heywoodu 13,570 Posted July 20, 2022 #281 Share Posted July 20, 2022 1 minute ago, Grassmarket said: Once again the “send a man up the road to help later” theory is completely useless. Ineos sent van Baarle up the road early. The group with Thomas reaches him. Van Baarle falls away after 20 metres, contributes absolutely nothing, not so much as a bottle. Van Aert has shown that strategy is quite good though, if the rider is strong enough and the timing is done well. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,570 Posted July 20, 2022 #282 Share Posted July 20, 2022 McNulty drops Thomas If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quaker2001 246 Posted July 20, 2022 #283 Share Posted July 20, 2022 This is going to be fun. Tadej has his helper. Vingegaard has no one. And Thomas has cracked, so that's probably the end of his day Paris 2024 competition schedule by Day Paris 2024 competition schedule by Sport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassmarket 2,786 Posted July 20, 2022 #284 Share Posted July 20, 2022 2 minutes ago, heywoodu said: Van Aert has shown that strategy is quite good though, if the rider is strong enough and the timing is done well. Sure, if you have the best rider in the World on your team, I can see how that would be handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,570 Posted July 20, 2022 #285 Share Posted July 20, 2022 2 minutes ago, Quaker2001 said: This is going to be fun. Tadej has his helper. Vingegaard has no one. And Thomas has cracked, so that's probably the end of his day Thomas can't rest though, he still has the 3rd place to defend (which shouldn't be much of a problem, but still) If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,570 Posted July 20, 2022 #286 Share Posted July 20, 2022 3 minutes ago, Grassmarket said: Sure, if you have the best rider in the World on your team, I can see how that would be handy. Right, but it's been proven a useful tactic quite often throughout the years If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quaker2001 246 Posted July 20, 2022 #287 Share Posted July 20, 2022 And here we go! Pogacar attacks and Vingegaard follows him down the mountain. Nevermind.. probably a smart idea to allow McNulty to catch back up, so they're back together on the descent Paris 2024 competition schedule by Day Paris 2024 competition schedule by Sport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassmarket 2,786 Posted July 20, 2022 #288 Share Posted July 20, 2022 1 minute ago, heywoodu said: Right, but it's been proven a useful tactic quite often throughout the years The only thing I can think of is that it gives you the right to have a car up at the head of the race, which can be handy. But the idea that the guy from the break is going to give your team leader 5km on the final climb…..don’t remember that ever happening recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,570 Posted July 20, 2022 #289 Share Posted July 20, 2022 And down goes another record from the EPO days If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,570 Posted July 20, 2022 #290 Share Posted July 20, 2022 2 minutes ago, Grassmarket said: The only thing I can think of is that it gives you the right to have a car up at the head of the race, which can be handy. But the idea that the guy from the break is going to give your team leader 5km on the final climb…..don’t remember that ever happening recently. A common way to use it is as sort of a 'springboard', so to speak. Guy up front lets himself be dropped, team leader acttacks and catches up with his teammate, who can then push for a few minutes to give his team leader a good gap. This isn't a very rare tactic, although it's hard to perform it very well. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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