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Your quote it out of the blue. The only source I could find was here:
www.cyclingnews.com
Being a fan of a rider has no bearing in acknowledging that the rider is above or under another rider.
I have said multiple times that data is useful for teams and riders assessing their performances but one has to be bigger than data in order to know how to read it
I have say it before and I'll say it again: this is LAZY thinking. You cannot use rider X to compare rider Y to Z. Because you ignore contexts with all their magnitude. The routes in both TTs are different. PDBF TT happened in stage 20 in Tour 2020, Combloux TT in stage 16 in Tour 2023.
Again, I was talking about Angliru and the Vuelta in general: Roglic and Vingo couldn't drop each other. Vuelta 2023 Roglic besides his "age" proved he was up there with the allegedly best GT rider in the world. I was not stating that Roglic proved he was better, I stated he showed how he was not worse.
He was. And I thought that Vingegaard was sandbagging the entire Vuelta after the first week or so, in fact I think that's pretty well known. (Although Roglic was probably holding back, though maybe not on Angliru -- I sort of discount both their performances in the Vuelta last year because of many factors.)
Crashes affect every rider in physical and psychological terms.
No effect is a very strong claim. I think it affected him somewhat in both 2020 and 2021.
That's something who probably will happen. I think the four will start the Tour, but let's see in what kind of shape, and then in the first week, crashes and bad luck usually happen, and normally some GT rider is out of the race.
Roglic was clearly losing the Vuelta 22 before dropping out. During the Vuelta 23 he never gave the impression that he could win it. He once attacked his own leader at that moment, Kuss, and his teammate Vingegaard. But he was only able to gain a lead of a few seconds and was easily caught by the other teams.
He’s an idiot, he also said that the injury of Pogacar was 3 weeks later last year, so that Vingegaard had enough time to recover. As if it’s the same injury…
The Tour is backloaded, it will be hard to have big gaps until the last 8 racing days.
Calling Vingegaard a big favorite is exactly what you'd expect a competitor, or manager thereof, to say, whether or not they believe it. There is nothing to be gained from writing him off in public.
Or maybe that’s what Visma wants him to think. UAE could(probably does) have spies watching him.
Having UAE spies in every corner of the area of Tignes, watching secretly Vingegaard, would be one of the most hilarious scenario ever.
I would also consider Merckx an underdog for this year‘s Tour. He is a bit too old.
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