49th Volta ao Algarve em Bicicleta (2.Pro) // February 15th - 19th 2023

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Never seen a more rent free comment lmfao. Can I get some breakfast with the room?

I trust you'll be hyping all the other u23 TT'ers who did great results there. That's why Bissegger has a worse TT career so far than Leknessund.

So you think i was lucky in predicting he would beat Almeida?

 

[CHGJ2000]

So you think i was lucky in predicting he would beat Almeida?

Could argue that considering you also thought Van Wilder was the most likely to beat Ganna and Martinez crushed Van Wilder. Over and underperformances in TT's happen.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Could argue that considering you also thought Van Wilder was the most likely to beat Ganna and Martinez crushed Van Wilder. Over and underperformances in TT's happen.

As i previously stated, Martinez was my pre-race favorite. The only reason why i did not expect him anymore, was not for discounting his TT abilities, but due to the fact that he had been working for the team on Foia and lost some time, and as such i assumed he was not in top form (because i would have assumed the team be working for him instead of the other way around). But as you say, over and underperformances in TT's happen, so on an other day, Van Wilder could have finished 13s closer to Ganna. In fact, the gains in CdA with a custom cockpit would already gain him more than 15s on 30 minutes.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Looks like Martínez will be undertaking the Tour in the leaders role this year.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/dani-martinez-the-main-tour-de-france-focus-for-ineos-no-expectations-on-egan-bernal/

Based on the performance on this race and on some other races in the past. And as Bernal will likely not be 100% this year. Rather understandable.