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Given that Ajuso/Almeida are 4th- 7th in the race you may as well use them as weapons. And I don't think MTF's are better suited for that tactic.
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I hope Bambi has enough balls to attack tomorrow. 🥃
And will Rogla slowly start coming into his own? Or too soon still?
And will Rogla slowly start coming into his own? Or too soon still?
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Last 45 km are quite interesting with a few climbs. They are not long but steep and punchy. Up and down, up and down. Is it the day when we will finally see the dream duo ride by yellow + white? This may be the last chance for such an action in this Tour. Vingo normally is almost impossible to drop by a non-Pogacar guy but who knows what kind of race situation can occur? For example if Remco tries then Vingo can let him go initially (like yesterday on one climb). Then if Pog attacks and bridges to Remco leaving Vingo just a few seconds behind it's suddenly 2 vs 1 (in a varying terrain). Impossible? Absolutely not. Maybe it takes two Merckx-es to break the unbreakable.
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That would be an ideal scenario if z Pogacar was in 2nd or 3rd, and wanted to force the yellow jersey team to chase them down. But with Pog in yellow (I think) there will be less incentive for other teams to chase. They might shrug their shoulders and decide “you want Almeida in yellow instead of Poggio, fine go right ahead.”
Pidcock didn’t look very good on the short climbs on the gravel stage ( barely hanging on sometimes) so he may be in break but I don’t see him as likely. Good stage for Carapaz.Either Pidders from breakaway or Rogla beats Pog in a sprint.
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But they run the risk of being Kuss’d if Almeida or Ayuso get to big of a lead. Then the others have to deal with Pogacar chilling on their wheel when he’s already ahead of them.
Being 211k is a nice bonus compared to if it were the usual 160-180k. If only they made it another 40k longer yet…
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Agreed. No chance Pog lets Remco go with that final TT looming.
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Rui Costa to wheelsuck his way into victory!
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The more I think about it the more I feel like Pogacar should nuke Puy Mary. I don't think anyone will be close enough to help Vingegaard chase him down (especially with the descent right afterwards) so Pogi can essentially turn this into a TT where he can gain a large amount of time. It's probably the (medium) mountain stage suiting Pogacar the best and he has to be afraid of Vingegaard riding himself into top shape so he needs to gain time as soon as he can.
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Another 20 seconds to Pogacar would be very handy. I hope he can do that. It would put doubt in the mind of Vingegaard how his legs will respond in week three with the interrupted prep.
That tt is up, down and 5km flat. Pog may lose 10 seconds in the flat part, but will gain 20 on the climb and as much in the descent.
i would like to see pog wheel suck jonas on the next few stages that look enticing, to turn things around. he has a 1.15 lead after all. currently, pog is playing right into visma ideas....i do believe pog is stronger/lighter and more of a force this year, but he is human...and i think he likes to dominate. just to let remko or anyone gain anything against him, even for tactics, he wont allow it due to pride. i think this is his potential downfall...but if he is as strong as i think he is ( the last 2 yrs losses motivated him with his training this year) he will win...the day that wva or jorgensen comes to the front early to make things hard, is the day pog needs to think about tactics. wva is sandbagging...he or forgensen (who closed a gap down twice on stage 9) will be in the front on one of the next stages...visma tactic is to make an entire stage very hard...to launch jonas...its clear to see when they do it. so i hope that uae will see it and not allow pog to do all of his attacks.
i think pog needs to wheel suck jonas, and completely reverse the current tactics. remko...lol...not a factor...in mountains...use him as the joker that he is if it makes sense...but try to avoid all of the attacks that are covered by jonas/team...it wastes energy as shown 2022/2023. other riders are expecting that. i would like to see pog sit on jonas wheel...as leader of tour, and use his team to cancel all attacks of the wannabes. does pog want to lose by animating race, or win by being smart and a bit boring?
i think pog needs to wheel suck jonas, and completely reverse the current tactics. remko...lol...not a factor...in mountains...use him as the joker that he is if it makes sense...but try to avoid all of the attacks that are covered by jonas/team...it wastes energy as shown 2022/2023. other riders are expecting that. i would like to see pog sit on jonas wheel...as leader of tour, and use his team to cancel all attacks of the wannabes. does pog want to lose by animating race, or win by being smart and a bit boring?
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This is a stage very important. I can see big gaps here. This stage is all about 2 scenarios, If Vingegaard can follow Pogacar, everyone will be close but if Vingegaard can't follow Pogacar, I can see him gaining almost minute to everyone (20 seconds to Vingegaard).
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It's like the ballsy and the leggy one made it perfectly clear, on what they are in for. The intelligent one, his team, likely still vigilant and on damage control. Rogla, who knows. From his perspective it would be ideal if breakaway makes it and he doesn't bleed any time, likely the story of the whole week two. Lets try to make it happen and go from there. Unless i guess any of the trio has a bad day, then try to move up in GC, but not at expense of reducing the chances for overall.
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And it takes exactly one bull to beat all three goats of them, properly confined.
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Zero chance about ayuso empting himself for pog tomorrow
If we go by what happened on Galibier, Ayuso doesn't need to empty himself for Pogacar.
Almeida and Yates are enough to isolate everyone.
However, I'm not sure Almeida (and Yates) will be happy about Ayuso doing nothing.
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