Tour de Romandie 2022 (April 26 - May 1)

[Red Rick]

Vlasov with the biggest win of his career. Amazingly consistent this spring.
Podium contender for the Tour if he doesn't get there too spent.

Only has the racedays of Roglic and Pogacar combined.

 

[ice&fire]

Someone should run the numbers but I don't think Dennis was in the top 50 in the 2nd half of the ITT.

He was 61st, according to PCS

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Rohan Dennis cracked like Isidro Nozal in the 2003 Vuelta.

 

[woodburn]

TT top 10 for Kuss. Enjoy it, young man. Might never happen again.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Rohan Dennis cracked like Isidro Nozal in the 2003 Vuelta.

It's Dennis, so it was probably mental and he gave up once they told him he was clearly behind.

 

[JosefK]

Today is another lesson in how racing for GC can make certain riders look different from their best selves near the end of the race.

 

[Netserk]

Rohan Dennis cracked like Isidro Nozal in the 2003 Vuelta.

And it was immediately visible once he was on the climb.

 

[Red Rick]

It's Dennis, so it was probably mental and he gave up once they told him he was clearly behind.

You didn't see him nearly collapse after the finish line?

They probably roughly calculated the W he needed to do and he couldn't hold it.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Dennis is true to his team's history - the history of Jumbo NL Ranbobank Visma Belkin-riders totally exploding on the last MTT.

Maybe if he was Dutch...

 

[Mayomaniac]

You didn't see him nearly collapse after the finish line?

They probably roughly calculated the W he needed to do and he couldn't hold it.

He rode without a bike computer on his road bike, so if he actually managed to calculate/hold the watts without one I'm legit impressed.

 

[Red Rick]

He rode without a bike computer on his road bike, so if he actually managed to calculate/hold the watts without one I'm legit impressed.

He rode with radio, they could just relay the watts he was doing

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

That's 350 UCI points that Cofidis were not expecting.

 

[Billie]

That's 350 UCI points that Cofidis were not expecting.

They were expecting them from Ion Izaguirre.

 

[Salvarani]

Very solid ITT from Ayuso.

Unlucky to miss out on the podium.

 

[luckyboy]

Hard to see why Bora is sending Kelderman/Buchmann/Hindley to the Giro instead of Vlasov tbh. He would be #1 favourite right now

 

[Red Rick]

I'm very surprised at how highly rated Dennis and Plapp are for this stage.

As I was saying.

 

[Ripper]

Dennis is true to his team's history - the history of Jumbo NL Ranbobank Visma Belkin-riders totally exploding on the last MTT.

While in general this is true, the picture was actually a race where they had three riders do pretty darn well in the final time trial. The problem on that occasion can't really be discussed on this forum

 

[search]

He was 61st, according to PCS

confirmed by Velofacts . They are always a good source for this kind of stuff

https://twitter.com/x/status/1520762578326151169

View: https://twitter.com/velofacts/status/1520762578326151169

 

[Netserk]

Hard to see why Bora is sending Kelderman/Buchmann/Hindley to the Giro instead of Vlasov tbh. He would be #1 favourite right now

He would fade even harder than Rogla did in 2019.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

First top 10 end result in a WT stage race for Kruijswijk since Tour de France 2019... damn

 

[Mayomaniac]

He would fade even harder than Rogla did in 2019.

Pretty much this.

 

[Filippo_3467]

I'm really happy for Geschke. Often when he had the legs of his life he contributed them to help his captain like in the Tour (I think in 2018?) for Dumoulin. It's great to see someone this dedicated to his team getting a result for himself.

Of course the field was not that good in Romandie but Vlasov seems to be someone who could make the Tour interesting. Of course the Slovenians are the favourites but it would be great if someone else could but in a fight. With Martinez relying on Martinez and Mas always missing the last step of getting close he could be the best bet.

But Bora have to learn to ride as a team. They were badly out of place in the crash on Stage 1, Großschartner was blocking Vlasov's sprint in Stage 3 and Higuita/Vlasov not really riding like a team on stage 4. Also the team not able to impose themselves as a presence in stage 4 despite having the best climber in the field and a strong support cast (even if hampered by injuries and sickness). I don't know if the get it sorted out in the next months. There season is saved right now by the individual performance by Higuita and Vlasov, but the team performance, communication and tactics look quite bad since the new leadership is on board.

 

[Red Rick]

Pretty much this.

Roglic had 20 race days before the Giro.

Vlasov is on 37 race days right now.

 

[Rackham]

As I was saying.

I still felt really bad for Dennis.

He doesn't often get these sorts of opportunities & he's new in the team... so it's a bit of a sad ending.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

As I was saying.

A broken clock is accurate twice per day.