Big Doopie said:
garmin and jv regretting loss of RoRo.
TJVG a world champion. but clearly still waaaaaaaaaaaaaay overrated according to most here. LOL!
He has a good palmarès. But he's not got many wins of note outside the USA, and his style of riding means that few of us believe that he will win a Grand Tour. That's all. He's much better suited to the Tour than the backloaded climber-friendly Giro or the short, sharp carnival slopes and low TT mileage of the Vuelta. And I personally do not envisage any situation arising where the riders who I would expect to beat Tejay at a GT are ALL absent from the final classification. If he couldn't podium in 2014 when Froome and Contador both crashed out and Jice Peraud was 2nd, he will be hard pushed to win in the future imo. Yes, Froome, Contador and Nibali will not be there forever, but they're not THAT much older than him, and Pinot is younger than him too. He will continue to amass a good palmarès in the US stage races and places where the climbing is suited to him like Suisse, the Dauphiné and Catalunya. He might get a podium or two at the Tour de France. But - and I have been wrong about these things before, I once said Wiggins would never better his 2009 Grand Tour result and that Cadel Evans had missed his best chance to win the Tour in 2008 - the chances of him winning a Grand Tour are slim to none.
Which, when you consider Ryder freaking Hesjedal has won one, is a shame.
His winning a Worlds TTT is virtually meaningless in respect of changing my opinion with regards to Tejay in a Grand Tour.