Itzulia Basque Country 2022 April 4-9

[Tim Cahill]

 

[noob]

Anyone remember the time Remco and Vingegaard were bad descenders

 

[SafeBet]

Why wasn't Roglic on Evenepoel's wheel all the time? Seems weird to me. But hey, they made something similar work like a charm here last year.

Perhaps they're confident enough to let him get the jersey today and destroy him tomorrow since he doesn't have a very good team here?
Both him and Vingegaard should be close enough at the end of today's stage.
Bit of a gamble if that's the case.

 

[Lequack]

Remco is now again the favorite to win the Tour. Since he's outpacing Roglic, he can therefore outpace Pogacar.

 

[Eclipse]

Anyone remember the time Remco and Vingegaard were bad descenders

This looked like very much a power descent which is rarely what people think of when they talk about descending quality tbh

 

[Lequack]

Vingeegard should now stomp the others, on behalf of Roglic.

 

[Netserk]

Martinez will not work, I don't think.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Perhaps they're confident enough to let him get the jersey today and destroy him tomorrow since he doesn't have a very good team here?
Both him and Vingegaard should be close enough at the end of today's stage.
Bit of a gamble if that's the case.

Yeah, but the situation was quite a bit better for them before today nonetheless. It doesn't really make sense to me that they seemingly were perfectly fine with this situation.

 

[SafeBet]

They're gaining nothing on Rodriguez. Too many non contributors in the group. Nobody looks fully committed.

That's a really big gap to Roglic's group now.

 

[Netserk]

Yeah, but the situation was quite a bit better for them before today nonetheless. It doesn't really make sense to me that they seemingly were perfectly fine with this situation.

I think purposely losing the jersey or mistakenly thinking another team would chase competently are the only explanations.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

How the *** is the Evenepoel group gaining time when there's zero cooperation?

 

[meat puppet]

They have a minute on rogla. Perhaps he just did not have it today.

 

[glassmoon]

Rabofail is back

 

[ppanther92]

Since exactly 1 person is chasing behind (Reichenbach) it will become a significant gap.

 

[Bolder]

Roglic is not at his best, that's all there is to it.

 

[Eclipse]

Not sure I can believe that GPS though I suppose if they all followed Reichenbach down it would make sense

 

[davidsonduke]

The timing is messed up. No way group 2 gained 30 seconds on group 3 over the past 5 minutes.

 

[Netserk]

If Martinez is 2nd, who will lead the race?

 

[Stringer Bell]

Mas loves steep ramps, gotta attack

 

[JosefK]

Vingo is the GC leader now for Rabo ... err, Jumbo.

 

[Tim Cahill]

You know you're in big trouble when it's Reichenbach leading the chase.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Roglic is not at his best, that's all there is to it.

Yup, I think so too.

 

[Netserk]

Surprisingly good cooperation in the chase group.

 

[Escarabajo]

How the *** is the Evenepoel group gaining time when there's zero cooperation?

Groupamais pulling!

 

[Samamba]

The timing is messed up. No way group 2 gained 30 seconds on group 3 over the past 5 minutes.

Reichenbach is leading them, it's definitely possible