No, not this year. Next year.Hope you're not talking about this year.
I hope he goes for another peak at the Vuelta. Would be great in many ways.
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No, not this year. Next year.Hope you're not talking about this year.
I hope he goes for another peak at the Vuelta. Would be great in many ways.
Rasmussen if he wasn't thrown out of the race. 2x polka dots. Top 10 in Dauphine, Basque County and Vuelta a Espana.Yes, that’s true in at least a few cases, but if you look back through previous GT winners, very few were traveling as light in their palmares when they took their first GT. Tao, of course. Froome, but only if with the benefit of hindsight you count from his retrospectively awarded Vuelta rather than his first Tour. After that you maybe have to go back to Gotti?
Fair enough. Can’t please everyone I guess. This seems a continuation of the pros are entertainers meme. I subscribe to the you do what you physically can meme. But I don’t think anyone can be critical of how Hindley has ridden this Giro.Peak numbers is what Yates actually has. It's everything else that's missing.
Rasmussen if he wasn't thrown out of the race. 2x polka dots. Top 10 in Dauphine, Basque County and Vuelta a Espana.
Landis. (Or Pereiro based on who you want to count).
Gotti had a top 10 and multiple days in yellow at the Tour de France.
Is that really lighter than Hesjedal or Horner?
There are Giovanetti & Chiociolli as well. Proven GT riders. But somehow as if Pozzovivo had suddenly won the Giro d'Italia or Vuelta a Espana
This was one serious climbing performance. I'll wait for the time but it might be better than Piancavallo. He's the ultra mythical climber Landa always promised to be. And never was.
I wouldn’t mind him targeting the Vuelta whilst still in his peak years. But first things first, let’s see him finish off this GiroThere will be a lot of pressure for Hindley to target the Tour next year now, but he loves Italy, and it's actually pretty rare for Giro winners to even attempt to go back to back, let alone actually do it. So I wouldn't mind him targeting the Giro again in 2023, especially if the course suits him, and if the Tour has a significant number of ITT kms.
Unrelated but Sam Welsford (DSM) was also a junior at Midlands. Something in the waterYet another product of the Midland Cycle Club along with the Meyer brothers, Durbridge, Freiberg, Power, Storer, and Jess Allen.
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The Aussie developmental system was also very good and they send all their best u23 riders to race in Italy, where they were based during the season.Unrelated but Sam Welsford (DSM) was also a junior at Midlands. Something in the water
The Aussie developmental system was also very good and they send all their best u23 riders to race in Italy, where they were based during the season.
He has been improving every season as a pro outside of last season, of course he had good excuses last season so here’s hoping he’s still on that upward trajectory.After the result in the autumn Giro, this one doesn't come as that big of a surprise, but still...
Well fought out. Hopefully he'll keep improving. Needs to in order to stay at the top of GT contention.
Giro lameWell losing Yates and Bardet and Almeida really brought down the value of this Giro.
But you can't fluke two GTs.
Yeah there will always be the random Hesjedal.
But this guy is for real.
It just looks to me he doesn't have that fury, that fire inside to be a big winner.
I don't have big hopes for a grand palmares, but he's a nice and down to earth guy so I'm on his train!
My guess is that during the next few years we'll mainly just see track guys like Plapp make it, since the rest of the developmental structure got pretty much demolished...It will be interesting to see what happens in the next five years, seeing the developmental system has been stymied by lack of funding - The track program got far too much money in the last Olympic cycle resulting in the under 23 overseas program being mostly stopped, while during the COVID years, there were no juniors racing overseas and very limited options for the under 23's - Gerry Ryan's money can only go so far.
It's pretty random. Threads are more based around a small handful of posters consistently posting about the athlete rather than actual achievements. Small cults really8 pages for a GT winner.
Not bad, not bad at all. Shows the online hype machine isn't an exact science, i.e. hot prospects come & go but only some reach their goals, whether they're supported by a billion fans or not.
Hindley & Bora made some really good calls, got the preparation right, polished a rough diamond into a champion & won the prize. He's only 26 as well so he has plenty of time to chase some more GT's in his career.
Fantastic stuff.
It's pretty random. Threads are more based around a small handful of posters consistently posting about the athlete rather than actual achievements. Small cults really
I didn't want to go there with specifics because I don't want to look like I'm trolling any particular fan group.
But you're absolutely right & the content of those threads is even better (from an entertainment perspective) with most fans convinced their guy has the best potential to win. I wonder if Landa is free to win a GT yet? 130 pages & still waiting.