It was a bad day, but people also overestimate Pogacar's TT pedigree. I think in sub-47 km/h TTs, he's can compete with Evenepoel, but when it becomes a test of power and aerodynamics and not w/kg there's no real contest.
Wasn't it like 27° today (80° F)? I get the humidity, but folks can't be complaining about 80°, right?
There was 15km in which they had to pedal, and 10km of them were uphill. It's semantics, but that's a semi MTT, or at the very least it's nothing remotely comparable to today.
I think 1'15 to Vine and 2'30 to Van Wilder aren't impossible if he comes in with perfect preperation in this ITT.
I think he finishes 20-30s behind Evenepoel.
It's not a meme at all. Guys who can't buy a 15th place in a Giro ITT are top 5 today.
It's semantics, but a TT which is 10km uphill, 15km downhill, with 2km flat at the start and 4km flat at the end is closer to a MTT than a regular TT.
Oh okay it's about Del Toro. Understood and sorry for interrupting, I appreciate the agenda.
It was 11m of elevation/km vs 18/km. It was also 20 minutes shorter and a bit more twisty than this (which suited Pogacar relative to Evenepoel).
A mountain time trial is just one which significant climbing, ideally in one block. It doesn't mean that ends at the top of the mountain. If it ended at the top of Col d'Eze but had 10km of flat before it you'd be saying it was a MTT, but because there's a downhill they didn't even pedal on it isn't?
No like I said I like it, I need him gone from farming 1.1s and let Scaroni hoover them instead.
An MTT is a specific event. It generally finishes at the top of a climb.
Rwanda and Kigali specifically have all kinds of laws and traditions that they have worked towards for last @30 years.. Plastic bags are illegal.. Young people but also fairly old people have a legal obligation to go out and pick up trash.. It's a national thing to keep the country clean, have good car, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian ratio.. From what I have read Kigali has a scarcity of public trash cans because people don't litter and take time to pitch debris in available trash receptacles.. And outdoor smoking is against the law in Rwanda for @10-15 years..
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