52nd Volta ao Algarve em Bicicleta (18-22 February)

[Cycling111]

LIDL flying in this ITT.

 

[Samamba]

My god Seixas, actual alien

 

[Didinho]

Juan one.

 

[RedheadDane]

AYUSO NBT!

 

[Tim Cahill]

I mean I knew his flat tt was 'good' but in more a 'beat Jasper Schoofs' good

 

[Salvarani]

Ayuso!

 

[Rou]

Ayuso baby!
Special shoutout to the bald frauds crew!

 

[postmanhat]

Early season Ayuso is a phenomenon.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

These clowns all peaking too early in a pissing contest in February. Landa gonna drop them all in july.

 

[Salvarani]

Terrible TT from Onley

 

[Samamba]

Disappointing Almeida

 

[Rou]

Bad day for Joao

 

[Cycling111]

Poor ITT for Almeida.
He needs to improve a lot for the Giro.

 

[Samamba]

Terrible TT from Onley

Just his level no? His a smaller guy. He's in between strong rouleurs. Not that special imo. Just maybe not the expected Ineos bump but we need to realize he only got there in december

 

[RedheadDane]

Ayuso pushing it to the edge...

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Aero Arensman did very well.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Almeida risks getting sandwiched between generations, he has it in him to win a GT without the top 2 riders there but I think he will need to do it sooner rather than later.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Current level is completely irrelevant. Also surprisingly his positioning yesterday was really good, it's apparenlty (according to Visbeek) the main reason why they wanted him to do this race, not to get a result but to try to work at positioning in a high level field.

There's just absolutely no reason to conclude anything after today when he obviously did not try at all. Did you see him coming over the finish? This kid is 20y old, just turned prof, wth are people expecting man. Peoples expectations about young riders has gone to absolute *** due to a few guys immediately performing at a very high level.

It's not 'a few guys', the majority of current big names started getting big results in year 1 of their pro career, and Widar deliberately did one more U23 year than was necessary so should be more prepared than most big talents turning pro. So I think it's fair to say that if he isn't getting big results this year, the odds of him becoming one of the big names are already quite slim. Doesn't have to be at every race of course, but this Algarve is not impressive at all.

 

[Cycling111]

Ganna's time trial hadn't seemed so impressive to me, and LIDL has flown in this time trial.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Seixas +12s in 3rd.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Ganna should win this

 

[Berniece]

Seixas peaking too early? We’ll know in April

 

[Samamba]

That's gonna be really really close between Ayuso and Seixas

 

[Cycling111]

Seixas peaking too early? We’ll know in April

It shouldn't matter at this point in his career. But he'll be pressured to go to the Tour and for the podium stories.

 

[Didinho]

Just a bit too long for Ayuso but a strong 2nd place.