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- Pogi is not primitive. He's a very intelligent, talented and brave rider. A true gentleman and a great person, always showing good sportsmanship. A great role model and inspiration.
You should study his personal characteristics and try to learn from that. You are still young. You can still change.
- I don't think anyone really understands you. Or cares.
- I hear BS about how Vingegaard was in controle mode the last 3-4km.
Yes, that is "true," just like the Pope is not Catholic.
Vinny 🐟 and Visma have an incredible PR machine. It is certain that they belong to this modern Western Europe, and they are not like these "primitive" Balkans where Pogi and I come from.
- Do you all understand now why Vingegaard avoids Pogacar and Seixas all the time except for the Tour, because he has to be there.
They would destroy him in the spring, that's why he runs away from them and builds his confidence against amateurs. The day must come when the cycling schedule will look like F1.
- I don't think he's that good at the moment. But better than he's showing.
I expect him to get a lot better for July. I also expect him to take a lot more than 13 seconds on Gall in the TT. After that he can just defend his lead if he wants to. I do however think he would like to win a couple more stages, so I think he will keep taking time on Gall in the mountains. And that will be more than enough. Maybe he will win overall with 5 minutes to Gall in second place. So not going all out on blockhaus might be a wise decision.
Riding conservatively today also keeps him out of the Maglia Rosa and he can save his team a bit longer. I don't think he wants the jersey before stage 14. Maybe even later than that. Saving the team was also a priority in the Vuelta, as it is when they ride in the back of the peloton on sprint stages.
Visma knows exactly what they are doing. And I don't think that predictions based on todays stage are very useful.
Having said this, I still consider Pogacar the big favourite for the tour.
- Going harder on Blockhaus is more effective in the long term for saving energy.
If he is as good as you say, then, by going harder, he could've put over a minute into Gall. Then, over the next mountain stages he doesn't need to attack as he'd have had a significant margin.
Visma could also let every mountain stage go to the breakaway so they don't have to pull
- I looks like the Giro will get stopped due to Pro-Palestinian/ Anti-Zionist protests.
The Italian citizens are enraged with Meloni.
- Vingegaard is riding conservatively - doing what is necessary and no more. Very calculated. He's building to peak in July.
How he performs against Martinez, Gall, Evenepoel, Lipowitz or anyone else in the spring cannot be used to predict anything.
You wouldn't consider Pogacar less a favorite in the Tour after his unimpressive performance in Romandie., where he did the necessary and no more.
They peak when they need to.
- Hi Mou. Hahaha, you're a funny little boy. Obviously, you're not old enough to have a girlfriend :)
- Of course doing a couple of explosive efforts to drop Pellizzari and then maintaining a high tempo till the finish is different to maintaining a constant tempo like Gall did, but that margin is still unimpressive.
If't were Florian Lipowitz in Gall's place Vingegaard may well have found himself caught, passed and losing a chunk of time.
I wonder... has Vingegaard's form dropped since Catalunya or has Gall just got much better?
Vingegaard put 51 seconds into Gall on Coll de Pall, and 12 here. Of course the conditions are different, but that is a big difference
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