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- Froome style.
- I think you're overdoing it.
He's beaten plenty of top riders (Lipowitz, Ayuso, del Toro, Almeida etc.) but he lacks Grand Tour experience.
Just because he's done well in weeklongs doesn't mean he'll do well over 3 weeks. He might crack and hit a ceiling like Remco. Better to see at the Vuelta
- The Volta Catalunya GC is 400 Points and Paris-Nice GC is 500 points. The stage race wins are 50 or 60 points. The monument races are 800 points.
Clearly the monument races have more points than 1-week tours. I think it's much harder to win one day races and the point system is right the way it is.
- it’s not even really about who manages the mechanicals the best most of the time. it’s just plain BAD LUCK. wout didn’t “poorly manage his flat tire” a few years ago when he had his blowout right at the end when he and mathieu were almost certainly headed for a heads-up in the velodrome. just bad luck.
- i’m a big fan of mathieu,
so for people like me that factoid is a bummer, but that’s roubaix. it’s just highly attritional. mathieu has had his share of very good luck the last three years: no ill timed mechanicals at all, while both wout and pog didn’t get off as easy. so while it’s in some sense objectively true that mathieu was the strongest (elapsed riding time), that doesn’t matter a HOOT. the history of PR is a history of broken wheels and fouled derailleures. way it goes. couldn’t be happier for Wout. such an indomitable spirit. great, great champion.
- Personally my favourite accusation Tadej Pogačar got lobbed at himself was after de Ronde van Vlaanderen, when he was accused of sodomy because he didn't want Evenepoel with him and wanted to ride alone with van der Poel.
A certain Mou was fuming
- It is sad that as a Belgian this is Boonens take when one of the favorite Belgians won. A different take could be that all the favorites face multiple mechanicals and only one managed them correctly and that happened to be the most experienced, Van Aert. Perhaps that is the storyline Boonen should focus on.
- He shouldn't do this yrs tdf in all honesty.. the Vuelta imo 👍
- Right. I'd much rather hear the TNT "experts" cupping picdcock's balls for six hours.
- Well…definitely more than you. So what’s your point?
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