Exactly my thoughts as well. He will always target the TDF every year. If he always lives in the fear that a crash in Roubaix could derail the TDF or the whole season, then he might as well just skip Roubaix for the rest of his career. There will always be risks when he rides Roubaix. If he truly wants to try it this year, he should just go for it.
Gianetti can gtfo and stop trying to ruin cycling
If they nuke it like Alpecin did last year the fight for position will be a lot less stressful
Exactly! Arenberg with that chicane is way less dangerous too so he must race it!
Maybe he wants to win against MVDP at PR, just like Ronde. He wants that challenge. I believe everybody would want to see it at least once, when they are both still at their best.
This joke hits several layers all at once. Good job.
I think it was an emergency decision after the crashes last year, so it wasn't meant to stay.
Think they take another way in this year. The one that was suggested here before the race actually.
I understand his point but one day Pogacar will have to race PR. I can see him racing the Tour until he is 32 years old (at least) in order to win it so he can't wait until there to start in PR.
I agree. The competitor in him would not value the race win as much if it came after MVDP has k on largely moved away from road racing.
Those two 90 degrees turns just look far more dangerous than straight on at high speed to me as the battle for position will be even more intense.They needed more time to have the road ready for the new solution:
I'm not sure. It wasn't bad last year, if anything it was a major success.
I think they were extremely lucky though with how thinned out the peloton already was. We never saw how that chicane plays out for a more or less complete peloton.
That felt circumstantial to me as the group was so much smaller heading to the Arenberg that it didn’t get truly tested.
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