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OK, the full rankings are up. But the website is a cancer. You have to keep clicking because it doesn't show the full rankings, just five new names.
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Yeah DSM are an enigmatic team, but many do get more opportunities there and the environment can be good to some (bad for others), I suggested Poole and Onley should just stay there instead of going to Ineos.
Crashes today too brother, makes no difference, riders are crashing all the time, it's' part of GC outcomes.
I personally found this a lot more entertaining than one of those stages where the péloton sits at +1'30" for four hours and then the last 5km are good except for a big pile-up at 800m to go that takes out half the field.
Inoes pre race basically just seemed like they wanted to go for broke and see what they can do. I think the early stage win takes some pressure off them, and hopefully they'll be fun to watch over the next three weeks.
I took that to mean they've done it as in G is with the rest of GC and JN won the stage and so Thomas's team are in control with Pink. That's essentially what UAE tried to achieve today.
Thanks, I should have looked further than just the team/rider thread directoryHe already has one:
Jhonatan Narváez - not your typical South American rider
Mathieu van der Poel got all the applause for making the race today but this little Ecuadorian followed him from the initial attack with 84 kms to go until they were caught a little more than one kilometre before the line. And it's his first taste of the cobbled classics (well, apart from...forum.cyclingnews.com
Indeed, this was an excellent first stage and we should have more of these. The Giro recently had been really lacking the tricky, punchy first and second week stages, so good to see them make a comeback.
Wow, makes no sense unless his form is really not where it is supposed to. This year it would make a lot more sense to have him a protected rider since the podium is wide open after Pogacar.
If that's what he meant, the way he phrased it was hilariously bad as it seemed like he was crediting Thomas with the stage win. I get crediting a domestique or a lead-out if they've played an integral role, or if they'd been doing the 1-2 attacks and it just so happened that Narváez was the one who was away when it stuck, but it wasn't at all, Thomas did nothing either especially good or bad, he couldn't go with Pogačar and he rode as he should to not lose too much time. If Schachmann had won that sprint, would Hatch have been screaming "Max Schachmann AND DANI MARTÍNEZ have done it!" I doubt it.
I read that too, He's domestique for Thomas, so once UAE expired their riders he could ride in with them.
It's live commentary, not a legal statement lol!
It's still complete nonsense driven by favouritism, though.
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