around on the...

When rating the all time greats a second should be at best 1/3 of a win imo

Re: 3 seconds. :rolleyes: Might as well include stage 2 as well then.

You shouldn't be. Contador had an extremely slim chance if any at beating Nibali at that form with that deficit. No one was dropping him that year. Look at Hautacam, look at the numbers. Maybe Froome would have had an outside chance, but not Alberto being 2:30+ behind already.

Forecast is mostly tailwind on the flat part at the waterfront, so the hill and technical sections will decide. Think we could see someone like Kwiatkowski or even EBH if he goes for it, technically good riders with some real kick on the short climb. Roglic the biggest favorite for me here.

Re: Re: He won't win the TT. Too short, technical and steep climb.

Finally he is getting where he was supposed to go. Honestly think he has a shot at outright winning the Vuelta this year if he goes for it after what he has shown this month.

The only thing that really matters is the W/kg and it wasn't close to 6. At all.

Re: Re: A bit of reverse engineering. If the playing field was level (and santa was real), the french holding 2nd and 9th on GC would be nothing out of the ordinary.

Ski jumpers are known to be very detail oriented also, which I can imagine can be an advantage in cycling. Again, especially the TT, so that might be another factor to explain why he found his strength there.

Re: Could have been really interesting if they were healthy. Rolland won the mtf in the route du sud, so one would think there was a plan to let him try something in the GC given the route this year. Could have been interesting if Uran had a Landa as well. Anyways, have to say the lack of a...

Suppose a level playing field exists. Why would the french not be strong at the Tour de France?