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- Loved the kit Movistar put together, too, that has to be one of the best GT winning kits I’ve seen.
- Somehow Seixas went to sleep just as Del Toro launched his sprint. Seixas says he's still learning, and he won't make that mistake again. And Remco still beat Pidcock in the sprint for fifth after burning too many matches. Should be a great Worlds race indeed!
- Agreed. The stages for GC races have become shorter over time and the riders are fueled significantly better, while the gear has become lighter and more efficient both in terms of aerodynamics and power transfer - which all means riders are arriving to race finales and/or pinch points with more speed and more energy than ever before. People designing these routes need to take that into account, or - accept that the huge sums of money involved in winning races means that teams no longer want to risk it all on some needlessly dangerous corner purely to satisfy the blood-sport purists out there who seems to think cycling should be rolling UFC
- I thought this team was on the decline.
- No rider is losing "credibility" over this. It's a sprint stage, not a GC stage. Very often, a sprint stage is effectively neutralized at 5 km, sometimes 3 km. The lap was a bit more at 10 km--not a big deal. And, the lap was not chosen for the specific distance. Practically, that way, the GC would finish at the same finish line, simplifying the timekeeping and logistics.
Cycling is changing/has to change. The speeds are too high on courses too rough. Assymetrically, the rewards, salaries, and demands to win so high, losses to crashes have ruined riders and their teams full seasons. Too many great riders taking one or two years to return to top form.
The violence of the sport the machismo these "analysts" pretend and want to amp up is what cost the sport its credibility as sport. Cycling can't be just blood and guts.
- Loved this edition. So exciting, so interesting. Loved the scenery, the riders, the whole thing. I watched every day.
- no-one holding his number i notice
- LOVE that winners kit. the blue really pops. Plus it's just nice to see a special kit that isn't UAE, Visma, INEOS or RBBH - the only GT winners for the last 8 years or so (IIRC)
- Well Seixas knows he can't take del Toro to a sprint. Torito won the sprint and still had enough time to take a bow
- 7 looks better without Uijdtebroeks
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