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It's confirmed. He starts.

 

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Egan Bernal – Colombian – age 21

Making his Tour de France debut in his first season as a professional, the young Colombian has wasted little time in marking himself out as one of the hottest prospects in the sport. Bernal has claimed overall victories at both the Tour of California and Colombia Oro y Paz, in addition to second place at the Tour de Romandie and a national time trial title. A prodigious climbing talent, he will provide key backup in the high mountains.

 

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Egan Bernal – Colombian – age 21

Making his Tour de France debut in his first season as a professional, the young Colombian has wasted little time in marking himself out as one of the hottest prospects in the sport. Bernal has claimed overall victories at both the Tour of California and Colombia Oro y Paz, in addition to second place at the Tour de Romandie and a national time trial title. A prodigious climbing talent, he will provide key backup in the high mountains.

Yes, it would be excellent to watch him!

 

[tobydawq]

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Egan Bernal – Colombian – age 21

Making his Tour de France debut in his first season as a professional, the young Colombian has wasted little time in marking himself out as one of the hottest prospects in the sport. Bernal has claimed overall victories at both the Tour of California and Colombia Oro y Paz, in addition to second place at the Tour de Romandie and a national time trial title. A prodigious climbing talent, he will provide key backup in the high mountains.

It's his third season as a professional.

 

[GuyIncognito]

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Egan Bernal – Colombian – age 21

Making his Tour de France debut in his first season as a professional, the young Colombian has wasted little time in marking himself out as one of the hottest prospects in the sport. Bernal has claimed overall victories at both the Tour of California and Colombia Oro y Paz, in addition to second place at the Tour de Romandie and a national time trial title. A prodigious climbing talent, he will provide key backup in the high mountains.

It's his third season as a professional.

You know how the british media pretend there was no football before 1992?
Welcome to the cycling version. Only his Sky years matter.

 

[42x16ss]

As much as I’d love to see Bernal wreak havoc and hopefully drop Froome the way he rode away from Wigans, I’d prefer to see Bernal have free license in the Vuelta. Pushing too deep for Froome over three weeks may not be beneficial to his development at this stage. Better to let Bernal find his feet like Movistar did with Quintana in 2012.

 

[tobydawq]

Well, they don't and he's surely not going to ride the Vuelta now, so havoc-wreaking is what can be hoped for.

 

[MatParker117]

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Well, they don't and he's surely not going to ride the Vuelta now, so havoc-wreaking is what can be hoped for.

How about the podium and the White Jersey?

 

[Robert5091]

So how's Bernal over cobbles?

 

[Son of Amsterhammer]

Who will be his main white jersey rivals?

 

[tobydawq]

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Who will be his main white jersey rivals?

Latour and Guillaume Martin, with outsiders in Soler, Martínez and Gaudu and long shots in Tolhoek and Benoot.

 

[tobydawq]

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Well, they don't and he's surely not going to ride the Vuelta now, so havoc-wreaking is what can be hoped for.

How about the podium and the White Jersey?

Podium and white jersey is included in the wreaking havoc

 

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Well, they don't and he's surely not going to ride the Vuelta now, so havoc-wreaking is what can be hoped for.

He's also got to be hot favourite for the under 23 Worlds on that course. No need to burn him out at the Vuelta.

 

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A couple of interesting tweets.

@ammattipyoraily
15 hours ago

10 min test climb near Galdakao in Basque Country
4.12 km, 7.33 %, 302 m | Sunday, July 1 | #TDF2018

Egan Bernal: 9 min 51 sec, 25.10 Kph, VAM 1840 m/h
Power meter: 428 W (60 kg = 7.13 W/kg, 59 kg = 7.25 W/kg)

@ammattipyoraily
15 hours ago

That's approximately at same level with Contador's 2016 best performances. For example uphill prologue in Criterium du Dauphine.

Huh. And he's actually more like 58.5 kg at training weight, 58 kg at race weight.

 

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His main "rivals" is he has no GT experience and his domestique's duties. In reference to white jersey he can overcome these, but not in a case of podium.

 

[42x16ss]

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Well, they don't and he's surely not going to ride the Vuelta now, so havoc-wreaking is what can be hoped for.

He's also got to be hot favourite for the under 23 Worlds on that course. No need to burn him out at the Vuelta.

Bernal can just ride the first two weeks of the Vuelta as training, or do what Quintana did in 2012 and only target the mountains. Long term it’s probably a far better decision.

 

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After missing that someone was joking about the U23 worlds earlier in the thread, I’ve now entirely lost my ability to tell whether people are joking about it now. I am broken. This forum has destroyed my sense of reality. (For the record, he’s a pro with WT wins under his belt: espoir races, including worlds, Avenir, baby Giro, should be trivial to him and he shouldn’t be allowed enter anyway).

 

[Parker]

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After missing that someone was joking about the U23 worlds earlier in the thread, I’ve now entirely lost my ability to tell whether people are joking about it now. I am broken. This forum has destroyed my sense of reality. (For the record, he’s a pro with WT wins under his belt: espoir races, including worlds, Avenir, baby Giro, should be trivial to him and he shouldn’t be allowed enter anyway).

I mentioned it and I wasn't joking. Colombia have plenty of good riders for the seniors, so why not put him in the Under 23s? No pointing putting all their eggs in one basket.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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After missing that someone was joking about the U23 worlds earlier in the thread, I’ve now entirely lost my ability to tell whether people are joking about it now. I am broken. This forum has destroyed my sense of reality. (For the record, he’s a pro with WT wins under his belt: espoir races, including worlds, Avenir, baby Giro, should be trivial to him and he shouldn’t be allowed enter anyway).

I mentioned it and I wasn't joking. Colombia have plenty of good riders for the seniors, so why not put him in the Under 23s? No pointing putting all their eggs in one basket.

There’s an argument that doing that makes sense from the perspective of the Colombian federation. There’s no argument that from his perspective he should pick and choose among actual professional races so as to make a major target out of an espoir race. Every remotely significant pro race is by definition more important than any race for aspiring pros.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Bravo on today, I actually didn't expect him to make it with the train that everyone thought was Sky today. Intrigued to hear if he said anything about the stage?

Too bad he lost out on stage 1, but the chase he put in afterwards + this TTT today suggest to me that he actually will give the secondary GC a try which is interesting.

 

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He said that it's the hardest thing he's ever done in life.

 

[MatParker117]

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Bravo on today, I actually didn't expect him to make it with the train that everyone thought was Sky today. Intrigued to hear if he said anything about the stage?

Too bad he lost out on stage 1, but the chase he put in afterwards + this TTT today suggest to me that he actually will give the secondary GC a try which is interesting.

Without that crash he'd already be in white, which he should win from here.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Yeah, he will probably take white from Kragh Andersen on stage 10 and hold on to it from there. But Latour has also come to race and I think he could be dangerous.

 

[MatParker117]

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Yeah, he will probably take white from Kragh Andersen on stage 10 and hold on to it from there. But Latour has also come to race and I think he could be dangerous.

Bernal is already over two minutes up on him.

 

[Escarabajo]

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He said that it's the hardest thing he's ever done in life.

But he looked so smooth on the bike today.