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An interesting route. Not because its great, but because its different. And a super interesting first stage which opened up the race in what looked to be a predictable race. Always a bit of an afterthought after Dauphine for myself, I must admit, but looks to be a very interesting race!

This seems to be the obvious pacing. Funnily enough, I actually thought about this while taking a shower the other day and I came to the same conclusion.

They are probably not, but this is pro cycling. You know what that entails. If you or anyone else get worked up over doping, its probably better to follow another sport, but then again, many sports probably have the same problem(s). I don't really care if they are doping or not. Motors are...

A huge problem in that era would also be to find a clean winner. Miguel played his cards right and nobody really has a problem with him, I certainly don't. Extremely well liked and respected by nearly everyone

Thats because I shouldn't have. From 2020, obviously

This notion that Roglic got screwed over is so funny. Roglic received an incredible amount of support from 19-23 from some of the best riders in the entire world. Then Vuelta 2023 happened, and Roglic got really mad that he wasn't allowed to win against his buddy Kuss and left.

Time to rethink the approach. Try to gain time with his team in the first half of the race in the echelons and what not

Yes, and probably a decent amount more than that if the mountains stages are decently hard. Focusing so much on the ITT is close to worthless in stage races nowadays with Pogacar and Vingegaard simply because the differences are so big in the mountains.

Pog saying he wouldn't want to go to deep. Lol

Jonas really positive in the interview. Says the numbers and situation (?) was quite similar to Plateau de Beille

So whats Jonas' gameplan here?

Sivakov is quite obviously pacing to keep Bardet in check for the stage win. Pogacar doesnt really need domestiques on this last climb.

Coverage with 700 metres left of the hardest climb of the race

15 riders in the GC group 14:31 Healy ups the ante at the front.

Very hard pace in the bunch 14:29 The leaders are 5 kilometres away from the summit. And the GC group are only 1' behind! Campenaerts is dropped after his effort. Visma-Lease a Bike still set the pace. Soler is also dropped