Will R.Gesink ever win a GT?

[Pippo_San]

The ballad of Robert Gesink has to be one of the saddest in pro cycling.

LMAO this is both incredibly sad and hilarious.

 

[Aapjes]

Mostly sad, he deserves a little GT luck.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

i can't see it happening.

I think even if blanco get a main sponsor he should ride elsewhere also.

 

[brilleaben]

He should go to Rabo Conti.

 

[babastooey]

No

ten char!

 

[auscyclefan94]

Gesink fans should remember that Evans won a tour. It happens, but you have to wait.

 

[Walkman]

Gesink fans should remember that Evans won a tour. It happens, but you have to wait.

Indeed.

There was 7 (or maybe 11) of us who voted for Evans as the winner of the 2011 Tour de France. And man that was great!

I really hope Gesink get back to his old level climbing wise. If he does so, I think he will win a GT. I can also addthat I really hope he does, Gesking seems like a really nice fellow and I can still remember the time he broke his arm in the Tour, the guy is a fighter and I think he will pull through.

 

[melkemugg]

Gesink can still make it to 10th but who the f.ck cares. The stage win today would have been so much better. Anyway, he seems to be going slightly better than the weeks before so maybe he'll get another chance at a stage win.

I hope he gets one.

I think he really needs a stage win to get some confidence back. Imagine how frustrating it must be for him to always have something stupid happening.

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

It's just the Dutch disease. After Zoetemelk (although he did win 2 GT's) and Boogerd, now they have Gesink.

 

[RedheadDane]

Only now got around to replying to this thread...

Gotta say it seems less and less likely.
As one of the Eurosport Guys has mentioned a couple of time it's probably got something to do with the fact that he's somewhat of a 'fair weather rider' and doesn't do very well under preassure. Which of course is not the best starting point trying to win a GT.

Guess his team could try and hide the fact that they were riding for him, but I guess he'd figure it out...

 

[theyoungest]

Only now got around to replying to this thread...

Gotta say it seems less and less likely.
As one of the Eurosport Guys has mentioned a couple of time it's probably got something to do with the fact that he's somewhat of a 'fair weather rider' and doesn't do very well under preassure. Which of course is not the best starting point trying to win a GT.

Guess his team could try and hide the fact that they were riding for him, but I guess he'd figure it out...

I don't think it's the pressure, he looked very focused and ready. He got through the first week without problems. But what these commentators probably don't know is that his leg fracture was really serious and complicated, the worst fracture his doctor had ever seen. Which riders who have broken their upper leg so seriously have ever returned to their previous level? I can't think of many.

Uphill he just struggles way more than before, he always was a suffer specialist but right now he suffers as soon as the roads go up.

 

[RedheadDane]

Well, I didn't know he'd had a particularily bad leg-break...
Just relaying what I heard.

 

[Fearless Greg Lemond]

Bad injuries:
http://www.geschiedenis24.nl/speler.program.7056721.html

Tjallingii?

Fact is, there is always something with Gesink. Sick. Breaks a leg. Breaks an arm. Etc etc. Imho he should focus on the Vuelta completely and hope none of the real big guns will compete. Also Liege Bastogne Liege should be his cup of tea. Stay away of the Tour, or ride to improve form and try to pick a stagewin.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

It's just the Dutch disease. After Zoetemelk (although he did win 2 GT's) and Boogerd, now they have Gesink.

I think choking is the word.

 

[IndianCyclist]

It's just the Dutch disease. After Zoetemelk (although he did win 2 GT's) and Boogerd, now they have Gesink.

Zoetemelk won & podiumed GTs. Boogerd won classics. Gesink has done neither. Unfair to compare Gesink to them. Gesink simply isn't three week or one day material. He is one week material. The day he or his team understands this he will start winning.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

If you saw him in Vuelta 2009 he was definately 3 week material. Certainly the way he attacked Valverde on La Pandera.
People forget so easily.

Too bad that Gesink is gone the moment he broke his leg

 

[Netserk]

Zoetemelk won & podiumed GTs. Boogerd won classics. Gesink has done neither. Unfair to compare Gesink to them. Gesink simply isn't three week or one day material. He is one weak material. The day he or his team understands this he will start winning.

Corrected

 

[Lequack]

Gesink reflects on 'best years of my career' to join Roglič for three Vuelta wins Jumbo-Visma veteran lifts the lid on racing with Roggo and return from personal setbacks over winter

https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/gesink-reflects-on-best-years-of-my-career-to-join-roglic-for-three-vuelta-wins/

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Mean bump, Lequack.

 

[tobydawq]

To the question in the thread title: No.

 

[SHAD0W93]

At least he was part of 3 winning GT teams.

 

[ice&fire]

I didn't know he had a thread. Looks like it was abandoned more than 3 years before he won that '16 Vuelta stage at the top of the Aubisque.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

I didn't know he had a thread. Looks like it was abandoned more than 3 years before he won that '16 Vuelta stage at the top of the Aubisque.

Netserk, destroyer of threads.

 

[Red Rick]

To the question in the thread title: No.

Figured I wasn't gonna answer this question 9 years after the fact.

 

[Lequack]

To the question in the thread title: No.