Weather. Carpegna was really cold and Pogacar sustains those conditions better than most. Today the conditions were near perfect for prime performance.
Happy for Bernal and Landa.
Cian BloBloBlo is a big mouth.
The babyface Pogi opened a small glimpse of his inner fire when he raged at that moto.
Cian BloBloBlo is a big mouth.
The babyface Pogi opened a small glimpse of his inner fire when he raged at that moto.
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Chris Harper used to be mentioned here as a joke. Now he is real. Good for him.
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Exiting stage although I had to watch most of it on a mobile phone on in a car. Bernal really surprised me. Landa again shows very good shape. Honestly I expected bigger gap to the 2nd and 3rd place once Pogi dropped everbody. It would be interesting to see if he was running out of gas at the end or it was only a measured ride.
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Nothing against Pogacar per se, but will be annoyed if he cannibalises Montjuic tomorrow. Often one of the funnest stages to watch on the WT calendar.
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The Vuelta will also be a walk in the park for Vingegaard. There will not be Pogacar
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So, based on today's winning performance, from which he attacked 29km out and left Visma about 3 minutes behind, the big takeaway from the cyclingnews forum intelligentsia is that Pog is doomed at the Tour and he should instead focus on the Dirty Kanzaa. Amirite?
The entire forum is actually closer to a mental "clinic" where meltdowns occur each time riders do their thing.
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So happy to see Egan back in good shape & competitive spirit 
same goes for Landissimo
same goes for Landissimo
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I have been unnerved with his showings all season tbh, even though Mallorca and UAE was "good" it was less than i had expected (and less than last year) and i think it fits perfectly within my assumption that the staf at SQS has no clue what they are doing at this point. There has to be a moment when the penny drops. While for every individual case you can look for explanations, i think they need to address the elephant in the room, and it ain't Evenepoel. Alaphilippe, Asgreen, Lampaert, Van Wilder... let's be honest, even Evenepoel isn't where you would expect him.
Last i heard about Van Wilder which was info from right before Catalunya was that everything was going fine, goal is to be top for the summer. Even though before the season, he was supposed to come to Catalunya as a personal goal. Now only Romandie has remained, which ironically also has plenty of cold and rain usually, which aren't exactly his preferred racing conditions. In Paris Nice i also found him to be below expectations, but i thought he might have gotten sick because he raced the TTT with his shirt open (his zipper broke) in the rain. Other than that i have no info atm.
It is a real highlight and a stage he would like to win, I am assuming. He will most likely give it his best shot!
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Nay, Pogacar's lost it. Atttacked from 30 km out, must be so disappointing. When the guy can win from 80 km and not even break a sweat, then this was just almost human. Big row on the bus tonight , I bet. (note! sarcasm)
Good to see Bernal and Mas improving. Little Lenny M nearly got past Vlasov on GC but he too should be pleased how things went. Visma must be wondering what to do before the Tour.
Good to see Bernal and Mas improving. Little Lenny M nearly got past Vlasov on GC but he too should be pleased how things went. Visma must be wondering what to do before the Tour.
The fear of being a forum meme is a powerful motivator for some. Let’s see if WvA can finally shrug off the Pozzato tag…
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I think it was measured. Have you seen the pictures of Pogacar at the finish? looked fresh as a daisy, not like a rider who ran out of gas.
Fantastic to see Bernal looking like some semblance of pre-crash Bernal so far this year.
Only saw 1-2 days in the entirity of last season where he looked a shadow of himself...
so far this year? He looks like firmly in the "2nd group" amongst GC guys.
Only saw 1-2 days in the entirity of last season where he looked a shadow of himself...
so far this year? He looks like firmly in the "2nd group" amongst GC guys.
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The tour is only one of his goals. He's entering most of the big races and hoping he'll get lucky in some (that they won't take his 80km attacks seriously).
He said in the interview that he was suffering. Didn't look like he had much extra to me. Still a good performance.
No, tomorrow is active recovery for Pog...gonna keep the HR below 65 all day.
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Pog isn't worried about Vingegaard in this part of the season. In this part of the season last year Pog rode Vingegaard off his wheel at Paris Nice.
Will need Almeida and Soler to not be off the front or off the back
In fairness i hope he doesn't win it...would like to see another rider get a victory
Maybe the IPT guys could do it or would suggest INEOS if Hayter was ok or even Bora
To be honest i feel that Rogla, Pogi and Jonas, maybe Remco, aren't all that worried about the rest anyway.
So based on what we have seen so far in this season would Jonas crack in this race if participating?
P.S. Then we can extrapolate the sentiment at Itzulia.
P.S. Then we can extrapolate the sentiment at Itzulia.
...and did the, serious face, to mugging to the camera, to serious face thing, while on Vingo's wheel, before he destroyed him at P-N...so I kinda had a smirk when he had the "I'm dead"moment in the Tour.
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