I’m probably more conflicted about him at the moment than any other rider in the peloton.
On the one hand, I love to watch him climb. He makes it look so effortless.
On the other hand, as I said in the race thread, I’ve always hated the super domestique as an institution and therefore find myself speechless with horror at the brand new role Jumbo have invented for this guy of “reserve superdomestique”. The strongest climber in a GT not only being paid to control things for someone else, but in this new role actually being paid to hang around breathing through his nose doing nothing except looking ominous. He doesn‘t even control things on most climbing stages, he’s there to intimidate anyone out of even trying an attack as he chats on the radio and looks like he’s out on a coffee ride. He only pulls when something has gone wrong for his leader.
On the one hand, I love to watch him climb. He makes it look so effortless.
On the other hand, as I said in the race thread, I’ve always hated the super domestique as an institution and therefore find myself speechless with horror at the brand new role Jumbo have invented for this guy of “reserve superdomestique”. The strongest climber in a GT not only being paid to control things for someone else, but in this new role actually being paid to hang around breathing through his nose doing nothing except looking ominous. He doesn‘t even control things on most climbing stages, he’s there to intimidate anyone out of even trying an attack as he chats on the radio and looks like he’s out on a coffee ride. He only pulls when something has gone wrong for his leader.