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It's about time (for me). But he probably thinks it's still too early to show all the cards.

I'm happy yesterday was another 'rest day' because this is the sort of profile I usually don't like. Lots of vertical ascent meters (over 4000), a long stage over 200km & a final 50km which goes up & down repeatedly on some steep gradients.

Fortunately it seems like the weather should be fine, so that's one less thing to worry about. There's likely going to be a big fight for the breakaway (which will mean a super fast start) & then if a GC team starts drilling it, some riders will feel the fatigue in their legs by the end.

What happens today will greatly impact how I view Rog's chances in the coming 10 stages tbh (i.e. if he manages today without time loss versus Pog & Vinge, I'll be very, very happy).
 
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Roglic is now fighting for the podium = 3rd place.

Who cares.

Another year, another dose of misfortune. I'll let others run around posting their predictions for the coming 10 days, i.e. which seems to be all people really care about (is is betting culture or what?).

I don't know who's going to finish 1-2-3.

But I can 'guess' who's going to finish number 1 & that's the same guy who has won it 2 years in a row already. The rest... just doesn't matter to me.

Sad for Rog after all the work he did. I'm also sad his team disintegrated like that.
 
Who cares.

Another year, another dose of misfortune. I'll let others run around posting their predictions for the coming 10 days, i.e. which seems to be all people really care about (is is betting culture or what?).

I don't know who's going to finish 1-2-3.

But I can 'guess' who's going to finish number 1 & that's the same guy who has won it 2 years in a row already. The rest... just doesn't matter to me.

Sad for Rog after all the work he did. I'm also sad his team disintegrated like that.
What misfortune?
 
It's called crashing. I get what you mean though, i.e. he crashed himself so it's somehow not 'misfortune'.

I'll leave that one to the people who enjoy that sort of semantics when it suits a particular opinion.
No, Im not talking about the crash. Thats 20-30 seconds, who cares. If anything, he should feel lucky by what happened on Galibier and the gravel, because he did look better today and ready to fight for a podium.
 
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