Volta ao Algarve em Bicicleta 2020, Portugal, February 19 - February 23

[Logic-is-your-friend]

MTF on Alto de Foia, 7km @ 6%

But there are 4 short 2-4k steeper climbs right ahead of Alto de Foia, a total of 10.5k climbing at over 7%:

 

[Lequack]

This is an Evenepoel type climb.

 

[kiszol]

Yeah I have a feeling Remco will be great today. The question is can he shake off the other GC contenders and if not how well can he limit his losses on the last climb. The same applies to Dennis.

 

[fuiers]

Yeah I have a feeling Remco will be great today. The question is can he shake off the other GC contenders and if not how well can he limit his losses on the last climb. The same applies to Dennis.

So he is not winning today then.

 

[Joelsim]

Superman needs to excel today to be in with a chance of the overall.

 

[kiszol]

So he is not winning today then.

Probably not but he can shake off most of his rivals. The main task is not to lose too much to any GC contender on today's stage and on Saturday. I think he can gain at least half a minute in the ITT on anyone bar Dennis in this field.

 

[Red Rick]

So we've decided Evenepoel will drop everyone solo then lose 20s in the final km?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

So we've decided Evenepoel will drop everyone solo then lose 20s in the final km?

And then crash in the final 10 m and lose a minute.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Van der Poel tried to get into an early break. Didn't work out, group caught after a few k.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Well understandable, no team wants to ride after Van der Poel all day.

 

[DNP-Old]

That's simply not true. I can write you at least 10 riders who have stayed at the same level or have done better: Poels, Kwiato, De Gendt, De Plus, Schachmann, Pauwels, Gaviria, Ciolek, Cavendish, Uran... Waiting for those 90 who declined.

Good, now take away natural progression, which applies to a lot of the mentioned guys due to leaving at a young age, and you might have something coming close to a point, albeit 90 was just a random generated number.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Watching yesterdays sprint again... Viviani allowed Jakobsen to win. If he just sprints in a straight line, Jakobsen would be completely boxed in and wouldn't have the time/distance to overtake Viviani. But Viviani moves out of the way, opens up a big gap for Jakobsen to come through and that's the end of it.

Well understandable, no team wants to ride after Van der Poel all day.

I will need to report this to José Been. It's very likely your Dutch nationality will be revoked.

But there would be little need to chase van der Poel all day with 18k of climbing in the final 35k i would think.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Break of 3 with 2m05s on the peloton at 30k into the race:
Miichael Schar (CCC Team)
Casper Pedersen (Team Sunweb)
Dries de Bondt (Alpecin-Fenix)

Gerard Armillas (Efapel) follow the leaders 1m35s behind them.

 

[kiszol]

So we've decided Evenepoel will drop everyone solo then lose 20s in the final km?

No, but it's quite likely that he will drop some contenders while the remaining ones will beat him in the last k.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Armillas caught by the peloton.
Break now has 2m40s

 

[Boes]

Anyone knows where I could find a stream for pc?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Anyone knows where I could find a stream for pc?

You'll have to wait, not live yet. But TIZ is probably a safe bet.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

broadcast doesn't even start until 16:30 or something as far as I know anyway

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Km 94
New time gap: 1m10s. Portuguese team W52-FC Porto leads the chase in the peloton.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

* * * Eurosport is live * * *

 

[Cinemaniak]

For who is MvdP working, Sbaragli?

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Killer tempo by UAE. I think i saw a 90 year old guy on the side of the road overtake the peloton.

 

[Lequack]

UAE working for Rui Costa? He seemed to be in super form in the Saudi Tour.

 

[Salvarani]

Anyone see if Kämna still in the group?

Edit: And 3 seconds after I posted, I spotted him lol.

 

[Lequack]

Remco looking ominous.