"They should have stayed on his wheel - they can't let him go." "If they co-operate, they can catch him." Too many cycling fans live in the past and delude themselves into thinking that it's still the small margins that decide races at the highest level. It isn't. It wasn't in Zürich neither, and it wasn't today.
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Best debut possible in the rainbow jersey for Tadej Pogačar, he is simply on another league especially in bad weather. In spite of his utter dominance its still better than watching the Sky train up the Tour mountains or having no attacks until the last kilometer.
Great ride from Lipowitz but the last lap was sadly a bit too much for him. Pidcock with a really good second place, he will be an outsider for Lombardia. Piganzoli and Adrià also with strong performances.
Great ride from Lipowitz but the last lap was sadly a bit too much for him. Pidcock with a really good second place, he will be an outsider for Lombardia. Piganzoli and Adrià also with strong performances.
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Only 53 riders finished. Roglic also DNF
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Only 53 riders finished. Roglic also DNF
2024 Giro dell'Emilia
The 2024 Giro dell'Emilia was won by Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates.
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Literally every mountain stage in the Tour unfolded this way mate.
Emilia was always good in the Sky era.
How many of the MTFs in the Sky Tours had no attacks until the last km?
How often did the Sky train actually choke races more than this?
There were too many boring days, but let's not pretend it was always and only boring. 2013 & 2015 were much more exciting than this.
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Only 53 riders finished. Roglic also DNF
2024 Giro dell'Emilia
The 2024 Giro dell'Emilia was won by Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates.
A kid with a bright future!
Was Nairo truly ever young? I mean he looked 50 even when he wore the white jersey way back when!
In this year's Tour riders actually attacked during the final climb while back in the Sky days, Froome just killed the race the first MTF and in the TT while barely anything happened in the remaining mountain stages.
Of course that I am biased but at least now riders dare to attack more and this is also true for riders that I don't like such as Vingegaard.
I'll take 2023 before Sky and 2024 any day of the week.
All in all, I also still ranked the Tour this year above (or on level with) the 2015 Tour. I made my point clear:
Yeah, fair enough. I really also do hope that Vingegaard can be able to match Pog next year because even if I like the guy, I also get fatigued and bored of this dominance.
I will, however, maintain that in Zurich, it could have been a suicide mission if the others had reacted a little sooner and Remco had had his best legs.
I wasn't aware of the fact that Pogi's races had the same prizes as the ones I race in.
He needs that 3-5kg of lean muscle mass first. He's been around long enough now to see, that he's not one of those skinny mosquitos, that ride at the pointy end of longer stage races in various conditions. He's not one of those 64-68kg riders that are ruling there. Too skinny these days.
He didn't attack though. He just hit the front and the rest just gave up.
I'll disappoint you. An attack in the middle of Sormano around 50 km from the line.
If Pogacar eats all that ham, Evenepoel can win Lombardia.
Psychological warfare (i.e. Pogi riding on the front scarring everyone into a freeze) counts as attacking, it's just more subtle.
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