Na currently listening to the polka version of Sex on Fire surrounded by drunk people dancing on tables by Oudenaarde train station.
I can see how you got your forum name if this is your idea of logic.
What's yours? Logic has nothing to do with it, but preferences. I'd rather have seen a clean 2 up sprint that Pogi loses than the end we got. But it's fine.
Brilliant ride by them both, but Pogacar has only himself to blame for missing the podium. He would probavly have lost either way as you can see Van Der Poel immediatly creates a gap when he accelerates.
While the wind came from their left (which is why everyone in the end was in the right side of the road), it was also clearly a mistake to be so close to Van der Poel's rear wheel and with his own front wheel between that and the banner, instead of keeping a clear path towards the middle of the road.
Indeed Pogi has blamed himself, but having made the race until the sprint, it was a shame he got boxed in, although it's not certain he would have lost either way had they had a proper sprint between themselves, which is my only grievance.I am sorry, but this makes no sense. Pogacar could just have taken the lead under the kite and driven faster. Van der Poel isn't signed as his lead out man, he is going to try to win the race.
He was involved in some kind of collaboration between Visit Flanders and a bar, Hantwerk, in Aarhus, so he joined the bar to watch the race and I was lucky enough to get to sit right next to him!
Perhaps he also felt after all he had done he wasn't going to play into VDP's bluff and lead the dutchman out in the sprint. Hubris? Perhaps, but had he gone to the front and lead out the sprint and lost? On the other hand, as it turned out, he should have just charged through and called VDP out on his bluff and come what may. He may have won or not, but at least the sprint between them would have been real.
No, I was not offended. Your point is valid, I just was disappointed that we didn't get to see a proper sprint between them.
Understood. That happens to me too watching bike races. As with today, there is often a slow tense build-up to the finale, and sometimes I get an image in my mind’s eye of what is about to unfold—but something totally different happens.
I'm just checking in on page 50 of this string. Sciatic is correct; Tadej blew it.
Well, it was monsieur VDP. Respect (I mean, as in Tadej isn't stupid). On the other hand, it could be Pogi felt (obviously now to his failure) that he simply wasn't responsible to lead out the Duthchman, having basically made the race till that point.
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