Renewi Tour 2023 (August 23-27)

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De Lie looks slow asf. Dont mind it really if that means he might be focusing a bit more on his endurance and climbing for the big classics instead of sitting and farming Ronde van local cathedral

I looked at his power on Wednesday and it was 100+ watts below his numbers before his crash. Think he didn't really train on his sprint the last few months or something cause indeed, he looks incredibly slow.
 
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I looked at his power on Wednesday and it was 100+ watts below his numbers before his crash. Think he didn't really train on his sprint the last few months or something cause indeed, he looks incredibly slow.
He does look laboured in the sprints. At least for stage 4 he had a lead out man but he seemed to drop off a little too early but since Ewan's off in the wilderness De Lie has had to take over and apart from his crash, he's been racing since January so it's not surprising the 21 year old is suffering. In September he's off to Canada, but I don't expect he'll do well there.
 
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He does look laboured in the sprints. At least for stage 4 he had a lead out man but he seemed to drop off a little too early but since Ewan's off in the wilderness De Lie has had to take over and apart from his crash, he's been racing since January so it's not surprising the 21 year old is suffering. In September he's off to Canada, but I don't expect he'll do well there.

"Apart from his crash, he's been racing since January"

So basically, he hasn't been racing since January? He basically had a 3 month break. Tiredness has nothing to do with it, have you seen his sprint on the Mur Friday? His 30"-1' numbers are insane. It' just his 10"-15" numbers that seem to be lower than previously. Yesterday was like 1150W for 12s. You'll never win a sprint with that. Last year he was doing close to 1400W in easier races. His sprint always looks laboured. Thats just his style.
 
Thanks for the numbers & info.
He did race from January until his crash in the middle of May, then did the Belgium NC RR in June then started again in July with the Wallonie tour so apart from the NC race he was away for 2 months (middle of May until middle of July).
 
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i do think the parcours is ridiculous, they take some roads that cars don't even take, BUT if I knew this beforehand how do the teams/riders not know this beforehand. Also organizers ofcourse, I feel like they always overestimate their parcours and think it's gonna be like 10 riders left in the end while in reality it's a parcours for a bunch sprint.

They just restarted, not sure what the solution is now. Can't just change the last 5km.
 
No boni seconds, no "green km", GC times with 6k to go (just before the last climb). Will still be dangerous, basically a bunch sprint till the 6km banner, definitely given the climb after it and that there's still a stage win for grabs. If you neutralize a race just do GC times at 20km to go or something, not right before a climb.

Anyways, what a week for cycling. Horrible. Again, I agree that this parcours was way too sketchy, but this should've been handled before the race. Good to see riders act as one for once tho.
 
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