It's not as simple as that. Roglic put in a poor final TT because he was tired. If they'd made the race harder every day would he have been less tired or more tired? When you make a race hard you make it hard for everyone, including your own leader. It only helps if he's strong enough to endure it.bikewithnoname wrote: ↑Sun Jun 20, 2021 1:05 pmInteresting that Jumbo have picked Teunissen, suggests that they may be looking for WVA to contest some sprints, seems the same strategy as last year. Did they not learn that if they want Rog to win, they'll need WVA to pull the peleton apart every other day not to be "wasting" energy on sprints. Time will tell
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Maybe, but if WVA had been pulling for Rog on the windy stage 7 instead of looking at a victory, Pog would have been minutes away.
When you split targets you often lose out on both
When you split targets you often lose out on both
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People always want to hindsight cherry pick every little thing about Jumbo's tactics or Roglic's preparation but the reality is that Pogacar put up an outrageous, out of this world, All Time performance in that final TT and there's nothing anyone could have done about that, even he was as shocked as everyone else.
⬆ what he said.
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Bennett hasn't recovered from his knee injury. No point taking an injured rider, especially one who's leaving this season.
Bigger shock is no Cavagna who's clearly flying right now.
Bigger shock is no Cavagna who's clearly flying right now.
bilwit wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:06 amPeople always want to hindsight cherry pick every little thing about Jumbo's tactics or Roglic's preparation but the reality is that Pogacar put up an outrageous, out of this world, All Time performance in that final TT and there's nothing anyone could have done about that, even he was as shocked as everyone else.
There was a story about Allan Peiper in this months Peloton
The part that really was interesting was his talking about that final TT
I guess he foresaw that possibility & they targeted that
Will attach the page for you folks to read if you like
it was special tt stage, and Pogacar used this special 12-speed 14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-27-29 cassette to win it
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