Yeah agree, it was just a completely off-day. Prolly losing between 3 minutes to lil Richie, maybe less.
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If one week races were rated as highly as one day races and three week races, his palmares would be incredible,
The gap prior to the TT was only 1:39. So even on his normal TT would have lost the podium spot to Porte anyway. But you should think about the energy Lopez expended in winning stage 17. That explains the off day.
Lopez wasn’t a better climber over all the mountain stages in last year’s TdF than Porte. In fact Porte distanced Lopez on occasions as well. eg Col du Grand Colombier.
The missing stage race has been found late in the game. Good one Richie.
Yep, he's got a pretty sweet and complete palmares now.
Amazing that Richie is the first Aussie to win the Dauphine since Phil Anderson! Phil is a legend and pioneer of Australian road cycling success in Europe so that is a huge stat Porte can be proud of.
Late in his career Porte is adding some impressive results to his palmeres. While we will always wonder what if, at least he can be very proud now he has shut up many doubters on his true abilities since last season.
Late in his career Porte is adding some impressive results to his palmeres. While we will always wonder what if, at least he can be very proud now he has shut up many doubters on his true abilities since last season.
I'm more surprised that he's only don Tirreno one time, and DNF'd.
(I'm less surprised that he DNF'd)
Anderson won some good races : Tour De Suisse, Tour De Romandie, Dauphine and two fifth places in the Tour as well as two Tour stage wins and two Giro stage wins plus the Amstel Gold race (1983),
Züri–Metzgete (1984) Frankfurt Grand Prix (1984, 1985) Paris–Tours (1986) Milano–Torino (1987). He certainly inspired the following generations of Aussie riders.
Porte can be proud of his career. Just a shame that his best grand tour years from a physical standpoint didn't pan out the way he hoped for. But that Tour podium last year certainly seemed to purge a lot of demons for him and obviously at 36 he can still win good races.
This Aussie is easy on the eye
Cadel was the most unlaidback Aussie ever. imo.
I think Richie looks in better form than 2020. The conundrum is if Thomas falters the gap conceded to Rog and Pog might already be too great for LRP. I think Porte will likely be riding for Carapaz at some point in the Tour. Carapaz has prepared specifically for the TdF, is in great form as we saw at TdS and is still youngish so should be at a higher level now than when he beat Nibali and Roglic at the 2019 Giro when he was still only 25.
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I'm so thankful for his 2012-2015 work, really nice guy, with a lot bad luck so far - yes, he is my first choice and dream to be in yellow in Paris.
Carapaz can't beat Roglic and Pogacar going head to head and with two TTs I don't think. Ineos have to get tactical and use their team of GC riders to create doubts for the other teams. The only way Ineos can win the race I think it to sacrifice good riders and be aggressive in the mountains. Protecting riders until the third week won't work against the two Slovenians who are strong climbers and TT riders. And setting a high tempo and towing Roglic to the finish to lose the time bonuses won't work either. Which probably also means that Ineos will have to try and get a rider in the break constantly especially on the harder stages. I think one of the climbing domestiques will have to drop big time early in the race maybe so they become no threat in a break but could be invaluable if Ineos can isolate Pog or Rog.
It's his pure fault. Ineos was at the front of the bunch and he decided to go backwards. This crash highly possible.
Maybe he was at the back having been caught up in the first crash? It was hard to move up through the peloton after that; very packed.
How. How does this happen even at Ineos. Why wasn't he with g and carapaz. Tao down over 5min, so I guess got caught up too. I'm sad.
The stars seemed to align in 2020................
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So is it sure /confirmed he was caught by one of the crash?
Apparently Port and TGH caught up in the crash, yep:
Tour de France crashes make an immediate impact on Ineos Grenadiers leadership strategy
Tour de France opener sees Carapaz loses five seconds, Porte 2:16 and Geoghegan Hart 5:33
www.cyclingnews.com
So, Porte dumped 31min last night. Will we get to see him go for a stage win? I hope so. He deserves one on his palmares given his career I think.
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