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The comparison between Belgium and Slovenia is what was so ridiculous, not you asking why some countries get more spots than others.Seriously, I corrected myself in another post right below that one that Slovenia is currently 3rd.
And yes, Belgium was maybe a bad choice as an example, but my point was just to ask if someone knew and could explain to me how those selections works.
This is a discussion forum so I could discuss and ask feedback no?
Estonia for example has 2 places for the TT too.
But.
Seriously.
The tone of your reply is really quite rude. I am just a relatively new member and want to discuss cycling here.
You might not agree with me or not like my posts, but that is no reason for such a tone
HLHLKJfdudpozfddsjs!!!Well, (s)he did insult both Van Aert AND Remco.
It's impressive that logic could even write anything in the state that must have left him in
As for Tour and Olympics schedule. Here organizers likely blew it a bit. They should have give it a bit bigger time gap in between both events.
P.S. Maybe not riding a road race could make much sense.
Did you recently discover the existence of postscripta that you have to include it in every one of your posts?I remember on how Aljaž Pegan never got to compete in the Olympics, horizontal bar, and never got a wild card.
P.S. Sometimes the rules are just stupid.
I think there are countries with 2 spots shittier than Belgium's 4th rider (Lampaert).Lets be real theres shittier countries with TT spots than Belgiums 2nd rider
just had to get rid of that.
Recons are usually done by 2nd tier riders, usually by the supposed domestiques. Schachmann and Buchmann are not selected? Germany has good talent.I read this article about some riders of the German team doing a reckon of the WC road race... and I thought wow, those are the riders Germany sends to the WC? Are we that bad? (Jonas Koch, Jonas Rutsch, Walscheid...)
While having some good climbers and hilly guys recently we don't seem to have many high class riders for that parcours...
Okay, sorry for seriously getting off-topic here, just had to get rid of that.
Nope, Pogacar beat him at the Nats too.
3-2 for Roglic so far, which is pretty close.
Recons are usually done by 2nd tier riders, usually by the supposed domestiques. Schachmann and Buchmann are not selected? Germany has good talent.
Yes, yes - Belgium is a great country, Remco is a great rider and Roglic should work for them on WC and the OlympicsI think there are countries with 2 spots shittier than Belgium's 4th rider (Lampaert).
THANK YOU! Finally. Someone gets it.Yes, yes - Belgium is a great country, Remco is a great rider and Roglic should work for them on WC and the Olympics
Did you recently discover the existence of postscripta that you have to include it in every one of your posts?
If JvdB had been slated too, for sure Logic would tilt.Well, (s)he did insult both Van Aert AND Remco.
It's impressive that logic could even write anything in the state that must have left him in
I agree with you. He's been one of the most consistent time trialists since 2016. I haven't checked, but going by memory, I'd say he has the most ITT wins and WT ITT wins since 2016 behind only Dennis.Roglic inconsistent in TTs? Guys, Maybe he is in a 30-40 % tt winning average since 2017 or 2018, in fact in 2019 was even better than that, only in 2020 he seems to be worse, this year he was perfect in Itzulia and very good in Paris Nice.
The only problem is that his bad TTs were almost all in the last days of GT or in Worlds, but for example Geraint (to put an example of a general contender and TT specialist) is by far more incosistent, even the best TT specialist are more incosistent than Primoz over the last few years.
I think this is a fair assessment. The Itzulia TT also had the wind factor impacting late starters.I agree with you. He's been one of the most consistent time trialists since 2016. I haven't checked, but going by memory, I'd say he has the most ITT wins and WT ITT wins since 2016 behind only Dennis.
He's never been dominant like Dennis, Ganna or Dumoulin for example. Even when it looked like a dominant win, there were specific circumstances that lead to such a win. Or theTT field wasn't exactly top of the top (i.e. Vuelta 2019 and 2020, Itzulia 2018) or the ITT profile was just perfect for him (too hilly for the specialists, but not enough climbing for the climbers: i.e. Itzulia and Romandie 2017, Itzulia 2021). In my opinion his best TT performance if you take into account the competition and the gaps was from Romandie 2019. Here are the results: https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-romandie/2019/stage-5
As far as the comparison with Pogačar goes, I think they are close. Pogi is improving rapidly, so it doesn't make sense to look at their head to head from 2 seasons ago. We have a more recent one from Itzulia a couple of weeks ago, but that ITT was very specific with a long descent/false flat in it. From what I know now, I'd say advantage Rogla in the 1st Tour ITT (15-30s), advantage Pogi in the 2nd (same 15-30s).
Pretty much agree on everything. In fact Jumbo did a comparison between that Romandie TT and the last one of the Giro, saying that Primoz was in a bad physical condition producing almost 20% less power in a similar distance, still top 10 and at least stealing the podium from Landa, similar to the Tirreno 2019 TT that was worse than other years in the same race but with a happy ending versus Yates.I agree with you. He's been one of the most consistent time trialists since 2016. I haven't checked, but going by memory, I'd say he has the most ITT wins and WT ITT wins since 2016 behind only Dennis.
He's never been dominant like Dennis, Ganna or Dumoulin for example. Even when it looked like a dominant win, there were specific circumstances that lead to such a win. Or theTT field wasn't exactly top of the top (i.e. Vuelta 2019 and 2020, Itzulia 2018) or the ITT profile was just perfect for him (too hilly for the specialists, but not enough climbing for the climbers: i.e. Itzulia and Romandie 2017, Itzulia 2021). In my opinion his best TT performance if you take into account the competition and the gaps was from Romandie 2019. Here are the results: https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-romandie/2019/stage-5
As far as the comparison with Pogačar goes, I think they are close. Pogi is improving rapidly, so it doesn't make sense to look at their head to head from 2 seasons ago. We have a more recent one from Itzulia a couple of weeks ago, but that ITT was very specific with a long descent/false flat in it. From what I know now, I'd say advantage Rogla in the 1st Tour ITT (15-30s), advantage Pogi in the 2nd (same 15-30s).