Hopefully bodes well for the Remco 2021 showAfter van Aert's catastrophic injury at last year's TDF, who could have foreseen that he would be this great coming back?
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Hopefully bodes well for the Remco 2021 showAfter van Aert's catastrophic injury at last year's TDF, who could have foreseen that he would be this great coming back?
I agree, what was the team thinking?!More surprising to me that the team fed him at that point. What went wrong there?
That is, I said he's going to hand it to Primoz this evening in the WC-thread, but I did not expect this turn...
Waay different injury, but let's hope Rem comes back strong too!Hopefully bodes well for the Remco 2021 show
Pogacar is definitely one of them 3 stage wins in his debut GT.
After that Carapaz?
Okay, so four non-GT debutants went into the race without ever having ridden a GT without a stage win (sorry for not writing this with a non-double-negative sentence ). Wout and Primoz already made sure they keep themselves in that exclusive club.
Who knows who the other two are?
Eight riders are making their Grand Tour debut and have the hypothetical chance of joining the club: Quentin Pacher, Hugo Hofstetter, Clément Russo, Joris Nieuwenhuis, Harold Tejada, Marc Hirschi, Mathieu Burgaudeau and Maxime Chevalier (sorted after age, starting with the oldest).
As far as I can see, there are only two other current pro riders who are in the club. Can you name them as well?
I don't recall spotting a sub-forum called "Diet during lockdown".Probably a subject for other sub-forum
Has it been confirmed via video that alapeep got an illegal feed?
Try harder, maybe you will find...I don't recall spotting a sub-forum called "Diet during lockdown".
Fabio Jakobsen and Pascal AckermannAs far as I can see, there are only two other current pro riders who are in the club. Can you name them as well?
As far as I can see, there are only two other current pro riders who are in the club. Can you name them as well?
Fabio Jakobsen and Pascal Ackermann
Gaviria should be one, I think
Edit: nope, forgot about his totally forgettable Vuelta last year
Damiano CimaDamn, I missed Ackermann. There is (at least) one more.
Yes. He got it from his cousin and trainer Franck.Has it been confirmed via video that alapeep got an illegal feed?
Damiano Cima
Yes. With 17.1 kms to go.
I have been watching GTs for decades and never seen it as bad as today (the stage 2 days ago was also dreadfully passive). There was no point of protest and no super hard preceding day to justify this behaviour, even if logically I fully sympathise with the smaller teams in not participating in such a futile exercise. We arent even anywhere near a rest day with riders on their last legs (as you say, it is only day 5). The best GTs will feel like they contain numerous one day races to sustain interest on days when there is no GC fight. That is completely fundamental to their viability as a mass spectacle.
I suspect it is an attempt by lower budget teams to send a message to Quickstep and LottoJumbo to at least give a breakaway a few minutes lead to create the slightest hint of a contest. I suspect we will see breakaway leads opened to 3-4 mins in the coming days. I also suspect ASO will think twice in future about sprint point placement. Perhaps being so close to the start it demotivated any breakaway hopefuls even further?
If you were satisfied watching this then that is of course fine. But to try and defend it as normal is to re-write history. I am sure most fans, sponsors, TV networks and ASO will not have been satisfied and that there will be discussions behind closed doors to avoid a repeat. Either that or we shorten stages to 15km!