That’s a bit of a self-referencing valuation, isn’t it? “Other than the 3 wins by the dominant sprinter in the race, who also happens to be the dominant sprinter on the WT this season, the sprinting’s been poor.” Sagan’s been picking up the same top 5s in Italy as he did in France (until today, obv).
Sagan hasn’t been picking up the same top 5s. He’s been the clear number 2 sprinter. His only real rival for second fastest sprinter here, and clear number three, has been Michael Matthews. After that it has just been random guys mixed around each day. Neither Sagan nor Matthews has won a single big bunch sprint this season. Or in a year and a half in fact. In any level of race. Am I supposed to consider that strong competition because there are also in theory very fast sprinters in the field who are rolling in 12th?
As for dominant WT sprinter, at the risk of being further assumed to be running down a rider I have in fact liked and regularly cheered for for years, I should point out that Demare’s last WT win before this Giro was also a year and a half ago.
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I think the aversion to sprint stages is based on concern the GT won't be completed.
So your point is that like always have been many flat stages so then is what always should be.
LOL
The truth is the vast majority of people dont like flat stages like this so the less of them the better.
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Sagan time. Matthews gone home and wasn't getting that close anyway. Demare for second............
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Maybe not the toughest sprint but still he had to work for it. Suddenly WT races dont count for a victory and sprints are not sprints if the gap is not 0.01 sec on the line.
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But it wasn't a bunch sprint! And that was what Zinoviev wrote.
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Think I haven't seen as low odds before as on today's favourite 
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Are you talking about me?
Zinoviev wrote that Matthews hadn't won a bunch sprint in more than a year and a half.
Then you wrote that he had won the Bretagne Classic.
Which he did but it wasn't from a bunch sprint.
I don't really know how my posts don't make sense. You know what a bunch sprint is, right?
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Quite a dull break, but it obviously won't last anyway. Androni, Bardiani and Vino Fantomo wil get some screen time.
Why can't Bongiorno get selected for the Giro? He always seemed like a welcoming rider.
Why can't Bongiorno get selected for the Giro? He always seemed like a welcoming rider.
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Ninja of the Giro so far : Haimar Pernsteiner
Yes, but the element of fatigue is often blurred by many other things. Like Banal's back problems.
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According to PCS he only turned pro when he was 26. What was he doing beforehand?
He also seems to be a ninja as far as google is concerned.
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Mountainbiking, iirc. Then he made the top ten out of nowhere in the Österreich Rundfahrt and continued from there.
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