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Now that Ayuso has lef the Bald Fraud camp (has he actually?), I'm expecting to see a massive progress.

Apparently Sivert Bakken passed away. while in Trentino with team mates. Honestly hope this is some kind of a horrible joke, but I read it even in NRK. Edit: Now it's on more and more sources. Absolutely horrible news, shocking.

It's clear! UAE and Visma are on the demise, the new-old boss in town is here!

Remco was giving interviews about Pog, so he is probably a fanboy in disguise.

Great win for Kirkeeide. She was leading all the way in the last lap. But when I saw the results, there are 13 women in 23 seconds. It must be one of the closest mass starts ever? Passler without the penalty in the last shooting could've won, but she only finished 11th

In 2013 and 2015 Froome build his advantage in TT's and easy mountain stages. Fairly sure Roglic could hold him pretty close, or even beat him in some of those stages. How would he perform in the hard mountain stages in the third week, when Froome was dropped, is another question, but Froome...

That's easy, no? San Remo mens edition.

Oh, yeah, my bad, sorry. Just goes to show how much the actual competition matters.

I'm not sold on Froome beating Roglic easily, especially if Roglic had HIS Visma team, not the Lotto team at the time. Froome had his weaknesses in week 3, I think Roglic (barring crashes of course) could have won 2 Tours in Froome's era.

Eddy was racing farmer, Teddy is racing plumbers...

It's said that they're are building some hills in UAE, so 2028 might be good for him as well.

Both of them need to improve A LOT to challenge him. Not impossible, but I don't find it likely that both, or even any of them will challenge him. Close the gap a bit, or even cut it in half (5 minutes)? Perhaps. Realistically challenge him? The gap is way too big.

But how tired can Pogacar be if he's racing a post Giro Vingegaard? Obviously it all depends how Vingegaard comes out of the Giro.

Fair point. I honestly forgot about that little detail in the beginning of Hazallanas. Perhaps I was a bit too critical about this stage.

Is it really inviting early attacks? The final climb is very hard and the descent from Hazallanas is rather easy, not too great for early attacks. Obviously great for the Vuelta and you're desperate in stage 20, you have the terrain, but I think it's hard for a long range attack to stick.