Cycling Pro Discussion 4: Transfers Everywhere, Vuelta & Beyond

[BangBang]

Holy shit

 

[Videer]

MAXIMUM CICLISMO!

 

[therealdope]

MvdP tried the rope-a-dope.

 

[Videer]

I still think that Pog can win a long ass sprint, if it is from 100m I dont think he has a chance

 

[BangBang]

Imagine Ganna gets through.

 

[Videer]

what a race

 

[BangBang]

Ridiculous lol

 

[therealdope]

That is the best chance that Pogacar is ever going to have.

 

[BangBang]

The drone shots of them flying down the Poggio.

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

You can’t take that guy to the line.

 

[eddymotto]

what a race!!!!

after the UCI fined Del Toro for an unzipped jersey, they should definitely fine Pogacar for wearing a jacket three sizes too big that made him look like a toddler during the post-race

 

[Videer]

That is the best chance that Pogacar is ever going to have.

I'd say that today demonstrated that it can work, and he can win. Pog only had Wellens and Narvaez for Cipressa. Narvaez was in bad position to start Cipressa and they had to make a lot of ground with Pogi and in the end he only did a 800m pull. Pog attack at 3km to the top of Cipressa. That is a lot of work for him to do alone.

Of course having few riders pull the capos and have 3 or 4 left and more importantly in position to blast it on Cipressa is very difficult. Probably needs a good tail wind like today too.

Then again it is MSR and Sagan never won it.

 

[therealdope]

I thought Ganna bridging up to the lead was going to help Pogacar. He should have either followed more closely or attacked the opposite side of the road when Ganna bridged. Was a good opportunity to make MvdP distracted.

 

[Videer]

 

[therealdope]

I'd say that today demonstrated that it can work, and he can win. Pog only had Wellens and Narvaez for Cipressa. Narvaez was in bad position to start Cipressa and they had to make a lot of ground with Pogi and in the end he only did a 800m pull. Pog attack at 3km to the top of Cipressa. That is a lot of work for him to do alone.

Of course having few riders pull the capos and have 3 or 4 left and more importantly in position to blast it on Cipressa is very difficult. Probably needs a good tail wind like today too.

Then again it is MSR and Sagan never won it.

He's gonna win Paris - Roubaix before he wins MSR. It's a brutally hard race to win in modern cycling. It has a lottery element that no other monument has.

 

[Yoricks Wisdom]

Ben fatto MVDP!
What a finish!

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

He's gonna win Paris - Roubaix before he wins MSR. It's a brutally hard race to win in modern cycling. It has a lottery element that no other monument has.

I think the cyclists around right now that he has to compete with just have a better kick than he does. It’s not hard enough to eliminate big engines like a MVDP, WVA, Michael Matthew’s, Phillipsen style racer and he just can’t out sprint guys like that.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

I think the cyclists around right now that he has to compete with just have a better kick than he does. It’s not hard enough to eliminate big engines like a MVDP, WVA, Michael Matthew’s, Phillipsen style racer and he just can’t out sprint guys like that.

Pog is a Wanderlei dishing it out against the Crocops in monuments. In grand tours these Crocops become Akira Shojis.

 

[BangBang]

You can’t take that guy to the line.

Tbf to Pog,he tried his damnest not to!

 

[Videer]

He's gonna win Paris - Roubaix before he wins MSR. It's a brutally hard race to win in modern cycling. It has a lottery element that no other monument has.

It has a lottery element straight to hospital. I'd deny him even starting Paris Roubaix if I was the Emirati slavedriver.