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You never know until they actually race against each other. Vingegaard opened up a similar gap in Catalunya on a climb that wasn't nearly as hard as this, and there the riders behind were at least cooperating a little bit. Seixas could certainly give him a run for his money though.

So was Tulett. I think it's a bit painful to watch Roglic like this. He's never been a very attack-minded rider of course, but now he's just riding around a bit aimlessly, it seems.

Better domestiques? Better opponents is what you would want in this race.

Pogacar is crazy good. Seixas will be happy to reach his level in some races next year. Better than Pogi? Let's first try Vingegaard.

This probably isn't the best Del Toro we've ever seen. The dynamic of this race is quite similar to Catalunya, one guy a cut above the rest and then a group of guys at the same level. This doesn't mean we're looking at Pogi levels of performance yet...

Maybe not pure climbers, but the way the course is now, and the way it's raced, make it very difficult for a guy like Pedersen or Van Aert to win... but then again that's the case in every race where Pogacar takes part.

The fact that cycling is the people's sport in Belgium also means that there's quite a bit of drunk hooliganism going on, unfortunately. And the Belgian media feeds into this by raising expectations way too high (Van Aert's buddy Bakelants being an especially ridiculous example) and then...

Okay, touché. But who is most likely to follow Pogacar, at least for a while? Pedersen or Evenepoel?

The Ronde has become significantly harder in the past decade. Ain't no way Tom Boonen would even be competitive on the current parcours. I find it surprising not more climbers try it, and it seems tailor made for someone like Evenepoel. If he doesn't have too much trouble positioning and staying...

Swinkels has such a characteristic style on the bike. Always with her head slightly tilted, like a duck.

The only rider who can possibly follow Pogi is Van der Poel. And I'll take Evenepoel as a wildcard. Both of them riders who will surely cooperate with Pogi. I think barring some bizarre tactical manoeuvres a Flanders win is out of the question for Wout.

Maybe, but of course this happens all the time. And Visma aren't in any position to file a complaint since they famously had an epic sticky bottle situation themselves just a few days ago (even though that one was of no consequence to the race whatsoever).

By now you'd think the cycling gods are building up karma for Van Aert to take that one big Monument win in the coming weeks... I just don't see how, he's not going to follow Pogi and he could barely follow a cooked Van der Poel last weekend. Maybe in Roubaix, who knows.

Larsen went up that hill way too slow, he would already have been caught by the peloton.

These riders are people, they can't mark every move. It was already quite an achievement to keep the gap at 15 secs for as long as they did. Yes, ideally one of them would have been on the wheel of Ganna and whatshisface, but that's not a strategic mistake.