Anyone else want to pile on my admittedly sloppy post?
I had Roglic's results sorted by distance, not by chronology, and was working on my phone while watching TV, so clearly I made some mistakes, as @Eddy Evenepoel pointed out. If I had known the lengths others would go to rebut my post, I might have been more careful.
Also, to be clear, I think Remco will beat Roglic by 30 seconds to a minute and win the ITT, so everyone can calm down.
Also, I referenced the big names he beat rather than whoever got second.
I had Roglic's results sorted by distance, not by chronology, and was working on my phone while watching TV, so clearly I made some mistakes, as @Eddy Evenepoel pointed out. If I had known the lengths others would go to rebut my post, I might have been more careful. Also, to be clear, I think Remco will beat Roglic by 30 seconds to a minute and win the ITT, so everyone can calm down.
Cancellara won the Olympics ITT later that year.
I honestly meant that as a rhetorical challenge pointing out its easier to criticize generally than it is to look up actual results and write them down, but you put in some work - thank you! These are reverse sorted by distance, and includes some non-WT results, but he won 4/10, a worse win percentage in the 10 longest than Roglic. If you look at just his World Tour level results, sorted by distance, here is what you get, which is 2/10 wins. That does include some shorts ITTs now that I look more closely.
Sure, go ahead, pile on. I made some mistakes transcribing from the pcs list since I was on my phone and had it sorted by distance rather than date, and I didn't realize that filtering for WT results meant that some short ITTs were included in the top 10 longest. Here is the list of Roglic's ITTs sorted by distance so you can just look at the actual list yourself.But okay, as Eddy explains in the next post, the list is so bad that you're probably not the one to criticise here
I got some dates wrong clearly, and man I am impressed with either your depth of knowledge or your research! I did not look at every single race to assess parcours, just did a quick scan of top 10 longest WT ITTS and how Roglic did in them. Agreed he is not on the Remco/Wout/Ganna level of long flat ITTs, but my point was that the Olympics ITT was not much of an outlier; he has won 5/10 of the longest WT ITTs he has contested and, as you pointed out, he was injured in some of the ones he did not win, and he still performed well in those.
Also, I referenced the big names he beat rather than whoever got second.
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