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No way there was any serious plan for WVA to solo or be a sattelite, just hoping Del Toro or Pellizari would take it upon themselves to pull him back.

WVA worked all day and was done at that point. The ‘attack’ was just a last-minute effort to bait one of Morg’s competitors into responding and wasting a little bit of energy. Didn’t work, but was worth the shot imo.
(I think Pog would have closed WVA himself, for example.)

Come on he worked for Morg all day

despite being in great shape, winning things hasn’t exactly been Jorgensons strong suit.

It’s just because Pogacar is the best.
If Jonas is in his best shape, we might just have a shot at an exciting tdf.
If Pogacar is in his best shape, we know what will happen.

Where is the #GCVanDijke talk?

at least Visma kept Piganzoli in gc yesterday 🙃

but hey you can watch the gruppo compatto roll along at Tirreno at least!

fuck did he pull that from 60 seconds to what? 15?

just in time

Where‘s Kielich? Did he work earlier?

Finish seems a bit too hard for WVA?

Love how the DS is tired after the effort

tomorrow.
also said he chose an early time to TT to have some extra rest.

Said he's not been practicing TT after his injury and wants to save energy for the gravel stage

Adopting a single leader strategy vs Pogacar and MVDP would appear to be a strange choice.

So Jorgenson could have dropped tired Pog?
You still need options to play with. Jorgensons finish really showed that. Van Aert finishes two places down after working for Jorgenson.

Of course Brennan is the future and if they’re both G2 then Wout will have to work for him. But let’s see Brennan be there first… having some options is not a bad thing.

Genuine question: who else on Visma could have dropped Pogacar on Montmartre?
He’s not on MVDP/Pog level but that doesn’t mean he should just be a domestique now... and even if he’s started as coleader he did a lot of work for Jorgenson? Think you’re being a bit harsh here.

He’s 10kg heavier than the second heaviest guy in this group. His shape isnt that bad imo? I think he’s trying a different approach to the Flemish classics and acquiring some race hardness... seems fair enough?

Yeah, if Alpecin still had Merlier on the team, I think Philipsen would have been a 'purer' classics rider genre Pedersen by now. Still looking forward to that second phase of his career but he's certainly been putting his credentials out already :-)

Yeah, definitely visible in the desert races and the easy sprints, but imo smart for the Flemish classics! I tend to root for Merlier but what Philipsen does in the harder classics is really impressive.

Nah the quote is wrongly cited. He said he still put out the same values as when he won UAE Tour a couple of years ago, but also said he wasn’t in the shape he had in the Spanish races. Meaning same values as two years ago, but lower values then two weeks ago.

Not saying Remco is done or anything like that. But the number one goal should be to improve his consistency, not his peak.

Just saw a Vollering fan condemn the Rockets for their gambling sponsorship and a Pogacar fan condemn Plugge for his ties to the Saudis, are we descending into Twitter hell?

Really don’t understand the idea of changing teams and then taking all of the surrounding staff members with you. If they can’t explain the inconsistency, they’re at least part of the problem imo.

I feel like he starts every season in Roubaix form and rediscovers being a sprinter after a few races

returning to photography after ten years and what do you mean we don't shoot those awesome and big SLRs anymore 😭

Don't really understand the Visma-won't-let-Jonas-race narrative. He had 12 more racedays than Pog last year, 17 more than Remco.

If he's doing 2 GT's per year, doing less shorter stage races seems like a completely normal decision?

Normalise calling UAE 'the guys in the back'