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If Pogačar arrives in good shape he will be hard to beat, I don't think the flat before entering the finally circuit will matter much and the circuit is harder than the Zürich one. It will be too hard for Van Aert and Van der Poel, the Ardennes specialists are the ones that should give Pogi a fight.

The TT is almost the polar opposite of this year, its flat and technical so Ganna should have a decent chance of beating Remco.
 
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I went and checked the last time WvA had a meaningful W.

He's not relevant anymore. Sucks because he's a really cool guy but he's simply not competing with Evenepoel/Pog/MVDP

He was a perfect teammate and foil for Remco at the Olympics.

Not surprising Remco wins when he is there. Doesn’t when he’s not. Does not bode well for tomorrow.

Cheers.
 
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Hopefully Vingegaard can dain to show for this one.
I was going to say he's never raced the Canadian classics but then I checked PCS and it turned out he actually has, in 2019. It's tempting to say that this sort of race doesn't suit him, but then you look at the punchy stages we had in the Dauphine and the Tour and he was always there with Pogacar, van der Poel and Evenepoel. That first stage of the Dauphine is still one of my favourite things to happen this year.
 
I went and checked the last time WvA had a meaningful W.

He's not relevant anymore. Sucks because he's a really cool guy but he's simply not competing with Evenepoel/Pog/MVDP
Is stage 21 of the Tour not a meaningful win? I know it's different because it comes at the end of three weeks of hard racing, but the fact that Wout could drop Pogacar going up Montmartre shows that he does still have it in him. Not as much as he used to, I don't think, but I still wouldn't rule him out.
 
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