I'd seen that, but the estimated times made me question everything because frankly I think the median time estimated there may go OTL. The whole diagram seems minutes from where I expect the winning time to be.
The estimated time in the roadbook is 26 minutes, which seems much more fair. For the winning time - 4k at sub-50 km/h (the road starts to climb before the KOM officially starts) is maybe 5 minutes and then 50 seconds off the climbing record because it's a MTT and it's 2025 is 19:00, for a combined 24:00? Then the roadbook time would be a borderline top-10 time.
Yeah I think I got confused by the official climb annotation and the length of the part before the climb.
I believe it's exactly the opposite. Vingegaard is attacking everywhere because he knows he will be dropped on Hautacam.
Vingegaard has done one move you could credibly call an attack all race (right after the final KOM on stage 2), that's less than Pogacar has.
Pogacar did one attack. Other than that, he is just sprinting. On the other hand, you can see Vingegaard working on flat stages, trying to split the peloton. Pogacar seems more relaxed but we will know more in 3 days.
Look at their eyes after the stages in the interview. I really believe Pog is not so good right now. Even Remco looks much fresher imo.
Let’s see. Hard to see how Remco can be fresher than Pogacar btw.
No safer place in the echelons than at the front. Just ask Evenepoel and Bora where they would rather have been.
You are right however Pogacar has not been more exposed than Vingegaard IMO.
Yes, the defintion of worthless armchair analysis is what I'm bringing to the table here
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