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Thomas says that the wind wasn't a big deal. He tried to negative split but didn't have it
Was it? 10 kph faster than Pogacar on the climb, if he keeps it this way he's gonna put hours into the slovenian boy in the coming mountains
Even if it's 2kg difference, that's only like a 3% difference for mainly a 4 minute climbing section, after which you get to be on TT bars again.
IIRC, one of the big reasons Pog did the bike change in the Combloux ITT was that he hadn't been able to train on his ITT bike much.
Tomorrow the riders not named Pogacar should attack to gain time on Thomas.
Interviewed him ...he was happy enough with ride but wants to do better in TTs
Bardet lost only 43 seconds to O’Connor and a minute to Martinez. Good TT by his standards, but he has some catching up to do.
Actually if you are riding based on numbers you are exactly not pacing yourself, but letting yourself be paced. So if you're used to only that, and not to listen to your body, pacing yourself must indeed be difficult.
There seems to be something wrong with Ries' avg. speed there, unless those 57.28 is actually his HCT level.
PIGANZOLI Davide 13.31 22 29.297
CONCI Nicola 14.31 63 27.279
PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien 13.34 24 29.189
TIBERI Antonio 12.54 4 30.698
STEINHAUSER Georg 13.14 12 29.924
POZZOVIVO Domenico 13.30 21 29.333
BARDET Romain 13.02 7 30.384
NARVÁEZ Jhonatan 14.34 69 27.185
ZANA Filippo 13.26 16 29.479
PLAPP Luke 13.26 17 29.479
VANSEVENANT Mauri 14.02 41 28.219
BAUDIN Alex 13.35 25 29.153
STORER Michael 13.41 30 28.940
O'CONNOR Ben 12.49 3 30.897
CHAVES Esteban 13.53 33 28.523
LUTSENKO Alexey 13.11 8 30.038
HIRT Jan 13.28 19 29.406
LÓPEZ Juan Pedro 14.00 38 28.286
FORTUNATO Lorenzo 13.18 15 29.774
RUBIO Einer 13.58 36 28.353
UIJTDEBROEKS Cian 13.13 10 29.962
MARTÍNEZ Daniel Felipe 12.46 2 31.018
THOMAS Geraint 13.34 23 29.189
POGAČAR Tadej 12.14 1 32.371
This how Pogačar will also gain huge time in GC, i.e. the riders who're closest to him in the first week might not be the ones who're closest in week 3.
If Thomas sinks here & let's say Arensman is stronger from now on, then it'll only contribute to widening that gap in GC - even without Pog doing anything too crazy to build his lead.
So gc Zana?
With Dunbar out of the picture and Plapp not being that great on multi mountain stages he could stay inside the top 10 in the gc.
With Dunbar out of the picture and Plapp not being that great on multi mountain stages he could stay inside the top 10 in the gc.
Had to step out as Pog was finishing his TT. Please assure me that Rob Hatch said "he's not Ganna do it'
It’s a real bummer that he was sick at the start of the Giro—I think he would have a good shot at a podium.
My preference is he goes for stages. Plapp will ride to watts in any climbing stages.
Oh oooh..The Jensie "Pogcars win is safe and certain" for the Giro
GC wins at the Dauphine, Itzulia and Algarve in the last four years. It's going to be an interesting day tomorrow, for those behind Pogacar.
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