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Historically, teams have been very tight lipped about actual rider weight leading up to the Tour.
Yes, according to their current belief of what his optimal weight is. Changes every year. Giro 2021, 60kg. Vuelta 2022, 62kg. Giro 2023, 63 kg. Tour 2024,... i assume something around 65kg. If Evenepoel gets to have a long career, we may see him go for yellow in the high mountains weighing something around 75kg.
Maybe will work, if they think he is the new Miguel Indurain.
I was slightly joking. I assume they want him to be somewhere around 63kg or little over. But even with 63, and in great shape, he will be multiple minutes off in GC.
Such exaggeration. I doubt he weighs more than at the Giro of 2023.
Plus Asgreen is a solid stagehunter on transitional stages. Makes no sense to me either to select mediocre climbers, they are the most useless of them all unless you wanna control the race which I dont expect QS to do unless Remco unleashes his inner Eddy.
I can only hope the madness stops at 63kg, and can understand he'd be a bit above that now since he was behind schedule.I can't tell anymore, since you are very critical of his weight
Interesting. Why?
Would they do it the reverse of how boxers do it? Bloat up to 75kg then be 62kg race day?
Because if Vingegaard is weighing 61 kg and crushing it uphill and in the TT, like last year, at Remco's stature and at 63kg he has no chance in hell of beating him. The modern system says you gotta get lighter without losing power, and the mega-budget teams seem to have found the magic formula (no clinical issues intended). Whereas Soudal seems to be way behind in this game changing aspect. But let's see over the next weeks if they have improved.
I do understand the basics of watts/kg.
+1 on your Soudal/mega-budget teams comments.
I'm not saying it would be a good thing, but I think a lot of fans would be interested in seeing those numbers just like they like to look at power numbers.I do understand the basics of watts/kg.
My question is about why a pre-Tour weigh-in, or making exact rider weights public, would be desirable for the sport. Again, no strong feelings either way, just curious about @Andre 's POV on it.
You know it's interesting that in Euro cycling metaphor cycling is always compared to boxing. Getting punched in the face, after all isn't very different from being attacked. So perhaps knowing rider weights would let everybody grasp who they are up against, but only the lower the weight with respect to sustainable power determines the heavyweight category. Because they punch harder. 😛I do understand the basics of watts/kg.
My question is about why a pre-Tour weigh-in, or making exact rider weights public, would be desirable for the sport. Again, no strong feelings either way, just curious about @Andre 's POV on it.
It's simple, it would save so much speculation as to the actual weight. It would have saved us a few pages of guessing their weight. Am I wrong in thinking like this?
No, it would do exactly that.
I'll take getting attacked on a bike every time, thanks.
I don't know how hard you've been attacked, but under certain circumstances, the punch can seem like being hit really f-ng hard deep in the 12th round. 🥴No, it would do exactly that.
I'm just not sure the sport at large needs/wants it. But in the spirit of open data, it could be cool.
History tells me there are strong reasons why teams not only don't make this data public, but mis-direct about it.
I'll take getting attacked on a bike every time, thanks.
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