Tour de France Tour de France 2024: Stage 16 16/7 Gruissan - Nîmes, 188.6k

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Not fatigue, but heat. They'll want to test to see how well he rides when it's really hot. I think he'll be fine, but Visma is not here to be part of a victory procession.
Last year, he almost cracked Vingegaard in Col de Jeux Plane and it was hot as hell. We had 32°C before Plateau de Beille and he delivered his best performance ever. The true is we try to find weakness in Pogacar but he really doesn't have any type of weakness. This doesn't mean he can't be defeated, of course he can lose specially because he is competing against other generational talent.
 
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Last year, he almost cracked Vingegaard in Col de Jeux Plane and it was hot as hell. We had 32°C before Plateau de Beille and he delivered his best performance ever. The true is we try to find weakness in Pogacar but he really doesn't have any type of weakness. This doesn't mean he can't be defeated, of course he can lose specially because he is competing against other generational talent.
I know you are a big fan of Tadej. I'm just saying that Visma will try to crack him in the heat and also week three. It's not a criticism.
 
I know you are a big fan of Tadej. I'm just saying that Visma will try to crack him in the heat and also week three. It's not a criticism.
Mate, you don't need to be "afraid" to give your opinion. I just didn’t agree with you and respond to you but we can disagree, we are all differents with different points of view so we just need to be respectful towards each other.
 
"Inferior" is a strong word, when Hepburn, Walscheid and Mezgec is a potential world class sprint train.
That said, the Giro sprint field was also stronger. Kooij, Merlier and Milan are all not here...

The point is Jayco could not get their sprinter to the final enough times, when they had better chances of winning the sprint. You have to remember that for the Giro, Mezgec was a late call up, so was unprepared, took a week to get going and had not ridden with Ewan for six years, but somehow got him to more sprint finishes.

Ewan is an interesting case. Did not ride after TA, before the Giro, except for a one day race in Germany, and has not ridden since. Strange indeed!
 
Funny how things work. VA and VdP both at the Tour and it looks like none of them is gonna get a win. A couple of years ago we were wondering whether they would leave any stages for everybody else...
I'm in favor of adding classics in the summer. Personally, I don't like watching MvP leading out JP or VdP setting tempo for JV. Come on, these are some of the biggest names in cycling. Grand Tours offer little for them nowadays and frankly robs fans of opportunities to see generational talents go head-to-head.
 
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