Kruijswijk better be ready, I don't think blobloblo is good enough to make a proper launch.At least he will try something for sure.
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Kruijswijk better be ready, I don't think blobloblo is good enough to make a proper launch.At least he will try something for sure.
Honestly, i don't understand why Kruijswijk is listed to the Tour de France, he doesn't have the level anymore to be a good help to vingegaard. I would take kelderman instead of him to the Tour.Kruijswijk better be ready, I don't think blobloblo is good enough to make a proper launch.
At least he will try something for sure.
That's another line in his vastly growing cv in bike handling skills.
Kruijswijk is more reliable and in peak form he is probably still a better climber than the rest. Knows what it takes and a great super-dom. One of the most trusted in the supporting cast for them.Honestly, i don't understand why Kruijswijk is listed to the Tour de France, he doesn't have the level anymore to be a good help to vingegaard. I would take kelderman instead of him to the Tour.
Kuss+jorgenson+kelderman would be the perfect help for vingegaard in the mountains.
I hope vallter and uijdtbroeks can make the climb really hard until vingegaard launches his attack.
Did he go to the Wilco Kelderman School of Jacket Management?
IMO it's the sort of climb that's conventionally too easy in that position, but given Vingegaards GC position and presumed superiority over everyone else I'm very bullish that he'll just dust everyone off his wheel.
That would be true in July, but his ITT was very underwhelming and does not suggest he is in good shape in March? Maybe he is more vulnerable?
While there are only two serious stages, I still expect Ayuso to underperform in one of them.I'm not convinced he'll be able to break Ayuso in this race, although Ayuso won't be able be part of a UAE tag team like in the one-day races he's ridden this year.
While there are only two serious stages, I still expect Ayuso to underperform in one of them.
That would be true in July, but his ITT was very underwhelming and does not suggest he is in good shape in March? Maybe he is more vulnerable?
Yes, he has a history of fading, but I'm rooting for the young Spaniard to hang on, it would make the Tour really wild.While there are only two serious stages, I still expect Ayuso to underperform in one of them.
He can also increase the advantage with his skills on the descent.I think it's hard enough. The steeper pinch is just long enough and at the perfect point in the climb IMO to torch everyone.
IMO it's the sort of climb that's conventionally too easy in that position, but given Vingegaards GC position and presumed superiority over everyone else I'm very bullish that he'll just dust everyone off his wheel.
Finale is hard enough to make a chase difficult and waiting on domestiques pretty bad.
I don't see Ayuso hanging on, but maybe he closes a gap with a kamikaze descent.
In the Vuelta he was also sh** in the TT, but in the mountains he could drop everybody.I'm not convinced he'll be able to break Ayuso in this race, although Ayuso won't be able be part of a UAE tag team like in the one-day races he's ridden this year.
I think that was mostly due to the course and the fact that UAE's TT bikes are currently better than Visma's (at least on the flat). It's a shame we didn't get too see him go all out in the ITT in Galicia, so we could have had a better impression. His climbing hasn't seemed to be below par yet, so I don't think he's in bad shape. The effect from his altitude camp should also still be there.
In the Vuelta he was also sh** in the TT, but in the mountains he could drop everybody.
No please, let's not start this discussion again 😂*Everybody bar Roglič.
Even if in the mountains vingegaard dropped everybody on tourmalet and sierra de bejes 😉 he finished alone.Thank you.
His TT was very typical. His level in one week/first week GT, flat course, is normally around 5-10 place against proper opponents. That's nothing new.That would be true in July, but his ITT was very underwhelming and does not suggest he is in good shape in March? Maybe he is more vulnerable?
Probably he would do better in a flat TT, on first week of july, because he is there in peak shape.His TT was very typical. His level in one week/first week GT, flat course, is normally around 5-10 place against proper opponents. That's nothing new.
7th in Copenhagen, seems like the level, me thinks.Probably he would do better in a flat TT, one first week of july, because there he is in peak shape.
During the year, is different, but in the mountains he resents less.
Against much better competition.7th in Copenhagen, seems like the level, me thinks.
Yes, he can do better in a flat TT like he did on that situation, but he needs to be in peak shape.7th in Copenhagen, seems like the level, me thinks.