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Jorgenson for top 5 isn't exactly a strange thought based on his results this year.
That's hardly limited to Americans.
A bit of respect for the last 2x time Tour France winner would be something good.
I don't feel this comes down to respect or disrespect. For me personally it would be rather disrespectful if Visma really plans to use Jonas as a dom for Jorgenson and Kuss. That in my opinion wouldn't prove anything meaningful, quite the opposite. In my opinion the backlash would be rather severe.
But OK you are saying Jonas and some others are saying Jorgenson should be higher in the hierarchy, then Kuss. Lets see on where they finish and on who did the dom work. After we can discuss if it was the right call to make, or not.
Visma is just trolling and they will continue to do that until the first real mountain stage. Bluff.
P.s- i didn't knew Visma said something like that. I read the article some minutes ago.
I mean, he will be in the de-load phase right now (or at least last week), so they probably already have a good idea about his shape.
If Vingo gets relegated to a domestique role it'll be high time for him to search for a better team i.e. Israel Premier Tech (where he'll be a co-leader alongside Froomey!)
Possibly. It’s also possible his agent or support team (at home) are telling him to take all the credit he can and stay in the limelight so as to make hay while the sun’s out, and boost his post career possibilities.
And he hasn’t yet said something like “they should be sh*tting their pants” and Im
Pretty sure Simon isn’t American
Vingo isn't doing domestic duty for anyone ... haha.
If Vingo can start the race, but is not able to compete for GC,, I suppose I could see Visma trying to use him like how they used Roglic as a decoy in 2022, the first year that Vingo won the TDF.
As I remember, Roglic fell and got hurt? but continued in the race and then on one of the big mountain days, Visma isolated Pogi and made him cover attacks of both Roglic and Vingo. (and maybe Sepp and/or WVA too? I don't remember). Point being, it appeared to me that Roglic knew he was going to eventually abandon as he wasn't 100%, but Visma was able to use him tactically before he did. Of course that scenario would make a lot more sense if Roglic was still on Visma.
So maybe I could see Vingo used as a decoy, but the day he loses time, I would guess he will drop out of the race.
But back then, it was only Pogi. Now there are Rogla and Remco too. So a decoy won't work.
Yeah, Pogi shouldn't have followed Rogla. He should've let Rogla go.
He can do podium if we count the first as the last rider in GC classification.
Social media is very very tricky most of these riders do fluffy back story stuff that has a good mix, their wife, pets, some sofa sitting, drinking coffee, oh what a nice guy..they all currently have it to some degree. Kuss has videos from Andorra and comes off as a decent guy and husband. There is always the risk of the encounter coming off as arrogant and overconfident.. Pog, and Remco both come off as likeable to semi likeable in their propaganda videos..
Gotta be careful so people don't route against you
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I found Kuss comment quite disrespectful towards Vingegaard, might just be me who interpreted it that way but I woulda thought a little more humble approach was sensible there but ive might been clickbaited for all I know.
Out for the Tour with COVID from the Dauphine according to reports. Explains his form a bit I guess? Haven’t been paying that much attention.
He has probably not had covid all year...
I think he had it before the Dauphine started. I saw an article before the race started where the DS for Visma said he didn't know what type of results he expected out of Kuss because he had been recently sick and unable to train at the level he had hoped.
I only recently learned (maybe it was common knowledge) that he raced with it at last years Giro
https://escapecollective.com/sepp-kuss-says-that-he-had-covid-19-during-last-years-giro/
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