TDF 2019: Stage 8, Mâcon > Saint-Étienne 13/07/2019 - 200 km *Spoilers*

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  • KnightOfTheLongTights
    KnightOfTheLongTights Posts: 1,415
    edited July 2019
    There's probably a handful of other riders in the peloton capable of doing what TdG does but they don't - not as often anyway - because they have different targets or are constrained by the demands of their team's Tour objectives. (Apologies if this point has been made already, at work and no time to read whole thread.)
  • m.r.m.
    m.r.m. Posts: 3,486
    There are plenty of riders who could, I'm quite certain. Kwiatkowski, Castroviejo, Moscon, Taylor Phinney etc.

    Pretty much any light TT specialist.
    PTP Champion 2019, 2022 & 2023
  • KnightOfTheLongTights
    KnightOfTheLongTights Posts: 1,415
    M.R.M. wrote:
    There are plenty of riders who could, I'm quite certain. Kwiatkowski, Castroviejo, Moscon, Taylor Phinney etc.

    Pretty much any light TT specialist.

    Yeah - Teuns, Skujins?
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    I think there's a knack to getting in the right breaks and knowing when to attack the break etc though, so they might need some practice
  • KnightOfTheLongTights
    KnightOfTheLongTights Posts: 1,415
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    I think there's a knack to getting in the right breaks and knowing when to attack the break etc though, so they might need some practice

    Indeed, TdG certainly has that.
    Millar was talking on Saturday about how breakaway specialists just have to keep trying getting into the break, and even when they do accept that 8 out of 10 of them will fail but use those efforts effectively as training, and just keep plugging away, and eventually one sticks.
    Not many riders in a World Tour team's grand tour selection have the freedom to do that?
    But that's not to take it away from TdG, awesome rider and Saturday was really special.

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