Paris - Nice 10 March - 17 March 2019 77th edition

[DNP-Old]

New team, same time trialing skills from Sosito. Still makes Purito look like Indurain.

 

[Blanco]

Re: Re:

How much of an advantage would Kwiatko have to have after the TT for people to say 'fair enough, Bernal should work for him'?

Bernal shouldn't work for him until Turini stage ends. Kwiatkowski is a big unknown on a climb like Turini. He can hold on till the very end, and he can also lose minutes on that climb.

Literally nothing suggest Kwiatkowski can hang on to the very end. Kwiatkowski has not done sh*te leading a WT race in a high mountain stage.

Look at the post below yours.

Edit: What lesser climbers, Froome, Contador, Quintana, Porte, Landa Are you serious?

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Re:

Scully leads from Bauer and Turgis so far.

Live timing available here:
https://racecenter.paris-nice.fr/#/stageprofile

Thanks for that link

 

[DNP-Old]

Chaves 5th at the intermediate. Have we been fooled by the profile once more?

 

[DNP-Old]

Yates 2nd. Mont Brouilly all over again?

 

[Alexandre B.]

Most likely Mitchelton bikes doing wonders.

 

[Velolover2]

Can that tiny 4% hill do any difference for the climbers?

 

[Sestriere]

Re:

Chaves 5th at the intermediate. Have we been fooled by the profile once more?

Yates' average speed is 50.3 km/h, so it's definitely a fast course that will cause problems for those with bad TT positions.

 

[Red Rick]

Re: Re:

How much of an advantage would Kwiatko have to have after the TT for people to say 'fair enough, Bernal should work for him'?

Bernal shouldn't work for him until Turini stage ends. Kwiatkowski is a big unknown on a climb like Turini. He can hold on till the very end, and he can also lose minutes on that climb.

Literally nothing suggest Kwiatkowski can hang on to the very end. Kwiatkowski has not done sh*te leading a WT race in a high mountain stage.

Look at the post below yours.

Edit: What lesser climbers, Froome, Contador, Quintana, Porte, Landa Are you serious?

2013 is the only really impressive performance. That was also 6 years ago when he was trying to be a GT rider. The 2014 Tirreno stage is funny cause he lost like 15 minutes on the hard stage the next day. Sassossetto was a sh*te climb and he managed to finish outside the top 10 on that one.

 

[Velolover2]

Not a super time for Jungels.

Only Kwia can beat Yates' time, IMO.

 

[Blanco]

Let's see, but if he has good legs he will not lose more than a minute.

 

[SafeBet]

Have conditions changed? Jungels, Zakarin, Bennett all with disappointing performances thus far.

 

[Sestriere]

Re:

Have conditions changed? Jungels, Zakarin, Bennett all with disappointing performances thus far.

In the live ticker on the official timing website was mentioned that the wind changed. They are riding a loup however, so hopefully it will cancel out.

 

[Escarabajo]

Dani Martinez third!

 

[SafeBet]

Re: Re:

Have conditions changed? Jungels, Zakarin, Bennett all with disappointing performances thus far.

In the live ticker on the official timing website was mentioned that the wind changed. They are riding a loup however, so hopefully it will cancel out.

Most riders are gaining on Yates in the second part so that makes sense.

 

[Velolover2]

Bad time for Zakarin.

 

[Velolover2]

The wind must be a factor.. all of the good GC time trialists lose a lot of time.

 

[DNP-Old]

Nairo at 1:01 at the intermediate, at 52 seconds at the finish..

 

[SafeBet]

Quintana very close to Jungels and Kelderman times.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Why exactly didn't Yates wanna ride GC in this race?

 

[Velolover2]

Good time by Bernador so far!

 

[DNP-Old]

Holy *** Egan!

 

[Red Rick]

Re:

Why exactly didn't Yates wanna ride GC in this race?

He saw the CancellAru memes and wanted that for himself?

 

[Valv.Piti]

He did the same in Andalucia and was the strongest there as well. I mean, what...

 

[Velolover2]

Bernador is catching Trentin now.