Carapaz completed the vuelta in less time than Roglic, and beat him in their previous GT when they were going for GC.
To say he is not good enough when he is coming into his prime years is bizarre.
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To say he is not good enough when he is coming into his prime years is bizarre.
This is you first post in this forum, so I take your opinion with a rock of salt!
Heh, I've been here before
It's probably not my true opinion, but they rarely seem to get talked about.
Except he was billed as a co-leader with SK, so he would have been somewhat protected. I expected something more.
I really don't think any of the Ineos team have much chance against Pogacar and Roglic assuming all in form. Porte and Thomas might not lose a huge amount in the TT like Carapaz would but I don't think either Porte or Thomas can hang with them going uphill.
Yes, there was a sale going on at the SK Discount Warehouse. Stef Krul wasn't as good a buy as the other two.
None of them can hang up with Pogacar or Roglic. But surely they can come up with a good strategy to attack him. Not just the usual train because that would fall into Pogacar hands.
Yates, Carapaz, Thomas, Bernal, Porte, TGH, with Ganna and Dennis as the helpers!!!
Ya they should be able to make the race interesting but I think they'll need to rely on other teams also doing that. We know Jumbo's likely tactic is a train and it's a damn strong one. If Pogacar and UAE are also doing a train, I'm not sure even Ineos have the talent by themselves to consistently attack those two.
That's if they bring that team above anyway, their current line up is Castro, De Plus, Tao, Thomas, Porte, Carapaz, Rowe, Kwiatowski which is not as attacking of a lineup.
Back to Catalunya, but surprised at some performances today. I know it's early but was expecting more out of Simon Yates, Hindley, Champoussin, Kamna, McNulty and a few others. Thought they'd have been higher up.
Thomas will take a few seconds max out of Roglic and Pogacar in the ITT, certainly not enough to just simply sit in the wheels.
He's likely hoping to win his 5th LBL title on his 41st birthday. Not sure he has the form to do it, but with the form we're seeing so far at Catalunya he should at least be in the mix.
What in the world happened to Soler today? I know he's inconsistent, but my goodness. I also realize he made a comment that he is at Catalunya to both improve his form and to help Valverde and Mas. With Mas, his form is still off. Mas needs racing KMs in his legs to improve form and he wasn't horribly off, esp considering his big goals are the Tour and Vuelta.
Yates wins the stage and the overall as expected. I really don't get the seemingly surprise that Yates is climbing this well and that so many people suddenly want him to do the Giro. He was the overwhelming favorite to win the race to begin with and his schedule to only do the Vuelta is perfect for him. Really him joining Ineos was the perfect match; Ineos needed someone to do well in one week stage-races and one day-races and Yates needed to work on his ITT and his positioning in the peloton.
Soler happened! He's just that kind of rider, inconsistent. He's a great stage hunter, and very valuable domestique, and that's all. I really don't know what Movistar are trying to make out of him, but I will tell you what they won't make - a GC rider!
I think they still think he can race for GC in 1 week races. However, I agree with you that he could be a great stage hunter. For the Giro this year, I'd love to see them give up on GC and have Soler go after the KOM jersey and go stage hunting along with allowing Matteo Jorgenson to just get some basic experience in a Grand Tour. I did, actually, think Soler's form was a bit better than this crazy inconsistency after his 11th overall at A-T.
Unfortunately like we saw today when the younger ones put the kick in I fear that he might not be able to keep up. I mean Roglic, Alaphillippe and Pogacar will ride the LBL also and all of them have better sprint now days. But yeah in the Top 10 Valverde could easily be.
Bala in 2019 autumn form can beat them all. The problem is if one of Cyclo-Van's is at the finish line with him.
Very, very interesting final climb. So many stories:
- Adam Yates again going termonuclear (some say he is no Simon, though)
- Chaves is back!
- vintage Valverde, nice!
- Thomas better climber than TTer at the moment
- very good ride from Vanhoucke
- same old Kuss (not a bad ride though)
- Quintana attacking because Valverde is ahead...lol
- yaco was right about Simon
- trademark Almeida pacing the group of not good enough GC riders
- Almeida not allowing Masnada to do a Masnada
- Kruijswijk proving once again he isn't reliable enough to be a leader
And also not a lot to shoot for til July, since Arkea doesn’t get invites to all the races (and no Giro).
This is likely why Kuss was very likely asked to do the best ITT he is capable of doing.
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