There are gradients in how dangerous a descent can be, right? And I think the downhill of the the Galibier is looking for trouble. But that's just me, I wouldn't put this in, I don't see the added value of it. Let's hope everything will be fine tomorrow.
Pogi will already be 45 seconds up the road
Theres is some descents who should not be done. I think the descent to valloire is not dangerous, so no problem on this case.
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I think in terms of risk of serious injury or death, a wide-open descent like this with some relatively high-speed bends is actually the most dangerous. Of course bad pavement could make a descent more dangerous, but that wouldn‘t happen at the Tour either way so something like the Galibier is actually pretty far up there. You just don‘t get a lot of criticism about it, because riders are more taken aback by narrow roads which look more dangerous.
Wouldn’t UAE drop most people with their train? If they go all out, I don’t expect 10 people to survive, and not Pidcock as one of them.
In previous years this would be the perfect stage to send him up the road on standby.Maybe there is a small chance van Aert could be in the mix tomorrow. Gradients not that steep after all.
From cyclinguptodate:
With the stage ending with a post-Galibier descent however, van Aert himself is fancying his chances of success.
"Normally that's something that suits me," the Belgian admits. "What my role will be, will still have to be determined. It depends on how the other guys do in supporting Jonas. Based on that, we can decide what I'm going to do.
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Thank goodness it's not a tailwind. That went on for like 4 years.
If the headwind causes more conservative pacing all it would take is one or two of the more aggressive descenders to be close enough to bridge and then attack on the descent. I’m not sold the gaps will be that small though.
Interesting. I woulda said good day for the break to get away, with EF in charge of the bunch. As an aside, interested to see how they perform tomorrow. Some strong guys but this is different.
Yes, I think Visma should send van Aert up the road to help Vingo when he attacks.
He was also really sick through most of Stage 1, only stabilised in the last third of the race.
Van Aert will help Vingegaard with the wifi password in the hotel after they finish.
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