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More than just a WT-race. Catalunya is one of the 7 classics: PN, TA, DL, Basque, Catalunya, Switzerland and Romandy.
Not the most prestigious one -that would be DL, TA or PN- but still one of the most important stage races.
Catalunya is the oldest existing one week stage race, that has been organised almost every year. (Tour of Belgium is older, but has several long periods without organisation.)
With the Vuelta still in September too? But I don't think I'm going to revive dead races (at least not the most implausible ones).
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Kämna (I wish)
Hindley and Hamilton should be taken into account. And then there are the UAE guys, though I suppose they are going for stages.
Yeah, you are right, it probably would be awkward to have the Volta start soon after the Vuelta is finished.
It just doesn't sit right with me that stage races pretty much finish with the Vuelta (even if it has been this way for years).
Yates is underdone while TBE is developing Hamilton as a GC rider - My major interest is in seeing the Yates brothers chasing each other up a mountain.
This is also the 100th edition of this race.
Here's Movistar's line up (it also has Coppi line up as well)
View: https://twitter.com/Movistar_Team/status/1372818931174539269
Here's Movistar's line up (it also has Coppi line up as well)
View: https://twitter.com/Movistar_Team/status/1372818931174539269
And it's right there in the thread-title. You're not starting to develop thread-blindness, are you? It's the same malady toby suffers from, though his case is obviously even worse, as he can't even see certain threads!
Well at least I saw there was a thread for it. It appears that part of the title didn't register. I think I read that for this edition all the sprint points will be at the 100 KM (or close to that) mark of each stage and they are honoring different riders at those markers. I know it was in Spanish that I'd read it, so who knows if I can find that again.
Spanish cycling has decided the solution to the problem of so many high speed crashes in bunch sprints is to eradicate the bunch sprint entirely.
A noble goal.
A noble goal.
Well, according a few Spaniards, it's not easy to find a route that would give you an actually flat route in Spain for any stage. LOL.
A lot of big names should be looking to capitalise on the absence from the race of Pog and Rog to claim a World Tour GC win.
Lots of talent in the startlist yet it has a distinctly second rate feel without the two Slovenians and the elite Puncheurs.
The rare inclusion of a time trial should make the racing in the 2 mountain top finish stages more attacking as real gaps will be required for the climber types to win the overall.
Lots of talent in the startlist yet it has a distinctly second rate feel without the two Slovenians and the elite Puncheurs.
The rare inclusion of a time trial should make the racing in the 2 mountain top finish stages more attacking as real gaps will be required for the climber types to win the overall.
Pro'ly not for top 5, but possibly top 10: Vanhoucke, McNulty and maybe Champoussin.
I think Champoussin can go quite far. He might not be an expert time trialist but he has looked really strong so far this season and in Laigueglia he was totally equal to Bernal.
Ineos has quite a strong team but somehow I think that they will manage to lose this
Yates might be underdone, but he still managed to stay close to Pogačar on the MTF in Tirreno. So his climbing form is not too bad at the moment.
I agree. He really impressed me in Laigueglia. I still don't know though if he is more of a hilly one day race specialist or he can also be a strong GC rider.
Yates is paid two millions to wait for Luke when he is taking a piss
I actually think the Yates brothers might be the best one week GC riders behind Roglič and Pogačar right now.
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When in top form. I know van Aert was second in T-A and he is another strong candidate. But T-A was more suited to classics specialists than any other WT stage race IMO (excluding BinckBank Tour of course). I need to see more from him in other stage races to accurately rate him.
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Remco?
I think they lack a bit too much in the time trial to be above him (if he is at his Tour of Poland level).
If Remco was racing and back to his pre-injury form, then yes, I'd rank Remco higher. But Remco is still recovering from the crash and will need a couple of months a least to be back to his former self.
I've actually had a look at top5 placings in WT short stage races for the Yates brothers since 2017. They have 16 top5 combined (Adam 10, Simon 6), but only two wins, last year UAE Tour (Adam) and T-A (Simon). I'm not sure if there is a rider in the peloton beside Roglič, who has more top5s than Adam in that span of time.
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