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I agree. This is becoming a very lifeless approach to the sport. Clubber it to death with numbers and video analysis. Incidentally the European Championship football has a similar trend with all the retroactive strikethrough’s of goals due to VAR offside.
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VLAB pleased and proud to announce yet another eldritch horror. What a terrible idea.
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The rest should hope that Pogi & Vinnie just became pure hills specialists and will crack when it's time to face real men (Remco, Rogla and co) in high mountains.
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My concern is more if he has recovered fully from the Giro in that short time. Already forgot about that. Might be on to something hence also why he is lighter than ever(?) that makes it plausible.
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We don't know. He prepared to be in top shape in the last week and I think he will be conservative (to his own standards) until Plateau de Beille. However, the first TT will play a huge role in this race, hope to see him in yellow after that stage. He needs to be in front of Vingegaard.
He probably is a bit better, but he wasn't pushed that hard in the Giro and the really hard stages were not that many. And competing against Vinge on long climbs 3rd week in the tour when Vinge has a team that can make the hole stages hard is a different thing methinks.
Will be interesting to see how strong Pog will be in the 3rd week. And will he pay for doing the giro?
Probably, don't want to risk getting an aero bullet in his back.
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He should give away the yellow to Remco, Vingo or Carapaz today. No point in keeping it in the first part of the Tour - post stage obligations take time and energy, which will be needed later.
From cyclinguptodate:
Whilst Pogacar was unable to gap his main rival and saw the duo of Remco Evenepoel and Richard Carapaz regain contact by the finish line, UAE Team Emirates' team boss Joxean Matxin is not concerned, insisting the Pogacar's move was far from full gas from the Slovenian. "The intention was to test all the rivals to understand the level of the different riders," explains Matxin in conversation with Cyclism'Actu.
Far from? Mind games or the truth?
cyclinguptodate.com
Whilst Pogacar was unable to gap his main rival and saw the duo of Remco Evenepoel and Richard Carapaz regain contact by the finish line, UAE Team Emirates' team boss Joxean Matxin is not concerned, insisting the Pogacar's move was far from full gas from the Slovenian. "The intention was to test all the rivals to understand the level of the different riders," explains Matxin in conversation with Cyclism'Actu.
Far from? Mind games or the truth?
"The intention was to test" - Joxean Matxin insists Tadej Pogacar's stage 2 attack at Tour de France was not full gas
Stage 2 of the 2024 Tour de France brought with it the first showing of the general classification riders, with Tadej Pogacar launching a brutal attack on the San Luca, with only the reigning Tour de...
cyclinguptodate.com
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Lost yellow. More time to rest before his nuclear bomb tomorrow
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The team gets to rest until the lead up to the Galibier. At minimum they don’t have to chase down breaks and such. As if EF will either
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I don't believe it. They will put a hard tempo during all stage.
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From cyclinguptodate:
Whilst Pogacar was unable to gap his main rival and saw the duo of Remco Evenepoel and Richard Carapaz regain contact by the finish line, UAE Team Emirates' team boss Joxean Matxin is not concerned, insisting the Pogacar's move was far from full gas from the Slovenian. "The intention was to test all the rivals to understand the level of the different riders," explains Matxin in conversation with Cyclism'Actu.
Far from? Mind games or the truth?
"The intention was to test" - Joxean Matxin insists Tadej Pogacar's stage 2 attack at Tour de France was not full gas
Stage 2 of the 2024 Tour de France brought with it the first showing of the general classification riders, with Tadej Pogacar launching a brutal attack on the San Luca, with only the reigning Tour de...
It's not in quotes so probably it's the author' addition for a catchy title. Maxtin just said that it was a short 2-km test of his rivals, not that it wasn't full gas. This is a big difference.
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Lol, sure, just testing…From cyclinguptodate:
Whilst Pogacar was unable to gap his main rival and saw the duo of Remco Evenepoel and Richard Carapaz regain contact by the finish line, UAE Team Emirates' team boss Joxean Matxin is not concerned, insisting the Pogacar's move was far from full gas from the Slovenian. "The intention was to test all the rivals to understand the level of the different riders," explains Matxin in conversation with Cyclism'Actu.
Far from? Mind games or the truth?
"The intention was to test" - Joxean Matxin insists Tadej Pogacar's stage 2 attack at Tour de France was not full gas
Stage 2 of the 2024 Tour de France brought with it the first showing of the general classification riders, with Tadej Pogacar launching a brutal attack on the San Luca, with only the reigning Tour de...
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He was testing. He didn't attack in the steepest part. He was overconfident as always, now he is back to reality and knows he has to dig deep to beat Jonas.
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he seemed to be breathing with his nose during the attack seated so plausible it was far from a full on attack.From cyclinguptodate:
Whilst Pogacar was unable to gap his main rival and saw the duo of Remco Evenepoel and Richard Carapaz regain contact by the finish line, UAE Team Emirates' team boss Joxean Matxin is not concerned, insisting the Pogacar's move was far from full gas from the Slovenian. "The intention was to test all the rivals to understand the level of the different riders," explains Matxin in conversation with Cyclism'Actu.
Far from? Mind games or the truth?
"The intention was to test" - Joxean Matxin insists Tadej Pogacar's stage 2 attack at Tour de France was not full gas
Stage 2 of the 2024 Tour de France brought with it the first showing of the general classification riders, with Tadej Pogacar launching a brutal attack on the San Luca, with only the reigning Tour de...
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