Volta ao Algarve 2022 (February 16-20)

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Almost live...

 

[Samamba]

What is Hayter doing

 

[JosefK]

Hayter's gonna Hayte. Sorry . . . couldn't resist.

 

[Escarabajo]

Is Remco falling in the trap?
It is good that he has a good advantage.

 

[Blobs]

The best form of attack is defense, according to the Eurosport commentator.

 

[KZD]

Is Remco falling in the trap?
It is good that he has a good advantage.

Lampaert is with him now.
Evenepoel looked pretty good in this first climb. Hayter struggling as I expected

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Is Remco falling in the trap?
It is good that he has a good advantage.

He solved that very well. Only respond when needed, and keep the tempo high enough without burning himself.

 

[Escarabajo]

Where is Pidcock?

 

[JosefK]

It might be in the bag.

 

[Faserr]

Climber Küng this year?

 

[Escarabajo]

Where is Pidcock?

And Hayter?

 

[hayneplane]

Linking up with Lampaert at almost the perfect time as if they caught up a few hundred metres sooner then he would have dropped through the group immediately.

Remco looked smooth but good to see some intent from Martinez.

 

[Escarabajo]

Surely Martinez wasn't expecting his team to be this bad!

 

[Samamba]

Surely Martinez wasn't expecting his team to be this bad!

Hayter didn't even try

 

[Ilmaestro99]

I hope that Higuita wins ! Vamos Campeon !

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Hayter said yesterday he wasn't feeling too great. Pidcock on the other hand said form was good.

 

[Lequack]

That young Norwegian from Jumbo Visma reminds me of Vingegaard. Great showing. Apparently he's still in their development team until 2024, but surely they'll give him a chance to ride in the main team now.

Johannes Staune-Mittet

Johannes Staune-Mittet (born 2002-01-18 in Lillehammer) is a professional road racing cyclist from Norway, currently riding for Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team. His best results are winning GC Giro Next Gen and winning GC Ronde de l'Isard.

www.procyclingstats.com

 

[houtdffan]

Are you talking about a 70k ITT or TTT here? Today climbing doms are in many cases also TT'ers when looking at the rich teams as i suggested. Especially if you look at a team like Sky/Ineos. With some work TT'ers could be transformed into medium mountain domestiques easily. Van Aert may have outgrown that role at Jumbo, but there is also Castroviejo, or what about Dennis offering Ineos the 2020 Giro on a platter. I think no real concessions would need to be made by the rich teams as you are suggesting.

TTT

Many pure climbing doms would be major liabilities in a TTT. Not the ones who set tempo, but the ones who can explode the race for their leaders. LIke a Heras was in the tour for Lance. He had to be highly sheltered in the TTT

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

TTT

Many pure climbing doms would be major liabilities in a TTT. Not the ones who set tempo, but the ones who can explode the race for their leaders. LIke a Heras was in the tour for Lance. He had to be highly sheltered in the TTT

And how many riders like that were there in the Sky days? Jumbo has one for instance, Kuss. Say they want to go all out for yellow with Roglic, they could put Dumoulin, Van Aert, Dennis, Vingegaard... all capable of winning ITT's and all would be superb mountain domestiques.

 

[JosefK]

Maybe a day for Gaudu for the stage?

 

[TomBonnen2005]

Remco 3' effort to be seen for the first time?

 

[dicanio_michael]

It is interesting Ineos brought two helpers for Quickstep, even Hayter was already struggling on the last climb.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

It is interesting Ineos brought two helpers for Quickstep, even Hayter was already struggling on the last climb.

It doesn't matter as Evenepoel had the race in the bag regardless. Been a really poor edition all in all...

 

[Red Rick]

Kung still hanging on or thereabouts

 

[Blobs]

Indurevenepoel