Buchmann is the revelation of the Tour so far. Very impressive indeed has flown under the radar but people are finally waking up to him. Hopefully he is good over 2,000 metres we are about to find out.
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Cance > TheRest said:So he kept the level through the race. And seems satisfied about it.
But I think he was better than Kruijswijk in the mountains (1 minute if you count his gains over Kruijswijk in the mountains) and maybe he should've tried a little bit more to shake him off. Probably, not knowing how he'd respond in the high mountains meant that he held back a little bit at times.
Turned out that Muhlberger was able to climb better in the last 2 days than most of the domestiques you had mentioned.Leinster said:He’s on his own. Even Alaphilippe will have Mas if he recovers. Pinot has Gaudu, Kruiswijk has DePlus and Bennett, Bernal and Thomas have each other and Poels. Once the others start to consider Buchmann a threat (and they haven’t so far) they’ll start looking for a way to work him over.
True, a great ride by Muhlberger, which I was not expecting. Then again, there were a lot of factors since that post that I was not expecting.Anderis said:Turned out that Muhlberger was able to climb better in the last 2 days than most of the domestiques you had mentioned.Leinster said:He’s on his own. Even Alaphilippe will have Mas if he recovers. Pinot has Gaudu, Kruiswijk has DePlus and Bennett, Bernal and Thomas have each other and Poels. Once the others start to consider Buchmann a threat (and they haven’t so far) they’ll start looking for a way to work him over.
Leinster said:Also, as good as Buchmann’s performance was, he never really became a threat to the others. Hopefully in future Tours he can threaten, but this year he mostly survived longer and better than anyone.
Kämna, Mühlberger and maybe even Fabbro would be good climbing domestiques, the first 2 have more potential than Konrad when it comes to the high mountains.Buchmann´s race programm for 2020 until the tour will more or less be the same like last year.
He will start with the Mallorca Challenge, then race the UAE Tour, Basque, Romandie and then the Dauphine.
Hope he will be as good (or better) then this year. Hope he will get a strong team at the tour so that he can ride a bit more offensive and will have more tactical options then this year.
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I think Germany will nominate Buchmann for the olympics, too. But the problem for Buchmann to win a race like the Olympics is that he lacks on sprint capabilities, which will be important in the end. The best oportunities for Germany in the olympics will have Schachmann, I think.Also, do we know something about Germany's selection for Olympics and Worlds? I heard Martin will not go to Japan.. Schachmann should be set for TT and RR, I assume Emu will also do the RR?