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Tour de Suisse 2024, June 9 - 16

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Tim Cahill

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Netserk said:
His instagram post of his 2014(?) training numbers had 20 minutes at 7.4 W/kg.
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IIRC the training picture he posted was from 2016, which everyone was sceptical about given he was kinda mid that season, a lot were saying dodgy power meter so it kinda got disregarded apart from a few clickbaity articles but who knows. I was thinking of Verbier with the number, I think the stage was pretty easy beforehand?

2009 was his best condition as far as I know, post-ban he just wasn't the same, 2014 we will never really know.
 
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Valv.Piti

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You can minus 100 watts the year before. I have been watching the mountain stages lately from 2013, and god damn was he even more trash than I remember. He was visibly hurting and looking more labored than ever. I wonder what happened in 2014 since he got so much better at that age.
 
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Funny I nearly posted that I thought Yates went too early from 3 km out but thought, no, he'll win anyway. I forget it's team UAE!

It seems Almeida thinks so too, https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...st-to-close-gap-in-gc-fight-at-tour-de-suisse
"We anticipated that INEOS Grenadiers would try to set the pace, and we just wanted it to be higher so we had Jan Christen and Isaac del Toro pull," Almeida explains. "Then Adam wanted to go, but maybe he went from a little too far and eventually when I felt good, I bridged."

With Yates and Almeida working in tandem at the front, the duo put more time into the rest of their general classification rivals such as Egan Bernal and Mattias Skjelmose, with Almeida eventually taking the stage win ahead of Yates. "I was in a perfect position at the bottom of the climb so yeah I'm pretty happy with the last two stages," he concludes with an eye on the upcoming individual time-trial. "If I could, I would win everyday but it's not that easy. But I think it suits me so I will do my best."
 
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Unchained

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What a time to be an Almeida fan!

(Yes, it is in fact possible to be happier and I have high hopes for Sunday.)
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The guy is riding great and back to back awesomeness!! To pulse like he did is super human, watch similar efforts by Del Toro, he pulls off, body,heart,head all relax just to a degree, my job is done. Chugg up the hill and finish. Almeida reborn, rebounds multiple times in 2 days. The guy was just not done. Don't know what recovery time was taken from dragging at Yates pace, pulling off..dropping a little, seeing a role to play on destroying or disrupting Trek and Ineos from threatening Yates, lead, his win. And through absolutely killing himself Joel fighting through whatever, makes it back to Yates, gives a little more and it's allowed first take at the winning feast!!
Don't know what else he can take from this race, his TT speed is there, able to stay there on sprint stages, tactical and physical in need of nothing and his climbing is good. Any role UAE needs him to play he can do it. When Christen, Del Toro or Hirschi get in the bus, all of them know for certain that they couldn't have done these last 2 days even w on fire form. Yates rode very well and even he knows that if Almeida had forced the issue things would be way different. Team player that Portug...can you tell I am impressed. I need a massage just from watching him ride on TV!!
 
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