Okay, sorry for the title (no way I mean that).
But okay, he really does deserve a thread (apparently a U23 title in Bergen was not enough to trigger the U23 connoisseurs among the thread starters).
I don't think he rode the Tour to the optimum of his chances. He could have been winning stages but instead fought a silly dotted dream.
Now we come to his real playground, though, and I'm curious to see him in tomorrow's Flèche Wallonne. He is extremely punchy and last year he was running in the front five until he finally cracked and faded out of the top ten. He also had a very strong showing in GP de Montréal where he was on the attack with Alaphilippe, whom he resembles quite a bit.
In the Tour and the Dauphiné he was climbing quite badly but during the Tour he actually did begin to last longer on the mountains and last year he was flying after the Tour so it will be interesting to see if that tendency will continue into the Ardennes after he forwent (okay, is that seriously how you conjugate that in the past tense) the Worlds.
But okay, he really does deserve a thread (apparently a U23 title in Bergen was not enough to trigger the U23 connoisseurs among the thread starters).
I don't think he rode the Tour to the optimum of his chances. He could have been winning stages but instead fought a silly dotted dream.
Now we come to his real playground, though, and I'm curious to see him in tomorrow's Flèche Wallonne. He is extremely punchy and last year he was running in the front five until he finally cracked and faded out of the top ten. He also had a very strong showing in GP de Montréal where he was on the attack with Alaphilippe, whom he resembles quite a bit.
In the Tour and the Dauphiné he was climbing quite badly but during the Tour he actually did begin to last longer on the mountains and last year he was flying after the Tour so it will be interesting to see if that tendency will continue into the Ardennes after he forwent (okay, is that seriously how you conjugate that in the past tense) the Worlds.