Tirreno - Adriatico 2021, March 10 - March 16

[Lui98]

Pogačar is a beast. He attacked in the most difficult part of the climb, and climbed alone for most of the time, without any help. What an amazing kid.
Yates was good, but he climbed behind others for a lot of time (unlike Pog), he didn't have enough power in the end to win it

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

stage winners this Tirreno

1 Wout van Aert
2 Julian Alaphilippe
3 Mathieu van der Poel
4 Tadej Pogacar

Lol.

 

[JRanton]

Bernal surprised me by dropping off. Ineos biggest disappointment considering they had six riders in the train in the first third of the climb.

Looked to be in a lot of pain

 

[Bolder]

Races without a summit finish, maybe. You can't win week-long stage races losing 45 seconds on a summit finish...

This is an unusually stacked field tho. Pogacar is the best climber atm.

To be honest Wout didn't do as well as I thought he might, but he expended a lot of energy yesterday, too.

 

[Bonimenier]

stage winners this Tirreno

1 Wout van Aert
2 Julian Alaphilippe
3 Mathieu van der Poel
4 Tadej Pogacar

Lol.

Can't see anyone else but those 4 win tomorrow as well.

 

[Spine Concept]

stage winners this Tirreno

1 Wout van Aert
2 Julian Alaphilippe
3 Mathieu van der Poel
4 Tadej Pogacar

Lol.

Best riders on earth currently. Tirreno is stacked compared to PN.

 

[Andre]

I think 35 seconds will be too much for Wout to make up.

 

[jaylew]

WVA going to need to pick up bonus seconds tomorrow which is pretty much guaranteed. How many he needs and how many he gets is the question.

 

[Bonimenier]

Van der Poel and Alaphilippe could be van Aert's best friends tomorrow if they want to race.

 

[Wvv]

Thirtyfive seconds will prove to be a lot, and it's gonna be hard to overtake Pogi again, but this still is an extremely good job by Wout. Gonna end 2nd or 1st in a Tirreno with a monstrous field and daring course.

 

[saganftw]

tommorow pogacar will watch only van aert, who will have to attack which only means one thing...MVDP wins

 

[JosefK]

stage winners this Tirreno

1 Wout van Aert
2 Julian Alaphilippe
3 Mathieu van der Poel
4 Tadej Pogacar

Lol.

So, no wimps likely to win a stage here?

 

[topcat]

Shocking stage: Pogacar looked tired, Landa finished 4th and Wout is not a gc rider.

 

[46&twoWheels]

WVA: "I'm not a fluke"

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Van Aert small boy climber confirmed

He was annoyed when they said he weighed 80kg, in his worst winter (2 years ago) when he was visually "less fit" and said he was 78kg at that moment. I think it's safe to assume he is quite some kgs removed from 80, now, in form, during road season. Nobody's saying he weighs 65. The difference between 75 or 80 is immense. I read a report from Sunweb back in the day, when they were doing tests for Dumoulin (who won the Giro with 71kg), that per kg on a 30 minute climb, you save 20 seconds. That would mean the difference between 75 and 80 would make a difference of 1m40s on a 30 minute climb.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

We can drop the stat about no-one other than JA/MvdP/WvA if they all start the same race.


Can I be the first to point out that every time Pog/JA/MvdP/WvA have all started a race, one of the four of them wins?

 

[titan31]

Races without a summit finish, maybe. You can't win week-long stage races losing 45 seconds on a summit finish...

If he and Roglic swapped, I reckon he'd win Paris Nice. His biggest competition would be likes of Schachmann, Benoot etc and he's a better climber than them

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Best riders on earth currently. Tirreno is stacked compared to PN.

It’s not like the PN stages have been won by nobodies, the Tour runner up/Vuelta winner and the current top sprinter. All week it’s been stage wins by big stars and... eh... um...Cees Bol

 

[Bonimenier]

He was annoyed when they said he weighed 80kg, in his worst winter (2 years ago) when he was visually "less fit" and said he was 78kg at that moment. I think it's safe to assume he is quite some kgs removed from 80, now, in form, during road season. Nobody's saying he weighs 65. The difference between 75 or 80 is immense. I read a report from Sunweb back in the day, when they were doing tests for Dumoulin (who won the Giro with 71kg), that per kg on a 30 minute climb, you save 20 seconds. That would mean the difference between 75 and 80 would make a difference of 1m40s on a 30 minute climb.

So if I lose 180kg I can still fulfil my lifelong dream of winning a mountain stage?

 

[Volderke]

It's a shame a team as big as Lotto-Jumbo has nobody to set the pace for WvA. He had to do way too much work load by himself, without any team support.

 

[Red Rick]

It's a shame a team as big as Lotto-Jumbo has nobody to set the pace for WvA. He had to do way too much work load by himself, without any team support.

They only have one fully functioning train.

 

[will-10]

I think if Bennett or Kuss had been here Wout might've just won GC.

 

[Red Rick]

Still might. Tomorrow should be awesome

 

[titan31]

They only have one fully functioning train.

Tbf guys they don't have racing in either race ATM are Kuss, Harper, Vingegaard and Tolhoek who would all be good climbers. But don't think they really thought WVA can really win this as they'd have given him more help if so.

 

[roundabout]

Still might. Tomorrow should be awesome

Tomorrow will be awesome. No reason why it won't.