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With the intermarché announcement- are we down to Ineos and Totals left to announce?
Do you think they keep their riders in the dark till the very end as well? I always thought the delayed announce was a publicity thing.Total have confirmed theirs.
EF have of course not. Neither have Movistar.
Bagioli was actually climbing better than Cattaneo at the Dauphine and brought him back to the front on the stage where Roglic took the jersey.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...)
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).
In addition Rogla has beaten Pogi in mountains.
Do you mean a dozen of seconds or so on Loze? Pog obviously gained more in the Pyrenees. The only time Roglic gained a significant time on Pog was on crosswinds (almost 1.5 minutes). Despite that setback the latter still managed to overturn it against a great rider supported by a superb team.
They went for it and all in mano-a-mano on a proper mountain and Rogla came on top. Lets not forget that.
They went for it and all in mano-a-mano on a proper mountain and Rogla came on top. Lets not forget that. Point being that was not about JV as a dominant team.
They go all in with Vlasov while keeping flexibility for chasing breaks and stage wins.
Bora's line-up only lacks an elite mountain domestique, but Kämna, Grossschartner, Konrad and Schachmann should be enough to at least guarantee a couple of riders staying with Aleks in each stage when the peloton is heavily reduced.
Roglic also gained a gap on the gravel piece after the Mur de Glières but stopped shortly after for no apparent reason other than feeling comfortable in his lead.
What i am saying is if Rogla would win that edition. He would deserve it just as much.
We can agree on that surely. But the fact that, after years of team-dominated Tours, Pog (almost without team support) won against JV strongmen was refreshing to see.
For us cycling geeks, those EF last minute roster announcements are bad publicity. We'll probably get the press release on the first rest day.Do you think they keep their riders in the dark till the very end as well? I always thought the delayed announce was a publicity thing.
without Quinten Hermans, every win this year will need to be marked with an asterisk anyway. Ridiculous decision, if he isn't injured or so.
without Quinten Hermans, every win this year will need to be marked with an asterisk anyway. Ridiculous decision, if he isn't injured or so.
He's not injured. Just Intermarché doing DSM things.