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McNulty has also looked in great early season form.
Huge performance today.
Well done.
Also Grosschartner and Florian for pulling like crazy to get Pog back before Cipressa. They didnt get much help from any cars. Like Visma did with Van Aert.
Del Toro with the final launch.
Pog mentioned all of them the first thing he could say after the finish. Class act.
Not me. I didn’t think winning was likely as I thought it would be extremely tough to shake off MVDP by as much as he did today to not even come back on the descent but I was always confident it could happen at some point in his career. I voted yes to all 3 big goals in that poll thread.
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Oh that final was an absolute nail-bitter. Even though I was way past my football fan "peak" I still couldn't fully control emotions. After watching Messi's genius for 15 years we witnessed his crowning achievement.
More so likely he could maybe do Vuelta in 2027 imo.
Not this year because he most likely needs to rest and recharge after Tour. Having had little time to do so during the year up until that point.
If nothing else happens, that changes things.
I actually disagree but he'll have to win the obly wat we all thought he could, by getting away in the last 2km and hope others don't immediately chase. Or do a Mohoric on a descent and stay away
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Funny exactly same actually fotball interest not what it was at all but it was an insanely perfect game and a perfect ending of a genius indeed. A coronation fit for the king of the sport. Gave some ressemblance of today
If I was him, I wouldn't take that. I think he can win a lot more than just that, that's including P-R
It is possible he could do that, but it will also be harder to execute rather than pretty much having a 50/50 chance in a sprint like this one.
How this race plays out will always be a bit unpredictable.
I think Roubaix is the one that he now cares about most. He obviously wants the Vuelta but the Monuments clearly mean most for him at this stage.
I do agree with that however as we repeatedly see, you have to actually be there to be there. Maybe he'd be there last year also but crashed. Maybe next time he'd be in bad position and as a consequence get dropped
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Even Nibali was rooting for him😔. Today its not tadej who won its cycling who won
Even Nibali was rooting for him😔. Today its not tadej who won its cycling who won
Or just failing to get away with an attack on Poggio or its descent. Nibali, Mohoric and MVDP has won that way though.
That is pretty much his best shot or a similar scenario as today.
He also did try a late attack on the flat, but MVDP pulled him back and Philipsen won the sprint that edition.
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Hard to believe. MSR is so easy to fit in any calendar. It's more likely that Pogacar won't be willing to come back to the Tour anymore when he gets #5 (but sheikhs may not agree).
The crash wasnt ideal, but it did make the peloton smaller and so on.
Disrupted things.
It never really plays out how one thought it would even though the outcome of it being Pog, Pidcock and MVDP going over the top of Cipressa together was a plausible scenario.
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I wonder if he doesnt want to come back to Sanremo now that he has won there or if there is a deal with his team that once he has won all monuments the focus goes back to GTs. Gianettis reaction right after the race kinda sounded like he was relieved he could focus more on the tour again.
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But why stop clicking the "I win" button 800 times a season?
Its nuts that 2 monuments and vuelta would be a terrible season for him.
This was the hardest one.
I think everyone was just happy they finally could get it.
Not reading into it more than that. He will still target monuments and other big races.
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I think it depends on Roubaix.
If he wins Roubaix (and all 5 this year) he may not come back.
If he doesn't win Roubaix I think he'll come back in order to fry and win all 5 in the same year
Roubaix means a lot more.
Nobody would doubt that a GT rider who wins 4 TdFs and is also a great 'puncher' who wins RVV and multiple other monuments, is potentially able to win Vuelta.
On the other hand, a couple of years ago people were still saying that even 'top 5' at Roubaix would've been out of reach... because he wasn't a 70kg cyclist and such.
Plenty of guys won both TdF & Vuelta.
No one won TdF and Roubaix... during the last 40 years (Hinault 1981).
I dont think winning them all in the same year primarily is the goal.
It is just trying to win each one at some point and become a rider that has won them all, which very few has done.
Then maybe he will start to think about if he can win as many monuments as Merckx or a couple more, but firstly the goal is having won all five at least once.
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