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Yeah, he got him real good there! Get rekt, Pogacar!lol roglic owned pogacar in the last 2 mountain stages of the tour 2020 in week 3!
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Yeah, he got him real good there! Get rekt, Pogacar!lol roglic owned pogacar in the last 2 mountain stages of the tour 2020 in week 3!
I think Kuss is actually a pretty good TTer, but there's no reason for him to go all out most times. A 7 km Stage 1 ITT is a different story though.Somehow, with Kuss in the mountain dots I am more okay with his performance. Otherwise, seeing him as a really good time trialer, I would have had to readjust my whole world-view.
Has he ever been team leader on a smaller stage race with TTs? Just looking at his results he always seems quite a ways back on TTs relative to other stages but it would be nice to see what he’s capable of.I think Kuss is actually a pretty good TTer, but there's no reason for him to go all out most times. A 7 km Stage 1 ITT is a different story though.
Somehow, with Kuss in the mountain dots I am more okay with his performance. Otherwise, seeing him as a really good time trialer, I would have had to readjust my whole world-view.
In all honesty he put in decent TTs at the TDF this year, the second one in particular. He wasn’t near the best but he was around the top 30 and not losing 7 minutes like he did in 2020.Has he ever been team leader on a smaller stage race with TTs? Just looking at his results he always seems quite a ways back on TTs relative to other stages but it would be nice to see what he’s capable of.
If Roglic really owned Pog there... he wouldn't be smashed into pieces on PDBF during stage 20.lol roglic owned pogacar in the last 2 mountain stages of the tour 2020 in week 3!
I think it would be so much more fun to have a KoM jersey this way.When they award mountain-jersey points on a TT stage, it’s obviously based on each riders times up the climb section, which is then converted to mountain “points.” Since transponders now give accurate timing information throughout every stage, do folks know if a stage race promoter has has ever tried determining the climber’s jersey on cumulative time up categorized climbs, rather than on points for placement at the summits? I’m not necessarily supporting that idea, because it might takeaway some of the in-race action on the cat 1, 2, 3 climbs, but it does have some appeal for giving a more accurate “best” climber.
My suspicion is that Kuss struggles with the ITT position/pacing for longer periods of time so in an irregular prologue he performs quite a bit better.I think Kuss is actually a pretty good TTer, but there's no reason for him to go all out most times. A 7 km Stage 1 ITT is a different story though.
What was so bad about the stage 1 ITT in Monaco in 2009? Or next year's stage 1 ITT in Copenhagen?Every GT should start with a max 6-7 km prologue. Nothing longer, no TTT's and no road stages.
Only real prologues.
When they award mountain-jersey points on a TT stage, it’s obviously based on each riders times up the climb section, which is then converted to mountain “points.” Since transponders now give accurate timing information throughout every stage, do folks know if a stage race promoter has has ever tried determining the climber’s jersey on cumulative time up categorized climbs, rather than on points for placement at the summits? I’m not necessarily supporting that idea, because it might takeaway some of the in-race action on the cat 1, 2, 3 climbs, but it does have some appeal for giving a more accurate “best” climber.
Every GT should start with a max 6-7 km prologue. Nothing longer, no TTT's and no road stages.
Only real prologues.
Also Adam's version of being competitive is GTs has almost exclusively been sitting on the back of the GC group for as long as possible and trying to limit his losses, I doubt Ineos will allow him to do that here.Think at best he's a co leader. Unless Bernal and Carapaz completely collapse or crash, I can't see Ineos fully backing Yates in any GT. He hasn't shown the ability to be competitive in 3 weeks in a long time.