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Last Post 08/18/2024 08:59 PM by Frederick Jones. 4 Replies.
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79pmooney

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03/30/2024 08:38 PM
Who you got?  Likely winner?  Your hope?

Van de Poel is looking pretty hard to stop and I never mind seeing him.  I expect SD Worx to throw everything at him.  We'll see if anything sticks.

Women - my heart's with Vos.  Fun watching her looking so strong.  Fun watching her back from the ailments that have dogged her now for a few years.
79pmooney

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03/31/2024 10:16 AM
Men's race has finished. Women's! Kopecky had the nerve (and perhaps not the smarts) to wear white shorts to go with her white Worlds jersey. Just inviting both bad weather and a crash. She got both. (The CN commentator on the women's race said that only 3 men made it over the Koppenberg riding! The photo from the men's race showed VdP and a couple others, then 2 strong riders walking. I didn't realize everyone behind them also walked.)
longslowdistance

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07/16/2024 07:57 PM
Just observing that both Pog and V obliterated EPO loaded superstar Marco's Plateau climb record, and Remco was there too. Impressed, and a bit suspicious.
Nice to see this forum active again :-)
79pmooney

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07/16/2024 11:10 PM
lsd, I wonder if the fact that all three have very good teams and that esp Visma has been driving pace very hard to both protect their leaders well and get them off to a very fast start. Pogacar's team has been phenomenal at launching Pogacar at speed. I wonder if the races Pantani set the records in had anything like that support. If they (the moderns and Pantani) both came to their solo stretches equally rested and prepared and the solo distances were the same, OK maybe things are going on. But I am under the impression the hard stages are being run far faster now. If the times are taken at the bottom but Pogacar doesn't leave until half way up, not hard for me to believe he got 3 minutes benefit riding an express train, not a trolley.

I could also believe a super trained and disciplined Pantani might have beat himself by roughly the same amount. (Might have to look beyond Pluto to find that disciplined Pantani.)
longslowdistance

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08/18/2024 08:59 PM
Good points, and aero is hugely better, bikes are better, fatter tires are faster on rough pavement. Web search the bean/watt counters. Maybe today's so much faster riders are clean. They sure take a beating if they crash now.
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