****Roglic, Woods
***Valverde, Nibali, Bernal
**Fuglsang, Gilbert, Yates
*Formolo, Visconti, Ulissi, Higuita, Chaves, Gaudu
***Valverde, Nibali, Bernal
**Fuglsang, Gilbert, Yates
*Formolo, Visconti, Ulissi, Higuita, Chaves, Gaudu
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This. He's very much under-radaring his approach.Buchmann will win
Replace Buchmann with Gilbert.****Roglic, Woods
***Valverde, Nibali, Bernal
**Fuglsang, Gilbert, Yates
*Formolo, Visconti, Ulissi, Higuita, Chaves, Gaudu
But he [Gilbert] has no chance on a route with the hard part of Civiglio as a key ascent and Ghisallo and Sormano combined.
Foregone conclusion last year? Really?
And this year Roglic is reaaaaally just one of the favorites.
well, for the past years we have always had guys like Pinot, Uran, Alaphilippe, Dan Martin, Nibali peaking for this, and they are either not around at all, or not at their best currently.Bad field? I don't really think so.
I think Roglic is one of the hottest favorites I've ever seen going into Il Lombardia, apart maybe from Nibali in 2017Yes, I couldn't imagine Pinot not winning. Just like I couldn't imagine Nibali not winning in 2017 or Fuglsang not winning LBL this year.
They were all clearly the rider with the best climbing form and just had to ride away on the final climb, and they all did.
And what's the Roglic reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally only one of the favourites supposed to insinuate? Didn't I just write that?
I don't think so. He is the favorite, but not that hot imo. He's unproven over a long distance and very hard race and you can't become a specialist for these kind of races all of a sudden. It's a process, it takes time. Not that I would be surprised if he wins, but for my money he won't win.I think Roglic is one of the hottest favorites I've ever seen going into Il Lombardia, apart maybe from Nibali in 2017
At least two of them could actually win, so I don't get your logic...well, for the past years we have always had guys like Pinot, Uran, Alaphilippe, Dan Martin, Nibali peaking for this, and they are either not around at all, or not at their best currently.
Basically, if you look at those names who finished on the podium over the past 5 years (Pinot, Nibali, Teuns, Alaphilippe, Moscon, Chaves, Rosa, Uran, Moreno, Dan Martin, Valverde, Costa) it looks likely to me, that neither of those will end up on there tomorrow.
Emilia is a very hard race and he destroyed everyone like pretty much never before in that race. He easily has the climbing chops, and there's no big trend he struggles with 6h + races except one Lombardia where he basically went full kamikaze on the Muro di Sormano. On the other hand the stage he won in Tirreno last year was over 6 hours. He wasn't any worse on the Civiglio stage than in the rest of the Giro.I don't think so. He is the favorite, but not that hot imo. He's unproven over a long distance and very hard race and you can't become a specialist for these kind of races all of a sudden. It's a process, it takes time. Not that I would be surprised if he wins, but for my money he won't win.
It's far more difficult to have a surprise winner in Lombardia than in TVV. Especially if you have a couple of strong teams to control the race (Jumbo Visma, Ineos). The winner is usually decided between the strongest riders in the race.Plus everyone is expecting for favorites to just battle it out at the end, but it might not come to that. In Tre Valli Roglic had a chance to win because the other favorties took that wrong turn. So with clever attacks from far everyone can be a surprise winner.
It's far more difficult to have a surprise winner in Lombardia than in TVV. Especially if you have a couple of strong teams to control the race (Jumbo Visma, Ineos). The winner is usually decided between the strongest riders in the race.
Only possible other guy that was the strongest that race was Nibali who did the suicide attack to drop Gilbert on Ghisallo or something then got chased down by a 50 man peloton.Or he's Oliver Zaugg.
Not that he wasn't among the strongest riders in that particular race, but damn...
Yep, very surprising.No Nans Peters? That's surprising...
A lot of talk about Roglic but Woods been really good too this week so far. Was with Fuglsang and Formolo for a long time in Liege in the final, until Fuglsang was gone with the incredible form he had that time.