Jasper Philipsen thread

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Great performance today and classics season by Phillipsen. Could definitely see him in the future be considered as a top 5 combo of sprinter and classics rider after 2000. MSR and/or PR should be possible. Along with GW, Omloop, Dwars and bunch of the semi-classics.
 
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The closest thing to a dominant sprinter we've seen in a few years. Having MvdP as a leadout certainly helps but something in him has clicked. He's a different beast.
Especially when you have Van der Poel........

But I'm not too impressed with the rest of the sprinters right now. Philipsen and Ewan are good. The rest of them are not. Maybe Koolj and Merlier are the two closest in level to Philipsen and Ewan. The rest of them that are actually on the start list in the Tour are not that good.
 
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Seriously, he is not that good. I'm pretty sure Ewan would have win a stage if he had MVP as a leadout sprinter. MVP is really the X factor.
Ewan could be the only rider in the race and he would still find a way to be out of position for the sprint. I don't think Van der Poel would make a big difference (it would help of course, but I doubt it would be as successful a partnership as the one between MVDP and JP).
 
Ewan could be the only rider in the race and he would still find a way to be out of position for the sprint. I don't think Van der Poel would make a big difference (it would help of course, but I doubt it would be as successful a partnership as the one between MVDP and JP).
Ewan is no McEwen. McEwen could be in a hopeless position in the sprint sometimes and still manage to win although Ewan has also had a few miraculous wins but quite a while ago now.
 
Has won 5 consecutive bunch sprints at the Tour. Hands down the best sprinter in the world.
He obviously won't keep up this pace, but given that he's only 25 he really should be beating Kittel's 14 stage wins to become the second-most successful modern (past ~50 years) bunch sprinter in the Tour's history.

Cavendish having well over double that really puts into perspective how special he was. He is three wins off having as many as Kittel, Cipollini and Greipel combined which is insane.
 
He obviously won't keep up this pace, but given that he's only 25 he really should be beating Kittel's 14 stage wins to become the second-most successful modern (past ~50 years) bunch sprinter in the Tour's history.

Cavendish having well over double that really puts into perspective how special he was. He is three wins off having as many as Kittel, Cipollini and Greipel combined which is insane.
Cavendish only had to beat Rojas.

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