UAE-Team Emirates thread

[RedheadDane]

My guess for UAE's 2022 TdF team:

Pogacar
Majka
Bennett
McNulty
Formolo
Marc Hirschi
Matteo Trentin
Mikkel Bjerg

Any particular reason you're only including given names that starts with the letter 'M'?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Any particular reason you're only including given names that starts with the letter 'M'?

And he's even listed them alphabetically.

 

[Offline]

Any particular reason you're only including given names that starts with the letter 'M'?

Haha no, idk

 

[Landeirovic]

My guess for UAE's 2022 TdF team:

Pogacar
Majka
Bennett
McNulty
Formolo
Marc Hirschi
Matteo Trentin
Mikkel Bjerg

I think Soler do Tour and Vuelta. I expected him in Tour.

 

[Offline]

I think Soler do Tour and Vuelta. I expected him in Tour.

Don't think he is strong / good enough.

 

[Colonel]

My guess for UAE's 2022 TdF team:

Pogacar
Majka
Bennett
McNulty
Formolo
Marc Hirschi
Matteo Trentin
Mikkel Bjerg

I would remove Formolo and go with Laengen again and add Soler

 

[RedheadDane]

I would remove Formolo and go with Laengen again and add Soler

Who'd (Marc) Soler be replacing?

 

[BlueRoads]

I would remove Formolo and go with Laengen again and add Soler

Why? I would definitely keep Formolo. Adding Soler for the mountains, okay, but I would rather keep Trentin and Laengen out of the team. Pogacar is very mature and cool despite his age, he doesn't need many old guys to babysit him in my opinion.

 

[Colonel]

Who'd (Marc) Soler be replacing?

Why? I would definitely keep Formolo. Adding Soler for the mountains, okay, but I would rather keep Trentin and Laengen out of the team. Pogacar is very mature and cool despite his age, he doesn't need many old guys to babysit him in my opinion.

I suppose we will see come TDF.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Why? I would definitely keep Formolo. Adding Soler for the mountains, okay, but I would rather keep Trentin and Laengen out of the team. Pogacar is very mature and cool despite his age, he doesn't need many old guys to babysit him in my opinion.

Agreed. Trentin in particular isn't of much use besides fetching bottles.

 

[Landeirovic]

Mcnulty renew with 2 year

 

[KZD]

Looks like a very strong team for La Vuelta, Pogačar, Almeida, McNulty, Majka, Soler already confirmed and maybe Hirschi or Ayuso can take the start too. It looks like Pogačar is serious about doing the Vuelta but if he doesn't Almeida will have a golden opportunity of winning it given that the route suits him better than the Giro.

 

[Landeirovic]

Looks like a very strong team for La Vuelta, Pogačar, Almeida, McNulty, Majka, Soler already confirmed and maybe Hirschi or Ayuso can take the start too. It looks like Pogačar is serious about doing the Vuelta but if he doesn't Almeida will have a golden opportunity of winning it given that the route suits him better than the Giro.

Yes exact. And Ackermann will start to. I expect he will get 2 riders for him sprint. Maybe Gibbons, Ivo oliveira. If Pogacar and Almeida are tired. They have great team for stage hunting!

 

[Lequack]

Whole UAE is flying at the moment. The UAE Tour squad with Pogacar, Majka, Almeida, then in the classics you have Trentin, and then obviously McNulty and Ayuso.

 

[Landeirovic]

Whole UAE is flying at the moment. The UAE Tour squad with Pogacar, Majka, Almeida, then in the classics you have Trentin, and then obviously McNulty and Ayuso.

And Covi! Still know Hirschi and Formolo come back soon

 

[Lequack]

And Covi! Still know Hirschi and Formolo come back soon

True, forgot Covi.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

So i decided to follow McNulty and Pogacar's lead and did my first ride of the year without any sort of bikecomputer, heartrate monitor, Strava or whatever. I can recommend it to any/everyone! Having no idea how fast you're actually going, how deep you're digging or whether you're heart is ready to explode or not (my guess is it was not), it basically means having a stress-free ride. No feeling of shame about a lack of form, about getting old and/or fat. You simply don't know. For all you know you're putting Ganna to shame, right?

 

[Landeirovic]

Uae takes one win after another. 5 different riders have already won

 

[Escarabajo]

So i decided to follow McNulty and Pogacar's lead and did my first ride of the year without any sort of bikecomputer, heartrate monitor, Strava or whatever. I can recommend it to any/everyone! Having no idea how fast you're actually going, how deep you're digging or whether you're heart is ready to explode or not (my guess is it was not), it basically means having a stress-free ride. No feeling of shame about a lack of form, about getting old and/or fat. You simply don't know. For all you know you're putting Ganna to shame, right?

That's how he won the Tour. He was free of stress!!!

 

[Lequack]

Jan Polanc wins Trofeo Laigueglia with late attack
UAE Team Emirates go 1-2-3 with Ayuso and Covi filling the podium

https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/trofeo-laigueglia-2022/elite-men/results/

 

[tobydawq]

So i decided to follow McNulty and Pogacar's lead and did my first ride of the year without any sort of bikecomputer, heartrate monitor, Strava or whatever. I can recommend it to any/everyone! Having no idea how fast you're actually going, how deep you're digging or whether you're heart is ready to explode or not (my guess is it was not), it basically means having a stress-free ride. No feeling of shame about a lack of form, about getting old and/or fat. You simply don't know. For all you know you're putting Ganna to shame, right?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkEdc0VdRlE&t=50s&ab_channel=Shelly%26Penny

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

They win everything at the moment. If they go on like this all year, they will win more races than QuickStep (who normally achieve the biggest number of victories per season).

Today, they even managed 1-2-3… Very impressive.

Now imagine Gianetti calling Ackermann: „Everyone on the team is already winning races. When do YOU want to start winning races? I DO NOT pay you for starting winning races in September, at 1.1 competitions with bad startlists. Now, would you even still be ABLE to win a 1.2 race, at all? Don‘t endanger my team, I tell you - DO NOT ENDANGER MY TEAM!“…

smile grin

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

They win everything at the moment. If they go on like this all year, they will win more races than QuickStep (who normally achieve the biggest number of victories per season).

Today, they even managed 1-2-3… Very impressive.

Now imagine Gianetti calling Ackermann: „Everyone on the team is already winning races. When do YOU want to start winning races? I DO NOT pay you for starting winning races in September, at 1.1 competitions with bad startlists. Now, would you even still be ABLE to win a 1.2 race, at all? Don‘t endanger my team, I tell you - DO NOT ENDANGER MY TEAM!“…

smile grin

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

Very nice… I had a good laugh… smile

 

[Krzysztof_O]

The team is very strong. Pogi will have to fight hard for a Tour place. He had better leave them for Israel to form a dream duo with Chris.