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  • It was an impressive performance, but still he only took a few seconds on the Galibier. It was significant however, that Vingegaard lost more time on the descent, he didn’t look so strong.

    But the Tour is long, Vingegaard can improve his performance and Pogacar feel the fatigue from the Giro. Or Vingegaard can miss the training he should have done, we’ll have to wait.

    Last year started in a similar way, with Vingegaard stealing a few seconds to Pogacar on the pirinees, and then he was even stronger. And Pogacar has been able to leave Vingegaard a few seconds behind on multiple occasions with his powerful rithm change.

    I don’t know what to think yet about those two.

    Remco did better than I expected. Rodriguez was on par and Roglic a bit worse than I hoped.

    Visma as a team failed, while UAE was impressive (maybe too impressive). Landa was very good also for his team.

    The rest only can hope someone to fail to enter the top-10 and/or fight for stages.

    (How will this comment age until the end of the race?)




  • I like your optimistic view, however, I see how records are broken and races are faster than ever. Some teams improve drastically their performance from one year to the next and for others is just the opposite.

    There are no positive doping tests on popular sports (football,…), so it seems that cycling has taken the same approach towards that improves its public image.

    Anyway, this is all speculation, of course.

    I continue to watch it without thinking too much about it.


  • What a exciting resolution of the stage. Both, for the stage and for the GC.

    But it was just a 2km climb, so no conclusions can be drawn from here, except for the ambition of the riders. Next step the very long climb of the Galibier, I wonder if it will be hard enough.

    Tomorrow a flat stage, I want to see an sprint, but I dislike how the peloton allows 3-4 low profile riders to go without competition .











  • As far as I would like to see Rigloc on the tip spot in Paris, I believe that Jonas is the only alternative to Pogacar. But we’ll have to wait at least until Galibier to assess his recovery, and even if he performs well, it would not mean that he can compete all the tour.

    I don’t see Evenepoel as an actual GC contender, he won a not very contended Vuelta, but he has not proven good enough in other races, specially on the greatest mountains.

    I have some confidence on Roglic, I would say that he is a bit below Jonas and Tadej, but he is very competitive and he knows his abilities very well. This year he has focused on the tour and it seems that he is ready.

    Also, I like C Rodriguez and Jorgenson, but I think that they stull need another steep up to be able to win the Tour. Anyway, you never know what Visma can do.

    For the rest, there are some solid top-10 contenders.

    But in the end everything will depend on the recovery of Pogacar from the efforts he made at the Giro and the form of Vingegaard.

    Let’s hope to be an entertaining race.







  • It’s not the best race as it is reduced always the last climb’s sprint.

    Just to say a name, I believe that Hirschi could win, he has won the race in the past and knowing the tempo of the climb is definitely important. And he was very strong on the climbs last Sunday.

    Of course pidock is strong too, Teuns won too, but I don’t see him so strong.

    Let’s see.


  • It had it’s moments, I didn’t expect Mathiu attacking in that sector, I thought he would do in the next. I believe that he take them by surprise and then he was too strong and Pedersen did not have any help.

    There where not more actual contenders than Mads.

    But the last 60Km or so were just wait until the finish.

    Impressive the new visma boys. They produce raiders too easy.

    Next, the Ardennes with different race profiles. Will Van der Poel be strong enough to be a rival in LBL? I don’t see other contenders for Pogacar.



  • Glad to see Roglic back. I was a bit worried about his performance after leaving Visma. Paris-nice didnt help much, but I believed that he wasn’t on his peak.

    Also surprised by the “bad” performance of Evenepoel. I don’t know where will he be able to gain time to competitors like Roglic or Vinegaard.

    Otherwise, a strong UAE with Vine, Ayuso, McNulty and del Toro.

    Depending on how the race goes, sometimes the unexpected can happen on these roads, maybe a hidden one can surprise the rest.

    Let’s see along the week.