At this point I think Jumbo are glad to see all these ridiculous takes from so-called "experts". It puts them in the underdog role everytime. Which is what you want, of course.
Jumbo haven't announced the starters. Just a preliminary startlist from PCS or whatever. Plugge did mention Kuss, which would surprise me but Jumbo tend to stick to the plan. Tratnik says he wants to ride. Valter makes sense, as does Kelderman.
- Aug 13, 2011
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Except he was still 5 mins down and got caught on the descent. Was he stronger that day, yes but Pog also didn’t go into the red since Vinge was so far behind and they had the descent to catch him. Vinge got yo-yo’d. All three, Carapaz, were equal in the final week mountains with none being able to drop the other despite attempts from all and Pog sprinting away from them at the finish.
- Apr 13, 2021
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The team should definitely include Roglic, vinegärd, tratnik, vallter, kelderman and bouwman. That's really strong team. Then just some rouleur like affini and 1 more climber. Kruijsvijk, gesink or Foss
- Jan 10, 2019
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They were saying 8 riders yesterday on Sporza. Kuss, Foss, Bouwman, Valter are the names I remember. So I thought they had the startlist from Jumbo.
I think they will do some fitness tests and monitoring in weeks leading up to the race and decide.
For the riders that didn’t do the Tour they’ll have some prep race to look at as well.
if I were to bet i would say it’s Kuss because of the number of race days. but I don’t think they decide before they have to.
- Mar 17, 2009
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- Mar 11, 2009
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Even then, Froome only had Nibali (who to be fair was a great rider) and Zakarin who had specifically targeted the Vuelta. Gad Contador not ridden the Tour and ridden a Giro/Vuelta combo it could’ve ended up a different result.
That’s the difference with Froome’s win. Roglic, Remco, Ayuso, technically Carapaz and Mas (depending on their recovery), won’t have an intense duel with Pogacar in their legs and won’t have the fatigue build up.
- May 5, 2010
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Danish TV has been talking a lot about how he's the first Dane to defend a TdF title.
I guess he was slightly better friends with his TT bike, than Riis was in 1997.
I guess he was slightly better friends with his TT bike, than Riis was in 1997.
This is a difficult Vuelta route - Ayuso and Remco will have their work cut out.
- Aug 3, 2015
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Where and when did he say that?
I mean, it makes a lot of sense to me. There's not anything to do for him after Tour de France apart from Lombardia, and he has proven he's not very good targetting that race. The Vuelta good serve as a race for him just like it did for Froome who also didn't have anything better to do and try to target it. Both riders loved the heat as well and pretty much isn't made for racing anything else than hard stage races.
So very good on him for doing that. Its a lot better than Tour of fricking Croatia.
Remco might be about to win a lot of fans that were previously haters.
- Feb 20, 2012
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Did he say why he didn't go?
Cause it wasn't like Roglic was a beacon of health guaranteed leader this time last year
- Apr 30, 2011
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- Aug 3, 2015
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Then why in the world wasn't he racing? Makes no sense considering 1) Roglic wasn't completely healthy and 2) Roglic is crash-prone, and crashed out of a GT again.
- Mar 19, 2009
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Could be the best GT field of the year, GC-wise:
Roglic
Vingegaard
Remco
Ayuso
Almeida
Thomas
Mas
Carapaz
Vlasov
Carthy
And the Angliru. My mouth is already watering.
Roglic
Vingegaard
Remco
Ayuso
Almeida
Thomas
Mas
Carapaz
Vlasov
Carthy
And the Angliru. My mouth is already watering.
He didn’t get into that so we don’t know. maybe they wanted to see how his post-Tour recovery went or something like that?
Maybe the team owed a favour to race director of Cro Race?
- Apr 30, 2011
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It clearly wasn't planned for him to go last year, but even if he wanted to go, it wasn't clear if it was just an impulsive desire for more or if he immediately after the Tour asked and insisted to go. In any case, to make sure that he would go this year, they made it a plan in November.
- May 5, 2010
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He has sure come a long way since he lost over 14 minutes because he was so nervous when he was leading a pro race for the first time.
Contrary to what I thought, the Durango kid wants to ride his 3rd GT
- Jul 10, 2012
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Loosely translated from a live interview with Vingegaard: "Watt wise the time trial was not my best performance of this tour or last year's."
Interesting, since it is primarily the time trial people are going ape *** over. But then again, it was probably mainly because Pogacar couldn't compete.
Otherwise, a very interesting interview with his former DS, Christian Andersen.
Interesting, since it is primarily the time trial people are going ape *** over. But then again, it was probably mainly because Pogacar couldn't compete.
Otherwise, a very interesting interview with his former DS, Christian Andersen.
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