Obviously. But I find it astounding - 2019 everyone thought Bernal will dominate GTs in years to come. Also the Evenepoel talk seems roughly overstated. Pogacar is on another level.
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This is Usain Bolt, but on a bicycle and over a longer distance.
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Would be surprised if Ineos don’t manage to create something to fight him within a year or 2. Who and how I don’t know but I can see it happen. (We all know how, they’ll sign Lutsenko and he’ll dominate)
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In a mountains dominated GT Bernal will be a challenge. We are yet to see what a well-prepared Evenepoel is capable of in a GT. IMO he'll be an awesome GT-rider (excelling at both TT and mountains). He and Bernal are from the same generation as Pog so potentially many years ahead of them. As things stand Pog is ahead of them all but his generation is abundant with talent.
Well EB already won a GT this year (maybe with SARS-CoV-2 in his lungs!).
And he would totally be blown away like the rest today. Still think Bernal is great but only being able to win GTs Pogcar decides not to win is well, an underwhelming perspective at least...
Maybe or maybe not.
Who's decision was it for EB to do the GdI? By all accounts that was Ineos (so that GT could win another TdF).
I'm sure that we'll get to see them battle in a GT soon (hopefully next year?).
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Must be fun to be a Slovenian to have a beast like this, this can go on for quite some time.
It's actually crazy how in the span of a couple months 2 Slovenians were born who have the potential to be among the greatest all time in their respective sports.
You aren't suggesting Doncic are you? He is amazing, but nothing so far suggests he is MJ/LeBron level (i could see him being considered top 5-10 all time though).
Top 5-10 is among the greatest, no? Obviously MJ and LeBron are on another level. I was also just talking about potential. Pogacar isn't on Merckx' level either, is he?
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Pogacar is doing what everyone wants Evenepoel to do.
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My guess would be Pidcock. Great power to weight ratio and had decent showings against the clock on the youth ranks.
The trend was clear, but unfortunately broken. After Bernal of 97 in 2019 and Pogacar of 98 in 2020 it would be time for the appearance of Pidcock of 99 before Evenepoel of 00 takes over next year.
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Some options in my opinion to ineos create something.
Buy padun.
Buy remco evenepoel.
Buy joao almeida.
Buy ayuso.
Buy roglic.
Buy van der poel and make him a gc contender.
Or the best option, buy pogacar.
If you type that again, I will demand that you be banned...from earth!
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Even Pidcock will need to improve a lot.
Pogacar was tremendous, totally next level, he just won the TDF with that ride. Carapaz was excellent today, putting 3 minutes into the rest of the contenders, yet still lost 3 minutes himself.
For me, this stage conjured up memories of the 1998 stage to Les Deux Alpes, Pogacar's ride was that good. I don't even see a fully fit Roglic or Bernal being a real threat to him.
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Tour de France stage 8: Death of the mountain train
With no one team in control, the Tour de France continues to be chaotic
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Formolo and McNulty did their jobs well, Majka and Hirschi have been disappointing, but at least we know why with Hirschi's crash.
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Some options are jokes, others are serious ah ah. That option was a joke.If you type that again, I will demand that you be banned...from earth!
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Everything points to UAE having the biggest budget in town pretty soon.
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