nosacker said:Maybe I'm jumping the gun a bit, but I reckon Peter Sagan could be a tour and grand tour contender. Thoughts? Anyone agree?
I'm watching stage 6 and he is a f*cking freight train. Attacks with Nibali and Rodriguez up the final climb and looks comfortable as anything.
Yes he can - but only of he joins Sky.sacker said:Maybe I'm jumping the gun a bit, but I reckon Peter Sagan could be a tour and grand tour contender. Thoughts? Anyone agree?
I'm watching stage 6 and he is a f*cking freight train. Attacks with Nibali and Rodriguez up the final climb and looks comfortable as anything.
Even Boonen talked about winning Liège lol. Although back in 2005 that didn't sound as absurd as it may now.RHRH19861986 said:The thing is, in cycling nowadays, if you can win some type of races almost 100% (like it´s with Sagan in Flanders, San Remo, Amstel, Gent-Wevelgem, stages of stage races), you´ll try to win as much as possible, and feel you don´t have the time to discover what´s possible beyond.
Sagan has the advantage that time is on his age.
He did Roubaix once, DNF, and never tried again. But GC wise, or even GCs in GTs, stages like the one to Grindelwald in TdS 2011, which he won, are very encouraging.
Hope he doesn´t go Cancellaras way: Cancellara announced to focus in the nearer future also on races like Liege and Lombardia and spoke about even winning the Tour, but the only things he still cares about (and IMHO ever will care about) are Flanders, Roubaix and the Tour prologue plus wearing yellow for a few days afterwards.
Probably high.El Pistolero said:Even Boonen talked about winning Liège lol. Although back in 2005 that didn't sound as absurd as it may now.
That's some big words for a rider who hasn't won a classic in his whole career so far.kanari said:Why would he focus on GT's when he could be the best classics rider ever to have lived...
LOL there, sagans recovery is greatEl Pistolero said:Sagan is good in everything except the things that make you good in Grand Tours(GC wise):
- recovery
- time trials(no prologues)
- climbing
Roelandts and Hushovd were in the top ten today.
yes it did, maybe not to you and your fellow countrymen, but the rest of the world with braincells laughed, boonen in his young years can not be compared to sagan in any possible way, despite how much you want that to beEl Pistolero said:Even Boonen talked about winning Liège lol. Although back in 2005 that didn't sound as absurd as it may now.
He was totally spent after the Tour de France last year.Ryo Hazuki said:LOL there, sagans recovery is great![]()
how do you know?El Pistolero said:He was totally spent after the Tour de France last year.![]()
if sagan was a rider in the 80s though, he would be kelly like, true that.TheEnoculator said:Sagan has been compared to Sean Kelly, a sprinter who's also a very good climber. But nowadays, the peleton is more segregated. You have the pure climber, the pure time trialist, etc. So it's hard for a "Kelly-reincarnate" to win a Tour these days
So no, I don't think he'll ever be a tour contender. In the near future, I can see him winning the MSR and Flanders. In the intermediate future maybe the Amstel Gold Race, and possibly one of the week-long races further into the future. But the Tour? Never.
For starters, he didn't win a single race anymore after the Tour. Even lost a race like Veenendaal-Veenendaal.Ryo Hazuki said:how do you know?
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