Paris-Nice 2024, March 3-10

[AmRacer]

VLAB, UAE and BORA have sent their A-Teams racing T-A

 

[Eeslliw]

VLAB, UAE and BORA have sent their A-Teams racing T-A

You're joking right? You seriously think Jonas is better than Jorgenson? Get out of here.

 

[Unchained]

Primoz: "I'm so far back I don't even know who is the leader."

Yesterday w the green leggings he looked like was at yoga or a dance class, that Bora color better go when Red bull comes on

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Primoz: "I'm so far back I don't even know who is the leader."

What a fu**ing legend!

 

[fbjim]

It's going to be a big stage tomorrow for Matteo "BigMatt Auber93" Jorgenson imo

 

[Oldermanish]

IIRC Roglic did altitude recently. Visma practically has it's headquarters on top of Teide, so it wouldn't surprise me if Jorgenson has as well, but that's just a guess.

Jorgenson does altitude all the time.

 

[Oldermanish]

Primoz: "I'm so far back I don't even know who is the leader."

He knows it's not Remco.

 

[Oldermanish]

Remco is going to stomp the pedals tomorrow. Watch out!

I hope so. Mateo needs a lead out for bonus points if McNulty recovers a bit....

 

[Sciatic]

The good thing for Bora this year is with Roglic, you can send guys like Vlasov for wins and not be heavily marked. Hopefully we see more of this later in the year when the Tour comes around.

That was very well executed today—they of course it helped that Vlasov has good legs. Would love to see something like this in the Tour, with either Vlasov or Hindley (who also looked good today) on the attack.

 

[Rob5091]

Was wondering what Vaslov was going to do when he was in the GC group. Best option was to attack and drag Roglic and others after him.
So tomorrow is UAE v Visma with Remco & Skjelmose thrown in the mix. McNulty is looking frayed so Jorgenson looks good for the overall.

 

[Jagartrott]

I think he still has the jersey because Jorgenson didn't want it. The Belgian commentators were fuming, "why isn't he pulling! The DSes should tell him to get to the front!" Guys, wasn't it obvious? In this race having the leader's jersey isn't exactly an advantage.

I disagree. If Jorgensen would have pulled and made sure he was leader, he wouldn't have had to deal with McNulty anymore. Now, he needs to lose McNulty and has to make sure no others that are close in GC break away. Besides, it would probably be QS that will try to pull the peloton after a while, so the weight wouldn't really be on Jorgensen's team.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I disagree. If Jorgensen would have pulled and made sure he was leader, he wouldn't have had to deal with McNulty anymore. Now, he needs to lose McNulty and has to make sure no others that are close in GC break away. Besides, it would probably be QS that will try to pull the peloton after a while, so the weight wouldn't really be on Jorgensen's team.

It was a dumb move imho. You never can predict how the race will evolve tomorrow. Maybe McNulty has an inspired day, maybe Jorgenson has a flat. It's not at all out of the question that they cross the line together in a small group behind guys that took the bonis (Roglic, Evenepoel, Skjelmose...) and that he finishes 4 seconds behind McNulty in GC. I'm not saying that is the most likely scenario, but it still a real possibility.

 

[houtdffan]

No, they are not. They are mostly underwhelming. And we could easily have a one week race with a bit distinctive profile than doing just these type of climbs. CD, Tour de Suisse, Romandie and Catalunya are enough. Let at least PN have a bit different profile.

did you not see today's race? Climb made the differences.

We don't need the Govenou/Zomegnan/Guillen idiotically steep ramps to make a difference. This was a classic MTF and it played out as such.

These MTFs simply do not support Youtube Cyclone as they require an attention span of about 45 minutes

 

[theyoungest]

It was a dumb move imho. You never can predict how the race will evolve tomorrow. Maybe McNulty has an inspired day, maybe Jorgenson has a flat. It's not at all out of the question that they cross the line together in a small group behind guys that took the bonis (Roglic, Evenepoel, Skjelmose...) and that he finishes 4 seconds behind McNulty in GC. I'm not saying that is the most likely scenario, but it still a real possibility.

If he has a flat he's f.cked anyway. Even if it's just psychologically, it's always better being the hunter than the hunted. And this final Paris-Nice day tends to be mayhem, I'd rather being the one causing it.

 

[Netserk]

It was a dumb move imho. You never can predict how the race will evolve tomorrow. Maybe McNulty has an inspired day, maybe Jorgenson has a flat. It's not at all out of the question that they cross the line together in a small group behind guys that took the bonis (Roglic, Evenepoel, Skjelmose...) and that he finishes 4 seconds behind McNulty in GC. I'm not saying that is the most likely scenario, but it still a real possibility.

Then he will likely lose GC to those in front. Focus should be on your winning paths going forward. Had he not pulled in the end, he could have taken bonus seconds which would help far more than distancing McNulty.

 

[Lequack]

Fun racing, but terrible weather just the whole week around. Apparently tomorrow it should be a bit better going into Nice.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1766454662830436681

View: https://twitter.com/TeamEmiratesUAE/status/1766454662830436681?s=20

 

[Ripper]

Tomorrow should be a banger

 

[Netserk]

Stage 8 prediction:

1. Buitrago
2. Evenepoel
3. Rogla
4. Jorgenson
5. Skjelmose

GC prediction:

1. Jorgenson
2. Evenepoel
3. Skjelmose
4. Rogla
5. Bernal

 

[Lequack]

Tomorrow

 

[search]

so compared to last year, they scrapped the flatter part of the final climb, which also reduces the distance to the finish from 15k to 9k.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Tomorrow

Ouch.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

If he has a flat he's f.cked anyway. Even if it's just psychologically, it's always better being the hunter than the hunted. And this final Paris-Nice day tends to be mayhem, I'd rather being the one causing it.

You missed the point. Say he drops McNulty on the last climb, is ahead by 30s or so. but he punctures, then he gets caught by McNulty's group, then McNulty wins GC. There are plenty of scenario's possible where they finish in the same group.

 

[Netserk]

so compared to last year, they scrapped the flatter part of the final climb, which also reduces the distance to the finish from 15k to 9k.

The first two km after continuing up towards Col d'Èze are fairly difficult as well, but of course not as steep as the smaller road to QC they introduced in 2022.

 

[scribers]

Quickstep has to get a result here. Lefevre has to be shitting himself. The value of the Wolfpack brand is getting lower

 

[OlavEH]

did you not see today's race? Climb made the differences.

We don't need the Govenou/Zomegnan/Guillen idiotically steep ramps to make a difference. This was a classic MTF and it played out as such.

These MTFs simply do not support Youtube Cyclone as they require an attention span of about 45 minutes

The climb today didn't make much of a difference.

And I'm not talking about adding something like Mortirolo or the steep side of Zoncolan. A climb like Mont Faron or Mende would be more than enough. You really need to adapt that cycling has evolved since the 90s where everything was about loooooooooooong stages with generic climbs and equally long time trials with riders that had every clinic issue mentionable. And not the least that variety is a plus and that not every one week race on the calendar needs to be decided by 15 km long climbs. Which wasn't the identity of PN to begin with, it's just in the last 10-15 years they started with these kind of climbs.