Tirreno-Adriatico 2023, March 6-12

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My chouchou must have read my post over breakfast. :cool:. Just to contradict me and again play with my nerves, he finished...16th.

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Good to see Thibaut Pinot not making that mistake, and also having the punch. No disrespect to McNulty who was 20th by the way. But he, Woods, Martin, and Lutsenko lost stupid time today.
The lesson is and will always be: don’t lose easy time on HTF’s. It will bite you in the butt eventually.
 
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Just a thought after re-watching the finish, slow-mo and all: Kamna was behind Pinot, he got up with 30 meters or so, I'd be curious to see what the deficit was and it looks like he had a chance to be at 0.99 and not lose the 5 seconds. Against Roglic, having to hang on, an 11 second advantage is something. 6 seconds is close to nothing.

I don't think that anyone wants a 2 km race against Roglic, all but Kamna and Almeida can only lose racing this way. Hopefully we won't have teams defending a 5th, 8th GC place, the climb is just hard enough in early Mars, the stage is set and I can't wait.

There are two GT winners behind who shouldn't give a cr@p (excuse my French :p ) about a podium in Tirreno. Banzai Jai! Hit it hard Jai Alai! Mikel, Thibaut, Julian, vai vai vai!
 
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The lesson is and will always be: don’t lose easy time on HTF’s. It will bite you in the butt eventually.
...and the weirdest thing is when a teammate of the winner slows down before the finish and the "loser" of the day "links the clock". When talking about "marginal gains", not losing stupid time is completely overlooked judging by what we can see on the finish line.
 
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Congratulations to Primož Roglič for his first season win.

Too bad van Aert and Pidcock crashed. Imagine Roglič would be involved. The internet would explode. JV did great as a team today and Roglič on top of that was riding very measured. Tomorrow all teams should get their GC leaders. Some teams really packed with potential. It's interesting, listening to some interviews, on how in this day and age Tratnik and the rest of the JV team at PN, during the race, get informed Roglič won at TA. Maybe that motivated Kooij a bit. And it looks like Tratnik won't be participating at Catalunya.
 
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Van der Poel as well as Girmay and Pidcock were hanging back yesterday on the Tortoreto climb. Anyone thinking that it was a "save-legs"-strategy for stage 6 on Saturday? Today's final looks a little harsh for puncheurs but a maybe for Piddles?
 
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Van der Poel as well as Girmay and Pidcock were hanging back yesterday on the Tortoreto climb. Anyone thinking that it was a "save-legs"-strategy for stage 6 on Saturday? Today's final looks a little harsh for puncheurs but a maybe for Piddles?
no, don't think so. Tomorrow's stage is way harder than yesterday's, so normally (unless it's starting to snow again, in MvdP's case) they shouldn't be much of a factor.
 
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no, don't think so. Tomorrow's stage is way harder than yesterday's, so normally (unless it's starting to snow again, in MvdP's case) they shouldn't be much of a factor.
It,s harder for most riders, but for Van Der Poel is easier.
 
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By the look at it, the shortage could even be beneficial. Overall the climb seems to flatten out a bit in the end. Now you finish exactly at the light part of course, but the hard sections now might be close enough to the finish to initiate attacks.


But it's probably just wishful thinking! :D
 
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By the look at it, the shortage could even be beneficial. Overall the climb seems to flatten out a bit in the end. Now you finish exactly at the light part of course, but the hard sections now might be close enough to the finish to initiate attacks.


But it's probably just wishful thinking! :D
Bye bye then for white jersey Joallen Maiden. Shorter climb and wind won't help that guy for sure :expressionless:
 
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The wind forecast for that part of Italy is the middle tahn France. Anyway could be dangerous in some parts..but I dont think the climb must be shortened...
 
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Accidentally forgot I was watching the rerun when I watched a Jumbo rider crash. Those 10 seconds before I heard the name "Pidcock" and remembered what I was watching was a horror. (And then I wrote it in the wrong thread about Vingegaard.) Enough cortisol even before watching todays stage.
 
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