Just checked in what race has Remco raced today. And what i got instead is a debate about Roglič and Pogačar. From two years back.
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He was better in the TT and in the "cheap seconds stage". Again, he was better than Roglic then. He deservedly won the Tour. And it is the one who completes the entire Tour course in the shortest time anyway, who is the winner. Last year Roglic had bad luck and dropped out. But given Pogacar's demonstration, Roglic hadn't had a chance. And with the drop out of Roglic last year, we have now come to know Vingegaard as a potential Tour winner. During the preparatory races it will become clear whether Roglic or Vingegaard will be the leader of the team. Individually both will fall short against Pogacar.Apart from that TT, he was not better at anything. That TT though, was out of this world...
I agree with most of what you say but getting a second place in the Tour is a long way from winning it; especially when you've never won a prior GT. Vingegaard was opportunistic and well-supported with Roglic's absence. As for the two-fer strategy it didn't seem to work for Movistar and then they tried the three-fer. Ineos did the same.He was better in the TT and in the "cheap seconds stage". Again, he was better than Roglic then. He deservedly won the Tour. And it is the one who completes the entire Tour course in the shortest time anyway, who is the winner. Last year Roglic had bad luck and dropped out. But given Pogacar's demonstration, Roglic hadn't had a chance. And with the drop out of Roglic last year, we have now come to know Vingegaard as a potential Tour winner. During the preparatory races it will become clear whether Roglic or Vingegaard will be the leader of the team. Individually both will fall short against Pogacar.
My point is that by working together Vingegaard and Roglic can get Pogacar in trouble. I mean working together equally, without one of the two having to do slaves for the other. Take turns attacking. To put everything on the best placed team mate at the end of the Tour.
It's the general discussion thread. Some people like to talk about other posters, some about Tour de France. Some talk about different riders and there is even one guy who keeps posting images of his favorite Disney movie that makes him cry. Basically anything goes.So, errr... whose thread is this?
It's the general discussion thread. Some people like to talk about other posters, some about Tour de France. Some talk about different riders and there is even one guy who keeps posting images of his favorite Disney movie that makes him cry. Basically anything goes.
Remco Evenepoel takes to TT training after opening 199km Algarve stage
Young Belgian will spin on the rollers as he gets used to his new bike set-up.www.velonews.com
Remco during the first meeting of the year said:"It's never a problem to lose to a stronger rider, it's only a problem to lose to a smarter rider because then you are the more stupid one"
No idea.Y do they keep mentioning the “Giro”? Lost in translation…
Apparently there was a fierce headwind, so nobody was going to attack early. He looked relaxed but should have moved up sooner.I saw the stage today. Remco looked excellent. The British announcers could not stop marveling at how relaxed he was. Most riders were huffing and puffing but Remco was barely breathing...not exactly in those words. They also couldn't believe that nobody was attacking towards the end, but the pace was so high that nobody could attack.
Apparently there was a fierce headwind, so nobody was going to attack early. He looked relaxed but should have moved up sooner.
I'll post it here as not to oversaturate the Algarve topic, as some appear to be quite sensitive to reading about a rider who did not win the stage. According to this article, the idea was to waste as little as energy as possible on the climb, with Saturday's ITT in mind. That's why he stayed well in the bunch out of the wind. Vervaeke starting to pull at 4k from the finish was not planned, but he had to respond to Van Baarle's attack and after reeling him in, he kept riding the same pace which suited Evenepoel. His main objective was to not lose time.
I think he really wanted to go for the win here. If you look at the helicopter images, he was ready to launch a his attack but he immediately got squeezed into the barriers by McNulty because the Ineos guys decided to swerve from left to right. At that moment he was alongside Higuita, so if he gets past them there, he has a big chance of winning as he's not the rider to bonk easily. But he knows public opinion is against him and he can't say "i think i could have won" anymore without raising a shitstorm, so he says he just wanted to finish in the front group.Okay. Makes sense. Y then does he announce at the start of the race that the plan is to do even better than in 2020. And that would mean winning THREE Stages and the GC. I have said this before but his pre-race declarations don’t help him much. Being confident is great but I don’t see how those types of declarations help him one bit.
It's not like he got dropped. He's still very likely gonna win the race, and I doubt Foia was about making a big statement anyway. I doubt Evenepoel expects to win a relatively win sprint like that anyway.I think he really wanted to go for the win here. If you look at the helicopter images, he was ready to launch a his attack but he immediately got squeezed into the barriers by McNulty because the Ineos guys decided to swerve from left to right. At that moment he was alongside Higuita, so if he gets past them there, he has a big chance of winning as he's not the rider to bonk easily. But he knows public opinion is against him and he can't say "i think i could have won" anymore without raising a shitstorm, so he says he just wanted to finish in the front group.
Okay. Makes sense. Y then does he announce at the start of the race that the plan is to do even better than in 2020. And that would mean winning THREE Stages and the GC. I have said this before but his pre-race declarations don’t help him much. Being confident is great but I don’t see how those types of declarations help him one bit.
I think he really wanted to go for the win here. If you look at the helicopter images, he was ready to launch a his attack but he immediately got squeezed into the barriers by McNulty because the Ineos guys decided to swerve from left to right. At that moment he was alongside Higuita, so if he gets past them there, he has a big chance of winning as he's not the rider to bonk easily. But he knows public opinion is against him and he can't say "i think i could have won" anymore without raising a shitstorm, so he says he just wanted to finish in the front group.