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- My prediction for R.ev.no.balls is DNF TDF
- the issue is Tadej wins everywhere. if you make it 21 days of flanders, he will wins by 10 minutes. he can win in other scenarios beyond high mountains. and if you make it TT heavy, he puts more time on his TT bike. he has won TTs before.
- What is Pogi if not the very best of all-rounders!?
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- As a big fan of pure climbers I am disappointed that there are so few summit finishes. All Grand Tours seem to be moving towards puncheurs. The two ITT stages favours the wealthy teams who have the best technical resources in that discipline. It is very specialist. Perhaps there should be 1 specialist ITT, and then a hilly ITT on road bikes? Small climbers who are possible GC contenders are going to lose loads of time which they don't have as much opportunity to make up in the mountains.
- Man, I'm really looking forward to next season. Seeing these new line-ups, it's going to be VERY interesting.
- This Remco-friendly (and Seixas-friendly?) route was almost certainly designed to reduce Pog's dominance. But as Prudhomme has said straight out, now he thinks Pog's accident will have reduced his dominance anyway.
- We also don't know how much Pog was really putting into gaining time. Feels like watching Usain Bolt, where you can only wonder how much faster he'd have gone if he was sprinting 100% to the line, instead of being two feet ahead and starting to pull up with ten yards to go. If any of the other riders really started to close in on Pog, I do think he'd simply have gone even deeper and crushed them. I would really like that kind of race though, none of this "4 minutes lead by the first rest day" trouncing. So if introducing more TT and less summit finish makes the race go more to the wire, I'm all for that. I don't think it'll change the outcome necessarily, but it'll make the whole thing less of a foregone conclusion by week 2.
- That nearly is 7 mins and you win GTs comfortably by 2 mins. Remco fans - he almost won the TDF, He beat Pogi twice in the mountains this year.
- What would be your preferred Tour design then? Just out of interest
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