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Wout van Aert
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Yes... hate to say that, but it's not something I can believe anymore. If he does not drop his level significantly after this Tour he must be the strongest rider I have ever seen (apart from some guys who are doped as ***)
He's not even just Top20 as a sprinter, more like Top3. And not Top20 climber, but more like Top10. Plus an amazing time trialler.
He's not even just Top20 as a sprinter, more like Top3. And not Top20 climber, but more like Top10. Plus an amazing time trialler.
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Being his roommate must be really hard, the guy is probably glowing in the dark.
Most obvious guy in the whole Tour peloton, that says something...
Most obvious guy in the whole Tour peloton, that says something...
He is gonna win tomorrow, on Saturday in ITT and on Champs on Sunday and people will still grace the ground he walks on and completely believe how fantastic and talented he is. Lol, he's like Merckx in an apparently very clean era and in an incredible competition. Fking joke.
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Him crashing out of the Tour last year led him to transform his body like Jalabert did after Armentières.
Hard work and dedication...
Hard work and dedication...
red_flanders
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- Apr 3, 2009
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Well...
One can't really dope themselves into all that, can they? I mean you can't really take a top sprinter and dope them into a super-dom for the climbing stages, or take a climber and dope them into being a sprinter. At least I've not seen it.
The guy is talented as all get out, as his palmares in road and CX indicate. I'd be stunned if he were clean, but then I'd be stunned if anyone at the sharp end of GT's was clean, and most top classics riders as well. Now, the last 10 years, or the 20 before that. I think things have gone up several degrees this year, but other than that, same as it ever was...
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Oh and given that he was likely significantly the heaviest rider in the main group today, he is the number 1 favorite for the ITT on Saturday if he is allowed to go 100%.
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So that's what the discolored hair is awout.
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Yes, slowly turning into Festina Virenque or 1998 Pantani (blonde goatee).
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He still sprint like before crash and TT as well. He add incredible climbing to his skillset but lost anything from his other strenghts.
- Apr 30, 2011
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I'm not so sure. Roglic seemed to have quite some in the tank today. I hope they both go full gas in the ITT.
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I guess we can say Hulk Hogan in fake wrestling was extremely talented. Similar concept. The point is WVA is doing stuff he has never shown before, and unlike other support riders (e.g. Michał Kwiatkowski at Sky / Ineos) hasn't dropped away in the last kilometers of big climbs in the high mountains.
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Okay, he hasn't dropped away at the finale of the big climbs . . . but he did drop Dumoulin once.
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