madzo2007
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Time trial on Tuesday could be interesting with a Cat 2 climb with a 9% avg gradient.
Yep, he is flying.Vingegaard could decide the tour today if he keeps this up.
He’s a great TT rider. Showed it last year as well. His technique is phenomenal.I think that might be the tour. Is Vingegaard good at TTs or is this bit of a shock?
You lose the advantage on the last bit, when it flattens out as well. Not sure about that decision.I kind of expected Pogacar to pull back after the bike change, but it keeps going
Well, obviously they are not of the same quality, are they ?Colour me sceptical, can’t wait to see some data about this performance. Either UAE needs to fire their entire performance team and Colnago, or Vingegaard was riding on a regular S5 with a TT handlebar, or maybe both are true. You can’t make up that much time on a bike 2kg heavier against a rider of the same quality when Pogacar changed and Vingegaard didn’t.
Not a cycling expert, so can you elaborate? Is that a brand of bike that's illegal or?Colour me sceptical, can’t wait to see some data about this performance. Either UAE needs to fire their entire performance team and Colnago, or Vingegaard was riding on a regular S5 with a TT handlebar, or maybe both are true. You can’t make up that much time on a bike 2kg heavier against a rider of the same quality when Pogacar changed and Vingegaard didn’t.
I think it’s just Jumbo being the best tactical and performance team, and prepared this perfectly. UAE just… didn’t at all.
I’ll just hate that these kind of comments will pop up given that it’s not their quality which made up the difference today. As I said, very curious to find out the data on the bike, watts, position and the likes. It must be a stratosphere apart to take 1’30 on a rider who more than matched you the last week after a restday.Well, obviously they are not of the same quality, are they ?
I would say so yesHmmmm was that a bit too good from Vingegaard?
Pog had a very good TT in his own right with the gap to WVA but Vingegaard completely obliterated him on the timesheet
I mean, obviously it was tongue in cheek. The gap and the overall time relative to the predictions, are both really suspicious, there's no denying that. One of the first texts I got from a mate said something like: "It's kind of a shame you can't really enjoy this", and I agree with that. What happened in the 90's and 00's will always hang over this sport, whenever something like this happens - whether current riders are clean or not.I’ll just hate that these kind of comments will pop up given that it’s not their quality which made up the difference today. As I said, very curious to find out the data on the bike, watts, position and the likes. It must be a stratosphere apart to take 1’30 on a rider who more than matched you the last week after a restday.
Heat argument is a moot point given that he blew everyone else including WVA away.
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Simon Yates didn't switch bikes though, did he? I don't know if that's included in the time. Certainly didn't seem like the right tactic.Tweet
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Interesting numbers on the actual climb. Vingegaard in a league of his own, and Pogacar not even second best.
I think that this is including the bike change, so it was either the wrong choice or Pogacar was just not that strong towards the end (or a bit of both). He said in a post-race interview, that he wasn't feeling good in the last part.Simon Yates didn't switch bikes though, did he? I don't know if that's included in the time. Certainly didn't seem like the right tactic.
In the end it wouldn’t have made a difference even if he had switched to a motorbike. Vingegaard was so much quicker irrespective of the bike change.Simon Yates didn't switch bikes though, did he? I don't know if that's included in the time. Certainly didn't seem like the right tactic.
It's been a few rides like that this tour. The stage where Pogacar took 30s on Vingegaard on the last climb, he was exactly matched by Yates, Hindley and Rodriguez.Tweet
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Interesting numbers on the actual climb. Vingegaard in a league of his own, and Pogacar not even second best.