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Maybe he can get back to the peloton on the long decline. Behind by about a minute, now.Yeah Groenewegen dropped. It took 3 minutes of De Plus pulling lmao.
Nice countryside.
Altitude probably.Very lush today. Yesterday seemed a bit more arid.
Are you confusing fat with obese?I don't think it's particularly educated nor humorous to say "lol, he fat" when somebody is dropped. I don't think Groenewegen is the best climber, either, but I rather doubt that an elite professional cyclist has a BMI of above 30 which is the definition of fat (especially when the fat percentage is high).
I also don't think that a split second error in judgment should merit life-long mocking. If he hadn't shown any remorse, sure, but he seems much more careful in the battle for position and in the sprints now than before.
Why is EF working?
Van Aert, sorry, you understand meVan Avermaet? That's the most random mention I've seen in years. Unless, of course, you're just continuing the Froome trolling
ha ha.... but why not let Ineos and JV do it all?Quinn did pretty well yesterday...
I'm not sure the ASO thinks super much in terms of too much climbing for a mountain stage. They still do stages with about 3 HC climbs every once in a while. The problem with these tends to be not that there's not enough climbing, but that too often it's just Madeleine/Galbier > Croix de Fer/Glandon > AdH.@Red Rick the best thing to do what you want to do would probably be adding Col du Chaussy right before Glandon, but I doubt that ASO would go for something like this, too many climbs for a realistic modern day ASO stage...
https://www.cronoescalada.com/tracks/view/804899