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- Last day, come on Tadej, smile. You were sad all the Tour.
- Mij: it's a myth. Tadej won 2 tour without team and this year with ZERO climber domestic (adam, zivakov, soler... where are you?). Remco only could win a GT again if there are not strong rivals, more than 50km of FLAT TT and suitable stages then, a new miracle similar to VUelta 2022.
Bora Red Bull has a lot of money to trhough away. With lipowitz and Primoz as super-domestic, for sure they don't need Remco. Maybe a marketing movement.
- pat Lef thought Remco = golden goose, but he forgot goose need to eat too. No support in the mountains, allowing your rider to crash repeatedly, not knowing what affects a GC rider's recovery. These are all serious defects for a GC team. Remco did not bring in the sponsors(not proper marketing), ergo they could not hire support, ergo Remco has fluctuating performance, ergo did not compete against the aliens
- I guess so, marathon runners use it too and in sprinting a tailwind of 2m/s which is only 7,2km/h does seem to make noticeable differences, of course they’re going faster but it does seem as if any wind makes for measurable difference. Problem is, when your rival is also protected by your domestique, you’re both advantaged just as much just as long, one of the two will still need to expose themselves to make a difference.
- They won 4 stages with 3 riders with one abandoned part way through and the other unluckily excluded several times, I would hardly call the results bad, only the obvious one-man team won more. You can’t stay on top forever, even Tadej will come back down one day.
- I doubt that’s in the cards, not much more likely than Pog retiring, still far too ambitious, maybe you’re confusing him with Rogliç ;-)?
- The only positive for Wout today is that MVDP is no longer there. Realistically, if he’s not achieved by now, not much speaks in his favour, he went into the Tour with a deficit from a less than optimal season and the way this Tour has been ridden certainly won’t have helped. All his attempts were pretty short-lived, I’m afraid there are just too many hungry candidates still hoping for the same as him whose legs will be more forgiving. He should start focusing on rebuilding (which includes proper rest and breaks) for a proper season.
- PS things like Wolfpack and Skytrain are ephemeral, you are bound to fail by trying to rebuild something as “complex” that was the result of unique circumstances. Far better to set goals towards a medium to long term path can already be seen.
- From your point of view yes, the trouble is, nobody really knows what their objectives are (even official communication is either not valid long-term as their objectives cgange faster than some rider contract durations and besides, today anything that’s said publicly can hardly be (completely) trusted, always have to read between lines and put into context. The first questions to ask and answer are, who now runs things, sportingly first because the financial side dictates that anyway. What has been discussed with the main sponsors and shareholders. Are they content with the “returns” from spring which cater to more serious fans or do they want to make noise at the Tour which provides an order of magnitude more in terms of marketing power? It’s really not difficult (multitude of strategies) for a team not winning the Tour to take their cut of media attention there with a rider(s) playing along.
- He’s won right left and centre. Hard to imagine any team being disappointed with his last Hal dozen years
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