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Voeckler has done OK so far this year. Gautier isn't in the same league. Rolland, after all the BS about his team change and how French teams train like it's 1950, well so far he hasn't done a thing. But I wouldn't discount him.
Pinot mentioned Latour as another rider to watch.
JCP doesn't know what to expect. That's the same pre-race stuff he pulled last year BTW. In '15 he even under-performed in the ITT. Which helped when he attacked in l'Ospedale: Pinot wasn't really expecting anything from him and was slow to react.Lexman said:
Voeckler has done OK so far this year. Gautier isn't in the same league. Rolland, after all the BS about his team change and how French teams train like it's 1950, well so far he hasn't done a thing. But I wouldn't discount him.
Pinot mentioned Latour as another rider to watch.
I like how on the race website Pinot said that he came to take his "first scalp (win) of the season". A year ago, he would never have said that. '15 may have been a turning point for Thibaut in terms of maturing/growing. He experienced some big setbacks and some big successes: all throughout, Pinot kept fighting and toughened up. He is back with a vengeance after being denied last year. If Tibopino can top-5 the ITT and win stage 3, he'll be super confident heading to Pais Vasco. Watch out!
He should win this quite easily so not that big a risk to say that. Don't expect anything in paid vasco short punchy climbs are not for him.Tonton said:
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Goss is finished as a leader and I dare say finished as a leadout man/useful teammate, 5 minutes down today is further confirmation that he's cooked
del1962 said:
Goss is finished as a leader and I dare say finished as a leadout man/useful teammate, 5 minutes down today is further confirmation that he's cooked
Stage 3 and 5 aren't bad for him. 2 and 4 not so much, but looking back earlier in '16, his climb atop Malhao was pretty good. After his usual diesel start, Tibopino was the only rider who made time on Bertie on the second half of the climb. Hopefully he'll do a good ITT too. I'm certainly an optimistRamon Koran said:
. Now for the second stage today, we can (somewhat - 7K is really short) evaluate his progress in ITT compared to last year (same course). Pinot is the big favorite tomorrow. I liked his statement, how he's putting the pressure on himself. That is new.
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I really don't understand why he keeps riding when he clearly doesn't have the motivation to train hard enough and eat healthy. I saw him at a race last year and the guy doesn't even look like a cyclist anymore (not as bad as Betancur, but not far off either).
Lol, that's hilarious.roundabout said:
I really don't understand why he keeps riding when he clearly doesn't have the motivation to train hard enough and eat healthy. I saw him at a race last year and the guy doesn't even look like a cyclist anymore (not as bad as Betancur, but not far off either).
What happened to him? MSR winner, almost beating Cav at the worlds... Cav always said that Gossy was the faster of the two.
Pinot just finished in 9'11", same time as last year's winner (Felline), 6" better than he did last year, two seconds faster than Coppel...
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