ITV commentators need to chill on the British cycling talk. Dan McLay isn't going to win a stage and the Yorkshire flag is NOT an iconic cycling flag
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I think Greipel can perhaps be filed alongside Contador, perhaps not quite yet in the 'finished' category, but at least in the 'age has caught up with them' box. Maybe still capable of winning stage races occasionally or against weaker opposition, but not good enough at the highest level any more and certainly nowhere near how good they were at their peak.Jagartrott said:Greipel f*cked that up once again, even though he has the best train.
If I were Lotto-Soudal, I would stop wasting De Gendt et al.'s energy.
It's not that it's easy for Kittel, it's that he's so much better than everyone else which makes it look easy..movingtarget said:Won't see a much easier win than that in any sprint.
Yesterday was a rest daymovingtarget said:Matthews paying for yesterday.StryderHells said:Bad day for Matthews finishing outside of the top 10
Irondan said:It's not that it's easy for Kittel, it's that he's so much better than everyone else which makes it look easy..movingtarget said:Won't see a much easier win than that in any sprint.
movingtarget said:Won't see a much easier win than that in any sprint.
klintE said:Yesterday was a rest daymovingtarget said:Matthews paying for yesterday.StryderHells said:Bad day for Matthews finishing outside of the top 10
Finn84 said:movingtarget said:Won't see a much easier win than that in any sprint.
Cavendish's Champs-Elysées win in 2009 was about as easy.
staubsauger said:Greipel already has gone backwards at last years Tour after being the best sprinter at both the 2015 Tour and the 2016 Giro. That's why it was so stupid to let go the chance of winning the red jersey last year.
Kittel obviously has become even stronger than he was back in 13 & 14. He easily wins 5 stages now, which already should be considered as massive performance. If he even manages to get 6 or 7 stage victories he's finally the natural successor of Alejet 2004. But that might be a huge task even for this Marcel Kittel!
Irondan said:We'll never know though, will we..Frankschleck said:People saying kittel doesn't deserve green. He is by far the best sprinter in the world, and in my personal opinion, i don't even think sagan could beat him for the green jersey this year. Of course he derseves it, if ends up with it.
Sagan was on great form, he would certainly contend for green.
JackRabbitSlims said:Frankschleck said:People saying kittel doesn't deserve green. He is by far the best sprinter in the world, and in my personal opinion, i don't even think sagan could beat him for the green jersey this year. Of course he derseves it, if ends up with it.
Often..like quite recently, the fastest sprinter in the race doesn't win Green in Paris.
Agree, if he wins it he deserves it."..considering the reduced field
Has to be thrown out for thatclassicomano said:Bouhanni again straight up punching someone in the face. Top left of the peloton.
https://streamable.com/8x6zf
What a total ****.
"Punching" he pushed the Quickstep rider after the Quickstep rider pushed him out of the wayclassicomano said:Bouhanni again straight up punching someone in the face. Top left of the peloton.
https://streamable.com/8x6zf
What a total ****.
LaFlorecita said:"Punching" he pushed the Quickstep rider after the Quickstep rider pushed him out of the wayclassicomano said:Bouhanni again straight up punching someone in the face. Top left of the peloton.
https://streamable.com/8x6zf
What a total ****.
DFA123 said:I think Greipel can perhaps be filed alongside Contador, perhaps not quite yet in the 'finished' category, but at least in the 'age has caught up with them' box. Maybe still capable of winning stage races occasionally or against weaker opposition, but not good enough at the highest level any more and certainly nowhere near how good they were at their peak.Jagartrott said:Greipel f*cked that up once again, even though he has the best train.
If I were Lotto-Soudal, I would stop wasting De Gendt et al.'s energy.
Greipel was disappointing in the Giro and has been terrible so far this tour. Looks like he has lost a fair bit of top end speed (maybe his focus on Roubaix this season is another cause), and that has destroyed his confidence making it doubly worse.
This. I think, because of his obvious power, his positioning and timing is quite under-rated and something that has improved in the last year or so. Means that Quickstep can spend even more resources chasing down breaks if they need to, rather than holding men back for the leadout.Eclipse said:It might be a bit of a crap route and the Sagan DQ was disappointing but I don't think people can really say Kittel is undeserving of a green jersey. He's unquestionably the strongest sprinter in the field and when he's been healthy it's basically been that way since 2014. It's nice to see him surfing wheels and freelancing a bit this season as well and doing some work without a supremely organised lead out train. I'm sad Sagan is out and that the green jersey looks like a procession but happy that Kittel looks like he'll get the race long accolade to back up his unquestionable strength
Dekker_Tifosi said:And just like the last sprint stage, Groenewegen highest top speed over the final 500m.
Goddamn, start in front boy.