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- Told you before:
Death, taxes and Wout second.
- As a non-fan this season has been pretty good for RE hate watching. Looking forward to some G2 arm-waving tantrums.
- GANNA! That was amazing! What timing! I was all ready to blame him for enabling another Philipsen win, but instead he is the only one to catch Wout van Aert. And what heartbreak for him. So much work, so much effort, and caught at the last second. What a crazy race for Ganna, what a win!
- "Not especially mind-blowing palmares", "doomed GT fantasy"?? 76 pro wins at 26, Vuelta title, Tour podium, 2 monuments, 9 GT stage wins across all 3 GTs. Yeah, pretty unimpressive palmares w/out the double Olympic gold and 4x WC titles...
Just because he's super memeable, doesn't mean he's not absolutely world class, and a fantastic teammate to boot! Indisputable that he's the 2nd best all-rounder in the world currently
- If Pogačar does not win, it will not be a sprinter. It will be a puncher who pulls off something special. For that reason, Arnaud de Lie (on terrible form anyway) and Paul Magnier (not performing too well despite good form) aren't the biggest challengers after van der Poel, van Aert and Pedersen.
Romain Grégoire, Alec Segaert, Tim van Dijke, Per Strand Hagenes, even Florian Vermeersch... those are the actual outsiders
- Remco did a Lorenzo Finn (who's been praised for his maturity and selflessness).
Questions were asked as to how Evenepoel actually thought of doing such a huge pull. After all, in all of his 6 prior seasons he was the sole leader at quick step, and wasn't used to working as the super domestíque. He also never really had a super domestíque working for him.
But at Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, he experienced that for the first time. Giulio Pellizzari pulled for him for 15 km on very rough terrain and then lead him out. Evenepoel soloed to victory and Pellizzari still finished 3rd, and won the youth classification. Perhaps that inspired Evenepoel to do the same for Lipo.
As for the Tour de France, if Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe spring a surprise and take Pellizzari along with Lipowitz and Evenepoel, that'd be a very strong trio, especially as they work together well (and for that reason Roglič must be excluded). Hindley and Dani Martínez could be excellent mountain domestíques
- I don't expect Remco to make the front split on debut. If we have Pogačar out front, and then van Aert and van der Poel in the second group chasing, they'll cooperate well. In that respect Pedersen's disrupted season may be a bad thing for Pogačar because with three riders cooperation wouldn't be as good.
- Powless is a great guy
- I think Remco is trying to save face after having come out empty handed from Catalunya. Having said that, this is probably going to be one hell of a race because Wout is definitely in great shape and will do anything to win this race while healthy. I don't think teams will change tactics just because he'll be taking part, though.
- If Pogi wins on Sunday and they ask him in a few years who he beat at Flanders, imagine the names he'll list: MVDP, Van Aert, Mads Pedersen, Remco Evenepoel and Ganna. When they ask Jonas 🐟 he'll answer: Lenny "47kg" Martinez and Georg "absolute amateur" Stainhauser. It's all clear to you who's who. Who is the Goat... and who is the clown. 🤡
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