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Stork also only finished inside the top 10 on gc (2018 Tour Alsace) once in a stage race in the U23 ranks, right?I don't think you can compare Stork to Powless and Vanhoucke. They have both shown some signs of quality before. Stork has just been completely anonymous pack fodder until today.
Different degrees of unexpected of course.I don't think you can compare Stork to Powless and Vanhoucke. They have both shown some signs of quality before. Stork has just been completely anonymous pack fodder until today.
Roglic burn, lol.So, because of today we have to categorise Pogacar as a boring, negative rider? I'd take a pass on that.
Roglic burn, lol.
Different degrees of unexpected of course.
Vanhoucke at least had last year's performance on Etna. Powless a few decent climbing results here and there. Stork close to nothing.
But I wouldn't have bet on any of them finishing in the top10 today.
Amazing climbing performance. Would be good to see how they fared compared previous years.
Well Stork certainly is a surprise. As a german I followed him since his U23 days but always had him as more of a medium mountain, hilly guy. He had a nice race here last year, for his standards, but this comes out of the blue.
Also nice climbing debut for Zwiehoff in his first race at this level!
Powless and Vanhoucke are good enough to be top 10 here . Who else do you expect to be there? Froome and Valverde are done, Nibali maybe too but he won't be there in a pre-season race
Previous performances. Now time yet for this year, if someone has a stopwatch they can time it maybe.
Expected more diference. Valverde didnt do that bad in 2018.
Still, impresive performance by these two guys.
Does Kuss have some kind of helper complex? Why did he help that teammate?
Pogi set the record of the climb today
Pogi set the record of the climb today
Insane climbing speed actually, okay, there was some tailwind in the final, the UAE team and Ineos made it fast pace in the beginning, but when Pogi and Yates stayed alone on the front, they have been riding very uneven pace, so it tells me that on the steady pace the climbing time would be even better. And just we are in February, with big heat on the climb. What a great performance from both of them.Yes I was looking at the climbing records site just now
That was on his second try though.Also Froome is being consistent:
Jebel Hafeet 2020 Froome finished at exactly 5:00 down on Pogacar.
Jebel Hafeet 2021 Froome finished at exactly 5:00 down on Pogacar.
Another win for rim brakes. Pogacar and Formolo both had rim brakes, Majka and Polanc both had disc brakes. Yates also on rim brakes.
Also Froome is being consistent:
Jebel Hafeet 2020 Froome finished at exactly 5:00 down on Pogacar.
Jebel Hafeet 2021 Froome finished at exactly 5:00 down on Pogacar.
And he lost nearly ten minutes to Pogacar the first time they did it last year. He's definitely improving and he lost 2:31 less than Valverde.