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View: https://twitter.com/AlpecinDCK/status/1541469709622820864
no sprint train, you say?!
Krieger seems to turn into some kind of GT specialist. Third one in the row, not much else in between
no sprint train, you say?!
Krieger seems to turn into some kind of GT specialist. Third one in the row, not much else in between
Hang on, Lefevre leaves at home the French champion, the world champion and most popular rider in France, and the guy who can be the most successful stage winner of all time. But he cares about bringing the Danes because he wants a 'good image'? Ok...
So what you are saying is that the biggest bully doesn't always win this race?
Sénéchal is not just part of the sprint train, though, he can survive some hills that will throw out Jakobsen. I don't like the guy much and for my cq team at least Bagioli, if successful, would be a good thing. But don't you think it's a bit weird to not have the French champion who's in really good form at the Tour?
Wouldn't one bring him over someone like Bagioli at the moment?
Maybe it's not all about the nationality, but nationality definitely played a big role in selection, and to bring Sénéchal to the Vuelta instead doesn't make much sense to me, when the Vuelta will be mostly all in for Evenepoel, plus some Ala-stage hunting now.
Now, Cavagna I can understand, since he's not in great form this year. But overall I do get the impression, that the team didn't seem too keen on bringing Frenchmen to the Tour, while bringing Danes to Denmark was important.
(Whether I would publicly say something like Sénéchal did and thereby dig at my colleagues is something else...)
Imagine the strength of a team from riders not selected by Lefevre:
-Fausto Masnada (leader)
-Remco Evenepoel (zupergregario)
-Julian Alaphilippe (free role)
-Mark Cavandish (bomber)
-Florian Seneschal (leadout)
-Zdenek Stybar (Road captain + gregario)
-Remi Cavagna (gregario/time trials)
-8th rider can be a gregario, one of Van Lerberg, Devenyns , Serry, Cerny, Vervaecke,
View: https://twitter.com/AlpecinDCK/status/1541469709622820864
no sprint train, you say?!
Krieger seems to turn into some kind of GT specialist. Third one in the row, not much else in between
That's a beautiful picture.
Well Quintana looked nowhere near a GC contender at Occitanie, despite the best efforts of Edet and Ries. And there's three stages in Arkea's home region of Brittany. Looks like they've gone for a team focussed on those and the Danish stages. I'll be cheering for them if they rip the race apart.
It’s certainly not great for team unity and morale to be implying that some of his colleagues were picked ahead of him for non-sporting reasons.
I'd give Senechal a better chance of winning a stage than Honore tbh, and even if you'd lean Honore on that, it's not by enough that Senechal riding around in the national champions jersey doesn't overcome it. He's guaranteed coverage on every stage of the race in that jersey.
If those 4 are in form, they likely stick with Vlasov up most of a mountain until the top guys start attacking unless there's a ridiculous pace set by Jumbo or Ineos.
In a team sense, yes. JV pretty much dominated that race like Sky used to do and it wasn't funny (even in that TT before Pog). But they got KO-ed at the end.
Its only about being there in a high-mountain stage (but realistically - of how much help is a domestique there on the final climb?). Other than that, they will be fine. Konrad and Großschartner already finished two GTs in the top 10. Konrad's form a bit more questionable with a bad Covid infection in winter and a concussion in preperation. But I would say both have the potential to be a top 20 climber here. That should really be good enough. Kämna also usually shows up good to the TdF
Still at lets say TDF 2021. That was likely even worse? Looking from such perspective.
First week of the TdF 2021 was great. After the Alps it was basically over so zero GC excitement. In terms of suspense it was way worse than 2020 but at least there was no one-team dominance (which I really don't like in cycling and which makes mountain stages less open and less mano-a-mano).
Its hard to argue with the Bennett decision. He hasn’t shown his old top end speed and acceleration since his injury a year ago. And you can’t justify taking a sprinter as well as a GC hopeful if your sprinter hasn’t demonstrated Tour stage winning level in over a year.
I do think it’s a bit weird that Bennett and Mullen, a key part of their sprint train, were both clearly still expecting to ride the Tour when they were pulled from the nationals a few days ago. Nothing has changed objectively in that time.
I do think it’s a bit weird that Bennett and Mullen, a key part of their sprint train, were both clearly still expecting to ride the Tour when they were pulled from the nationals a few days ago. Nothing has changed objectively in that time.
Wow, that poster beats that of Alpecin by a fair margin!
Their team is not too sexy, though.
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