Niewiedoma definitely is a shite weather merchant like Pog. Think Lippert often does pretty good as well. But maybe I'm mixing actually good cold and wet resistance up with just being good on wet descents (which these two excell at).
Also the streak of unnecessary riding hard in front of a big group from too far out.
I think she usually doesn't want to wait for when sh.t is really going down, because she lacks a bit of power to follow the Vollerings or Kopeckys... that is, before today. Because in the only race on the calendar that is decided by pure power, and power alone, she suddenly wins.
Well, yes, it's decided by pure power, but it's about a certain 'type' of power, or power in a specific type of circumstances, which she was more suited to and - as Pantani_lives says, is more conducive to the type of efforts mountain bikers put out, hence why you have people like Langvad on the podium back in 2019, PFP winning in 2014 and Jolanda Neff in the top 10 in 2016. You'd think a "pure" power test would mean seeing the likes of Chloe Dygert winning, and nobody really expects to see her on the podium on the Mur.
The Chloe Dygert example makes no sense, because it's about relative power, as in watts per kg. I do see what you mean though, it's more of an explosive effort, but Van der Breggen and Vollering have made it so hard from the bottom in the last few years that it wasn't really about explosiveness anymore. Today Demi tried to do the same, but still Puck prevailed.
Or if her then team had done their job when she crashed.
Don't you mean undergeared? Her cadence was way too high when Puck attacked (don't think she could've beaten Puck, she was very strong Today), fun climb though, way more exciting than the Men's.
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