Hey, give Phil some credit, at least he recognized it was Pogi and not, like, a rider who's not even on the same team, or in this race, or who retired 3 years ago.
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Hey, give Phil some credit, at least he recognized it was Pogi and not, like, a rider who's not even on the same team, or in this race, or who retired 3 years ago.
Re: Bettiol, it wasn't just before the splits, he was pulling the entire group hard with Pogacar on the wheel several times before that.
I couldn't understand why Styven kept going when it was obvious that they couldn't catch the breakaway. He was just simply helping Pogacar. Strange.
I don't know. When Vigo flattened, I think the riders just got overexcited. It happens. The DS will just tell them to settle down next time and listen to their radios.
All of the commentators must have been wrong also then but I will bow to your superior knowledge.
They didn't get it 100% right, but in their defense, they were unlucky as well (with Roglic).
WvA's crash was probably not paying attention (Grisha Niermann said that Kruiswijk was hurt due to the crash and didn't feel good after the crash), and Vingegaard should have kept his cool a bit better (that would have avoided unnecessary bike changes by Kruiswijk and Van Hooydonck, and no bike change needed for him probably).
It was a though choice to split resources between riders. In the end they almost nailed it bringing back Vingegaard to Pogacar, and even with more help, Roglic would never have made up more than a minute of his 2 minute deficit.
He put a lot of energy in the attack and became 6th.
If he was catched by the big group he wouldn't even be top 10 after these efforts. It's a cobble stage in the Tour, he showed how good he was today.
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Re: Bettiol, it wasn't just before the splits, he was pulling the entire group hard with Pogacar on the wheel several times before that.
and his last pull with pog in the wheel led (in)directly to stuyven and pog gapping the rest as the group was all strung out.
also there was absolutely no EF rider close to bettiol that he might be pulling for.
and the camera showed bettiol talking to pog, even putting his arm on his back before one of the pulls.
EF should remove him from the race if this was not some sort of effed-up team orders.
And you add Cort wasting time being in the break in stage 4 - He rides in the peleton and he wins today's stage - EF is a dumb team at times.
Tbf it could be the difference between 6th and 7th place in the final GC for Powless.
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Of course Magnus goes in the break on Stage 4. He wants hill points. That's his game.
If I was Vaughters, and not in such dire need of UCI points, Bettiol would DNS tomorrow.Re: Bettiol, it wasn't just before the splits, he was pulling the entire group hard with Pogacar on the wheel several times before that.
Thanks for this, very farcial. Misunderstandings like in a sitcom, only missing the Benny Hill music
1. If Roglic continues, will he be a domestique for Jonas and Wout? 2. He usually abandons when he falls this far behind.3. Stuyven helping Tadej was very stupid. 4. Great job by Wout towards the end; I hope he didn't burn himself out. 5. I'm surprised Jacobson stayed with main group. 6. Good job by Jasper to gain some green points.
Vingegaard dropped his chain so him and Van Hooydonck stop. Van Hooydonck starts to repair Vingegaards bike and by the time it's fixed he looked op to see Vingegaard has left with his bike.
At that moment a chasing group with Kruiswijk, Van Aert and Kuss pass by. Kruiswijk slows down, Van Aert does not but uses the radio and Kuss steps off (to give his bike to Van Hooydonck, not sure what the plan is there).
Vingegaard is riding on Van Hooydoncks bike which is way too big and realises he cannot continues like this (he has to sit on the top tube to break get the bike to a standstill). He catches up to Kruiswijk and takes Kruiswijks bike. Vingegaard looks bike before stepping up, he must've clearly seen the approaching team car but still decided to give it a try on this bike albeit only for about 10m when he stops to get a new bike from the team car. At that moment the car arrives and Vingegaard gets a new bike Van Hooydonck (on Vingegaards bike) and Kuss arrive on the scene. Van Hooydonck quickly steps off to get back on his own bike which was in Kruiswijks hands at that moment. This makes Kruiswijk realise that he has to get back to his own bike which Vingegaard took to the other side of the road. So Kruiswijk quickly crosses the road only barely avoiding an approaching chase group. He gets on his own bike and away they go.
- Vingegaard rode on 4 different bikes in a span of 100m: his own, Van Hooydoncks, Kruiswijks and his own spare bike
Should be shown in every team hotel this evening: how not to change bikes
At that moment a chasing group with Kruiswijk, Van Aert and Kuss pass by. Kruiswijk slows down, Van Aert does not but uses the radio and Kuss steps off (to give his bike to Van Hooydonck, not sure what the plan is there).
Vingegaard is riding on Van Hooydoncks bike which is way too big and realises he cannot continues like this (he has to sit on the top tube to break get the bike to a standstill). He catches up to Kruiswijk and takes Kruiswijks bike. Vingegaard looks bike before stepping up, he must've clearly seen the approaching team car but still decided to give it a try on this bike albeit only for about 10m when he stops to get a new bike from the team car. At that moment the car arrives and Vingegaard gets a new bike Van Hooydonck (on Vingegaards bike) and Kuss arrive on the scene. Van Hooydonck quickly steps off to get back on his own bike which was in Kruiswijks hands at that moment. This makes Kruiswijk realise that he has to get back to his own bike which Vingegaard took to the other side of the road. So Kruiswijk quickly crosses the road only barely avoiding an approaching chase group. He gets on his own bike and away they go.
- Vingegaard rode on 4 different bikes in a span of 100m: his own, Van Hooydoncks, Kruiswijks and his own spare bike
Should be shown in every team hotel this evening: how not to change bikes
Made sense until ~5km to go, after that it looked a bit 'arranged' between them I must admit.
This guy gets it.
And I too have been pondering the last hour just what the hell Bettiol was thinking.
If Roglič is not seriously hurt he should absolutely stay in the race although the Tour win seems like a remote possibility now he can still be a very important factor in an eventual Vingegård win
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woot! woot! pinot made the main front group!!
Indeed it didn't
Although I'm really curious why Wout was so deep when - as shown in the end - he wasn't feeling that bad.
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