Chapeau Sagan. He’s not finished yet. I know a Giro stage doesn’t feature that highly in his palmares in objective terms, but that was among his finest and most significant wins.
Yes, no doubt about that!
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Chapeau Sagan. He’s not finished yet. I know a Giro stage doesn’t feature that highly in his palmares in objective terms, but that was among his finest and most significant wins.
The flesh of young hungry 2013 Sagan with his great Porto Sant- Elpidio and De Brabantse Pijl wins which are subjectively among the most significant for me.Chapeau Sagan. He’s not finished yet. I know a Giro stage doesn’t feature that highly in his palmares in objective terms, but that was among his finest and most significant wins.
... He's got the versatility that he should be able to compensate for no longer being hilariously strong by racking up wins on strategy and smarts, as long as he's interested in prolonging his career. I mean, the day he hangs up the cleats is a day I'll cherish, sure, but so long as he wants to keep racing on the road, and he (and his fans) can accept that he has to pick and choose his battles a bit more as he grows older, he's still got plenty of days like this left in him.
He could probably profit from WVA and MVDP rivalry and the fact he is only third strongest in the race.Agree, except the part about being happy about hanging up his cleats... LOL... I really hope he takes a page from Philippe Gilbert's book and scores some big wins in his later career years... Gilbert was able to win Roubaix and Flanders past 35yo. True, it was on the best Classics team in recent years, DQS, but still, there is some hope for Sagan, no matter where he ends up after Bora...
Did you watched the stage today?! I guess not...Ah stop would ya. Some years maybe but nothing about the riders or racing is better in the Giro this year
If he shows up in top form no Van is going to be stronger than him..He could probably profit from WVA and MVDP rivalry and the fact he is only third strongest in the race.
I was just asking the questionYes.
Ok man we get it you are so cool. You're the most realist cycling fanDid you watched the stage today?! I guess not...
Oh and Giro is better every freaking year, not some years...
But the Giro didn’t get to pick the optimal calendar slot when transmission rates in Europe were at their lowest. Was assumed rates would start increasing agin in the fall, though the rate of increase is more rapid than expected.Shame for Klerenhanger, he's really experiencing the Covid season (not all that 'cause of the virus, to be clear).
The Mitchelton guys could've also featured in the coming stages, but the situation there's somewhat different.
Tour's bubble beats the Giro bubble.
Pogacar's gap at the Tour was 1:25 to Roglic after stage 7 and 1:28 to Yates. He won by 0:59 over Roglic in the end, making up 2:24.
GCN commies really overselling this stage as one of the races of the century
Being fresh and being less fresh changes Pozzo's maximum attacking W from 350 to 349.5W
For a Sagan fan (which many people are) it certainly is up there. If you don't care much about him, it isn't.