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Also, Fortunato did not as bad as feared. Just outside the stage top 30.
It wasn't exactly good, but it could have been a lot worse, looking at Rubio or Lopez for instance. Had it been 30s faster, i would have said it was a good TT for him. Yet if you told him he'd finish less than a minute from Thomas and Bjerg before the start of the TT, he would have been ecstatic.
Similar length of effort as Combloux, but less steep.
Vingegaard did the climb in 13'31" (26.9 km/h) and took 1'07" on Pogi and 1'30" on Bilbao.
Pogi did this climb in 12'14" (32.4 km/h) and took 32" on Martinez and 35" on O'Connor.
Ok, well, Vingegaard was also the most outlandish ITT performance since at least Indurain.
Congratulations to Pogacar, great win. Probably one of his top 5 perfomances ever (still think LPDBF TT was his best perfomance ever).
I didn't expected looking at the profile, that the last climb was so difficult, so i didn't expected that Pogacar would recover the 47 plus 17 on Ganna, but the last climb was really difficult, so the route of this TT suited more Pogacar than i thought.
I didn't expected looking at the profile, that the last climb was so difficult, so i didn't expected that Pogacar would recover the 47 plus 17 on Ganna, but the last climb was really difficult, so the route of this TT suited more Pogacar than i thought.
Ineos DS conceding Pog is hard to beat, was careful not to say too much about G's performance today.
Maybe expecting too much from Thomas now. After all he's almost 40. Still a decent ride. Plapp was surprising after yesterday and O'Connor had one of his best TT's. Ganna knew he was done with 3 kms to go. Pogacar was flying up the hill. Top 10 shake up as expected.
Fatigue is the big difference I think. And I do believe Pogacar isn't at the level of the TdF last year.
Even if they understood still not worth itNo one understands what Jens is saying, so not worth translating
Think G will still podium as he is a tough old bird and will bounce back
Top 5 TT performances behind PDBF and Combloux and possibly 1-2 other Tour ones, but not in my top 10 overall
I know we probably shouldn't compare results from completely different TTs but it's crazy how every time someone puts that Colomboux TT into a different context Vingegaards performance looks more insane than the last time.
I was talking about the best perfomances of Pogacar in his career. Overall i agree, unless i misunderstood what you said, sorry.
Anyone have the time splits from the Bergen WC and perhaps the Ezaro Vuelta ITT?
Actually it's kinda more similar to Planche de Belles Filles with a much easier climb.
Last split was the stuff of legends,
Good TTs from DFM, if he can keep it together for 3 weeks he can podium.
Good TTs from DFM, if he can keep it together for 3 weeks he can podium.
yeah, finished pretty much in the middle of those still in the GC picture. Not everyone went full out, I guess, but still not too bad:
| 1. | POGAČAR Tadej | 51:44 |
| 4. | ARENSMAN Thymen | 52:44 |
| 7. | PLAPP Luke | 53:29 |
| 8. | MARTÍNEZ Daniel Felipe | 53:33 |
| 10. | THOMAS Geraint | 53:44 |
| 11. | O'CONNOR Ben | 53:51 |
| 13. | LUTSENKO Alexey | 54:07 |
| 15. | ZANA Filippo | 54:18 |
| 18. | BARDET Romain | 54:34 |
| 20. | UIJTDEBROEKS Cian | 54:39 |
| 28. | STEINHAUSER Georg | 54:51 |
| 30. | PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien | 55:14 |
| 33. | FORTUNATO Lorenzo | 55:21 |
| 34. | PIGANZOLI Davide | 55:36 |
| 37. | HIRT Jan | 55:53 |
| 38. | LÓPEZ Juan Pedro | 56:01 |
| 41. | RUBIO Einer | 56:04 |
| 42. | BAUDIN Alex | 56:07 |
| 45. | STORER Michael | 56:09 |
| 46. | POZZOVIVO Domenico | 56:17 |
| 51. | VANSEVENANT Mauri | 56:31 |
| 67. | CHAVES Esteban | 57:11 |
| 79. | COVILI Luca | 57:33 |
| 98. | CONCI Nicola | 58:09 |
I feel everyone in the top 15 has a chance for a top 5, maybe even a podium. Weird race
Too soon to panic like that. They need to see if they can move up on GC by attrition first, I think.
Here's the final section of the Mirador de Ezaro TT. The final split wasn't right at the bottom of the climb though so this includes about 7km of flat roads.
| # | RIDER | TIME | BEHIND | AVG. SPEED |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ROGLIČ Primož | 16.05,28 | 16:05 | 34.311 |
| 2 | MARTIN Dan | 16.21,80 | 0:17 | 33.734 |
| 3 | BARTA Will | 16.22,77 | 0:18 | 33.701 |
| 4 | CARTHY Hugh | 16.29,11 | 0:24 | 33.485 |
| 5 | CATTANEO Mattia | 16.30,56 | 0:26 | 33.436 |
| 6 | POELS Wout | 16.31,30 | ,, | 33.411 |
| 7 | OLIVEIRA Nelson | 16.31,47 | ,, | 33.405 |
| 8 | SOLER Marc | 16.32,60 | 0:28 | 33.367 |
| 9 | CHAMPOUSSIN Clément | 16.38,78 | 0:34 | 33.160 |
| 10 | ARMIRAIL Bruno | 16.41,60 | 0:37 | 33.067 |
For Bergen I can only find the splits in the final result sheet. If I'm reading it correctly the top 5 seem to be:
1. Roglic
2. Dumoulin +5
3. Dennis +11
4. Tratnik + 24
5. Roche +27
...
9. Froome +30
| Top-15 in GC by GC order | Time to T1 | Time from T1 to T2 | Time from T2 to Finish | Total time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pogi | 21'59" | 17'31" | 12'14" | 51'44" |
| Martinez | +40" | +37" | +32" | +149" |
| Thomas | +08" | +32" | +1'20" | +2'00" |
| O'Connor | +42" | +50" | +35" | +2'07" |
| Plapp | +05" | +28" | +1'12" | +1'45" |
| Lutsenko | +41" | +45" | +57" | +2'23" |
| Uijtdebroeks | +57" | +59" | +59" | +2'55" |
| Tiberi | +23" | +18" | +40" | +1'21" |
| Zana | +39" | +43" | +1'12" | +2'34" |
| Fortunato | +1'12" | +1'21" | +1'04" | +3'37" |
| Arensman | -12" | +12" | +1'00" | +1'00" |
| Rubio | +1'11" | +1'25" | +1'44" | +4'20" |
| Hirt | +1'34" | +1'21" | +1'14" | +4'09" |
| Bardet | +102" | +1'00" | +48" | +2'50" |
| Juampe | +1'09" | +1'22" | +1'46" | +4'17" |
the gearing may have played a part there as well, I guess? Thomas apparently was using a 66 tooth chainring.
Plapp said that they tried bigger ones during the recon, but came to the conclusion that you can't go any bigger than 56 (if I remember correctly).
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