2019 Tour de Romandie 30 April - 5 May

[roundabout]

ok, I take back what I wrote about the climb

 

[Broccolidwarf]

What a beast Roglic is.

He is undoubtedly the king of 1 week stage races.

 

[johnymax]

Rogla too good!

 

[Carols]

Roglic is a Phenom.....shame he spent all those years ski jumping!

 

[johnymax]

He'll win the ITT tomorrow, too. The Giro can't come soon enough. Can't wait.

 

[Red Rick]

Roglic too good too early?

Roglic too explosive to keep it togethee for 3 weeks?

 

[Poursuivant]

Re:

He'll win the ITT tomorrow, too. The Giro can't come soon enough. Can't wait.

His only problem may be peaking too early? Especially with the backloaded Giro.

 

[Climbing]

Well, well, someone is flying.
Ascent made zero selection though.

 

[Carols]

Re: Re:

He'll win the ITT tomorrow, too. The Giro can't come soon enough. Can't wait.

His only problem may be peaking too early? Especially with the backloaded Giro.

Indeed.....this is my concern. Has he already peaked and how long can he hold it.

 

[Red Rick]

Maybe they thought theyd treat Romandie as Trentino and the first 11 stages as active recovery

 

[Valv.Piti]

Lmao Roglic is simply too good. I don't even think he has peaked too early or something like that. I think he is my favourite for the Giro at this point, but I maybe be overreacting.

 

[zlev11]

he looks incredible now but these stages have not been very hard at all, there's been a large group at the finish on both of the big days. i think it's hard to tell if he's peaking now or not based on this race alone. i think he'll be fine, he just came down from altitude, too.

 

[Red Rick]

Re:

Lmao Roglic is imply too good. I don't even think he has peaked too early or something like that. I think he is my favourite for the Giro at this point, but I maybe be overreacting.

It's also not exactly a stellar field to be fair.

He's basically outpunching a bunch of climbers, which won't decide the Giro in the end.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Re:

Roglic too good too early

Roglic too explosive to keep it togethee for 3 weeks?

I'm thinking the same, I think he'll fade durning the 2nd half of the Giro.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Not there for the general classification, he said.

Almost a week and at least two stage wins later...

 

[KZD]

Tomorrow under normal circunstances Roglic will win the overall but Thomas is still a danger.
Regarding the Giro, I hope he can hold his shape for three weeks but at least he can gain a lot of time in the first week TTs (except to Dumoulin).

 

[johnymax]

Re: Re:

He'll win the ITT tomorrow, too. The Giro can't come soon enough. Can't wait.

His only problem may be peaking too early? Especially with the backloaded Giro.

Indeed.....this is my concern. Has he already peaked and how long can he hold it.

I don't think he's peaking at all. He won an uphill sprint today in a stage where 10 riders had the same time at the finish and the opposition isn't the World's best. He'll win many sprints against other climbers not named Valverde or Alaphilippe.

The same happened last year in Tour of Slovenia in the preparation race for TdF. He was a class above the rest including Uran and Majka, yet his best showing in the TdF was by far in the 3rd week. The only slight concern I have for him for the Giro is those consecutive over 200km mountain stages with multiple climbs.

 

[bajbar]

Re:

Not there for the general classification, he said.

Almost a week and at least two stage wins later...

I mean, he stayed in the group, the stages were not too hard, good training. And why not take the oportunity to win if it is there

 

[Valv.Piti]

Rogla saying that ahead of such a stage race 2 weeks before the Giro was always meant to be *** tbh.

 

[HelloDolly]

The terrain in this Romandie is alot different to the Giro but I don't agree that the field is very weak....Thomas, Gaudu,Woods Buchman are very strong esp on such terrain as this Romandie

If Dumoulin, Froome, Landa, Quintana, Bardet, Pinot or Nibali were there then Roglic would also have won
Only ones to challenge him in Romandie terrain would be the Yates brothers, or maybe Alaphilippe or Bernal in a week race

The Giro is a very different kettle of fish

 

[Lequack]

There is always a fear of peaking early sure. But I look at it from a different perspective. If we look at his current season, nobody can has his 2019 season hasn't been a success already, regardless of what happens in the GTs. Meanwhile you have guys who train solely for a Giro or a Tour and then something unpredictable happens like a mechanical, crsswinds, crash, bad luck in general. And then basically you can't say you've had a successful season, unless you manage to do something later in the season of course.

 

[Anderis]

Damn, EF the strongest team in the race and they'll be probably left with nothing, not even a top10 in GC.

Maybe if they didn't burn up Carthy, he would have had a chance for the best result in his career here.

 

[Singer01]

Re:

The terrain in this Romandie is alot different to the Giro but I don't agree that the field is very weak....Thomas, Gaudu,Woods Buchman are very strong esp on such terrain as this Romandie

If Dumoulin, Froome, Landa, Quintana, Bardet, Pinot or Nibali were there then Roglic would also have won
Only ones to challenge him in Romandie terrain would be the Yates brothers, or maybe Alaphilippe or Bernal in a week race

The Giro is a very different kettle of fish

Surely Porte has been the best 1 week stage racer of the past few years?

 

[Lequack]

I'm also surprised how well Rui Costa is going in this race. Finished 2nd yesterday and then again 2nd today. His past few years haven't been the best so it's looking good for him.

 

[Red Rick]

I'm positive Roglic is worse than last year in Romandie. Which is a good thing ofcourse