Recent content by The_Beach

Bernal, 10-12 seconds back

Re: Judging by Plouay, the Canadian races and his Time Trial in Innsbruck, skipping the Road Race, probably was the best decision. And I looks like the rest did him good

Re: Would be a waste of energy, Trentin, Edmondson and Mezgec would pull him back immediately. presumably with the help of Astana and maybe Quick-Step

Re: He's awesome. Only concern, besides the TT, is that his level seem to drop in the third week. Both in the Vuelta last year and Giro this year, he has looked much better in the first and second week, than ind the third. Hopefully he will prove me wrong tomorrow and saturday, his performance...

Re: Re: Lol :) I would say losing 1:12 to the winner, when you are one of the two biggest favorites is pretty bad

Re: Re: Roglic terrible time trial lost him the podium

Re: Re: Or he was smart enough to figure out, that Valverde had a teammate in front, and therefore no reason to help him.

Re: His first race since crashing out at the dutch NC, and he was fourth last year. Let's give him a decent preparation before putting him in the grave.

Everyone from top 15 are in the "Nibali-group" except Jesús, de la Cruz, Bennett and Ben King

Most likely to have been caught out? DLC, Superman, Kruijswijk?

Re: Yates were 39 seconds behind him in GC and Kwiatkowski had two teammates with him. It would've been a mistake to follow Yates attack. You might be right that Kwiato will never be the leader in a GT, but Yates winning the stage today has nothing to do with that.

Re: Re: This is simply not true, I think you have to rewatch the final 15 k again. And regarding your point about Amstel, the result wouldn't had been the same, if Alaphilippe or Valverde had attacked, there were no climbs left, and Valverde, Alaphilippe and Sagan were clearly marking each...

Re: Exactly, that's the point about the improved endurance, the same reason why Kristoff have won the "bunch sprint" in so many hard classics a head of other riders, who's on a normal day faster than him.

Re: Re: This. Ewan have shown much more endurance and climbing pedigree this year than earlier, but is has clearly taken some from his top speed, despite always having the strongest or second strongest train, and being in prime position he only has two wins. One in the classic Stirling finish...

Re: Re: So you agree he is a good decender, but disagree with my reasoning why? Ok then - I can certainly live with that :cool: I disagree with your reasoning because your wrote "and as late as last years tour and dauphine, you saw him make up time on decents.". Which is not true, and you...