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Honestly yeah. Who would have thought in 2016 that only a couple of years later Lotto Jumbo would be the best team in the peloton?! Seixas may be the tool that lifts Decathlon on the top. They should have the budget to back it up.

Yeah, but with Matthews you would reduce the team helping Pogacar to attack on Cipressa. As far as the team goes, this is better. As long as Pogacar's ambitions are important, it's not good.

Would like some countries to boycott Norway because of that they were doing in the ski jumping of the Nordic ski World Championships. I mean, that was a blatant cheating and deserves a ban as well, IMO.

He probably won't. But that wouldn't be because of the Giro, but because Pogacar is just better. Let's face it, Roglic will be 36 in the Giro and crashes out every other GT. Evenepoel is not competitive because of crashes in 50% of his GT's (and it's not 100% he will start), Del Toro was...

He can beat Del Toro on 80%, unless he improves. Roglic and Evenepoel are both likely to not be competitive (because of various of reasons) and only Almeida could give him a trouble. But even then he may not need to go deep.

Also, don't think that Pogacar was getting much worse. The relative gap to the rest of the field looked smaller, but that's because they cancelled each other. Had they rode, the gaps would've been similar to Hautacam. Meaning that it's not Pogacar who was (much) worse than early in the Tour...

Which doesn't mean he won't be 100%. Vingegaard can win the Giro on 90% and be 100% for the Tour. If he has to go deep however.. Also, don't think 2025 is a proof that the gap is getting bigger. Vingegaard showed cracks (which was not typical for him previously) on Hautacam (and Combloux...

But if we both agree that Vingegaard is (much) better that what he showed on Hautacam, I would say based on everything we saw during the Tour 1.30 on Lipowitz, that would put him 50 seconds behind Pogacar. And that's over 12 kilometres. A minute on Vingegaard would probably mean more than 2 on...

Well, the routes are the tools that riders use yo make the race exciting If Vingegaard and Pogacar are very close to each other and you put the hardest mountain as a finale and even more so the last kilometres the steepest, you have the stage reduced to a mountain sprint with little to no...

Okay now, full minute on Vingegaard based on everything we saw this year is a bit of a stretch. Unless Vingegaard underperforms like he did on Combloux and Hautacam. Combloux and Hautacam are IMO misleading about the real gap between the 2, as on these stages Vingegaard massively underperformed...

It's not actually. It's really reasonable and understandable that race director won't want the race to be decided in week one and then the viewing figures to drop. Although Gavarnie without the steep kilometres and with Tourmalet right before can cause much more damage than a regular MTF.

I would say that 14 before 15 is okay. Also 19 on itself is bad, but positioned before 20 makes it good enough. Good way to make this final 2 stages. Agreed on 18, but if you're gonna have these stages as 19 and 20, whatever you do wouldn't change it much.

He probably expected/wanted the Tour to be decided by stage 3, now it's only stage 6. Hence backloaded.

So it should be 23 teams then. Has it been confirmed, as I know it was just rumours.

Isn't it supposed to be kinda the other way around? Easier route to ensure he is fresher for the Tour? Although I do believe it's gonna be easier for him to be good for the Tour after the Giro then it is for the Vuelta after the Tour.