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El Pistolero said:Demare is almost having a better year than Sagan's first year.
Dekker_Tifosi said:except you can;t compare them. Demare is more a pure sprinter like Cavendish than an all-rounder like Sagan.
Dekker_Tifosi said:Yet that doesn't make the statement of Demare being a pure sprinter any less true. Cavendish is/was just always woefully bad at going uphill, even for a pure sprinter.
Can't see Demare winning serious uphill sprints like Sagan did in his first year anyway
Magnus said:Just turned on (Danish) Eurosport. Brian Holm was talking something about Cavendish having a flat with 12 km to go at the Olympic RR. Did anyone else hear that? I turned on in the middle of a sentence.
Dekker_Tifosi said:The only classics I can see Demare winning in are San Remo, Gent Wevelgem, Paris Tours, etc, flat or nearly flat classics.