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Cycling111

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Here we go already, Paret-Peintre and that small-minded, potato-tactic team are already frying again. I just can't be arsed to take their small-minded, potato mentality seriously.
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Pogacar isn't Del Toro, but I still see a mistake in UAE not putting anyone in the break.

Pogacar could have a bad day, or Vingegaard could attack with Van Aert ahead, and the UAE could have no one like they did at the Granon.

They need to improve that.
Today's fine because it's the Dauphine, and it's a preparation race to learn from mistakes. But in the Tour, they can't afford for Visma to put domestiques in the break, and they don´t.
 
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Pogacar isn't Del Toro, but I still see a mistake in UAE not putting anyone in the break.

Pogacar could have a bad day, or Vingegaard could attack with Van Aert ahead, and the UAE could have no one like they did at the Granon.

They need to improve that.
Today's fine because it's the Dauphine, and it's a preparation race to learn from mistakes. But in the Tour, they can't afford for Visma to put domestiques in the break, and they don´t.
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Yeah, yeah. Their pure climbers aren't even here let the others have something of a candle to spark I mean they got zero hope, and it's really not important. Take it up with someone else, please this topic talking about this in relation to him and his team feels like a waste of time to me with all due respect, I assume you watched the team last year and Politt after Dauphine dropped half the Peloton...so any worrie is well yeah to me misplaced context and waste of time, come Tour its gonne be how ridicilous Almeida is just wait, their pure climbers arent even here, im not into the emotional part very much and this is all that. I appreciate the enthusiasm, though; I just think it's misplaced in this context. It's not relevant in my head. Yesterday, Wellens and Narvaez isolated the entire field—the same rules don't apply to Pogi, let's be real.

Besides im hate-watcing here I dont got time for this
 
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they've both had some truly bad TTs as well

One thing that 2 long flat ITTs would do is make Vingo and Pog come in 1-2kg heavier for TT power. Would that affect their climbing times? Or would they concede minutes in the ITTs and trust they would gain them back in the mountains?
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If TTs were longer then Remco might have to adjust his condition accordingly - possibly losing effectiveness in the mountains. There's always going to be a trade-off. At the moment he's optimised for shorter TTs

What made Indurain so remarkable was his dominance in TTs and for 6 Tours he was unbreakable in the mountains.

I think a better chance for Remco would be the the organizers one year throwing in a really easy course - with just a couple of summit finishes. The days of 60km TTs seem to be long gone.
 
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If TTs were longer then Remco might have to adjust his condition accordingly - possibly losing effectiveness in the mountains. There's always going to be a trade-off. At the moment he's optimised for shorter TTs

What made Indurain so remarkable was his dominance in TTs and for 6 Tours he was unbreakable in the mountains.

I think a better chance for Remco would be the the organizers one year throwing in a really easy course - with just a couple of summit finishes. The days of 60km TTs seem to be long gone.
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true

Remco may eat Ullrich before the TDF and race at 85kg with a TT heavy course, LOL
 
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James M said:
Ivan Romeo, just like Vacek, is a super gem for the future.

The guy has a big, big engine, along with Super Saiyan-level outright power numbers—both for 40-second spurts and 3-minute efforts,combined with a big engine, the guy gonne have a bright bright future. Ivan Romeo been on my bingo card all year of intrigueing riders to watch, love to see it Ivan. Taking big steps wasnt surprising just like Vacek giving how he ended the year. I want more lvl up relative to others in the future too.
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Haven't checked, but his thread title SHOULD be:

"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"
 
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Cycling111 said:
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Tim Cahill said:
Quickstep, specifically the likes of Casper Pedersen and Pascal Eenkhoorn have offended me by chasing down a Benjamin Thomas+misc French randomers move for no apparent reason yesterday, leaving Lidl with all their leadout.

I usually quite like the kid Evenepoel but when he dropped today I couldn't help but crack a smile. Serves him right, that one was for Benjamin.

Unchained seems to have taken a specific dislike to EF for some reason, we have been getting several paragraph rants every day about the ins and outs of how they rode the stage. Though Baudin was quite good today so he might not be as upset.
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James M said:
Unchained dislikes EF? Okay, okay respectable work between you two there, love to see it.

Alright, alright, I take it further for my part and go with Quick-Step, in general then, seems like an easy target and a W to me. Seriously, screw them and their small-minded potato tactics.
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Context for you since im sure it wasnt easy to get. just a fun thing not serious stuff. Especially since the coverage isn't even live, which I find wild given that it's the weekend.
 
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