2025 Races with Spoilers.
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misforturob
Regular
Thought WvA would take that easily. He seemed to stop and start his sprint twice
Blazing Saddles
Well-Known Member
It looked like that, but from the overhead, it showed that he had to sit down. He just didn’t have the legs….they must still be on holiday in Tenerife.
misforturob
Regular
It looked like that, but from the overhead, it showed that he had to sit down. He just didn’t have the legs….they must still be on holiday in Tenerife.
He said in the interview that hanging on to Remco's wheel had fried his legs
wakemalcolm
Guru
- Location
- Ratho
He's turning into this generation's Sep Vanmarcke.
Hope he can turn it round next year.
Hope he can turn it round next year.
Jameshow
Veteran
Perhaps he hadn't done much sprint training?
Compare with mads pederson whose been training with the motor scooter etc. (doc on TV!)
Perhaps WVA as a domestique doesn't get the 1 to 1 training that mads, remco, pog, Jonas, MVDP gets...
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Adam4868
Legendary Member
No shame coming second to Remco today...he's come back in top shape ! Must be a nightmare trying to sit on Remcos wheel.
Pross
Über Member
I’m wondering if successive serious crashes have taken something out of him. His knee looks a mess so it wouldn’t be surprising.
A year or two back if either of those two went solo and got a lead of nearly a minute with 30km remaining you would back them to stay away. Today there was a point at just under 20km to go where I thought the pair working together were going to get caught. Remco will only improve with more racing, I’m not so sure with Wout.
Dorset Boy
Active Member
- Location
- North Dorset or a mountain
Has Wout lost it mentally, physically, or a bit of both?
He's seemed unwilling to fight for the right position in groups, has been hanging off the back as selections happen, but digs very deep to still be close to the podium at the end, and now gets out sprinted by a GC rider who has been injured most of the off season....
He's seemed unwilling to fight for the right position in groups, has been hanging off the back as selections happen, but digs very deep to still be close to the podium at the end, and now gets out sprinted by a GC rider who has been injured most of the off season....
M.R.M
Regular
Everyone has the issue of suffering when in a breakaway with Remco. He is simply so aero, that you don't recover behind him as much as he does behind you. Remco has won multiple GT stages in multiple GT's, once he had shipped time on a bad GC day, in this same way. People just die off behind him or are fried by the time they get to the finish.
It's probably best to sit in and let him go and try to bridge later (which doesn't work either since he rides as fast as the reduced peloton once he is away for the same aero reason). 😉
Feel for Wout, but maybe he'll be back in proper shape for the Tour. His shape seems to be improving.
It's probably best to sit in and let him go and try to bridge later (which doesn't work either since he rides as fast as the reduced peloton once he is away for the same aero reason). 😉
Feel for Wout, but maybe he'll be back in proper shape for the Tour. His shape seems to be improving.
Jameshow
Veteran
Chances are his legs weren't fresh from P-R!
Could I run a marathon 5 days after last one and be competitive with someone fresh - no chance!!
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
It was noticeable you could see WvA over Blackmore over Remco, when viewed from the front, and it wasn't really close. Remco really does get very aero.
