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They have been riding above their paygrade for a few years, and now that some of the people who were responsible for those successes behind the scenes have moved to greener (better paying) pastures it seems that the performance has gone down the drain as well. Not entirely, they did after all...

I don't know what his training has focused on, but it's pretty clear that the longer efforts (normally his strong suit) are now his weak point. It seems they were too obsessed with increasing his explosivity, like that was the problem last year (it wasn't). And now he's not particularly great at...

If I may remind you, Hautacam is the scene of that famous pull by Van Aert where he dropped Pogacar. You know, from the break.

You mean that they did switch. Vingegaard says it's just a guess but of course he knows how much his bike will weigh for the mountain TT. And it's not 9 kgs. It could also be an elaborate ploy to get Pogacar to use his TT bike (which if past performances have to be believed is rather heavy) and...

Usually what they do is they run projections on this stuff and then they try to find the tipping point between having a TT bike or a regular bike. Maybe in this case the projection doesn't give a conclusive answer, that's possible. It's about at which point the weight disadvantage outweighs the...

That's from Campenaerts' Tour vlog.

He's literally being threatened...

Remco had to yell because it was his teammate who was riding...

Off the top of my head, he crashed while in the yellow jersey in the first Tour he won. Benoot brought him back to the bunch (which didn't wait for him, btw).

Jonas has crashed multiple times in the last few Tours. Hasn't really seemed to change his level at all. But you also probably haven't really noticed.

But who attacks at the bottom of a climb like that? Which serious contender, I mean? If anything you're apparently the Jorgenson fan, as you're maybe expecting a bit too much from the guy.

Then you should know that this year isn't anything crazy in terms of crashes or injuries. Now that it happens to UAE maybe you're paying more attention.

If by tactically you mean "not incredibly stupid", then yes. It's all relative as no one has caused Pogacar much trouble... but Jorgenson has at least tried.

He didn't go at the foot of the climb... are you being serious? Of course he didn't. Even Pogacar usually attacks over the top. He's not a "let the chips fall where they may fall" kind of rider, but he has been the guy causing the most trouble for Pogi in terms of having to respond, so far.

I would say Jorgenson's riding so far hasn't really been that tactical. He's attacked the most out of any of the GC guys.