But Contador, except for the 2009 Tour TT that he won against Cancellara, was never up against this lot. Still, Remco crushed it. Imagine, in this day and age, of Evenepole never wins the Tour, which is entirely possible. O mores, o tempora!
On the steepest part of the climb, Remco posts 1:49 and Pogi 1:56.
Strava has it's...inconsistencies, let's say, but if accurate, very good times for Remco.
Partial leaderboard:
I can't remember the last time Pogacar was overtaken on a climb by more than three rider.
Strava rides are linked above, if you're a member you can poke through the various segments and see the breakdown. Not sure it'll give you what you're looking for, but maybe.
From the linked site:Race Analysis : Critérium du Dauphiné - Watts2Win
The ultimate database of cycling performancewatts2win.eu
Wattstowin has Vingegaard roughly the same time on the climb.
He and the team admitted a too-conservative pacing strategy. I'm sure he got the message from the car once they had some gap data from roadside staff. He conceded 27 seconds to Remco's pace before the hill. That's bad and a 17km route doesn't give much opportunity to correct that gap without blowing up. At least he had a reasonable pace on the hill but Remco was pretty much flawless to watch and gone by then: Zero wasted energy and fluid pacing. Great to watch. Saw some of Matteo's climb and it was very settled with little out of saddle effort.No. Pogacar at his level, not even the best, would never be beaten by Lenny and Jorgenson.
All at once are at the same level as Pogacar
It´s a bad ITT.
It seems so obvious to me that I don't know if you're serious or trolling
If we'd been told before the race that Pogacar would have a worse climb than Lenny and Jorgenson, we'd think he was sick or had some problem. Now, it's normal for everyone to be at Pogacar's level without this implying poor performance of Pogacar
And this after reading for months that Pogacar is boring because he is so superior to almost everyone.
Probably his increased aggression on the hill set his effort to the finish. Too little too late. If he's not leading before a TT stage he's got to be aggressive early and force others to do the same. That assumes he suffers less for the start and still leaves room for acceleration.
Many funny stories about some Colnago contract anomalies, I read that after UAE group took controlling interest in Colnago bicycles that Ernesto and company would not allow signature stencil to be used on new era bikes!!Giannetti waking up Ernesto Colnago to get to work on the TT bike
thelatzreport.com.au
Seems like an uncomfortable bike affects the start more than later, from my experience. Once he's in the Red zone he has to know what his max output feels like. Then you just throw down what you've got.
All the top riders make qualifying comments, "I want to see where I am at before tour to get idea ,get dialed in,".. most are making it sound like winning this 8 stage race is an afterthought, don't know if I believe all... It's not important, not the end of the world humble stuff..
To the bolded, yeah, he lost time to Roglic on that short rise in the initial Giro 2023 TT, if I remember correctly, in which he otherwise excelled. But I want to see Remco on HC climbs against Jonas and Tadej, before there is reason to believe.
If he didn't see the frames in time to get a specific setup; UAE f*cked up. That's like F1 pit crews saying: "we're going with the hard tires for each stint. They last longer! And Brawndo got 'Lectrolites!"Many funny stories about some Colnago contract anomalies, I read that after UAE group took controlling interest in Colnago bicycles that Ernesto and company would not allow signature stencil to be used on new era bikes!!
He probably spit up his drink when he saw the new frames!!Colnago, Italy’s Iconic Brand, Sold to Abu Dhabi Investment Fund - The Latz Report
Abu Dhabi fund, Chimera Investments LLC, has announced the acquisition of the majority of Colnago’s shares. In their statement, the fund, which is headed by Dubai’s royal family and also owns the UAE Emirates Team World Tour pro cycling team that is equipped with Colnago bikes, publicly thanked...
This TT he was able to stay in the seated TT position, somewhat higher on the bars. It works: you slide forward and pull up on the extensions at higher rpm. Stay seated as much as possible; especially if there is wind. You try not to get up until the descent when you can drop into bigger gears, lower cadence to get the pulse to go back down.
interesting that Buitrago didn't make that list - according to his Strava, he was 20s slower than Martinez on the climb - and still delivered a pretty good result. His time trialing must have improved quite a lot.From the linked site:
For a few years the same investment group that controlled Mavic name also had Louisville Slugger!!!American consumers are easy to wind up..for years baseball gloves and balls were made in Haiti.. Then moved, Costa Rica is majority maker of quality baseballs.
After Pogacar semi complained that they had to burn too many guys to keep the gap under control. And Boro hit the bonus by getting a quality racer up the road. Lots of losers but EF should just go home, I hope they go for broke soon, even if they send Esteban Chavez, 35, showing little, contract is up 2025..just go already.. Gotta respect the Romain Bardet camp for sending him often, guy is trying..
From the linked site:
Paul sounds like 18 years old of serious Dynamite. We've got Romeo and a few others that continue the Dauphine revelations.
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