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They sure are. Those guys were good for 20 wins a year or more. They’ve also had injuries to Laporte and Van Baarle. If everyone was healthy they’d be doing just fine, I think. (Jury is still out on Cian as a replacement for Roglic.)Visma looking very plain without Roglic, WvA & Vinge
"Once again we did everything we could." - Grischa Niermann
Riders of Roglic' quality generally aren't remotely replacable, apart from fantasyland where Pogacar or Evenepoel are available.They sure are. Those guys were good for 20 wins a year or more. They’ve also had injuries to Laporte and Van Baarle. If everyone was healthy they’d be doing just fine, I think. (Jury is still out on Cian as a replacement for Roglic.)
Every team looks plain without their 3 best ridersVisma looking very plain without Roglic, WvA & Vinge
"Once again we did everything we could." - Grischa Niermann
Didn't Tratnik also lose a couple of spring classics due to sickness?At this point I fully expect half their Tour team to get kidnapped by Aliens and their Vuelta team gets sucked in by a black hole into another dimension
- Vingegaard: bad crash
- Van Aert: Bad crash
- Kooij: sick in giro
- Benoot: started season with a fracture
- Laporte: sick in spring + giro
- Uijtdebroecks: sick in giro
- Kelderman: Paris Nice crash
- Lemmen: fractured collarbone
- Van Baarle: sick in spring classics
- Gesink: crash in giro
- Per Strand Hagenes: crash in E3
- Gloag: hit by car end of last season
So he can crash into a spectator holding a sign?It's time to recall Tony Martin out of retirement.
You forgot Kooij dropping out of the Giro due to sicknessVingegard - crashed in Itzulia, broken ribs and lungs
Belg Pozzato - crashed in DDV, many broken bones, missed the Flanders and Roubaix
Gesink- crashed himself out of race on giro stage 2
Keldweman- crashed his collarbone in Paris nice, missed the Ardennes and the giro
Laporte - got sick in Sanremo and missed the classics, got sick again in the giro and left the race
Kruijvijk - crashed his hip in Dauphine and will miss le tour
Dylan van barlle - Ill all the classics, crashed his colleabone in Dauphine and miss the tour
Trarnik - crashed in E2 and miss the Flanders
Ujtedbreckes - left the giro as a leader because he had a sickness
Glogg - missed every race.
Kuss - isn't good anymore
Season could be better so far.
View: https://x.com/vismaleaseabike/status/1798768449503809666?t=NBISlNRk1W4oIYRjMxYWOA&s=19
No Kruijsvijk or van barlle in the Tour
Where can I put some money on Koen Bouwman winning the KOM jersey in the Tour?I'm all aboard GC Kooij now.
Where can I put some money on Koen Bouwman winning the KOM jersey in the Tour?