Fantastic performance today. Showed the form and fitness is where it needs to be and must be a great confidence booster for the sterrato Giro stage.
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Fantastic performance today. Showed the form and fitness is where it needs to be and must be a great confidence booster for the sterrato Giro stage.
Did he say that?After today I’d be surprised if he even starts the Giro yet alone compete for the win. He was clearly in a lot of pain due to his back.
Did he say that?
He's got to have been screeing inside and out, right? Makes me wonder that if it was still bothering him why the hell he was doing STRADE of all races.Not yet but it was obvious from the images of him grimacing early in the climb. When he said after the Ventoux stage last month that his back was still troubling him that was a really bad sign of things to come. The problem is there‘s no proper treatment for the condition he has so we can’t be sure he’ll ever be 100% again,
Which one within his own team is clearly better?Don't know about Bernal. Backpain or not I have the impression he stumbled pretty quickly in his career on a bunch of new riders who can go faster uphill than him and that's even inside his own team.
Which one within his own team is clearly better?
Which one within his own team is clearly better?
I don't see how Carapaz is ahead of Bernal other than extreme recency bias.Haven't said clearly but I see Caraparaz above Egan (this stupid autocorrect keeps changing Bernal to Herbal).
I would imagine it is worst in long climbs, as I wrote after Strade. Probably also after several days' effort. Pinot also has it worse on long climbs, it seems.
Well, yeah, if they said 2022 and 2023 we won't know then. It could be true that there are other performing problems but we don't have reason to doubt that he should have higher level at his age now either.I read his comments differently. This emphasis on "I trust my team coach and I believe in the process" sounds to me like you are trying to convince yourself everything is on the right way. But I sense doubts are creeping in. No wonder, he is very young and has every right to be impatient. And patience he needs as Daniel Schade, the sport scientist in charge of Bernal's back says that we probably won't see the effects of the adjustments until 2022 or 2023. Now I feel Egan is on a similar level as last year. He was in the thick of the action then but clearly below Roglic's level and this year in the shadow of Pogacar. These repeating defeats must be mentally really difficult as the Colombian had been hyped as "bestia", won the Tour so young and many experts thought of the new era of his dominance. What I like about Egan, though. and I saw that today is that he is a fighter, grimacing with clenched teeth as he crossed the line two min behind Tadej. And the last thing: isn't he the rider with the most hunched position on the bike? Doesn't it play part in his back problems or it's just his style?