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So, what exactly was Kruijswijk's role here?
Roglic: 1st.
Vingegaard: 2nd.
Van Aert: Green.
Kruijswijk: Flower holder? (I'm guessing it's because they also won the team GC, but... then why were Benoot and Harper not there?)
Is the answer: They were too busy getting pissed and groping the stage girls?!
In other (real) news, Wout van Aert apparently hurt his knee in training...
Maybe just a convenient excuse to avoid the compulsory National championships and build in some extra rest?
Maybe just a convenient excuse to avoid the compulsory National championships and build in some extra rest?
Today‘s the day! I think today, at breakfast and in the bus, all riders and staff stand tall and with broad shoulders: „Today we will tear apart Team UAE!“…
If he wasn‘t the likeable guy he is, I would hope that Pogi today would stand at the side of the road somewhere in Northern France, crying like MAL in last year’s Vuelta.
Today I hope for a JV 1-2-3, Roglic in front of Vingegaard and van Aert.
Team Bike Exchange?
The greatest team coordination there ever was
This doesn't make any sense whatsoever. It was horrendous luck. How is passive tactics to blame for anything that happened?You never planned to be aggressive on this stage and Pogi needed to show you how it should be done.
This doesn't make any sense whatsoever. It was horrendous luck. How is passive tactics to blame for anything that happened?
Vingegård was bailed out by Van Aert and by Laporte to a lesser degree but I still think it was a bad day overall for them as Roglič lost almost any chance of winning the Tour, though the podium is still a possibility. In hindsight they should have waited for Roglič when he was just behind them