Foss is the new boss of Norway. He soloed it in the end.
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You probably did not watch either raceYea according to you, he will gift every race he doesn't win from now on. He will even gift Roglic this year Tour because he mugged him last year
He did not gift anything, I did not say that. I said he was clearly not riding full gas. whether it is for Polanc or to save himself for the Tour, it is clear he is not giving it all. He did not even sprint for bronze.I choose to believe Pogacar didn't gift anything today (I didn't see the race), because to do so would be borderline patronizing, i.e. like a benevolent despot gifting stuff he gives no sh*ts about compared to winning the Tour.
It would be that moment when magnanimous non-selfish riding becomes insulting. Just my opinion. So as I said, I believe Pogacar probably didn't gift anything at all.
That was probably his only chance without a team.In his defence, he destroyed the peloton on the first climb. The peloton was reduced to 27 riders after that. He missed the following attack, unfortunately.
You can grind someone off your wheel on a climb without attacking/accelerating. You can't drop someone on a flat course without a decent acceleration/attack. And i seriously think you need to watch San Sebastian again, and read the post-race interviews with the guys of Astana and Movistar.I'm not saying that Evenepoel couldn't have won I am only saying that Lombardia 2020 wasn't a done deal because of this. Sure Evenepoel has done many amazing solo's but he hasn't shown much when it comes to dropping someone with an acceleration.
Like his win in Clasica San Sebastian the peloton allowed him to get ahead.
In the case of Lombardia the likes of Fuglsang had just received a nasty wake-up call in Poland. So I think many of them will have been glued to his wheel. Sure perhaps he would still have been the strongest by a large enough margin to simply ride them off his wheel on a climb but that was an open question. Imo it couuld have been a case of him being too much of a marked man and not enough of a kick to deal with the wheelsucking.
Yea according to you, he will gift every race he doesn't win from now on. He will even gift Roglic this year Tour because he mugged him last year
Nooo, bringing both Froome and a token Israeli to the Tour is much more important.But still, when Würtz beats Fuglsang, Asgreen, Valgreen, Kron, Honoré, Pedersen etc - you would have hoped that he could have qualified for the Tour within the team.
They left the better climbing Hermans at home, just to get 30 secs of screentime in every mountain stage when Froome unavoidably drops.Nooo, bringing both Froome and a token Israeli to the Tour is much more important.
Yeah, that's also pretty bad.They left the better climbing Hermans at home, just to get 30 secs of screentime in every mountain stage when Froome unavoidably drops.
I wonder what Mads Würtz will do with his great shape now? Find some small one-day-races and compete against continental riders? It's almost tragic - especially in the light of his illness during spring.
Perhaps, but he probably felt he was in a hurry to train and improve rapidly after his illness.Würtz should have spend more time traveling around with Froome like Hollenstein and Cataford instead of doing actual racing or have visited the Israeli embassy in order to become neutralized. It's his own fault really.
He talked about having a race on Thursday. Probably the Giro dell'Appenino.
what you mean, he won 3rd
edit: actually 2nd even more impressive
You can grind someone off your wheel on a climb without attacking/accelerating. You can't drop someone on a flat course without a decent acceleration/attack.
I've read there was a 9-men breakaway with 3 Rally riders so it was theirs to lose.
Alexey Vermeulen 4th despite having 0 results listed on PCS since 2018- interesting.