What would have been more interesting to see is what Movistar would have done if Valverde was in the race as scheduled. He crashed while training and had to pull out, but in the end it gave Carapaz and Landa a free role and in the end a win as well.del1962 said:Carapaz and Landa where the strongest climbers in the race, would have been interesting to see how much they could drop Nibali mano mano but after Carapaz got away they never needed to
Two years, to be exact(ish).TourOfSardinia said:First non Anglo GT Winner for a while!
RedheadDane said:Two years, to be exact(ish).TourOfSardinia said:First non Anglo GT Winner for a while!
That's just insane. Especially as those wins came from three different riders and Britain didn't have a single win until 2012. When did France last win a gt again?huge said:RedheadDane said:Two years, to be exact(ish).TourOfSardinia said:First non Anglo GT Winner for a while!
5 consecutive GTs, from Tour 2017 to Vuelta 2018
Very interesting that Valverde was not at the Giro as planned, when the whole team seemed to finally work well together. Too many chiefs in one team does seemingly not work!Lequack said:What would have been more interesting to see is what Movistar would have done if Valverde was in the race as scheduled. He crashed while training and had to pull out, but in the end it gave Carapaz and Landa a free role and in the end a win as well.del1962 said:Carapaz and Landa where the strongest climbers in the race, would have been interesting to see how much they could drop Nibali mano mano but after Carapaz got away they never needed to
I been thinking that too, but thanks for spelling it outjmdirt said:Congrats Chad!
I find it interesting that so many see changing one or two events within the race in isolation, like nothing else would have changed had those events had different results.
or even the 3rd?! Hard to say how much he lost due to the mechanical problems in the 2017 Tour.jaylew said:2nd GT in a row where Roglic has had a relatively weak final TT.
Considering his talent, thats quite a great GT-record actually. Always hanging on for dear life.search said:also another good result for Mollema, keeping his "once every two years" record alive
2011 Vuelta 4th
2013 Tour 6th
2015 Tour 7th
2017 Giro 7th
2019 Giro 5th
His famous moment yelling "F*** SRAM"Valv.Piti said:Considering his talent, thats quite a great GT-record actually. Always hanging on for dear life.search said:also another good result for Mollema, keeping his "once every two years" record alive
2011 Vuelta 4th
2013 Tour 6th
2015 Tour 7th
2017 Giro 7th
2019 Giro 5th
And at the Tour he'll again play second fiddle to Quintana and Valverde. I think he's going to Bahrain though next year to replace Nibali, who himself is going to Trek.Koronin said:Great result for Carapaz.
Was hoping Landa could hold onto the podium, but again he proves he can't ride a time trial.
Deadset I have been laughing at this for 10 minutesLequack said:His famous moment yelling "F*** SRAM"Valv.Piti said:Considering his talent, thats quite a great GT-record actually. Always hanging on for dear life.search said:also another good result for Mollema, keeping his "once every two years" record alive
2011 Vuelta 4th
2013 Tour 6th
2015 Tour 7th
2017 Giro 7th
2019 Giro 5th
https://streamable.com/o44uh
One of the highlights of the race........Scarponi said:Deadset I have been laughing at this for 10 minutesLequack said:His famous moment yelling "F*** SRAM"Valv.Piti said:Considering his talent, thats quite a great GT-record actually. Always hanging on for dear life.search said:also another good result for Mollema, keeping his "once every two years" record alive
2011 Vuelta 4th
2013 Tour 6th
2015 Tour 7th
2017 Giro 7th
2019 Giro 5th
https://streamable.com/o44uh
'Considering his talent' is actually a weird quote since Mollema won Avenir and many other high profile u23 races. He was one of the most talented of his generation. It's just that many of that generation didn't turn out super good. Except mr Bizarro Froome with his late breakLequack said:His famous moment yelling "F*** SRAM"Valv.Piti said:Considering his talent, thats quite a great GT-record actually. Always hanging on for dear life.search said:also another good result for Mollema, keeping his "once every two years" record alive
2011 Vuelta 4th
2013 Tour 6th
2015 Tour 7th
2017 Giro 7th
2019 Giro 5th
https://streamable.com/o44uh
Absolutely! He's one of those guys who makes me suspend my (supposed) neutrality.JosephK said:Nice to see a day-of-days for Chad Haga, and his expression of pure joy at the outcome. I am thinking he probably gets carded a lot still, if he goes to any nightclubs.![]()
He published a post on instragram today, explaining why he and Roglic did not shake hands on the podium... just a late excuse? Maybe... this is what he wrote:bill1109 said:Opinion of Nibali down quite a few notches after seeing him ignore Roglic on the podium. Also terribly bad for mentioning his trophy cabinet earlier on. Honestly glad he didn't win. Was not really a fan and surely not now. "Italian thing" or not...I dislike riders/people like that. Roglic was sick too...otherwise I believe this race would have been different resultJagartrott said:Plenty of people here saw him as a threat. You don't gift a very good climber with a very good team 2-3 minutes. That's a capital mistake. Just race. Learn from the cobbled classics.huge said:Absolutely.
Easy to say afterwards. Nobody saw him as a real threat at that point.
That I guess is the beauty of cycling. Surprises are always around the corner.