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You chose to correct him, but then you do it wrong. It's 16 months and 4 days. One year, 4 months. September 21st to January 25th.He is 15 months younger... Forget it mate, he is too far... maybe in other era he would be a multiple tour de france winner, not in this era with 2 aliens, both of them are top5 climbers of all times. This is like Messi vs Ronaldo in football
Thereis nothing wrong with the thread title and no there is no mocking of Remco.Can you please just change the title of this thread after the Tour?
by now, you are just mocking the young man who is an excellent bike rider.
But you can put a 'not' in the title?Thereis nothing wrong with the thread title and no there is no mocking of Remco.
The thread title was given during his junior period. He was a better junior than Merckx.Can you please just change the title of this thread after the Tour?
by now, you are just mocking the young man who is an excellent bike rider.
He would for sure have been better. But i doubt he would have been thát much better, unless he would have been able to start the TDF even lighter. I think in order to really compete with Pog and Vinge here, a better preparation for sure is needed, but he'll need to lose a bit more weight anyway.This the Remco that should have showed up at the Dauphine
He'd have been on track to contend had he been where he is now, 4 weeks ago
This the Remco that should have showed up at the Dauphine
He'd have been on track to contend had he been where he is now, 4 weeks ago
I think that warrants a DQGreat uphill performance by Remco today, he crashed all humans today (those ahead are not them).
I don't know; we've got the hardest week yet to come and he's already over 5 minutes behind Pog and could easily be over 10 minutes down before this is all over. It will be very interesting to see how he handles the 3rd week, and especially the last TT. I'm a huge fan and over the moon to see how well he is riding, but the gap between him and Pog/Ving just seems so massive, I'm not sure just losing a kg and another year is going to be remotely enough to close it. He's a massive talent but unfortunately riding in the same era as two of the best climber/GT talents of all time. I would love to be proven wrong of course...Good, not great. Needs to lose a kg and get a year under his belt to stand a chance.
I think you have a wrong impression on this my friend, it’s not meant that way. Allow me to pontificate…Can you please just change the title of this thread after the Tour?
by now, you are just mocking the young man who is an excellent bike rider.
I don't know; we've got the hardest week yet to come and he's already over 5 minutes behind Pog and could easily be over 10 minutes down before this is all over. It will be very interesting to see how he handles the 3rd week, and especially the last TT. I'm a huge fan and over the moon to see how well he is riding, but the gap between him and Pog/Ving just seems so massive, I'm not sure just losing a kg and another year is going to be remotely enough to close it. He's a massive talent but unfortunately riding in the same era as two of the best climber/GT talents of all time. I would love to be proven wrong of course...
I was just thinking the exact same thing as this; some serious Indurain level time trials. It would be a lot of fun to watch and to anyone who might think the long TT's would kill the GC, I'd ask "What would be the difference between that and what we're seeing today?" I've been in the camp for quite some time that rues the emphasis on climbing at the expense of TT's, this may be a very good time to try at least one edition which balances the two out more. I've never been in love with TTT's as I always thought they had too outsized an impact on GC but I know some people have made the not invalid point that the impact on team selection can make a big difference as well. Food for thought and I wouldn't be surprised to see it; ASO is not going to love seeing what we just saw today for the next several years...He needs the 90s early 2000 courses where there were several diesel MTFs and 2 very long ITTs (plus an exceptionally long TTT and a prologue)
I'd really love to see that battle. Lets see Pog do a couple of flat 60km ITTs plus a TTT and prologue. Make Remco have to get through 3 mountain stages of today's length and climbing meters.
I suspect Vingo would win on that course
We need a few MTFs likeHe lost 3 minutes today on a proper mountain stage... even if we have 100 km of TT, he will still lose 10 minutes in the mountains.
Yeah, it would be great if Remco attacks with Landa, and who knows maybe they can both get the podium if one of the 2 monsters have a big issueWasn’t able to see the race today but performance seems solid compared to others. Also nice to see Landa perform so well. Like Logic said this is something to build on. With a proper preparation and a year extra he should contest them more.
I also hope that he tries to attack in the third week. He’s far ahead of number 4, and I think UAE would give him a bit of leeway.
Right, we haven't had a proper mountain stage yet this Tour...He lost 3 minutes today on a proper mountain stage... even if we have 100 km of TT, he will still lose 10 minutes in the mountains.