Pascal Ackermann

[jmdirt]

Great performance today! Pascal! That being said, when your body is banged up you have to be patient.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

First GT, first points jersey. That's huge.

 

[RedheadDane]

It's mathematically impossible for Demare to reach him?

 

[SHAD0W93]

I believe so unless Ackermann DNF's. FDJ screwed the pouch but Ackermann deserves it.

 

[tobydawq]

Re:

It's mathematically impossible for Demare to reach him?

No, if he wins the intermediary sprint tomorrow and Ackermann doesn't score, the difference will be 1 point in Ackermann's favour. Then Démare has to find two points on either a mountain top finish, the intermediary sprint on stage 20 which comes after a 20 km mountain or in the final TT which is just a bit too hilly for that to be realistic.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Pascal Ackermann: I'm still not one of the best sprinters in the world

German remains modest after stellar season

www.cyclingnews.com

That's very modest and not exactly true. Along with Groenewegen, Ewan, Bennett and Viviani he's among the current Top 5 of the world's best sprinters for me. Today showed why: nearly all other pure sprinters either didn't make the group over the final KOM at all or were barely able to contest the sprint. Ackermann was there. He again made the mistake of going a bit too early, but that was still enough to win comfortably. With two more sprint stages to go he could extend his 2019 win tally to 14 which would put him in second position behind Groenewegen. Groenewegen however had only 4 WT wins among his 15 pro wins this year and several others in minor .1 races, while Ackermann had 6 WT wins and the rest (apart from the Gooikse Pijl) all in HC races.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

False modesty. He knows that he’s in the very top group of sprinters. He’d have to be a complete idiot to think otherwise.

 

[RedheadDane]

Yeah, my thoughts too "I'm inclined to disagree with that statement..."

Unless of course he means best sprinter ever as opposed to best sprinter right now.

(Bit confused about the bit about "where he'll end up next year.")

 

[Faserr]

I think he wants to be a sprinter who wins MSR and perhaps other classics.

 

[RedheadDane]

You don't consider the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic a classic?

 

[jaylew]

Pascal Ackermann: I'm still not one of the best sprinters in the world

German remains modest after stellar season

www.cyclingnews.com

That's very modest and not exactly true. Along with Groenewegen, Ewan, Bennett and Viviani he's among the current Top 5 of the world's best sprinters for me.

I agree with you but I'd add a healthy Gaviria as he's every bit as good as those other guys, he just needs to stop crashing.

 

[Faserr]

You don't consider the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic a classic?

The one and only

 

[Earns1985]

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Even in his vacations he is pedalling..

 

[Velolover2]

How do we define the best sprinter? As in the rider with the highest top speed as in Kittel or currently Groenewegen.

Or as a more multi-faceted sprinter who can win tougher classics and somewhat harder stages like Viviani or Ackermann?

 

[tobydawq]

Hmm, he has announced today that he will also do the Giro alongside Sagan next year but not the Tour.

I wonder how they will play that.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Hmm, he has announced today that he will also do the Giro alongside Sagan next year but not the Tour.

I wonder how they will play that.

Weird. I can only really explain it by assuming that the sponsors want Sagan to win green at the Tour again more than they want Ackermann sprint stages and Sagan stage hunting. I assumed with Sagan having the record and doing a Giro-Tour for the first time that he was finished with green and would instead be riding as an attacker.

I really wanted to see all of the big 5 (or 6 if Gaviria gets his act together) sprinters at the Tour, but Sagan remains the team’s meal ticket. So we will be at least one short and it’s not entirely clear that Groenewegen will be there either. Presumably we can bank on Bennett, Viviani and Ewan riding the Tour. (Also it means probably that we won’t see Ackermann v Bennett at a GT).

 

[tobydawq]

Ackermann says it's because there are no sprint stages in the Tour. Yeah, right.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

It's a shame we don't get to see him in the Tour for another year.