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He looked strong again but do you think he would have had the sprint?If someone had lead out for Kuss, he probably could have won.
Jumbo looked pretty scary today. Bennett is still recovering, Dumoulin did 0 work for Roglic, and they still controlled everything.
I suspect the guy is living in his own dream world. Its incredible how much cycling he watches and still thinks that these kind of stages will be an all out attack fiesta...As they've frequently pointed out; good thing he's not a DS! His plan every day would just be "ATTAAAAAAAAAAAACK!" "But, Rolf... it's a TT..."
9 of the 16 in the front group were Colombian or French.
Yeah, I actually prefer sprint finishes over these kind of finishes. The annual sprint up Mur de Huy is in my opinion much more boring than a flat sprint finish.Yes it was a terrible stage and everybody knew it would be. The stage finish yesterday was more interesting. The hours before the finish were as boring as cycling can be really.
And while i ma at it what has happened to Valgren ?
I would say that Luxembourg still beats that statistic. Pop ~ 0.6 mil with 5 TDFs overall wins and 70 stage winsTwo of the top 2 were Slovenian. Even more impressive for a country of 2m inhabitants. I think Bogotá has about 8m, the core of Paris about 2.
He is as yellow today as he was the previous stages.By the way, Roglic in yellow after this stage.
1 conclusion:2 conclusions
- Roglic did survive that crash
- Alaphilippe is never gonna happen this year
Leave Ala alone. He gave us the show of our lives last year and would this year but he doesn't seem to have the legs. He's probably a better gt rider than Porte and I can get behind his hype.To add some fuel to the fire of the topic from earlier. Watching this stage I'd argue Van Aert is a lot more likely to become a TdF winner than Alaphilippe.
He is as yellow today as he was the previous stages.
Agreed... the way things stand at this point, I can´t see Jumbo thinking anything different than Roglic snatching a few seconds here and there and waiting it out for the TT... so far, so goodI suspect the Pyrenees will be a snoozefest and the Alps will be anyone but Jumbo doing a few hail mary's and praying for a miracle.
Sadly I think the 2 hardest stages are still only about the MTF.
1 conclusion:
QUINTANA
I actually don't think they'll just go for bonifications all the time. That's just not a big margin. I think the preferred move is to have Roglic rip it once and win solo if he's the strongest. Reason they didn't in the Dauphine is very simply cause it's the Dauphine and you don't want to give all your tricks away.Agreed... the way things stand at this point, I can´t see Jumbo thinking anything different than Roglic snatching a few seconds here and there and waiting it out for the TT... so far, so good
Also, the Pyrenees stages aren´t that hard on paper, and I don´t particularly see why JV or INEOS will want a fast pace, unless something out of the ordinary happens before the weekend
I was wondering if Jumbo would play the Dumo card on Thursday to try and expose INEOS on the penultimate climb, but I highly doubt it, I think they'll approach the finish with the same "blueprint" as today.
Maybe Movistar / Arkea / Bora / Astana should try and do something on Thursday?
Agreed... the way things stand at this point, I can´t see Jumbo thinking anything different than Roglic snatching a few seconds here and there and waiting it out for the TT... so far, so good
Also, the Pyrenees stages aren´t that hard on paper, and I don´t particularly see why JV or INEOS will want a fast pace, unless something out of the ordinary happens before the weekend
I was wondering if Jumbo would play the Dumo card on Thursday to try and expose INEOS on the penultimate climb, but I highly doubt it, I think they'll approach the finish with the same "blueprint" as today.
Maybe Movistar / Arkea / Bora / Astana should try and do something on Thursday?
Agreed... the way things stand at this point, I can´t see Jumbo thinking anything different than Roglic snatching a few seconds here and there and waiting it out for the TT... so far, so good
Also, the Pyrenees stages aren´t that hard on paper, and I don´t particularly see why JV or INEOS will want a fast pace, unless something out of the ordinary happens before the weekend
I was wondering if Jumbo would play the Dumo card on Thursday to try and expose INEOS on the penultimate climb, but I highly doubt it, I think they'll approach the finish with the same "blueprint" as today.
Maybe Movistar / Arkea / Bora / Astana should try and do something on Thursday?
I actually don't think they'll just go for bonifications all the time. That's just not a big margin. I think the preferred move is to have Roglic rip it once and win solo if he's the strongest. Reason they didn't in the Dauphine is very simply cause it's the Dauphine and you don't want to give all your tricks away.
On stage 6, I'd consider it a great option to basically shred the peloton on the Lusette and then let Dumoulin over the top, but Dumoulin didn't give me a great impression yesterday. If the peloton is shredded enough honestly Roglic can just go solo on Lusette but I don't think they'll quite do that either. I think they'll play it conservatively and try to get a numbers advantage in the final 5km.
I rather doubt he's planning to wait for the TT considering he's known for having sub-par TTs at the end of GTs.
If they had the form they could be using Mavic Mektronik.I'm not convinced Movistar's riders have any form to do anything, plus they are still using SRAM.