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- Explain to all of us why Jonas should give a rats ass about Red Bull success? Absurd argument . ..
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It wouldn't have been a sprint. Alec Segaert bridged across late, with 4 km to go. Neither van der Poel nor van Aert could follow the attack of 23-year old (8 years their junior) who went clear with 1.3 km to go. But the peloton came back fast - van Aert and van der Poel were caught with 900 m to go and Segaert was caught with 700 m to go.
Cees Bol did the lead-out for Tobias Lund Andresen who launched early before Jasper Philipsen came round him, but if the bunch had not come back Segaert would've taken a breakthrough win, and as I said before, he'd have made van der Poel and van Aert look like idiots.
Of course you can say that if van der Poel had gone harder the gap would've been bigger and Segaert wouldn't have bridged across. But it took him just 1.4 km to close an 11 second gap to the two out front, so he clearly had the power (with 236 km raced at the point of his attack). It took him 2.4 km to recover and attack, so I think he could have closed a larger gap.
Segaert is truly one of the big revelations of the classics season. If he repeats what he did before (caught in the finish of Nokere Koerse where Philipsen won, responded with a win at GP de Denain), he'll win Dwaars door Vlaanderen with a tactical brilliance.- You have to ask what would happen if this was Formulae one motor sport. Would the governing body allow a situation like this tragedy to occur again? Would the crash that Tom Pidcock had only a couple of days ago be allowed to happen. Tom was by his own admission lucky but one has to ask what has the UCI done in the intervening period? Yes, a controversial trial of positioning trackers but that’s it. The peril still exists, if someone dies during a grand tour in 2026 there will only be one body responsible and that is the UCI who continually take the profits but are slow on doing what their true roll is and that’s to regulate the sport so people don’t lose their lives unnecessarily.
- This was a much calmer discussion
- It is looking like Giulio Pellizzari will be Vingegaard's biggest rival at the Giro d'italia. He won't be scared away of course but he's not ready to beat Vingegaard yet
- Every time Almeida represents Team UAE in a race, he falters. Maybe he cannot handle the pressure of expectations that come with anyone on UAE. He is not ready for primetime.
- The difference was than in '85, Induráin (aged 20) started the Tour de France as a nobody. He DNF'd. In fact, until '91 when EPO came along and he went full gas with it, Induráin was a nobody with regards to GC.
With Seixas, it is completely different. He'll start as a genuine podium threat. As I said on a different thread, the only way Seixas can go to the Tour is if he loses time on the flat stages
- Pogacar is sitting on the couch and is dying of laughter. He found out that he will win Flanders and Roubaix solo and the Tour will be won... by no one within 10 minutes... ha ha ha ha ha ha ...
- I don't think this race lets us see his form, because he raced based on tactics, not to win. Wout Van Aert commented on this, that Van der Poel never pulled quite hard enough. He was trying to get caught, because Philipsen had a better chance of winning than he did sprinting against a more fresh Van Aert. Also, one of the reasons that Vingegaard, Pogacar, Pederson, Van der Poel, and others are superstars is that they recover quickly.
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