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Yes, let's keep moving the goalpost until it fits perfectly. Is Pogacar top tier in PR? OK.
Remco has the power and build, but I think the technical aspect is unknown, because he has not ridden them. He came into cycling from football, not the best development, above all for a Flandrian. He's a fish out of water in his own sea.
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You're right, but lack of technical skills have a bearing on a rider being considered a potential winner or not. Las time I saw Remco riding a technical parcours he had to assisted by Almeida.
You're living in the past again. Remco has improved at a great speed technically. Put your glasses on
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I hope so, but I'm not seeing Remco holding is own in multimountain stages. Do you believe Vuelta 2023 was a fluke to his preparation/weight?
2023 Vuelta, yes, good example. He won a good amount of stages, kom, and showed very good bike handling.
Yes, he was. But he wants to stay with the other three big boys at the Tour. If Jonas can make it.
I agree. I know Roglic are pretty even. Vingo will be a question mark as far as fitness, and Pog will be a sort of mystery with Il Giro in his legs. The odds-makers are pulling their hair.
He can when he has the proper preparation. Dauphine should show this already in case of Roglic.
Remco showed last year already he can challenge Roglic in one week race.
Yes, but with the level we expect them to be at they should give a performance like Vingegaard last year.
Who are we? I don't expect any of them to be at that level. But I hope they can give us a good race. I also hope Matteo can follow R&R.
I think he can learn to be a Flandrian, but he first has to race the Flemish classics.
Roglic "suffers" from the same problem, because he came from ski jumping, that's why he crashes so much.
If he wants to win TDF he needs to be close to that level though. I’m still expecting podium
You didn't watch last year's world championship? You should look up a replay, it was a fun one.
Not sure this is the monk-like prep I'd hoped to see... 
Pogacar is a reference, an historic rider, and I like a lot. It is difficult not.
But among his exhiibitions, just one has impressed at the level than Evenepoel winning San Sebastian after work with that superiority, I talk about to win Flandes to a super Van der Poel. What Pogacar made this Giro didnt impressed me much, It has been what we expected. He didnt want to put 20 minutes and 10 stages, but he wanted several stages and didnt think just about Tour.
This is Pogacar roof...maybe the new Merckx, we need to see how long he can keep it, and iof he can get the five monuments.
But we dont know the roof of Remc. This year is his first Tour. I like more the personality of Pogacar, but for some races Pogacar is super, I think Remco is even more talented, genetically talked (Lieje, Amstel, San -Sebastian, maybe Lombardia)
This year he has the help of Landa, who is even a better climber for a very hard stage (I think he could have been close to Pogacar at Grappa stage if he is like in Cataluña) it is not the same the end of a grand Tour, and it is not the same Grappa than Port Aine.
It is a Tour to learn for Remco, but it depends how far he is of the best, he will have real option to fight with them on the future on le Tour or not. He has a lot of pulish, he is not like Pogacar who was cyclist very young.
It would be interesting to see at Dauphine how he is with Roglic
But among his exhiibitions, just one has impressed at the level than Evenepoel winning San Sebastian after work with that superiority, I talk about to win Flandes to a super Van der Poel. What Pogacar made this Giro didnt impressed me much, It has been what we expected. He didnt want to put 20 minutes and 10 stages, but he wanted several stages and didnt think just about Tour.
This is Pogacar roof...maybe the new Merckx, we need to see how long he can keep it, and iof he can get the five monuments.
But we dont know the roof of Remc. This year is his first Tour. I like more the personality of Pogacar, but for some races Pogacar is super, I think Remco is even more talented, genetically talked (Lieje, Amstel, San -Sebastian, maybe Lombardia)
This year he has the help of Landa, who is even a better climber for a very hard stage (I think he could have been close to Pogacar at Grappa stage if he is like in Cataluña) it is not the same the end of a grand Tour, and it is not the same Grappa than Port Aine.
It is a Tour to learn for Remco, but it depends how far he is of the best, he will have real option to fight with them on the future on le Tour or not. He has a lot of pulish, he is not like Pogacar who was cyclist very young.
It would be interesting to see at Dauphine how he is with Roglic
Not sure this is the monk-like prep I'd hoped to see...
Der Strudel 2.0!
Seriously, what is he doing? Even as a Remco fan, this is one really bad look
It's fine, Soudal will have nutritionists following him and this'll have been factored in. Even sportspeople with armies of sports scientists following them (elite footballers) will have calorific desserts every now and then. As long as it's not every day it won't make a difference for the Tour.
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