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Lequack said:Damnit! Hopefully he can recover and continue, although his GC chances are now gone. At least maybe he can go for the stages, unless they chain him to Kruijswijk.
johnymax said:Lequack said:Damnit! Hopefully he can recover and continue, although his GC chances are now gone. At least maybe he can go for the stages, unless they chain him to Kruijswijk.
His GC chances were never there. He had no chance at a podium, that's a given IMO. Maybe for a top15, but that doesn't matter. It's better to be there for Kruiswijk in the mountains and if given a chance go for a stage win. I just wanted him to survive till the first hills and maybe try to grab maglia rosa for a couple of days. I think that'd be bigger achievement for LottoNL than making a top10 with Steven. Oh well, now that's gone. I just hope he can continue and that he isn't affected by the crash.
LottoNL's definition of an achievement is a Zubeldia-style top 10.johnymax said:His GC chances were never there. He had no chance at a podium, that's a given IMO. Maybe for a top15, but that doesn't matter. It's better to be there for Kruiswijk in the mountains and if given a chance go for a stage win. I just wanted him to survive till the first hills and maybe try to grab maglia rosa for a couple of days. I think that'd be bigger achievement for LottoNL than making a top10 with Steven. Oh well, now that's gone. I just hope he can continue and that he isn't affected by the crash.
Me back in February. Let's hope that losing early time means a bit of freedom when the road goes uphill. If he can stay with the favourites on a couple of mountain stages and chooses wisely on a couple of stages to get up the road because he's not so tightly marked, that could well play out. Primož Roglič - GPM winner - you heard it here firstLibertine Seguros said:Primož has been somebody who deserved the step up for a while now, he's shown great climbing chops in pretty much everything he's entered. A lot of ski jumpers also XC ski in their youth before specialising (you often get Nordic Combined athletes out of that) so it's quite possible he had some background in endurance sport from that, but obviously ski jumping was his modus operandi. He'd obviously outgrown Adria Mobil, and it's quite a pleasant surprise to see a Slovene talent in recent years not go to the top via Lampre. Lotto Jumbo is a gamble, but he should at least get a bit of freedom there. My hope is that he can impact his first GT in the Arredondo kind of way, don't ask him to do too much for GC but let him animate the mountains. He's got something, let him show it that way rather than hanging on to the rear of the favourites group until he's got a couple years' more experience...
That's it. Otherwise they'd target stage wins and / or the blue jersey with Kruijswijk instead.CheckMyPecs said:LottoNL's definition of an achievement is a Zubeldia-style top 10.johnymax said:His GC chances were never there. He had no chance at a podium, that's a given IMO. Maybe for a top15, but that doesn't matter. It's better to be there for Kruiswijk in the mountains and if given a chance go for a stage win. I just wanted him to survive till the first hills and maybe try to grab maglia rosa for a couple of days. I think that'd be bigger achievement for LottoNL than making a top10 with Steven. Oh well, now that's gone. I just hope he can continue and that he isn't affected by the crash.
One swallow does not a summer make.Dekker_Tifosi said:Wait, you're discussing LottoNL as a boring style team while we've just seen Tjallingii on the attack in the first days and getting the blue jersey.
Today, however, the crash was in front of me, and I flew over the handlebars, At first I could not breathe, I am bruised all over my – I’ve been worse, but I was also much better. One of my teammates waited for me, we dragged ourselves to the finish line, otherwise I do not know how I would finish. They say that the one that never fought is truly defeated, so I am staying optimistic about the next days; although the 10K ride to the finish was like the route of suffering. When I type this I am covered with ice, to relieve the pain, I will not sleep today, that is sure, and thinking about that, in our sport you are often defeated and on the ground (literally), a Chinese proverb says that greatness lies in the act of always picking yourself up and not that you never fall… Ah grande Giro – one day you are almost maglia rosa, the next day you hit the ground.
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Today, however, the crash was in front of me, and I flew over the handlebars, At first I could not breathe, I am bruised all over my – I’ve been worse, but I was also much better. One of my teammates waited for me, we dragged ourselves to the finish line, otherwise I do not know how I would finish. They say that the one that never fought is truly defeated, so I am staying optimistic about the next days; although the 10K ride to the finish was like the route of suffering. When I type this I am covered with ice, to relieve the pain, I will not sleep today, that is sure, and thinking about that, in our sport you are often defeated and on the ground (literally), a Chinese proverb says that greatness lies in the act of always picking yourself up and not that you never fall… Ah grande Giro – one day you are almost maglia rosa, the next day you hit the ground.
kareeem said:He finished in the group with Viviani 16 minutes behind.