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Brullnux

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Berniece said:
He's way too hard on himself. Speaking of letting himself and the team down, failing... You're 20 years old, you don't have to be the WC ITT yet. More than enough time to develop and become better.
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To me it seems as though the Olympics took it out of him mentally a bit, he was extremely disappointed after and this interview after the WC shows really intense pressure and maybe not that much enjoyment in what he's doing. I think the off-season will be important for him to relax a bit and re-calibrate. He's clearly immensely talented, I don't think there's enough in it to suggest he's regressing. Just a bad couple of months after the first big setback of his career – happens!
 
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Tim Cahill

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JRanton said:
He’ll be disappointed not to win that. He beat Hoole by 1:22 as a 19 year old at the Europeans over a similar distance. Any explanation why he dropped off so much after smashing the first split today?
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It seemed like Hoole was just very fast at the second split. Was there any footage of him? I wouldn't be surprised if he had a somewhat less vigilant moto ahead of him. Two years ago Evenepoel caught Hoole in a 19km TT in the Giro. He isn't exactly a world beater, so it's peculiar at least.
 
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JRanton said:
He’ll be disappointed not to win that. He beat Hoole by 1:22 as a 19 year old at the Europeans over a similar distance. Any explanation why he dropped off so much after smashing the first split today?
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It wasn't Tarling's best performance. But Hoole's performance was far superior to his other results.

Hoole had only won one ITT, beating Van Dijke in the national championship by 1 second.
LIDL's level in this Giro is very high.
 
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Jan the Man

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Hoole and Hayter took time on a lot of those going around same time as Tarling between T1 and T2 - instinct says wind changed a little to be less favourable but ultimately Hoole put in a strong ride with a good average over that distance.

Far from his best performance but not that bad either, though I thought he would be strong favourite on this parcours.
 
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Brullnux said:
To me it seems as though the Olympics took it out of him mentally a bit, he was extremely disappointed after and this interview after the WC shows really intense pressure and maybe not that much enjoyment in what he's doing. I think the off-season will be important for him to relax a bit and re-calibrate. He's clearly immensely talented, I don't think there's enough in it to suggest he's regressing. Just a bad couple of months after the first big setback of his career – happens!
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I was making a similar comparison on the Remco forum. The young guys that come in hot are subjected to almost ridiculous and immediate fan pressure. Their teams sprint ahead to market them and development takes a back seat.
He could be as good as Wout at his peak but that didn't happen overnight. Wout had years of 'cross success to hone his skills and manage his image.
 
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