Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2021 (Tour de France)

[Federer91 2,791]

Nibali wasted years in Bahrain and now that he is gone, they are starting to rack up victories and having good performances...

[hckošice 14,822]

This is some insane stuff from Pogačar.

 

 

[heywoodu 15,135]

Just now, Federer91 said:

Nibali wasted years in Bahrain and now that he is gone, they are starting to rack up victories and having good performances...

Joined the ketones train I guess

[hckošice 14,822]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Yep. Pogacar can only lose by bad luck, some fall or something like that, because other than that nobody is going to remain anywhere close. What a monster, this kind of utter dominance by a single rider (and not a rider plus his whole team) is incredibly rare.

well only wind can stop him, like we saw last year, his achilles heel

[Monzanator 4,498]

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Yes, both because Pogacar is tearing apart the whole race and vdPoel let go and is going up relatively easily, as he had basically already announced

 

No use at all in trying to stay in 3rd or something here, considering he won't go to Paris anyway.

I wonder if Pogacar does this to quash any talk that he "stole" or "fluked" the Tour last year?

 

As for van der Poel, what's the point of him doing Grand Tours as team leader when he's not aiming to even make the finish?

[Federer91 2,791]

That has to be a new record on Colombie for Pogacar, if our commentators are to be believed. 20 seconds better than Dan Martin in 2018.

[heywoodu 15,135]

7 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

I wonder if Pogacar does this to quash any talk that he "stole" or "fluked" the Tour last year?

 

As for van der Poel, what's the point of him doing Grand Tours as team leader when he's not aiming to even make the finish?

Because stage wins count too. That's what he went for, nobody in that team was thinking about a final classification anyway. It's all about stages with Van der Poel, Merlier and Philipsen and so far that went well with two wins. For a small team, mind you.

 

Not every team is going just for a high classification

[heywoodu 15,135]

3 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

That has to be a new record on Colombie for Pogacar, if our commentators are to be believed. 20 seconds better than Dan Martin in 2018.

Sure it's not 20 minutes faster? Dear lord.

[heywoodu 15,135]

10 minutes ago, hckošice said:

well only wind can stop him, like we saw last year, his achilles heel

The problem of having a mediocre team...

[Monzanator 4,498]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Because stage wins count too. That's what he went for, nobody in that team was thinking about a final classification anyway. It's all about stages with Van der Poel, Merlier and Philipsen and so far that went well with two wins. For a small team, mind you.

 

Not every team is going just for a high classification

 

But when you have defending race winner then you should go for GC again?

 

Btw, Carapaz has only been "elevated" to Ineos team leader during this week after the early crashes?