This game is fun. I'll try.He looked tired towards the end of the Tour and then the TT happened.
He looked tired towards the end of the Vuelta 2019 and then stage 20 happened.
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This game is fun. I'll try.He looked tired towards the end of the Tour and then the TT happened.
Anyone knows why he's not on the startlist for Amstel?
Obviously, but I wonder why. He's trained in the area before, did the race a couple of times and would be a def contender.
Looks like Brandon M may be the teammate Tadej needs to secure another GT win. Interesting to see how McNulty holds up to 3 weeks and if he can take some pressure off Pogi.
Pogacar will need several riders like McNulty to win another Tour. The first one was easy compared to what's ahead.I am pretty sure that he doesn't need McNulty with him to win another GT but its better to have him than not.
Will he ride the Giro or the Tour this year, by the way?
Considering the time margins of recent GT victories, the number of significant time gaps caused by windy conditions or crashes and you can only conclude every stage has the opportunity to be significant in the last week. Tadej won the TdF with virtually no team support while free-lancing off of JV pace setting. His team will now be in the highlights if they don't control the race and he'll need help. That's a truism for any team that tactically has to defend a lead. Unleashing the younger, Plan B talent within a team at the very end of GTs has given us: Tao, Egan, Tadej.....The final week does not really have any mountain stages where a weak team can be exploited which is the time of the race where an ambush attack is likely, if UAE are not targeted on the Tignes or Andorra stage then having a weak team might not be that significant.
I disagree on this. On the last week, any place with more than 1 hill is a place for an potential attack from others rider or teams.The final week does not really have any mountain stages where a weak team can be exploited which is the time of the race where an ambush attack is likely, if UAE are not targeted on the Tignes or Andorra stage then having a weak team might not be that significant.
But he did.He rode a hard race today. He was dragging that group chasing for almost half the stage.
It was a huge performance really. Roglic wouldnt have dropped him today.
Now we know how McNulty holds up to less than 3 weeks. Too bad he had such a rough day. This also confirms the challenge Tadej will have as a serious favorite as he pointed out:Looks like Brandon M may be the teammate Tadej needs to secure another GT win. Interesting to see how McNulty holds up to 3 weeks and if he can take some pressure off Pogi.
Well, that would have been a very different race. Moreover, I am not so sure it would have worked out that way regardless. TP had been in the wind more than PR, and had less willing participants to toe him to the line.I think if there had been 15km more and another climb, he would have probably caught Roglič. He has such an insane engine, probably a bigger engine than Rogla, although I thing the older Slovenian is underrated in this regard as we saw today.