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Stop it, Vingegaard will line up late June in Italy and you know itOh my god he can do regular endurance training 3 weeks before the Tour
He needs pogacar to have any form of accident then for that to happen like hes always have had to rely on. Which it can so better to go to the start.Stop it, Vingegaard will line up late June in Italy and you know it
3 minutes down once we hitting the Pyrenees and magic will happen
Hmm, I dont really know what to expect of this stage. At no point do you actually have the gradients, and the distance is also quite low, but there's indeed lots of climbing and a bit of altitude thrown in there as well. Exciting stage for sure, especially given the question marks we have so a team like UAE might still use this stage. No reason not to try at least. Early mountain stages like this thats not just a meh MTF is lovely as we saw last year in the Pyrenees.Stage 4 could already be carnage, there's a bunch of teams with incentive to try and bury their rivals early before they can get a head of steam. Whoever is feeling good will think the others will have come in underdone or injured, not a chance they will want Vingegaard cooking in week 3 on those hard stages with only a small deficit.
Or you will lose 27 minutes.The last 8.5 km of Galibier is hard enough. 20 minutes of full gas, you need to be ready for that.
Is it really? If you drill it and go full gas, and the stage has been hard, it might be enough. Its very similar to the climb to Livigno this year, but this is not Dani Martinez and Geraint Thomas.The last 8.5 km of Galibier is hard enough. 20 minutes of full gas, you need to be ready for that.
Kelderman in.Van Baarle and Kruijswijk out of TDF
Is it really? If you drill it and go full gas, and the stage has been hard, it might be enough. Its very similar to the climb to Livigno this year, but this is not Dani Martinez and Geraint Thomas.
If those two attack, Pogacar will of course tag along and counter attack.If someone isn't properly acclimatised to the altitude then 2650m is very troublesome. I wasn't just thinking Pogacar attacking either, perhaps someone like Carapaz or Bernal might see it as an opportunity to try and test the injured 3, they aren't going to drop everyone of course but if you can properly dispatch 1 of them then that's a great result, and the rest would probably pile on. Ineos tho I suppose.
That descent finish looks very Carlos Rodriguez.
I think UAE will put a huge tempo which will drop Carapaz and Bernal. When Yates is the only one left to launch Pogacar, I don't think many will be able to follow.If someone isn't properly acclimatised to the altitude then 2650m is very troublesome. I wasn't just thinking Pogacar attacking either, perhaps someone like Carapaz or Bernal might see it as an opportunity to try and test the injured 3, they aren't going to drop everyone of course but if you can properly dispatch 1 of them then that's a great result, and the rest would probably pile on. Ineos tho I suppose.
That descent finish looks very Carlos Rodriguez.
Every rider responds differently to altitude. Some riders don't have benefits on being more than 2 weeks in altitude phisiologically, others don't respond well to altitude.It seems strange he will stay at altitude for 5 months. Normally, gc riders stay 3 weeks training at altitude.
It will be hard for them to take time on Vingegaard in altitude, even if he starts a bit cooked.Stage 4 could already be carnage, there's a bunch of teams with incentive to try and bury their rivals early before they can get a head of steam. Whoever is feeling good will think the others will have come in underdone or injured, not a chance they will want Vingegaard cooking in week 3 on those hard stages with only a small deficit.
The bluff is so obvious. He will be there and in great shape.Pretty sure he will be ready for the tour.
He had a training ride on 5h 30m this tuesday in Tignes.
Haalt titelverdediger Jonas Vingegaard de Tour? “Hij weet het zelf nog niet eens”
Haalt hij het of haalt hij het niet? Jonas Vingegaard is nog een twijfelgeval voor de Tour de France (29 juni-21 juli) na zijn zware val in de Ronde van het Baskenland, maar bereidt zich momenteel wel voor op de Tour. De voorbije weken waren er hoopgevende berichten, maar zijn trainer Tim Heemskerkwww.wielerflits.be
It will be hard for them to take time on Vingegaard in altitude, even if he starts a bit cooked.
The bluff is so obvious. He will be there and in great shape.
I am a concerned with Kuss, i don't know if he crashed or not yesterday, nevertheless Jorgenson has been a good surprise.Vingegaard's team is an issue.
Even with Vinge at 100%, he doesn't have the teammates to drill the hardest multi col mountain stages like in 2022 & 2023. The loss of Van Baarle is a serious blow in that regard, meanwhile others (like Laporte, Van Aert & Kuss) are nowhere near last year's levels for various reasons.
It means UAE will dictate the pace.
What happened with the title?