Good stuff from the UCI looking at banning radios. We need more riders going back to chat to their DS in the car who is drilling it at 80mph, cosplaying Verstappen by sending it up the inside of a rival teams car but with no-hands on the wheel and not looking at the road so they can pass on the crucial information of 'allez, don't give up! Keep pushing.'
I was really cheering for Eganito, bummed to see him drop off the podium. INCREDIBLE ride from Riccitello - I hope we see him in the tour hunting stages, maybe sneaking into the top 10 in the final week.
Apologies in advance for the long message: I think you guys were busy with all the stuff going on and missed some details in the Almeida performance, I watched all the stages and interviews. His performance improved not only in power numbers but also in terms of positioning, attitude, acceleration and ability to open gaps. He said he changed coach because he needed to change his racing style and this TDS showed that. Stage 7 he had gone clear and asked in the radio if Yates could join him so he waited (this was the stage they finished together). Why he did that I don't know, maybe it was just a story to avoid looking ugly dropping a team mate with the yellow jersey or just team orders because they need unity ahead of the TDF. Stage 6 he dropped Yates as you rightly said. Stage 5 Yates did not drop Almeida per se, Almeida pulled for 5km doing insane numbers and launched Yates 1800m from the finish, still Almeida gapped Riccitello and passed Mas and Bernal like a motorbike finishing 5s from Yates. I just wish he had opened up at 2500m from the finish so Yates would have to go earlier. Yates would have spent more, Almeida less and there would be more road to overtake him and I think he would have. Stage 8 (ITT) I think it was expected both to be on par because it was a climbing one. Almeida's only mistake was not to have attacked on stage 4 in which Yates took the yellow jersey. I think a new Almeida is born...mark my words.
@@Thaddeus_Howe fair comment. I think most people will think exactly the opposite but it is a valid opinion. My point (and my hope) is that he is becoming a different rider. I never saw him like in the TDS. The question is if it will continue or not, obviously with some ups and downs in form but this potential was the first time I saw.
Yes, it was obvious Almeida was really strong, as strong as he has ever looked. Yates did join him easily on that stage where you said Almeida waited and Yates was clearly the third best climber in last years TDF so he has earn't the benefit of the doubt. But this was as positive as I had seen Almeida ride.
I say give one rider (maybe two) per team the possibility to communicate to directors directly via ear pieces. It would make cohesion within the teams more relevant etc. Maybe a reasonable middle ground
As a Quickstep and a Remco fan I agree. I hope they bring Merlier to the Tour to hedge if Remco isn't in top shape.. And bring Van Lerberghe too. Maybe they can both help on the flats too.
Visma have had a good strategy the last few years and my guess is they have analyzed the competition including team makeup and will exploit the weaknesses
Let's see whether they'll have the raw firepower to realize that this time round. Haven't really had that all year. In the end it all comes down to Jorgenson and vingegaard
Hey guys, just wondering, are the SAFER barriers invented by Dean Sicking for Indy car and NASCAR the same system or technology now being introduced to UCI sanctioned cycling events?
Thibau Nys is incredibly talented but still very young. The concern in his camp is that they don't want to over race him. This already happened last year during the 2023 cylocross season when he started out winning the first two races in October in spectacular fashion. Then won the prestigious Koppenbergcross. But one month later at European Championships, he DNF'ed. Then for the rest of the season, he finished nowhere near the podium until Benidorm in late January. I think his father wants Thibau to have a long career... so he's very careful at this early stage.
What does the 'testing period' mean for the yellow card system? Will it be fully in work and reevaluated after the period or potential penalties will only be provisional?
i really think the yellow card system should only be based around rider safety. If a rider or ds driving in the convey behave in a way that endangers a rider, thats when a yellow card should be given. 1st yellow card - warning, fine, possible relegation - 30 day probation period 2nd yellow card within probation period - immediate DQ from the current race, 7 day suspension - 60 day probation starting after suspension ends 3rd yellow card within probation period - immediate DQ from current race, 30 day suspension - another 60 day probation period. so basically each time you get a card, you go into a probation period that gets increasing longer, and if you get another one during that period, the punishment is more severe. if you make it through the probation period after the any yellow card without getting another one then you go back to 0 and the next yellow card would be back to step 1. finally if you get 6 yellow cards within a rolling 1 year period, then a 90 day suspension followed by a 90 day probation period where you would get another 90 day suspension if you get a yellow card. this last step would be to punish someone who gets a yellow card every 35 days theoretically and would not ever hit the 7 or 30 day suspension because their infractions are spaced out over a year but they keep getting them
Almeida actually atacked in stage 7 and asked on the radio for Yates to join and did not respond directly to atacks from Yates on purpose. Still not punchy on the mountains but that argument "he never attacks or responds" is not correct
yes, not correct anymore but I would even say his punch from the QS days is returning. The way he passed Bernal and Mas on stage 5 like a motorbike was crazy. In the Vuelta (both editions) he would get dropped by Mas. In PN and Cataluña he would get dropped by Bernal. Again, there is a new Almeida in the making. We had #GCKuss so now @LanterneRougeCP can coin the term #PunchyAlmeida 😆
What about only 30 min of radio use from the car per stage or race. To make it a strategy. Or maybe no radio for the first hour of a race so people cant use radios to know who is in a break. Maybe last 20km too no radio
There is a world of difference between a world championship in the age group, despite being a WT level, compared to a Magnier a WT level who has riidden nearly as many days ifor the under 23 or national team, than for his WT team.
Ayuso and Pollit crashed hard in the Dauphine and Almeida and Yates are in to good shape already to keep this up for five more weeks... (Because yes the final week and heaviest week of the Tour is still more than a month away.) Thus UAE's preparation has not been optimal... Do they have three riders that can finish on a podium of a Grand Tour ? Yes, of course.... Will they finish 1, 2 and 3 in the Tour ? ... No Vingegaard is much to strong for Pogacar, even if Vingegaard is only at 95%... Roglic 2nd and Pogacar 3rd.
Honestly looked like Yates has the way higher Boni for Stage Win in his contract on that stage where they were holding hands, and they just decided to split ;)
Suisse and Tdf is not the same. Yeah good watts, but lets see. About the 3km rule, why not change it for the good. In real sprintstages, the time for GC ist taken with 10 km to go, or 5 km to go. Rest is just for the stagewin. Why not? If you are afraid of timegaps by breakaways, they shouldn't matter in gc right? And all that just for real sprintstages, completly flat. How to measure, that can be discused.
The Yellow Card system as proposed will likely do absolutely nothing to impact the safety of the sport. While there have been many instances of rider behavior being a huge factor in the safety of the race, there are more(?) instances where poor course design/routing is the culprit in making the sport more dangerous.
Imho, VLB will be a shadow of the team they were last year. The recent below par performances of uijtdebroeks(maybe he wasn't rostered to ride the tdf) and Kuss, the injuries to van baarle, Vingegaard, WVA and Kruijswijk. Were it not for the brilliant recent performances of Jorgenson and kelderman, I would say the TDF is a battle between Bora and UAE.
The race for 2nd and 3rd might end up being more interesting. Until we see the time differences between Pog and Vingo at the end of the 2nd week (and the big stages thereafter), it still might be exciting viewing for the win.
- Uijtdebroeks has never been on the roster at all.. - van Aert will replace van Baarle, which is an improvement. - Kelderman will replace Kruijswijk, which is an improvement. - Vingegaard will start in top form if we can believe his teammates. - Benoot has been good the whole season already. - Kuss has always been shit in one week races, and he's just a domestic for certain mountian stages. He has never missed an appointment so far, thus why should he not be in shape in the three stages that it is needed this Tour ? - Jorgenson is no Roglic of course, but on the other hand Jumbo didn't have Roglic in the last Tour. Thus having Jorgenson is also an improvement. - Tratnik has been on the roster for the Tour since the start oof the season. - Bouwman is just a good domestic that has been riding fine the entire season already. Thus no I can not share your opinion..... In the end it will just be Pogacar against Vingegaard again, and we know who is the strongest of these two in Grand Tours... A Jonas at 95% does still beat a Pogacar at 110%.. I do write down a third Tour victory for Jonas already. 😉
@@swissbiggy a lot of logic there, but I think a Jonas at 95% might not be good enough for a flying Pogacar. Yes it’s a 2 man race, but - like every Tour - we will need to wait and see. I just hope there’s plenty of other excitement outside those two.
Almeida was unlucky for losing some seconds on stage 1 or 2... and then Yates get the Yellow and he got to work for Yates even being co-leaders. Yates bluff to put pressure on Almeida lol Almeida can respond to attacks .... idk what you guys talking
Two team mates going for a win with psychological games?If you move teams your pay cheque is determined by what you have won not what you let your team mate win.
Almeida and Yates are very consistent, Ayuso will also be there, if roglic doesn't show up with his mutant form then these can beat him and get the podium. Carlos Rodriguez is great but Ayuso has beat him before at la vuelta..
I think Vinny is such a mutant that if the first 10 days aren’t hard enough he’ll gain too much fitness and be pretty much 100% for the crazy final week. UAE is going to have to blitz Vinny on 1, 2, and 4 while putting him in a hole for the first TT or he could have a serious chance to win.
I can't see Yates and Almeida helping Pogy and at the same time have enough energy to beat Remco, Roglic and Vinegaard... This is Pogs big chance to win the TDF again with the crashes the other had are surely going to affect their ability to win... Roglic shown good form winning Giro but Remco proved that 3 week racing just not for him... If JV can not lose too much time in first 2 weeks he may run down a tiring Pogy in the third week. Pogs never done a GT b4 ant of his wins at TDF so thereight be surprise winner this year.
There are so many big riders rn being pushed into roles that don’t suit them. Pidcock is just not a GC guy, he’s a classics, cx, xc, and stage hunting rider. Skjellmose is like 2019 Alaphillipe, a really good puncheur who can pretend to be a gc guy. He should just stick to classics and stage hunting.
I think this is why UAE has been so successful from a points perspective the past year or two, they have really sober perspectives on their riders and are unafraid having a guy who could top 10 gc be a domestique or have a guy who could top 10 a monument go stomp second-tier classics instead.
Skjelmose won TDS last year, came 3rd this year, came 4th in Paris-Nice, 3rd in Basque Country. It doesn’t seem like he’s pretending to be a GC guy. He’s a GC guy…
Skjellmose iont rlly see as a puincher he is more to me too good to be a domestique but not good enough to really go for gc. He has good results in some 1 weeks but pretty inconsistent. I he is not on the level of someone like Jonas, Remco, Pogi, Roglic which nobody rlly is but he isnt on the level of someone like a martinez, yates, hindley, Geraint or even an O'connor. He is like a worse Jorgensen to me just cuz he is so inconsistent and not as good at punching,
Agree ..I was gutted after the injuries to Rog, Remco and Jonas and I'm dreading a UAE domination of the tour if the others haven't been able to recover and prepare properly ..the Giro GC was so awful I stopped watching halfway through ..hoping the tour will be better
Elephant in the room: is Patrick going to keep saying « if Jonas isn’t in good form » he should obv know all there’s to know, now that he’s seen him in person in Tignes and prolly even seen his numbers and what not as well! The credibility and bias of the pod is becoming questionable if you ask me!
Hmmm... I doubt even Heemskerk really knows how Jonas is going to fare at the Tour. He's probably got the minimum numbers to send him, but most of his base has effectively been wiped out. He could conceivably fold in the second or third week.
Even if Jonas' numbers are good there's no way of knowing how he'll be after racing for several days. He hasn't raced in over two months and his crash was pretty bad. Also, Patrick can't speak on something the team doesn't want publicized.
Good stuff from the UCI looking at banning radios. We need more riders going back to chat to their DS in the car who is drilling it at 80mph, cosplaying Verstappen by sending it up the inside of a rival teams car but with no-hands on the wheel and not looking at the road so they can pass on the crucial information of 'allez, don't give up! Keep pushing.'
So anyone without a radio in the breakaway is disadvantaged by someone in the breakaway with a radio. It’s not going to work.
Almeida to win Le Tour, here we go 🔥😂
i do share benjis sentiment that we might get a bit of surprise on podium but no way will be almeida
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Almeida will top 10 for sure
I was really cheering for Eganito, bummed to see him drop off the podium. INCREDIBLE ride from Riccitello - I hope we see him in the tour hunting stages, maybe sneaking into the top 10 in the final week.
Seems like the team would want Riccitello’s talent at the tour but instead they bring 4 w/kg froome
Apologies in advance for the long message: I think you guys were busy with all the stuff going on and missed some details in the Almeida performance, I watched all the stages and interviews. His performance improved not only in power numbers but also in terms of positioning, attitude, acceleration and ability to open gaps. He said he changed coach because he needed to change his racing style and this TDS showed that. Stage 7 he had gone clear and asked in the radio if Yates could join him so he waited (this was the stage they finished together). Why he did that I don't know, maybe it was just a story to avoid looking ugly dropping a team mate with the yellow jersey or just team orders because they need unity ahead of the TDF. Stage 6 he dropped Yates as you rightly said. Stage 5 Yates did not drop Almeida per se, Almeida pulled for 5km doing insane numbers and launched Yates 1800m from the finish, still Almeida gapped Riccitello and passed Mas and Bernal like a motorbike finishing 5s from Yates. I just wish he had opened up at 2500m from the finish so Yates would have to go earlier. Yates would have spent more, Almeida less and there would be more road to overtake him and I think he would have. Stage 8 (ITT) I think it was expected both to be on par because it was a climbing one. Almeida's only mistake was not to have attacked on stage 4 in which Yates took the yellow jersey. I think a new Almeida is born...mark my words.
IMO Almeida is essentially Portuguese Thibaut Pinot. He’s got world class physiology but is still quite inconsistent.
@@Thaddeus_Howe fair comment. I think most people will think exactly the opposite but it is a valid opinion. My point (and my hope) is that he is becoming a different rider. I never saw him like in the TDS. The question is if it will continue or not, obviously with some ups and downs in form but this potential was the first time I saw.
yh I think they missed a bit with Alemdia. He actaully ATTACKED this TdS
Yes, it was obvious Almeida was really strong, as strong as he has ever looked. Yates did join him easily on that stage where you said Almeida waited and Yates was clearly the third best climber in last years TDF so he has earn't the benefit of the doubt. But this was as positive as I had seen Almeida ride.
@@jamesl3546 very fair comment. Fully agreed.
Felix Gall top 50 in itt Great result!
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I say give one rider (maybe two) per team the possibility to communicate to directors directly via ear pieces. It would make cohesion within the teams more relevant etc. Maybe a reasonable middle ground
lookin lean boys
Jasper Philipson’s riding in last years tour has saved lives. I knew there was a reason he was still my favorite sprinter
Can Israel send Ricctello to the tour instead of Froome
Riccitello could top 5 at La Vuelta though, or at least win a stage or two there
One would imagine that this is similar to Bahrain not taking Padun in 2021...
@@stefanjoeres7149 So you're saying he's a one hit wonder?
@@stefanjoeres7149 Padun might still be juiced up from his 2 stage wins (uphill!) in a row a few years ago (I think in the Dauphiné?)
I'm really interested in the new rules. I'll be curious to see if they are implemented in the typical UCI fashion! Thanks for another great weekly.
As a Quickstep and a Remco fan I agree. I hope they bring Merlier to the Tour to hedge if Remco isn't in top shape.. And bring Van Lerberghe too. Maybe they can both help on the flats too.
Visma have had a good strategy the last few years and my guess is they have analyzed the competition including team makeup and will exploit the weaknesses
Let's see whether they'll have the raw firepower to realize that this time round. Haven't really had that all year. In the end it all comes down to Jorgenson and vingegaard
Brilliant thumbnail!
Hey guys, just wondering, are the SAFER barriers invented by Dean Sicking for Indy car and NASCAR the same system or technology now being introduced to UCI sanctioned cycling events?
Thibau Nys is incredibly talented but still very young. The concern in his camp is that they don't want to over race him. This already happened last year during the 2023 cylocross season when he started out winning the first two races in October in spectacular fashion. Then won the prestigious Koppenbergcross. But one month later at European Championships, he DNF'ed. Then for the rest of the season, he finished nowhere near the podium until Benidorm in late January. I think his father wants Thibau to have a long career... so he's very careful at this early stage.
YO CAN WE GET THAT CHAPTER STUFF AGAIN ON THE TIMELINE PLS FOR TOPICS WE ONLY WANT TO HEAR ABOUT
The 2 and 3 yellow cards are a specific time frame, 2 is a 1 day race or stage race. 3 is during a 30 day period.
Can we get chapters on these please. Great content but I'm not interested in all segnents
Any Hill in Denmark? Well, they have a highly talked about bridge...
UAE all 3 steps of the podium at the tour lets goooo
Aranburu is now hitting top form...
What does the 'testing period' mean for the yellow card system? Will it be fully in work and reevaluated after the period or potential penalties will only be provisional?
i really think the yellow card system should only be based around rider safety. If a rider or ds driving in the convey behave in a way that endangers a rider, thats when a yellow card should be given.
1st yellow card - warning, fine, possible relegation - 30 day probation period
2nd yellow card within probation period - immediate DQ from the current race, 7 day suspension - 60 day probation starting after suspension ends
3rd yellow card within probation period - immediate DQ from current race, 30 day suspension - another 60 day probation period.
so basically each time you get a card, you go into a probation period that gets increasing longer, and if you get another one during that period, the punishment is more severe. if you make it through the probation period after the any yellow card without getting another one then you go back to 0 and the next yellow card would be back to step 1.
finally if you get 6 yellow cards within a rolling 1 year period, then a 90 day suspension followed by a 90 day probation period where you would get another 90 day suspension if you get a yellow card. this last step would be to punish someone who gets a yellow card every 35 days theoretically and would not ever hit the 7 or 30 day suspension because their infractions are spaced out over a year but they keep getting them
Denmark's highest point is 174 metres, so constructing a 300 m climb is going to be challenging 😂
I was thinking this is what they want to do, definitely possible depending on what happens
We need a pod on the Jumbo and Jonas team announcement
Almeida actually atacked in stage 7 and asked on the radio for Yates to join and did not respond directly to atacks from Yates on purpose. Still not punchy on the mountains but that argument "he never attacks or responds" is not correct
yes, not correct anymore but I would even say his punch from the QS days is returning. The way he passed Bernal and Mas on stage 5 like a motorbike was crazy. In the Vuelta (both editions) he would get dropped by Mas. In PN and Cataluña he would get dropped by Bernal. Again, there is a new Almeida in the making. We had #GCKuss so now @LanterneRougeCP can coin the term #PunchyAlmeida 😆
The depth of UAE is amazing...
Could they control it...🤙🇺🇸🇨🇴
The Danish WT race... FF S, man! Benji is sort of right -- it should be in and around Kron-Jylland where it's at least a bit hilly.
Cmon, Patrick, spill the beans! Is Jonas going or nah?
We already know the answer on that for two weeks... At least those who pay attention do. 😉
What about only 30 min of radio use from the car per stage or race. To make it a strategy. Or maybe no radio for the first hour of a race so people cant use radios to know who is in a break. Maybe last 20km too no radio
There is a world of difference between a world championship in the age group, despite being a WT level, compared to a Magnier a WT level who has riidden nearly as many days ifor the under 23 or national team, than for his WT team.
Do not agree with LR on the “too many mountain top finishes “. I love the GC fights on the steep finales. Love your show guys!
Big Up the Farmer Race Calendar 🚜🚴
Benji's analysis. 💯
Ayuso and Pollit crashed hard in the Dauphine and Almeida and Yates are in to good shape already to keep this up for five more weeks... (Because yes the final week and heaviest week of the Tour is still more than a month away.)
Thus UAE's preparation has not been optimal...
Do they have three riders that can finish on a podium of a Grand Tour ? Yes, of course.... Will they finish 1, 2 and 3 in the Tour ? ... No Vingegaard is much to strong for Pogacar, even if Vingegaard is only at 95%... Roglic 2nd and Pogacar 3rd.
Merlier should goto the TDF. The fastest sprinter in the world
Surely Ayuso should be a rouleur at the tour. Satellite rider and truck along in a valley
Honestly looked like Yates has the way higher Boni for Stage Win in his contract on that stage where they were holding hands, and they just decided to split ;)
Time stamps?
Suisse and Tdf is not the same. Yeah good watts, but lets see.
About the 3km rule, why not change it for the good. In real sprintstages, the time for GC ist taken with 10 km to go, or 5 km to go. Rest is just for the stagewin. Why not? If you are afraid of timegaps by breakaways, they shouldn't matter in gc right?
And all that just for real sprintstages, completly flat. How to measure, that can be discused.
If one, Jorgenson might podium as a 2nd leader for jumbo. Good tt, solid climber and strong classic man
Yellow cards/stickers that get slapped on the helmet mid-race.
Wish you clearly marked the advertisments in the middle of the video accordingly
The lads need to make some cash.
@@jimiscott I don't argue that
The Yellow Card system as proposed will likely do absolutely nothing to impact the safety of the sport. While there have been many instances of rider behavior being a huge factor in the safety of the race, there are more(?) instances where poor course design/routing is the culprit in making the sport more dangerous.
Why is Remco spoken about in the GC discussion? Surely he's demonstrated that he's nowhere near against the top guys in a GT. Genuine question
Imho, VLB will be a shadow of the team they were last year. The recent below par performances of uijtdebroeks(maybe he wasn't rostered to ride the tdf) and Kuss, the injuries to van baarle, Vingegaard, WVA and Kruijswijk. Were it not for the brilliant recent performances of Jorgenson and kelderman, I would say the TDF is a battle between Bora and UAE.
The race for 2nd and 3rd might end up being more interesting. Until we see the time differences between Pog and Vingo at the end of the 2nd week (and the big stages thereafter), it still might be exciting viewing for the win.
- Uijtdebroeks has never been on the roster at all..
- van Aert will replace van Baarle, which is an improvement.
- Kelderman will replace Kruijswijk, which is an improvement.
- Vingegaard will start in top form if we can believe his teammates.
- Benoot has been good the whole season already.
- Kuss has always been shit in one week races, and he's just a domestic for certain mountian stages. He has never missed an appointment so far, thus why should he not be in shape in the three stages that it is needed this Tour ?
- Jorgenson is no Roglic of course, but on the other hand Jumbo didn't have Roglic in the last Tour. Thus having Jorgenson is also an improvement.
- Tratnik has been on the roster for the Tour since the start oof the season.
- Bouwman is just a good domestic that has been riding fine the entire season already.
Thus no I can not share your opinion.....
In the end it will just be Pogacar against Vingegaard again, and we know who is the strongest of these two in Grand Tours... A Jonas at 95% does still beat a Pogacar at 110%..
I do write down a third Tour victory for Jonas already. 😉
@@swissbiggy a lot of logic there, but I think a Jonas at 95% might not be good enough for a flying Pogacar. Yes it’s a 2 man race, but - like every Tour - we will need to wait and see. I just hope there’s plenty of other excitement outside those two.
If the 5km rule can get Ineos the hell out of the sprint preparation the world will become a much better place.
Almeida was unlucky for losing some seconds on stage 1 or 2... and then Yates get the Yellow and he got to work for Yates even being co-leaders.
Yates bluff to put pressure on Almeida lol
Almeida can respond to attacks .... idk what you guys talking
I think the sanctions are not necessarily the key here, the lack of consistency and how they're applied is the most important part.
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Aranburu will win the Le Tour. You hear it here first!
Please reintroduce the chapter-stuff.
Two team mates going for a win with psychological games?If you move teams your pay cheque is determined by what you have won not what you let your team mate win.
1-2-3? Highly unlikely but I think they could definitely get a 1-2 if Vingegaard is not 100%.
Almeida and Yates are very consistent, Ayuso will also be there, if roglic doesn't show up with his mutant form then these can beat him and get the podium. Carlos Rodriguez is great but Ayuso has beat him before at la vuelta..
I think Vinny is such a mutant that if the first 10 days aren’t hard enough he’ll gain too much fitness and be pretty much 100% for the crazy final week. UAE is going to have to blitz Vinny on 1, 2, and 4 while putting him in a hole for the first TT or he could have a serious chance to win.
@@Thaddeus_Howe I agree I think the podium is the same as last year unless Rog shows up in top form
I can't see Yates and Almeida helping Pogy and at the same time have enough energy to beat Remco, Roglic and Vinegaard... This is Pogs big chance to win the TDF again with the crashes the other had are surely going to affect their ability to win... Roglic shown good form winning Giro but Remco proved that 3 week racing just not for him... If JV can not lose too much time in first 2 weeks he may run down a tiring Pogy in the third week. Pogs never done a GT b4 ant of his wins at TDF so thereight be surprise winner this year.
There are so many big riders rn being pushed into roles that don’t suit them. Pidcock is just not a GC guy, he’s a classics, cx, xc, and stage hunting rider. Skjellmose is like 2019 Alaphillipe, a really good puncheur who can pretend to be a gc guy. He should just stick to classics and stage hunting.
I think this is why UAE has been so successful from a points perspective the past year or two, they have really sober perspectives on their riders and are unafraid having a guy who could top 10 gc be a domestique or have a guy who could top 10 a monument go stomp second-tier classics instead.
Skjelmose won TDS last year, came 3rd this year, came 4th in Paris-Nice, 3rd in Basque Country. It doesn’t seem like he’s pretending to be a GC guy. He’s a GC guy…
Skjellmose iont rlly see as a puincher he is more to me too good to be a domestique but not good enough to really go for gc. He has good results in some 1 weeks but pretty inconsistent. I he is not on the level of someone like Jonas, Remco, Pogi, Roglic which nobody rlly is but he isnt on the level of someone like a martinez, yates, hindley, Geraint or even an O'connor. He is like a worse Jorgensen to me just cuz he is so inconsistent and not as good at punching,
I don't know if the Photoshop work on the thumbnail is amazing or terrible.
easy -- UAE have been taking over the top-position of the most doped teams from Visma 🤣😂😜
They would have to give the first red card to themselves
if Patrick knows Jonas's last FTP test results can he really give an unbiased opinion?
Of course. If FTPs won you the Tour, we'd have seen a bunch of Tri's win it.
Jonas has been setting records for weeks now in camp he is in killer shape
Tour de Suisse, most boring GC ever. Crossing fingers that that's not what we're going to get for the tdf, after the Giro we got (boring GC as well).
Agree ..I was gutted after the injuries to Rog, Remco and Jonas and I'm dreading a UAE domination of the tour if the others haven't been able to recover and prepare properly ..the Giro GC was so awful I stopped watching halfway through ..hoping the tour will be better
The giro is boring because bora and ineis were pansies.
No
Elephant in the room: is Patrick going to keep saying « if Jonas isn’t in good form » he should obv know all there’s to know, now that he’s seen him in person in Tignes and prolly even seen his numbers and what not as well!
The credibility and bias of the pod is becoming questionable if you ask me!
Why can't he pose a hypothetical scenario? It doesnt matter what he knows.
Of course he can't talk about Jonas' current numbers. What did you expect?
Hmmm... I doubt even Heemskerk really knows how Jonas is going to fare at the Tour. He's probably got the minimum numbers to send him, but most of his base has effectively been wiped out. He could conceivably fold in the second or third week.
If they still don’t know with only week to go, they’re in such mess!
Even if Jonas' numbers are good there's no way of knowing how he'll be after racing for several days. He hasn't raced in over two months and his crash was pretty bad. Also, Patrick can't speak on something the team doesn't want publicized.