Worlds ITT > Worlds RR > Amstel > Vuelta
Sorry, but I don't recall a single year in which Sky had 3 guys on a high enough level to finish with 3 riders on the podium. Do you disagree with that and are able to provide some arguments or did you make that statement up?
The only year I can think of where that was a possibility would be 2018 with G, Froome and Bernal. And they needed Bernal to work on a few stages otherwise, for example, Kruiswijk would have won the Tour on Alpe d'Huez.
Nah Kruijswijk was crawling on the Alpe and Movistar closed most of the gap in the valley.
You're putting an awful negative spin on it with that translationTom Dumoulin rekent op ’helse wedstrijd’ tijdens WK
Tom Dumoulin hoopt vrijdag voor het podium mee te doen in de tijdrit bij de wereldkampioenschappen op de weg in Imola. „Ik voel me goed en ik heb er zin in. Als ik mijn waarden van de tijdrit in de…www.telegraaf.nl
Dumoulin says he'd expected to be more tired after the Tour. Says he felt that way at the end of the Tour as well and didn't want to say it only to have to cancel later.
Says it's super hard to beat Ganna, the route is bad for him, and that by riding the ITT he's putting himself at a real disadvantage for the road race.
Didn't even mean to sound negative lol.You're putting an awful negative spin on it with that translation
He's actually quite happy he's feeling not so tired. And while the course is not perfect for him he still feels he's able to content for podium, if he puts out the same numbers as last week.
He also expects the worlds to be a long hard battle because of the weather.
And finally he closes off by saying he's not doing altitude camp for the Vuelta, and in his experience that means it's pretty hard to go for the GC without altitude camp.
Could mean he just goes for stages then if GC doenst work
There was in form Dumoulin in that race and there was a long ITT. Bernal would not have finished ahead of Dumoulin had the race been raced conservatively. I dare to say he was probably not even good enough to finish on the podium under any circumstances at that point.
I think the only team that had a legitimate shot of accomplishing this was Astana in 2009. They could have even had 4 in the top 10 with Leipheimer.
Andy Schleck was way too good lol. Astana couldn't have gotten 1-2 in that race let alone 1-2-3.
Very true but that was the best chance for a team to accomplish it in my opinion for the riders they had. They had 4 riders who finished on the podium and 2 riders who finished in the top 10 before. Not that Popo or Zubeldia could have gotten closed to the 3rd man on the podium. Maybe with just Contador, Leipheimer, and Klöden it could have been easier to accomplish. All I know is on paper that squad was stacked, a dysfunctional stack. Replaying 2009 100 times in order to see if they get 1-3, I think they get like 10% chance to accomplish it. It would have been JB's wet dream to get 1-4 with maybe Zubeldia and Popo in the top 15 that year. The clinic might have exploded if that happened.
Nice, that might be the closest a trade team has come than.
Yeah, surprised they’re sending both.
For a proper classics tandem I think Roglic isn't a great enough finisher while Dumo isn't punchy enough to make the right groups. Just let them colead the Vuelta and see who's stronger on the road.
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