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Various media outlets say that Majka, Formolo, De la Cruz and Oliveira are set to ride the Tour when discussing their 2021 race schedule.Isn't confirmed only Pogacar, Hirschi and Kristoff.
Various media outlets say that Majka, Formolo, De la Cruz and Oliveira are set to ride the Tour.
Besides that, I personally think Mikkel Bjerg will get Tour debut for the needs in crosswind stages and the 2 TT's. Oliveira bothers to help Gaviria in Giro and maybe Grand tours debut for Camilo Ardila in the Vuelta.
I really don't think a team aspiring to win the Tour will pick a guy because he can do well on the ITT's. And he didn't show the best of recovery in the Giro, although his initial level was really good.
Will they even ride the Giro afteer what happened last year?Jumbo Visma will send all of Roglic, Dumoulin, Kruijswijk, Van Aert and Kuss to the Tour according to Cyclingnews. Does that mean that none of them will go to the Giro?
Will they even ride the Giro afteer what happened last year?
Any word on his health?Besides that, I personally think Mikkel Bjerg will get Tour debut for the needs in crosswind stages and the 2 TT's. Oliveira bothers to help Gaviria in Giro and maybe Grand tours debut for Camilo Ardila in the Vuelta.
Agree. Ineos definetly wants to compete with Jumbo and UAE. The difference to "Froome years" will be, that they will not have the best time trialist out of the climbers in their ranks. For this reason they will not be able to use the usual train tactic with one leader.Ineos will take all the big dogs to the Tour regardless of the ITT. They want to compete against Jumbo. They won't take what happened last year. If they have 4 big names then be it. Even if Bernal or Carapaz lose time in the ITT they have different cards to play. IMHO.
Bernal, Carapaz, De Plus, Dennis, GHT, Martinez, Porte, Sivakov, Sosa, Thomas, YatesWhat about a trident of Thomas, Sivakov and Martínez for the Tour...?
Bernal, Carapaz, De Plus, Dennis, GHT, Martinez, Porte, Sivakov, Sosa, Thomas, Yates
are in my eyes the riders from Ineos who could potentially end up in the top 10 of either the giro or the tour.
Kwiatkowski, Ganna, Amador and Pidcock could perhaps also, but I think they will used as pure domestiques in the grand tours..
I agree, that I would also bring strong time trial specialists to the tour.
Strong in time trial are:
Thomas, Martinez, Dennis and Porte, (Sivakov, GHT)
Then I would a least bring some very good climbers, who could attack in the mountains from a bit more far away, when domestiques from other teams have already fallen behind, so that Roglic and Pogacar have to chase them on their own while their time trial specialists are sitting on their wheels until the last kilometers of the stage.
This could be:
Bernal, Carapaz, De Plus, Sosa, Yates, (Sivakov, GHT)
In the tour 2019 this worked pretty good with Bernal and Thomas as an example. (Stage 18 and Stage 19, where Bernal attacked from far away)
I wouldn´t underestimate at least Martinez, De Plus and Sivakov in this context.C'mon, Ineos are all about winning the Tour and you can't do it with the likes of Martinez, De Plus, Sivakov or Sosa.
If they bring de Plus, it will be another plus, or maybe even the Plus.If they bring Yates, Sivakov, Martinez, Porte that will be a plus.