Before they got to the finish, I knew they would be giving the win to Laporte. This is what great champions do, they think what's best for the team. Van Aert & Roglic have proven this before. Such a beautiful gift for Laporte to have his first World Tour Win.
WvA once said something like: many team directors asked me to join their team... Sure I could earn more money, but here at Jumbo-Visma it is like a family. I love the spirit of that team.
very cool of jumbo to gift Laporte the win, even if they could have taken 4 more seconds on GC for Roglic. Incredible ride of the whole jumbo team, they lit it up properly today
4" is nothing when compared to the huge boost in morale and confidence for Laporte, he already was an awesome buy from Visma but now he's going to be even better for Wout in the classics!
Everything points out to a wonderful tour. Please no crashs this year 🙏🙏🙏🙏 I really really want to see a Roglic x Pogacar all out, should be one for the ages.
A nice preview of the oncoming team dominance from JV. Loved seeing Dennis pulling the front for so long. That helps setup the three Aces down at the end.
5:17 Roglic let loose of Laporte's wheel intentionally so Stybar had to give his last breath to reach the wheel of Laporte. That effort made him dropped from the group. Roglic did same thing in another race last year. But i couldn't remember yet.
It's Laporte, he said he was at his very limit after his pull but when he saw Stybar loose the wheel he made the effort to make the jump to Roglic and Van Aert. It was worth it.
I think Laporte just wanted to get into the back of the group after he nearly red lined in the front. Like you normally do when you are riding in a break away group after your pull to keep things moving. Stybar losing the wheel forced Laporte to do an extra effort not to get dropped too imo.
I guess one way of looking at it is, the guys who were good enough to be in position before the climb weren't the type to be able to hold on. And those who would be able to hold on weren't able to fight for the best position. It was a perfect storm orchestrated by Jumbo. I think what deserves a lot of criticism though was the shocking lack of chase from the peloton. Half a dozen teams with GC ambitions and none of them had any riders who could pull? They were never going to catch the three out front but Ineos, UAE, Arkea, FDJ, AG2R, Bahrain, Astana and Cofidis all had a GC leader with at least one teammate who wouldn't be going for the sprint for 4th. Crazy they weren't able to organize to get the gap under 10 seconds at least
Yes, it's crazy that in a 50 strong group teams were still holding back riders instead of cooperating to limit Jumbo's advantage. What were they thinking? If you don't sacrifice domestiques, then what are they there for?
that is how I saw it as well. And coming one day after an inept chase effort at Strade Bianche. I'm thinking early season lack of discipline plus QS and Ineos are struggling filling holes.
How about , they weren't strong enough. We all saw Wout do a 40K TT to win last weekend and win, and with the addition of Roglic and LaPorte there was no doubt!!!
@@triatheletewolf7279 Totally. 13 km is 40 km if Wout is doing it. And Laporte is a better climber/puncher than the Yateses, Vlasov, Mollema, the Izaguirres, Haig, Gaudu, Almeida and Quintana. There is no way they were out of position if you say so...
Funny you guys mention these two events. The first where EPO was systematically utilized by genius Ferrari, and the other where Synthetic blood Fleurocarbon were systematically used, I think also by Ferrari. hmmm....
I wonder who came up with this plan, and when. Imagine if someone had suggested in a pre-race team meeting, "Let's put the hammer down with about 10Km to go, then have three of our guys ride away from the peloton on the 1.2Km climb at 7% about 6Km from the finish." Anyone who suggested that would be laughed at. I think the plan worked because teams had got their sprinters and lead-out trains into position for the assumed bunch sprint leading into the final climb. Riders like that couldn't keep up with a few totally committed climbers, who then couldn't organise a chase once that climb was over.
Seems like Team JV have started their TTT training camp early. Imagine how they’re gonna romp the Stage 1 prologue at the Vuelta in Utrecht! It will be epic to see.
Definitely the right move in the end to give Laporte the win, for Rog to lose Paris Nice it would be due to unforeseen catastrophe. Can’t wait to see Rog unleash in the mountains, TJV is in beast form right now.
If you recall Gewiss Ballan did a triple in Fleche Wallone in 1994, Mapei did a triple in 1996 with Paris Roubaix, Telekom took top 3 at 2000 Olympics road race (albeit for different nations). It has happened before and I am sure their are other instances of riders from the same team taking the top 3 steps
Whats insane is that 3 guys can take out all those seconds on a bunch on the flat after the actual climb. They were punching 60kmph that is lead out train speed. Cycling is def way more aero than the old days. The biggest speeds are on the flats, I mean Pantani and Indurains and Riis climbing records still stand. But the speeds on the flat is insane. Pogacar is going to need to be every bit as strong as he is to win tdf. Roglic will have absolute units to sit behind and pace back to any breaks oh and Van Aert can climb the high mnts and so can Dennis
not that insane.. 3 guys from same team riding full gas... initially there wasn't any teams with that amount of numbers to form a chase behind. By the time there was it was too late.
" I mean Pantani and Indurains and Riis climbing records still stand." One possible cause for this: EPO helps with oxygen transportation. And these climbing records are always done at at least some altitude.
Great video. As the bigger races roll in, can you keep doing mini-episodes explaining the rankings? You've put out super interesting content on them, and it is something that very few places cover in the breath and depth that you do.
Hi, I have updated rankings here of the relegation battle every 2 weeks with custom graphs etc lanternerouge.com.au/2022/02/28/arkea-reign-supreme-with-dsm-in-freefall-world-tour-relegation-2/
1:47 how on EARTH did I never notice before that all the Jumbo-Visma riders have their first names on the helmet?? So adorable! Oh no, now I realized as well that while everyone's having their name written from down to up, somehow the "Steven" is written in the other direction. Really makes my brain feel sick. Why....
I really liked the stage, since it was not completely flat, so it opened up for a really exciting race. Jumbo visma took full advantage of the situation, and used all their manpower for a powerful 1,2,3. Incredible
I can recall seeing two teammates twice winning the stage but 3 is something else. What happened to TTTs in grand tours and will they ever be back? Didn't see it in WC either. Too bad I think it gives different perspective to racing.
@@abp1400 Is he? Laporte, not known as a slouch could barely hold on the two superstars who rode away on terrain that suited them. Nothing unusual or surprising here. If Laporte had extended his contract at Cofidis and Roglić had left Jumbo for some reason, we could have seen the same riders on the podium (probably WVA woulda won then) and nobody would have thought of Fleche '94. They didn't TTT for a third of the race like Gewiss did. And I don't see an explosion in performance of the rider Laporte, which should be the case if he found some "marginal gain" that Jumbo has that Cofidis does not have. And people who are mentioning Gewiss are implying that Jumbo is doing something illegal. More so than the other teams. I don't like it. They've made a perfect signing (Laporte) and now they are being accused of something.
Because in practice it's so incredibly hard to pull off unless something else is going on with the riders if this starts happening consistently. The last time something this huge happened was 1994, and looking back now it's a giant red flag(I hope it's not in this case) that under the radar doping is about to become recklessly rampant because it was going undetected and formally cautious riders started becoming all but obvious about it in the feats that they started pulling off in that era. Pre-doping Lance watched a team consistently do this for a season back in 94, and like Barry Bonds, it's what pushed him into doping no questions asked. It sucks to have to think this way, but just look at the legends era of the 60s and 70s and ask yourself, why even Molteni, Bianchi, or Filotex with their collection of star power weren't constantly doing this, then ask yourself why Lance would come in second on so many days after stealing the whole show for most of a race, and looking like he still had loads of gas in the tank?
Moi aussi ,je trouve que la décision d'équipe d'accorder à C.Laporte cette victoire est une belle décision. Ça ne peut être que la traduction d'un bon esprit d'équipe.
He is super talented and his efforts and potential were already highlighted during several races this season, including the one he won in Mallorca. Maybe you should look in the right places, or even better, try to promote him positively yourself in the cycling fan community instead of complaining ?
As I said, my coverage of Tirreno Adriatico (Remco vs Pogacar vs Jonas) will be on my podcast here - ruclips.net/video/QmMM2P0R7Yk/видео.html
Do you have to contact every race to get permission to post?
Poga will smash em all 💥
@@nielcutter3804 with the 💉
Loved van Aert and Laporte's perfect celebrations while Roglic nearly falls off. Iconic
might need tighten that headset?
my thoughts too haha rogla icon
It's so good, laporte and WVA could not be more in sync if they tried and then the look on roglas face 😂😂
@@benhuish2400 pretty sure he was thinking "oh no" another paris-nice crash incoming.. but saved it :D
Primoz grew up with skis on. He only got on a bicycle a few years ago.
Well deserved gifted victory for Laporte, his work made it all happen giving Roglic way more seconds on GC than he lost gifting the victory.
Before they got to the finish, I knew they would be giving the win to Laporte. This is what great champions do, they think what's best for the team. Van Aert & Roglic have proven this before. Such a beautiful gift for Laporte to have his first World Tour Win.
@@kaMosGO You're just proving OP right. They said World Tour win not Pro win.
WvA once said something like: many team directors asked me to join their team... Sure I could earn more money, but here at Jumbo-Visma it is like a family. I love the spirit of that team.
very cool of jumbo to gift Laporte the win, even if they could have taken 4 more seconds on GC for Roglic. Incredible ride of the whole jumbo team, they lit it up properly today
it's not gifted, he owns it, it won't happen without his lead out and bridged across after
Perfect as they jumbo did it 👏👏 And those 4secs don’t matter at all, GC will not be won or lost by this tiny margin
4" is nothing when compared to the huge boost in morale and confidence for Laporte, he already was an awesome buy from Visma but now he's going to be even better for Wout in the classics!
You've got to feel the TDF of Jumbo Vs UAE is looking like something special. You know assuming everyone stays on their bike.
I have a feeling it's more going to be Jumbo Vs Pogi. Though UAE seems to have a better team than last year
@@levivlijm7571 they've got to stack up with Almeida and McNulty.
@@smeetsnoud1 and Bennett as a mountain domestique won’t be a slouch.
@@levivlijm7571 UAE look a lot better than last year and somehow so does Pogi!
@@smeetsnoud1 almeida isn't currently planning on riding the tour
That was the coolest end of a stage I've seen in years
For sure!
Agreed 👍
Agreed!
Nice to see a team win like a team.
That picture of them crossing the line is absolutely fantastic, I'm an even bigger fan of WVA & Roglic for giving Laporte his first win
With Kuss in the TdF team, that's 5 Tour stage winners 🔥They seem to be locked on with the tactics so far this year.
My only complaint is that this would have been even cooler as the first stage of TDF lol
i think this video is a mandatory watch at every other team before TdF. just to warn of jumbo visma
still having complaints? :P
@@1986anthonyvo can’t complain. Would have been nice to see Roglic win but what we got was better than imagined.
They saw it coming. The team was so brilliant. Too bad Roglic and Kruijswijk couldn't finish
Everything points out to a wonderful tour. Please no crashs this year 🙏🙏🙏🙏 I really really want to see a Roglic x Pogacar all out, should be one for the ages.
With the strength of this TJV squad they are looking better than last year. Can’t wait to see Rog unleash in the mountains!
Absolutely EPIC jumbo visma teamwork. Gives me chills!
Bravo Jumbo Visma!!!
Looks like we are going to have an epic season!!!
Nice reward for Laporte's epic effort last week. Glad to see him growing in stature and confidence with a team that sees his potential.
Thx Lanterne- looking forward to your highlights the rest of the week!
A nice preview of the oncoming team dominance from JV. Loved seeing Dennis pulling the front for so long. That helps setup the three Aces down at the end.
Rog is going to unleash fury on stage 7, can’t wait. The whole squad is in such great form.
Wow, A ONE TEAM 3 MAN TIME TRIAL TO THE FINISH, JUST SIMPLY AWESOME 🚴🏾🚴🏾🚴🏾💨🔥
Roglic's no hands celebrations are still an exploitable weakness.
There could be opportunity in letting him win more.
That picture 🤣
Classic. That’s a hell of a team. Nice job gents.
Outrageous! bet that felt amazing once they realised
5:17 Roglic let loose of Laporte's wheel intentionally so Stybar had to give his last breath to reach the wheel of Laporte. That effort made him dropped from the group. Roglic did same thing in another race last year. But i couldn't remember yet.
It is Laporte who is loosing the wheel there
I think it was the other way around. Laporte letting go of Roglic's wheel
It's Laporte, he said he was at his very limit after his pull but when he saw Stybar loose the wheel he made the effort to make the jump to Roglic and Van Aert. It was worth it.
I think Laporte just wanted to get into the back of the group after he nearly red lined in the front. Like you normally do when you are riding in a break away group after your pull to keep things moving. Stybar losing the wheel forced Laporte to do an extra effort not to get dropped too imo.
Awesome plan and teamwork worked out to perfection.
5:40 that flashing yellow light was so appropriate! 'warning, warning, the yellow train coming through'. amazing
I guess one way of looking at it is, the guys who were good enough to be in position before the climb weren't the type to be able to hold on. And those who would be able to hold on weren't able to fight for the best position. It was a perfect storm orchestrated by Jumbo.
I think what deserves a lot of criticism though was the shocking lack of chase from the peloton. Half a dozen teams with GC ambitions and none of them had any riders who could pull? They were never going to catch the three out front but Ineos, UAE, Arkea, FDJ, AG2R, Bahrain, Astana and Cofidis all had a GC leader with at least one teammate who wouldn't be going for the sprint for 4th. Crazy they weren't able to organize to get the gap under 10 seconds at least
I like the very good pull of Küng at 12 km at 3:04 !! he had the right thoughts.
Yes, it's crazy that in a 50 strong group teams were still holding back riders instead of cooperating to limit Jumbo's advantage.
What were they thinking?
If you don't sacrifice domestiques, then what are they there for?
that is how I saw it as well. And coming one day after an inept chase effort at Strade Bianche. I'm thinking early season lack of discipline plus QS and Ineos are struggling filling holes.
How about , they weren't strong enough. We all saw Wout do a 40K TT to win last weekend and win, and with the addition of Roglic and LaPorte there was no doubt!!!
@@triatheletewolf7279 Totally. 13 km is 40 km if Wout is doing it.
And Laporte is a better climber/puncher than the Yateses, Vlasov, Mollema, the Izaguirres, Haig, Gaudu, Almeida and Quintana.
There is no way they were out of position if you say so...
That time when Patrick Lefevre had to call Snr Squinzi & ask which Mapei rider he wanted to win
It's fun to see this again after the TdF, it's like this was a training for the stage 4 victory!
Thanks LR. Great vid! Keep 'em coming please!
Jumbo came with an unreal team, and they still have Benoot, Vingegaard and Kuss in reserves.
Beautiful teamwork of JV and beautiful video of LR. Nice work!
5:19 Laporte making Stybar close the gap, very clever!... Executed to perfection!
1996 Paris- Roubaix was a three man break with Johan Museeuw, Gianluca Bortolami and AndreaTafi all from the Mapei cycle team.
Plus 1994 Flèche Wallonne with the Gewiss team
Funny you guys mention these two events. The first where EPO was systematically utilized by genius Ferrari, and the other where Synthetic blood Fleurocarbon were systematically used, I think also by Ferrari. hmmm....
Incredible finish!!!
Iconic photo for sure. Well stated LR!
Awesome just awesome!
That was freakin amazing.
Nice commentary! Thanks.
I wonder who came up with this plan, and when. Imagine if someone had suggested in a pre-race team meeting, "Let's put the hammer down with about 10Km to go, then have three of our guys ride away from the peloton on the 1.2Km climb at 7% about 6Km from the finish." Anyone who suggested that would be laughed at.
I think the plan worked because teams had got their sprinters and lead-out trains into position for the assumed bunch sprint leading into the final climb. Riders like that couldn't keep up with a few totally committed climbers, who then couldn't organise a chase once that climb was over.
Memories of Roubaix, Van Aert seemed to emulate the iconic picture and then Roglic ruins it lol
Rogla and gravity name a better duo 😂
Simply Amazing !
Incredible stage to watch!
Seems like Team JV have started their TTT training camp early. Imagine how they’re gonna romp the Stage 1 prologue at the Vuelta in Utrecht! It will be epic to see.
What a pleasure to watch your videos.
BISH BASH BOSCH! Coming back to my weekly rewatch of this fkin mad dog stage
best recaps ever!
Very entertaining, and well presented.
Good breakdown fella👌
Definitely the right move in the end to give Laporte the win, for Rog to lose Paris Nice it would be due to unforeseen catastrophe. Can’t wait to see Rog unleash in the mountains, TJV is in beast form right now.
I'd love to see see jumbo visma take gc at this year's tour.
Definition of teamwork
Superb - fun race 👍😎
If you recall Gewiss Ballan did a triple in Fleche Wallone in 1994, Mapei did a triple in 1996 with Paris Roubaix, Telekom took top 3 at 2000 Olympics road race (albeit for different nations). It has happened before and I am sure their are other instances of riders from the same team taking the top 3 steps
And they were definitely "not normal" performances 😅
The Gewiss Ballan triple is now considered the officious beginning of the EPO era, the Mapei triple one of its crowning moments.
Unreal scenes. Couldn’t stop smiling.
Roglic looked exhausted
Whats insane is that 3 guys can take out all those seconds on a bunch on the flat after the actual climb.
They were punching 60kmph that is lead out train speed.
Cycling is def way more aero than the old days.
The biggest speeds are on the flats, I mean Pantani and Indurains and Riis climbing records still stand.
But the speeds on the flat is insane.
Pogacar is going to need to be every bit as strong as he is to win tdf.
Roglic will have absolute units to sit behind and pace back to any breaks oh and Van Aert can climb the high mnts and so can Dennis
not that insane.. 3 guys from same team riding full gas... initially there wasn't any teams with that amount of numbers to form a chase behind. By the time there was it was too late.
" I mean Pantani and Indurains and Riis climbing records still stand." One possible cause for this: EPO helps with oxygen transportation. And these climbing records are always done at at least some altitude.
great analysis
Back for my monthly rewatch 😍
Reminds me of Gewiss at the 1994 La Flèche Wallonne
Did they have TV back then?
Exactly what I was going to comment! :)
@@epincion uh...yeah. 🤦
Yup, scary
@@isitrachelorj3953 does anyone today fit that description?
This was one for the history books guys !
Great video. As the bigger races roll in, can you keep doing mini-episodes explaining the rankings? You've put out super interesting content on them, and it is something that very few places cover in the breath and depth that you do.
Hi, I have updated rankings here of the relegation battle every 2 weeks with custom graphs etc lanternerouge.com.au/2022/02/28/arkea-reign-supreme-with-dsm-in-freefall-world-tour-relegation-2/
@@LanterneRougeCycling Yippie! 😊
Class act finish!
LOL, love the meme! I hope I never forget this stage, while other teams can only try to forget.
thank you!
That's pretty amazing
1:47 how on EARTH did I never notice before that all the Jumbo-Visma riders have their first names on the helmet?? So adorable!
Oh no, now I realized as well that while everyone's having their name written from down to up, somehow the "Steven" is written in the other direction. Really makes my brain feel sick. Why....
The finish line optics reminds me of Mapei's 1-2-3 in the '96 Paris-Roubaix.
one of Michele Ferrari's best wins!
@@levitateme Just the right amount of orange juice that day. 😁
This reminds me of when Mapei swept the podium at Paris-Roubaix in 1996.
@@isitrachelorj3953 Dr. Michele Ferrari
What a ride!
Nice to see
I really liked the stage, since it was not completely flat, so it opened up for a really exciting race. Jumbo visma took full advantage of the situation, and used all their manpower for a powerful 1,2,3. Incredible
DSMs springer had just been dropped I believe, so I was guessing they pulled off because of that. Crazy finish.
I can recall seeing two teammates twice winning the stage but 3 is something else. What happened to TTTs in grand tours and will they ever be back? Didn't see it in WC either. Too bad I think it gives different perspective to racing.
Have a look at Stage 1 prologue of La Vuelta this year taking place in Utrecht.
Nice title, had all the people pointing out the previous 1 2 3 finishes 😂😂😂
Very great and strong Team
Paris Roubaix ‘96 Museeuw, Tafi, Bartolami,…you HAVE seen something like this!
The beacons are lit! Primoz calls for aid! And Rohan will answer.
after watching this recap over and over, I just realized you mentioned Adam Yates from UAE on 2:14 , and finally he moved to UAE in 2023 😅
Stellar !!!
Roglic and van Aert got more pleasure from Christophe’s win yellow and green than if they got it themself!
I think that what Sagan and Froome did in Tour de France back in 2016 was even more epic. They fled the whoie peloton and they didnt even need hill.
HELLUVA performance
Ineos just making up the numbers
Wow. Holy fark, that was insaneeeeee
wow... id be nervous if i rode for another team..DOMINATIONNNNNNN
Bish Bash Bosh. Haha good intro.
Great!
Big fan of these climby boi sprint stages
This is basically Gewiss at the classics again
I see you're a "man of culture"
@@abp1400 Is he? Laporte, not known as a slouch could barely hold on the two superstars who rode away on terrain that suited them. Nothing unusual or surprising here. If Laporte had extended his contract at Cofidis and Roglić had left Jumbo for some reason, we could have seen the same riders on the podium (probably WVA woulda won then) and nobody would have thought of Fleche '94. They didn't TTT for a third of the race like Gewiss did. And I don't see an explosion in performance of the rider Laporte, which should be the case if he found some "marginal gain" that Jumbo has that Cofidis does not have. And people who are mentioning Gewiss are implying that Jumbo is doing something illegal. More so than the other teams. I don't like it. They've made a perfect signing (Laporte) and now they are being accused of something.
@@chrisko6439 I agree, it's hardly like Rabobank have form...
It looked like a team event !
I've often wondered why you don't see this more often.
A team breakaway that works together must be incredibly hard to hunt down.
Because in practice it's so incredibly hard to pull off unless something else is going on with the riders if this starts happening consistently. The last time something this huge happened was 1994, and looking back now it's a giant red flag(I hope it's not in this case) that under the radar doping is about to become recklessly rampant because it was going undetected and formally cautious riders started becoming all but obvious about it in the feats that they started pulling off in that era. Pre-doping Lance watched a team consistently do this for a season back in 94, and like Barry Bonds, it's what pushed him into doping no questions asked. It sucks to have to think this way, but just look at the legends era of the 60s and 70s and ask yourself, why even Molteni, Bianchi, or Filotex with their collection of star power weren't constantly doing this, then ask yourself why Lance would come in second on so many days after stealing the whole show for most of a race, and looking like he still had loads of gas in the tank?
@@danielhall3895 You sure it wasn't because of aliens?
Never seen anything like this? Gewiss did this in the 90s. Notorious!
The secret to victory was TJV pedalled harder than the other riders and then they kept pedalling harder. Very smart.
Jumbo will pretty much ride with this Team in Milan San remo will be interesting to see what tjey can deliver there 😂
so much better than a BS TT prologue!
Why is Van Aerts Jumbo Visma kit different to the other guys?
He is the Belgian champion
Magnifique esprit d’équipe bravo
Monsieur, ouvrez les yeux ....
@@ecommoy et alors 🤪
Moi aussi ,je trouve que la décision d'équipe d'accorder à C.Laporte cette victoire est une belle décision.
Ça ne peut être que la traduction d'un bon esprit d'équipe.
Why no one talks about the young African talent, Biniam Ghirmai. He has big potential for the future.
people will talk about him when he wins big races
He is super talented and his efforts and potential were already highlighted during several races this season, including the one he won in Mallorca. Maybe you should look in the right places, or even better, try to promote him positively yourself in the cycling fan community instead of complaining ?
How much of this strategizing comes from race radio vs riders on the road?
That photo. Jumbo goes 3 across and no one to be found in the background. Time to double the contract bonuses. Marketing departments go wild.
Espetáculo TJV✊✊✊
Amazing