Pog v Vin, who win?
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VLaB are still suggesting it is on 50:50 that Vingegaard and Wout will make the start.
Pog is clear favourite and rightly so. Fit, on form, and not overly fatigued by the Giro.
Roglic - last day at the Dauphine must be a worry, b ut looked ok to that point.
Remco - will be a lot better than at the Dauphine, but doubts over 3 weeks against the competition.
I could see Pog and A Yates on the Podium, with Roglic, or even someone like Bernal.
I just can't see Jonas being competitive.
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The UAE roster looks quite a bit stronger than the other teams. The Bora team is the strongest of the rest and it's not at the same level. Jumbo's is decimated and Ineos is a level below.
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Looks like Juan Ayuso will miss the Tour following his crash in the Dauphine
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That's a good team mate to lose.
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Worth remembering Pog went into last year's Tour undercooked following a broken wrist and subsequent surgery.
I had the same injury and it took me around 9 months to really recover from that. Pog, being the superman he is, did it in what, 3?
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I think the undercooked thing is a bit over exaggerated tbh. A nasty injury, but it didn't stop him training on rollers. After that it's mainly pain management as soon as he can pull on the bars and stand on his pedals, and there's absolutely no doubt he has a ridiculous pain tolerance - as all pro cyclists do
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As I understood it, because of the nature of Pogacar's scaphoid fracture, he couldn't grip the bars so was off the bike for a significant, like 4 weeks or so, period.
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You made me go and check and by May 18th (crash was 23/4) he was posting about his "last two weeks" indoor training (gym work and rollers)
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Vingegaard confirmed in the Visma-Lease-a-Bike Tour team, alongside Wout Van Aert.
I guess we'll find out in the opening week whether that's a wise decision.
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Honestly, it's not like they've got anyone better to replace him with, is it?
If he's not in shape to fight for the yellow then he gets some racing in and goes to the Vuelta on that, while maybe doing some domestique work for Jorgensen or Kuss
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Neither am I
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The Giro was a walkover, nowhere near hard enough to have much effect on fatigue. It was what, a week of racing then a two week training block?
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erm.. he had training blocks before the race so that's alot of training and racing
Put it this way he ain't putting 10 minutes into the second guy at this one
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The point was that he wasn't even really racing the last two weeks. Nobody pushed him, nobody forced him to go deep, they just let him do his own thing. Any efforts he made were little more than training for him. I don't think he's fatigued.
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On the important issue here - yay or nay?
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Very much a nay for me, but I've not liked any of their TdF edition jerseys.
It's reminding me of an Inverness Caledonian Thistle jersey from the 90s that I can't find online but if you know you know.
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I like it more than I do their usual jersey.
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I quite like it, a bit different, but the yellow/gold could be bolder and having another blue jersey in the peloton isn't winning me over. Will see what it looks like in race conditions.
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wow, nothing like it out there imo, proof will be how it looks within the Peloton.
I can't tell if it will stand out, or blend in.
Are Bora meant to be going full Red Bull for the tour and beyond presumably?
Shame, as I actually like the latest Bora kit.
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Looks like a pub carpet.
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A bit 2000s Piccadilly line seat vibes.
*They may well still be the exact same colour.
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It has a Fleur-de-Lis pattern. That has some connection to this years Tour (didn't google it), since Colnago brought out a special edition of their C68 with a Fleur-de-Lis motif as well.
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That's your UAE announced their line up then.
Pogacar, Ayuso, Sivakov, Yates, Soler, Almeida, Politt & Wellens.
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It's a bit more of a statement of intent than Jayco that's for sure. I thought Ayuso had previously been ruled out?
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Possibly a touch light on rouleurs, though both Politt and Wellens are quality
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A stacked lineup. Ayuso, Almeida, and Yates would be solid top 10 on other teams, with Soler and Sivakov solid top 20 riders. I'm not sure even the Sky teams had such an array of talent.
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It's stacked, but will they be able to control the race? I can see some potential for chaos breakaways forming
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