- Sep 26, 2020
- 25,331
- 27,830
- 23,180
This year the women's Vuelta a Burgos forgot to update their rules for some reason, which meant the youth competition was suddenly for U24 riders instead of U23, but I doubt ASO has made a similar mistake.
- Jan 31, 2016
- 3,611
- 6,035
- 19,180
Today's tt at the Dauphine' showed how much more work Egan needs to do to be in serious contention of a GT. I admire him for getting out there and hope for some results to bolster his prospects. It looks very much like what he does this year will be a foundation for next year at best.
- Jul 18, 2020
- 1,167
- 1,754
- 7,680
He did a bad TT, he can do better than this, but the true is that he was never great in the TTs.
- Apr 10, 2019
- 12,075
- 15,989
- 23,180
Yeah, he also did a decent amount of bad TTs in 2021 in races where he was good (Tirreno and the Giro, mainly the opening TT). Frankly he only did one good TT since his back problems became a thing in 2020, the hilly 2021 Vuelta TT.
- Apr 16, 2009
- 17,599
- 6,854
- 28,180
???
This is the TT. The Tour he won he did a bad TT. What are you talking about? were you expecting him to win? or podium?
- Sep 12, 2022
- 8,130
- 9,644
- 17,180
Look it up again, he was much worse now. He hasn’t shown a glimpse of his pre-injury form.
- Jun 30, 2022
- 7,440
- 10,827
- 17,180
2019 Tour he lost 17 seconds to Buchmann, here he lost 24. (random metric, I know) I don‘t think he‘s in Tour-winning form.
- Jul 18, 2020
- 1,167
- 1,754
- 7,680
He lost less time today to alaphillipe than in the TT of 2019 tour.
This guy is really inspirational.. Great rider..better attitude and his comeback win or lose involves him going to the front and drilling it at 110,%..seeing some of these guys rebounding from serious injuries is nothing short of a miracle.. or 2 or 3 or...amazing
- Jun 30, 2022
- 7,440
- 10,827
- 17,180
And he gained twelve instead of nine seconds on Landa.
- Apr 16, 2009
- 17,599
- 6,854
- 28,180
Absolutely he is not in GC form. But discounting this TT he is doing fine.
- Aug 4, 2014
- 2,370
- 260
- 11,880
Mediocre TT, but many if not most of the GC guys, bar Yates, Hindley, Martinez, Haig, O'Connor, and, of course, Vingeegard, did fairly mid TTs today. Sure, Bernal has tended to do mediocre TTs and very few good ones throughout his career. I think the best comp would be Martinez at the Giro, flatter TT but equipment was likely very similar as well as distance and he lost 32 seconds in 2021 and 1m30s this time. But then again it's pretty safe to say that Martinez has logged more miles on his Bolide since then.
So while it's hard to get a good read at this point he's somewhat below par but also not far off the pace, we'll see how it goes in the mountains. What we can also surmise is that he did poorly enough that unlike Martinez he's probably out of contention for a top-5 but he did well enough that Ineos will likely want him to keep riding for GC.
So while it's hard to get a good read at this point he's somewhat below par but also not far off the pace, we'll see how it goes in the mountains. What we can also surmise is that he did poorly enough that unlike Martinez he's probably out of contention for a top-5 but he did well enough that Ineos will likely want him to keep riding for GC.
- Jan 31, 2016
- 3,611
- 6,035
- 19,180
Looking at his younger bike position it looks like coaching led him to an extremely unsustainable aero approach. He was reasonably good but that can be a killer position for young riders that don't also do strength and stretching work to balance the stresses. He's definitely paid a price for his sport.
- Oct 10, 2015
- 3,115
- 1,652
- 16,680
So most of the GC then? Outside of Mas who’s obviously not quite right.
Oh and Gaudu (I forgot about him)
- Sep 26, 2020
- 25,331
- 27,830
- 23,180
- Aug 4, 2014
- 2,370
- 260
- 11,880
I mean that's why I said many if not most. But if I were doung the counting I'd say outside of Mas and Gaudu, Jorgenson, Rodriguez, Carapaz, Alaphillipe, Buchmann, Martin, Landa, Lenny Martinez, Ciccone, Majka, Chaves and De La Cruz did fairly mid-to-mediocre TTs. You can easily add Meintjes as well, but given he was better than most of those I'd give it to you if you want to say that's a good TT for him. In any case what I was getting to is over a month out from the significantly-shorter Tour TT many of those guys are likely still slightly undercooked and have some miles left to do on their skis.
- Apr 12, 2019
- 154
- 237
- 4,230
Very nice to see him attack from the group of GC riders today in the finale..He might not be extremely far from some great climbing form. Was evidently already at Romandie that he has build some strong basis, just need to continue upgrading now. Way to go!
- Sep 26, 2020
- 25,331
- 27,830
- 23,180
Yeah, the posts about his death yesterday were greatly exaggerated.
- Apr 8, 2023
- 5,596
- 6,537
- 16,180
I would really like Bernal to be back to his pre-crash state, but the "attack" today? Sorry, but at least he's out there giving it a go.
- Aug 3, 2015
- 22,743
- 10,688
- 28,180
People who did that are clueless though. Looking at comparable riders, he did fine. Even at his best, he was always pretty mediocre in that discipline.
We will get a great picture of his actual shape on Croix de Fer!
- Feb 26, 2022
- 1,462
- 2,309
- 5,680
I think how you rate Bernal's performance in the Dauphiné so far depends a lot on what you expect. He's clearly not back to his best or ready to compete for a Tour win. But he's on a level which promises that he will be very competitive in important races again in the future. And after that horrible crash that's just really nice in my eyes.
- Mar 20, 2022
- 13,221
- 17,996
- 22,180
Even before his crash, his level wasn't near to be good enough to beat the likes of Pogi or Vingegaard
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