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Thought I saw Kaden Groves in the group, doesn't seem to be feeling the pedals on these climbs, going to clean up if he's doing the Vuelta against the Spanish Club scene again.
He needs to pull himself together if he doesn't want to destroy his stat of winning at least a stage in all his Grand Tours.
He's been unlucky in that all the hilly sprint stages haven't been hard enough to drop Milan (who is no Kittel) and all the hilly stages have been too hard for Groves. Maybe third week he's fresher than others?
Pogi yesterday "we didn't want to win the stage." Pogi & uae riding today "we didn't want yesterday doesn't mean we don't want it today" poor peleton lol
Man who has made a living winning sprint stages against ganna and dres van gestel is gonna struggle in a giro against actually good sprinters
Certainly.
But it's not only his own stat, Alpecin as a team have never ridden a Grand Tour without winning at least one stage.
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Yeah, the gap not going out isn't really due to the UAE tempo, but rather the break really soft-pedalling. A large group is coming back to the peloton, so it's not like UAE is drilling it.
Conci was actually climbing rather well yesterday. Then again, Manghen was his to go training climb before turning pro, so he can probably climb a bit.
Pog will reluctantly take another stage win, today. 
but he'll for sure be very sorry again for all is new best friends in the breakawayPog will reluctantly take another stage win, today.
Pogi is mean.
He probably reflected a bit on how much of his youth he spent being angry with Quintana's passivity.
He probably reflected a bit on how much of his youth he spent being angry with Quintana's passivity.
Garzelli reporting it's raining and quite cold on Passo Brocon. The descents between the two sides might be tricky.
The way the breakaway is riding, they're basically hoping for some charity from the peloton. There's no Voigt, De Gendt or Chavanel in there, that's for sure. Rui Oliveira, Ben Swift and Seb Molano are currently riding faster than Quintana et al.
Why are UAE even working, if not for another stage win? Here's an idea, put Majka or Novak etc. in the break, and make other teams chase. It's like they don't know any other tactics than working at the front.
This years pog is pushing much of the peleton away from pro races to race 1.&2.Hc races. At this rate i doubt many riders will do a race where pog is present. Savage😅
Why would someone else chase Majka or Novak?
They are just riding a steady tempo, the break is riding super slow.
Instead of being passive like Quintana or aggressive like Van der Poel, Pogačar rides passive-aggressively, where he lets his team chase every break.
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