Wout van Aert

[ashhutch1997]

It's now at the point where you just have to laugh, it's just so ridiculous lol

 

[Eclipse]

Just another normal ride from a normal rider who has spent a normal amount of energy over the race.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

 

[burning]

He took it easy yesterday, nothing to see here.

To be honest, he might be the most ridiculous rider I have ever seen, I am actually just enjoying the show.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

He took it easy yesterday, nothing to see here.

To be honest, he might be the most ridiculous rider I have ever seen, I am actually just enjoying the show.

Idunno, I think Wout doing his best impression of '99 Vuelta Vandenbroucke and then some is probably more visibly insane, but Geraint Thomas has won the Tour de France. And just the fact that sentence exists provides competition to Wout.

 

[Pantani Attacks]

Has he the ultimate green light just to do whatever he wants? Insane.

 

[ashhutch1997]

"I'll say to the people who don't believe, the cynics and the sceptics: I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles."

 

[burning]

Idunno, I think Wout doing his best impression of '99 Vuelta Vandenbroucke and then some is probably more visibly insane, but Geraint Thomas has won the Tour de France. And just the fact that sentence exists provides competition to Wout.

I was measuring the ridiculousness purely on the performance. Geraint's trajectory is rivaled by guys like Mauri, Alarcon etc.
Edit: I am not sure, but he is probably stronger than the year that he won the Tour as well.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I was measuring the ridiculousness purely on the performance. Geraint's trajectory is rivaled by guys like Mauri, Alarcon etc.
Edit: I am not sure, but he is probably stronger than the year that he won the Tour as well.

Assuming you mean the 90s Mauri, at least he had only just turned 25 when his ridiculous win took place. If you mean the Uruguayan Mauri, he's only turned 27 this week (but I agree he is preposterous in similar fashion to Wout). Alarcón's transformation was even sillier than Thomas' imo, at least Thomas went from a comical increase in climbing at 29 to winning a GT at 32, Alarcón just went from rouleur domestique (per his own team's website at the start of the 2017 season) to beating Quintana in the mountains and dominating in all formats at 31, with only a decent domestique showing the previous year as even remotely a hint.

 

[burning]

Assuming you mean the 90s Mauri, at least he had only just turned 25 when his ridiculous win took place. If you mean the Uruguayan Mauri, he's only turned 27 this week (but I agree he is preposterous in similar fashion to Wout). Alarcón's transformation was even sillier than Thomas' imo, at least Thomas went from a comical increase in climbing at 29 to winning a GT at 32, Alarcón just went from rouleur domestique (per his own team's website at the start of the 2017 season) to beating Quintana in the mountains and dominating in all formats at 31, with only a decent domestique showing the previous year as even remotely a hint.

I was not aware of the Uruguayan Mauri, I was talking about Melcior Mauri. I should brush up on my Portuguese circuit knowledge, especially considering what's going on over there right now.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I was not aware of the Uruguayan Mauri, I was talking about Melcior Mauri. I should brush up on my Portuguese circuit knowledge, especially considering what's going on over there right now.

All 76kg of him, 2nd on Alto da Torre and 1st on Senhora da Graça (and best of the GC guys on Montalegre after the break was allowed to take the stage) en route to 2nd on GC last year, because Efapel failed to chase their own teammate down quickly enough (we ridiculed them for doing it at all because lol Efapel and also not chasing it down would turn it into a straight climbing battle between Figueiredo and Antunes, but it turned out that Mauri somehow had turned into a better climber than either of them, somehow). And 2nd in the final TT, falling just 10" short of doing what Sérgio Ribeiro and Cândido Barbosa tried and failed to do...

 

[Ilmaestro99]

All 76kg of him, 2nd on Alto da Torre and 1st on Senhora da Graça (and best of the GC guys on Montalegre after the break was allowed to take the stage) en route to 2nd on GC last year, because Efapel failed to chase their own teammate down quickly enough (we ridiculed them for doing it at all because lol Efapel and also not chasing it down would turn it into a straight climbing battle between Figueiredo and Antunes, but it turned out that Mauri somehow had turned into a better climber than either of them, somehow). And 2nd in the final TT, falling just 10" short of doing what Sérgio Ribeiro and Cândido Barbosa tried and failed to do...

Didn't he crashed in the final TT?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Didn't he crashed in the final TT?

You might be right, can't recall off the top of my head, but that would just have been the cherry on top if he would have actually won.

 

[burning]

All 76kg of him, 2nd on Alto da Torre and 1st on Senhora da Graça (and best of the GC guys on Montalegre after the break was allowed to take the stage) en route to 2nd on GC last year, because Efapel failed to chase their own teammate down quickly enough (we ridiculed them for doing it at all because lol Efapel and also not chasing it down would turn it into a straight climbing battle between Figueiredo and Antunes, but it turned out that Mauri somehow had turned into a better climber than either of them, somehow). And 2nd in the final TT, falling just 10" short of doing what Sérgio Ribeiro and Cândido Barbosa tried and failed to do...

This looks quite ridiculous even for Volta standards. His time on Senhora da Graca is also pretty good, just not on Alarcon level. I should probably go and watch those Volta stages.

 

[burning]

WVA turned out to be way faster compared to Jonas, Pogacar, and Geraint in the final section. With actual climbs in it.

 

[Eclipse]

WVA turned out to be way faster compared to Jonas, Pogacar, and Geraint in the final section. With actual climbs in it.

Jonas clearly sat up tbh .

 

[Reemster]

Guys guys guys, what are you all on about? Jumbo are using a foodapp, they are just more professional than other teams

 

[fbjim]

Guys guys guys, what are you all on about? Jumbo are using a foodapp, they are just more professional than other teams

from my pandemic experience i can confirm that using Uber Eats a lot does not do wonders for one's physique

 

[SHAD0W93]

from my pandemic experience i can confirm that using Uber Eats a lot does not do wonders for one's physique

They’re just doing the Tom Brady diet.

 

[PhiLiz]

You might be right, can't recall off the top of my head, but that would just have been the cherry on top if he would have actually won.

Yes, he did. Cost him the victory.

 

[noob]

Did Wout do an Armstrong Rasmussen today and got angry when asked about doping?!

Way to go

 

[Red Rick]

People be acting like a 75kg guy being able to climb at 5.7 W/kg is more ridiculous than a 58kg being the best TTer in a 51kph TT.

 

[meat puppet]

Not to take anything away from Vingo, but maybe it's because Wout really had no rest days. He was full on from stage one, firing on all cylinders all the time, and will be until the Champs sprint.

In a sense Wout was an even more dominant rider than GC heads of state who just had endless energy to spend. I bet he racked a lot more fatigue / TSS (and yes, I know it's flaws and consider it as a potentially very misleading metric) than Vingo. And the effect of that fatigue? Yeah.

The green Hulk jersey was very apt.

 

[Cookster15]

This is way, way less surprising than the yellow jersey today.

 

[hfer07]

Hey Wout, tone it down a bit, would you?