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Paris-Nice / Tirreno - Adriatico Thread (spoilers)

Last Post 03/24/2021 11:18 AM by 79 pmooney. 23 Replies.

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Posts:4209

03/11/2021 09:32 PM
JA celebrating early again! Right? You think he would have learned his lesson about posting up early by now, but..... He had no idea MVP was coming like a bullet.... And MVP needs to start using better tactics and stop relying on brute power to bludgeon everyone. He had horrible position today, but still nearly won. His attack in KBK from 80k out, his needless attack in Amstel in 2019 40k out which led to him missing the critical break (yeah, he won but only because he did something superhuman). He is starting to remind me a bit of Sagan....thinking he can just smash everyone instead of riding smarter.

Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!

Posts:1767

03/12/2021 07:22 AM
100% true on VdP sledge hammer approach to racing but you have to admit it makes things more exciting that the pocket-protector/ green eyeshade/ accountant style of racing (I'm looking at you Froome) we suffered through for years.

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03/12/2021 08:34 AM
Oh, no doubt.....he makes every race exciting to watch. Jeebus, his closing speed yesterday was INSANE!! But at some point, just like with Sagan, people are gonna figure out how to turn it against him.

Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!

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03/12/2021 09:22 AM
I think he'll figure it out quicker than Sagan. Peter the Great loves the show almost as much as he likes winning. VdP loves to crush souls more than showboating and he'll adapt to a wised-up peloton.

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03/12/2021 09:29 AM
He rode smart enough during Strada. Even took time to eat in final. The ones he really wants to win he’s already using his head. Kuurne was just boredom meets training need meets no real need to win this one anyway. It was also meant to come together but their sprinter didn’t make it. I’m expecting a measured performance at MSR and then total destruction on Poggio. And hah, he already made up for yesterday lol.

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03/12/2021 09:41 AM
Sagan meanwhile has a really long way to go. Unlikely he’ll factor this spring which is too bad. Would have been legendary if he could mix it up with three amigos.

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03/12/2021 12:09 PM
At age 31 Sagan is a little long-in-the-tooth for a sprinter. I find Paris-Nice to be a bit boring. They ride in a giant pack till the last 3K then the lead out men make a break for it. I watch it on nbcsports with Bob Roll and Christian Vande Velde try to make it sound exciting, where most of the time it isn't.

Posts:3189

03/14/2021 02:06 PM
A lot happened today in P-N/T-A! P-N; Roglic and JV got the message that 1) just being the most powerful team there isn't always enough, that sometimes you need to be smart on how you use your resources - using your team hard yesterday for a few GC seconds, then burning the team early today when other teams were willing to work, then not having enough gas left when things got bad and 2) how other teams and riders view your actions matter. (Sky modeled all of this several years ago when Froome took that off-road excursion at the Tour and their competitors were unwilling to wait for him. I guess the JV hierarchy were in the restroom when that footage got shown.) T-A; MvdP! No, it didn't matter in the standings, but what fun to watch! That hill- the real test of "do your gears really work?" Wish I had the tech to see that. Sound like some of my favorite pitches in my racing days. The stretch of Blue Hill beside the ski slope, just outside Boston and 2 miles from my parent's house, Summit Ave in Boston, Pack Manadnock in southern NH and the killer - the final 200 feet of Mt Washington, the final stretch of Mt Diablo. Where the high grades go to the high school seniors. Wait, wait, all confused - where the road grades go to the high teens.

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03/24/2021 11:18 AM
Volta a Catalunya, Stage 3. Valverde. Didn't win, but he still is impressive. Earned his paycheck today even if he had to settle for the bottom step. (Not worthy of a new thread, so I tagged this onto the early season stage race thread. Hope no one minds.)