Tejay Van Garderen Discussion Thread

[lenric]

Congrats to TJ! Hope that he can ride the Vuelta in good form.

 

[Hugo87]

TJ got his mojo back!

Chapeau!

 

[Ikbengodniet]

I love TJ shutting all his trolling haters up.

 

[DBotero]

I hope this win will put him back on the track

 

[King Boonen]

Lombardia TJ, Lombardia...

 

[kenk09]

Good on you, Tejay. Hopefully the beginning of a beautiful career as stage hunter in grand tours.

 

[RedheadDane]

Yeah. And the best thing is; he's still so young he can make a rather good career out of it.

 

[DanielSong39]

He's looked like a useful domestique the last few days... looks like he will finish the race, and with a stage win to boot!

Hey, it's progress.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Happy for Tejay, you could see how much it meant to him at the end after all his troubles.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Tejay!

I was really cheering for him against Landa.

 

[movingtarget]

Very well taken win by TJVG.

 

[WheelofGear]

That was.. unexpected.

 

[jmdirt]

WOOHOO! Nice ride Tejay!

 

[Tonton]

I'm very happy for TJVG. At least he gets something positive out of this Giro. It was tough to see his demise, how his world crashed to the ground.

 

[jmdirt]

Re:

Lombardia TJ, Lombardia...

+1

 

[Moviefan1203]

Great job, Tejay!

Believe in yourself!

 

[HelloDolly]

Congratulation TJ

Tour de Suisse next me thinks

 

[Son of Amsterhammer]

Very happy for him. This has to be such a huge moment for him.

 

[May0maniac]

From a mental standpoint it's a really big win, he was able to get over the fact that he cracked, bounced back and won a stage.

 

[lenric]

His reaction when he crossed the line, in tears, was heartbreaking...
I hope this win can make him bounce back from the past years failures and learn from previous mistakes so that he can contest top-5 on GTs... maybe already this year, at the Vuelta.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Round of applause!

 

[May0maniac]

I don't know if he really needs to ride a gt for gc, go for the gc in one week races and just go stagehunting in a gt, less pressure, less stress and you don't have to perform on every single day, If you have a bad day you can try again on another day.

 

[SlickMongoose]

Re:

I don't know if he really needs to ride a gt for gc, go for the gc in one week races and just go stagehunting in a gt, less pressure, less stress and you don't have to perform on every single day, If you have a bad day you can try again on another day.

I think that's good advice, but...

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/van-garderen-i-know-i-can-do-gc-in-a-grand-tour/

"I still think I'm capable of doing GC in a Grand Tour in the future, I'm not going to give up trying for that," van Garderen said. "Things might change as far as getting the full support of a team. I know that I'm not going to be up there with [Nairo] Quintana on Blockhaus, but I see myself as a similar rider to someone like [Tom] Dumoulin. I just need to eliminate these bad days and learn myself a bit more. But no, I'm not giving up on general classification."

 

[lenric]

Re: Re:

I don't know if he really needs to ride a gt for gc, go for the gc in one week races and just go stagehunting in a gt, less pressure, less stress and you don't have to perform on every single day, If you have a bad day you can try again on another day.

I think that's good advice, but...

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/van-garderen-i-know-i-can-do-gc-in-a-grand-tour/

"I still think I'm capable of doing GC in a Grand Tour in the future, I'm not going to give up trying for that," van Garderen said. "Things might change as far as getting the full support of a team. I know that I'm not going to be up there with [Nairo] Quintana on Blockhaus, but I see myself as a similar rider to someone like [Tom] Dumoulin. I just need to eliminate these bad days and learn myself a bit more. But no, I'm not giving up on general classification."

If that's what he want, so what? He's free to believe in what he wants to believe, as is BMC free to support him if they think they should.
Whether that's true, or not, that's a different matter, but time (and results) will speak for themselves.

 

[GuyIncognito]

That win was nice to see