I don't doubt it was as good. There was just no terrible weather that he thrives in and Vingegaard was better.
I think going hard on 2 stages having after effects the entire rest of the race is just pure grasping for straws. It's seeking for reasons starting with the conclusion that healthy Pogacar is invincible.
It's just I don't think 3 minutes reflected the real level difference between them (due to the factors I mentioned). It's also true that in 2021 the real difference between them was less than 5 minutes (bad weather plus Vinge's fall clearly upped Pog's advantage).
Remco had a good UAE race and did pretty much what all projected. He doesn't appear to be peaking early and can probably lean out. That's good for him. As for Primoz; we don't know his form yet and will find out soon, hopefully. The Giro will reveal some form but to presume he will never win the Tour is conjecture. Save for race-ending crashes he could have won several already. His blow-up in the TT to Pogi could've been the "bad day" that cost him another.
To the bolded, I wrote after the Giro and against those two it won't happen, if you read my posts carefully. That's a bit different from saying he'd never win the Tour, but with the latest crop and his age, I'm becoming skeptical. His year was 2020 and unfortunately he lost. However, if he should win I will give him a standing ovation. Seriously
In Horner's comparison his Vuelta = Rogla's Giro and his form at the worlds (which he said was even better than his form at any point at the Vuelta) = Rogla's form at the Tour.
Yes, but doing the Giro before the Tour is not like doing the Vuelta before Worlds. To win the Giro-Tour is monstrous, the Vuelta-Worlds within the program since 95.
Yes, of course it is more difficult to do the Giro-Tour double, but at least he has a chance to be at the start of the Tour in good shape. Also, there is more time between the end of the Giro and the start of the Tour then between the end of the Vuelta and the start of the Worlds (I do not know if this is good or bad).
Hahaha, at least they will not be bothering him with making promotional videos for such products in the future.
Are you sure that he's promoting it?
What a guy.
Gianetti said that pogacar was at the same level or even better than 2021 and 2020, except for the stage's granon.
This is vintage Rogla
I think the obsession with climbing numbers has gotten a bit much. Especially in these grasphs where often a riders best performances can be days where they got like 5th and the entire field was just super fast, yet their big climbing win is somehow a weak performance. And it completely misses strategy as well. And it gets super silly when you start including consecutive climb in one trendline. And it has a huge bias to super low altitude climbs.
It's part of the Big Data trend as providing more quantification in all fields (not only sports, but labor, industry) as equating more objectivity in performance and training. I think it's just the beginning. Teams and viewers in the future will likely have access to live wattage output of every rider. Still, they will miss the mark.
Please absolutely don't fall into this part of Horner's vanity. His Vuelta was aberrant for many reasons and most in the PNW know why.
Thank you. The obsession with numbers began with quality training and documentation and has that place. It aids strategy and prescriptions for rider recovery.
Roglic has finished two GTs back to back once when he was younger and not as beat up/injured. He also went from Tour to Vuelta and Giro to Vuelta in the two times he’s completed two GTs in the same year, instead of Giro to Tour which is a lot harder to pull off.
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