Paris-Nice 2022 (03/06 - 03/13)

[Kazistuta]

The canyon in quality between the happy few and the rest is almost unprecedented, unnatural, undesirable and makes for awful viewing as the race is over after one stage.

With such dark glasses on, you should probably do yourself a favour and stop watching for a while...

 

[sir fly]

JV matching UAE from several days ago.
We only need these superteams to line against each other.
Promising introduction to Monuments.

 

[Kazistuta]

I think the fight for position and all the sprinters taking up space for and leaving gaps *** it up a bit for the climbers as wel

This. Nice execution of Jumbo to see that.

 

[JosefK]

Yes! Laporte!

Great way to welcome the new guy!

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Loool. So what that UAE has Pogacar if JV has 3 Pogacars?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Tbh I think this a walk in the park for Roglic regarldess of today.

Its always great to see the best riders assert themselves IMO, even if it makes for a predictable outcome. If you dont like stages like today, I dno man.

If you can take stages like today at face value, 'I dno man'.

 

[Netserk]

If you can take stages like today at face value, 'I dno man'.

Same face value as always. The tide rises and falls, but it's always wet.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Same face value as always. The tide rises and falls, but it's always wet.

This is spring tide though.

 

[Volderke]

The race was won 10K from the finish. I saw little gaps left and right because of the work by Dennis, Teunissen, even Bissegger...

Up until the last hill it was a fight for position and it was nearly impossible to move up. All that time, WvA, Laporte and Roglic were in perfect position. Some riders could have followed on the climb if only they were in position, but they weren't.

Masterclass in terms of anticipating before that hill.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

What the... Never seen this on a 1 km hill.

at 6% , not even that steep. Absurd

 

[JosefK]

So, on Horner's Butterfly Effect vids, no Knucklehead Awards for Jumbo today?

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

I think the fight for position and all the sprinters taking up space for and leaving gaps *** it up a bit for the climbers as wel

Obviously. But they still dropped Stybar, who's quite possibly one of the strongest riders on a short 1km hill of 6%. So yeah....

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Roglic might crash. Afterall, it's a french one week stage race.

Won't matter as Van Aert is more than capable of winning GC instead.

 

[AlfaLum]

Won't matter as Van Aert is more than capable of winning GC instead.

Van Aert is not going for the GC this time.

 

[Valv.Piti]

If you can take stages like today at face value, 'I dno man'.

If youre referring to doping, I couldnt really care less. I was entertained

 

[AlfaLum]

Obviously. But they still dropped Stybar, who's quite possibly one of the strongest riders on a short 1km hill of 6%. So yeah....

Back in 2017 Yes.

 

[Salvarani]

Obviously. But they still dropped Stybar, who's quite possibly one of the strongest riders on a short 1km hill of 6%. So yeah....

Wasnt it Senechal?

 

[Pantani_lives]

The race was won 10K from the finish. I saw little gaps left and right because of the work by Dennis, Teunissen, even Bissegger...

Up until the last hill it was a fight for position and it was nearly impossible to move up. All that time, WvA, Laporte and Roglic were in perfect position. Some riders could have followed on the climb if only they were in position, but they weren't.

Masterclass in terms of anticipating before that hill.

Yates and Quintana were in perfect position. They just couldn't follow super climber Laporte.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Van Aert is not going for the GC this time.

So he says. He evidently has the legs for it and JV won't want to throw away the overall when they basically have it locked down.

 

[Bonimenier]

Wasnt it Senechal?

No, it was Stybar who could hang on with the trio the longest.

 

[Lequack]

A master class of Jumbo racing today.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1487047195790655490

View: https://twitter.com/Debby_Drckx/status/1487047195790655490

 

[Tim Cahill]

I think the problem with the 'peloton stuffed it up' argument was that the DQS rider (Stybar?) was visibly hurting and unable to cling on, whilst Laporte was, after just doing an almighty pull when WVA took over.

An in-form Adam Yates was also completely unable to sprint across the 1 second gap uphill (see 700m to go in the climb) whilst Laporte was just drilling it in the saddle the entire time.

I've watched 25 years, which, although it is a lot less than many here, and I don't remember this sort of 1-2-3 style display ever ending well. I do hope I'm wrong though because I quite like Roglic's interviews.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Just seen Roglič passing Gino on the Eurosport for the nth time.

 

[AlfaLum]

Yates and Quintana were in perfect position. They just couldn't follow super climber Laporte.

there were multiple guys who dropped off between Yates and and Roglic. So yates was distanced and had to make up multiple positions.

Laporte was already a great rider for this terrain at the shittiest WT team of all. It was to be expected that he would get even better at a team where everything is turned into gold.

 

[Salvarani]

Hayter lost a lot of time.