you do not answer to my points: Does he have little chance? Would his chances be much higher with a super team? It's entirely in the hands of the management team (and the owners of the team) to make things go in a certain way
I dont think you are making any points.
they can lead races from march onwards, skipping alula tour or TDU one year is not a tragedy, we are talking like winning these races would change anything in the careers of these riders
"They will still line-up with a competitive team": no they will not, in one week you will agree with me.
Stop stressing. Things will rarely be ideal. Neither before or during a race.
not stressing, just making comments, to which by the way you have never responded, not in the merit. Your comment is basically: whatever, just let things go, winning or not winning is the same, the team will do their best, they will be good enough, life is life. You have not entered in the merit of my comments. By the way, in life if you want to really achieve something you have to plan for it and go after it with everything you have, but I will stop here because I was here to talk about racing, tactics and riders, simply was not expecting a comment like yours. Enjoy MSR, it will be fun, that's the only thing we apparently agree on!
I disagree.
no that would be extreme and would make no sense, I would avoid TDU/alula tour and the opening weekend. In general I would reduce the number of race days for key MSR riders, and only send del toro to tirreno, but not mcnulty to PN (no chance of winning). There's a reason why pogacar only races once before msr
It's not like TDU is race where crashes happen often. Omloop is a dangerous race though.
nope, I corrected my mistake there, I said 1) very little chance 2) much lower chance than with a superteam. Still haven't heard if you agree with these 2 points specifically, apart from "life is life"/Bad luck which do not address the specific points directly
Thats not true.
all races are dangerous, the point is that tdu is not a big race, they have already won it many times and you can easily sacrifice it one year, just like alula tour and other minor races. I hope christen can make a strong pull in the first part of cipressa, he has to do the role of wellens and that's not easy, if he's well positioned he can do it
my first post makes perfect sense, I just exaggerated to make a point, my mistake. The only exaggeration was in saying no chance, which I corrected to little chance. The rest of the post is just saying that with a proper superteam UAE could make a huge difference and pogacar would be my favourite to win, and I stand by that
UAE tour (is big for them), Strade, Tirreno, Paris Nice. That's it. By the way they would have to sacrifice a few minor races in january/february, it's not like you are asking them to plan their entire season on MSR, just the first 2 months
Do you realise all these injuries have occurred in WT races which teams must race. What a silly post!
Do you realise the TDU is a WT race which means the team must be present.
Omloop is big for belgian riders. McNulty crashed in PN. Crashes are part of bike racing.
He said it I think as part of a gushing press conference, were reporter listed the races he hasn't won and he was being positive and saying, yeah sure I want win everything. I think TDU is way more likely if he walks away with something at Milan San Remo and Roubaix, He already owns some of the others, Then again everyone loves Kangaroos so it might be important before he completely quits or stops doing grand tours.
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