Nah, ITT similar to the last Tour but shorter. +10 from Remco and -10 from Jonas, but with his current shape maybe better.
We can add Dauphiné to the list:
next year, Tour de Suisse?
As we know Pog doesn't care much about the one week stage races, but he said he'd like to win the 7 major ones at least once each.
The issue is that Basque and Romandie, calendar wise, are a pain in the... for someone like him who has big Monument and Classics ambitions.
Had Tadej been a Vingo, a Contador, a Froome, an Ivan Basso, and so forth, it would've been a different story.
The way he is climbing he could afford to lose 4 minutes to Remco in ITT and not lose a moments sleep.
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PCS is not good. Last year he had the best season ever and there are more 10 seasons better than his last season according PCS.For what it matters...
I personally think it's just an interesting criteria, among many other possible ones.
I definitely don't see it as if it were "the be-all and end-all".
Nonetheless, it's still pretty impressive that Tadej at 26 years and nine months is #9 according to the PCS all-time rankings.
With all the guys left ahead of him who competed 35 or more years ago... aside from Valverde who is a very special case given that somehow he managed to be competitive till he was 48 y.o,
Who is the best rider of alltime?
The ProCyclingStats alltime ranking is led by Eddy Merckx with 3859.8 points, before Sean Kelly (2171.1 points) and Francesco Moser (2129.2 points). Considering the enormous gap between Merckx and Kelly (3859.8) we can conclude that Merckx is the best rider of all time.
Actually, I personally know that Valverde always lied about his age: in reality he was 57 when he won the WC in Innsbruck.
His last year competing in road races, when he won CG plus a stage at Gran Camino, did 2nd at Strade Bianche, 6° at Lombardia, and so on, Valverde was 64 years old.
I thought he was sandbagging at first, but after stages 6 and 7 I changed my mind. Why would you pretend to be worse than you are in the TT, only to show your hand in the mountains? I think he was either on an off day, had an issue with the set up or had a pacing issues.
yes, he was not happy about the bike, unfortunately it's too late to change that setup, but in isola he has to focus on climbs, not tt, it doesn't matter if he looses 40-50 seconds in the TT, as long as he continues to improve his climbing level
Sola knows what Pogacar needs. Pogacar with this climbing level will be unbeatable.
I mean if the tt bike is slower than competition today, I don't see how it can be as good as competition in 3 weeks, research on materials and components takes a lot of time. They'll have to work on that for next year
I feel like the climbing level of his opponents was not super high in this race, except for vingegaard who was good. But they'll improve a lot, also vingegaard will improve
They will not improve a lot. They will improve and still won't sniff Pogacar's climbing ability. The only time he went crazy, he put a full minute in a 20 minutes effort.
Setup and bike are two different things IMO. You can do many things with the setup to improve how the bike works. They have plenty of time to get TP more comfortable/confident on the bike.
How would it be a shot in the dark? While the aero vs. comfort balance is a fine line, getting TP a little more comfortable/confident won't be a shot in the dark.
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