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Did we watch the same race? They executed perfectly the same strategy I'd have for that stage. A hard pace throughout the stage, Vingegaard attacks 8 km from the finish, and the better placed teammates marks the opposition before sprinting away near the finish. Vingegaard put the others in a favourable position, and they in turn played the perfect roles behind.
I would have allowed Roglič to attack before Kuss because he has less of a time buffer, but other than that they played it perfectly.
I can't watch anymore. It is beyond ridiculous.
Well why wouldn't you? You have the strongest two GT riders supporting Kuss, You'll either fail but ruin a lot of peoples races, or your guys are strong enough to recover the situation if it goes wrong, But more likely, you'll ride off into the sunset.
They did execute the tactics very well yesterday but the primary reason they worked was because the riders are turbo charged and able to produce the watts required. It's almost like somebody in the team is controlling the riders with a games console. It is better to watch as a spectacle than the Sky train churning out kilometre after kilometre at tempo but the speeds have been ramped up another level and the other teams have not been able to respond.
Jonas V played by Leonardo DiCpario in Catch me if you can.
When I said I was in favour of demolishing the mountains on which the Tourmalet stands, I was meaning to donate to the Japanese to build another of their offshore polder cities. When I said "destroy the Tourmalet" this was not what I had in mind.
Jérôme Pineau (former manager of B&B) said he suspects Jumbo Visma use mechanical doping (he said they're on something 'worse than doping'):
Vuelta: "Je vois des choses…", les doutes de Jérôme Pineau face aux performances des Jumbo-Visma
Dans Les Grandes Gueules du Sport ce dimanche sur RMC, Jérôme Pineau a exprimé ses doutes devant les performances de Sepp Kuss, Primoz Roglic et Jonas Vingegaard, qui occupent actuellement les trois premières places du classement général de la Vuelta.rmcsport.bfmtv.com
Vuelta : Pourquoi Jérôme Pineau suspecte du "dopage mécanique" chez la Jumbo-Visma
VIDEO - Dans les Grandes Gueules du Sport ce dimanche sur RMC, Jérôme Pineau explique pourquoi il suspecte la formation Jumbo-Visma de "dopage mécanique". Sepp Kuss, Primoz Roglic et Jonas Vingegaard occupent actuellement les trois premières places du classement général de la Vuelta.
That's quite a claim (certainly from someone who was in the peloton until recently). I think the part which damages his speculative theory the most (other than the obvious lack of evidence) is the fact he said Sepp Kuss shouldn't be able to accelerate & drop 'top riders' like Ayuso, Soler & Uijtdebroeks the way he did on the Tourmalet on Friday.
Two of those riders were still wearing diapers when Kuss was flying up Loze & the Angliru back in 2020, whilst the third (Soler) is not a known climbing GOAT. I think before publicly making such comments, a little homework should be done first (namely don't exaggerate the worth of xyz riders in order to magnify the 'implausibility' of their rival's performance).
I'm surprised (or perhaps not so much) that apparently the French still hold Pineau in high regard. The way he handled the whole B&B debacle has been an absolute disgrace. But anyway... the French will always come with accusations, usually based on nothing, and the mechanical doping thing is just so nonsensical. They've been saying it for years, first about Roglic based on some very flimsy infrared picture from Strade Bianche or wherever. And then he won the TT in the Giro. A guy they had never heard of! Surely he needed a motor for that. And the myth is still perpetuated by some sceptics on twitter (mainly French, of course).Jérôme Pineau (former manager of B&B) said he suspects Jumbo Visma use mechanical doping (he said they're on something 'worse than doping'):
Vuelta: "Je vois des choses…", les doutes de Jérôme Pineau face aux performances des Jumbo-Visma
Dans Les Grandes Gueules du Sport ce dimanche sur RMC, Jérôme Pineau a exprimé ses doutes devant les performances de Sepp Kuss, Primoz Roglic et Jonas Vingegaard, qui occupent actuellement les trois premières places du classement général de la Vuelta.
Vuelta : Pourquoi Jérôme Pineau suspecte du "dopage mécanique" chez la Jumbo-Visma
VIDEO - Dans les Grandes Gueules du Sport ce dimanche sur RMC, Jérôme Pineau explique pourquoi il suspecte la formation Jumbo-Visma de "dopage mécanique". Sepp Kuss, Primoz Roglic et Jonas Vingegaard occupent actuellement les trois premières places du classement général de la Vuelta.
That's quite a claim (certainly from someone who was in the peloton until recently). I think the part which damages his speculative theory the most (other than the obvious lack of evidence) is the fact he said Sepp Kuss shouldn't be able to accelerate & drop 'top riders' like Ayuso, Soler & Uijtdebroeks the way he did on the Tourmalet on Friday.
Two of those riders were still wearing diapers when Kuss was flying up Loze & the Angliru back in 2020, whilst the third (Soler) is not a known climbing GOAT. I think before publicly making such comments, a little homework should be done first (namely don't exaggerate the worth of xyz riders in order to magnify the 'implausibility' of their rival's performance).
It's never "what can we do better?" It's always "the guy who beat us is doping". Or, in this case, "the guy who beat us has a motor in his bike". Sure, dude. Then why didn't Van Aert just turn on the motor in Flanders? It would have saved him a lot of embarrassment and criticism. 
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