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Quick correction:
As @85Rok commented (First 😜), it was Domen Novak having a SPECTACULAR ride leading Tadej Poagačar up La Redoute, not Almeida.
My mistake, good eye guys 👊😜🦋🦋
Yeah Novak was a mvp today, surprisingly last year he kinda sucked
peacock got it wrong on the live feed too. novak was incredible
How dose UAE bois be do dis? Dey all powernumbers above Pogi's from 3 years ago!
@@SidewaysStewie Ketones ha ha
I dont understand why this channel does not have a million followers
I was wondering the same, might be cause he is not chasing sponsors, which will enable him to have video footage and promo... whatever it is, i prefer he doesn't change much and hope he will keep the passion for making these videos. Though his son/editor might tell him one day 'enough is enough, show me the money!!'. Which reminded me to renew the support on patreon, i stopped over the winter, sorry Chris but im back now
I keep telling Garrett he really should go back to school. 😜🦋👊
Right
me either.
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Happy to see Bardet pull a podium spot in a monument! Dude had so much pressure on him from the media when he was young, promising, and French. Seeing him hang around and pull off results like this later in his career is always a cool story.
Is this his last season?
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Yeah he has shown some extra performance! I was more happy for him...the best of the rest. Being second only to Pogi is a great accomplishment! Bravo Romain!
I come here after every race to make sure i understand what happened. You have taught me more about cycling in the one year that I found your Channel then a lifetime of being a huge cycling fan!
Thanks for everything you do!
Thanks for comment 👊🦋👍
Same here. The breakdown is always clear and straight to the point and packed with lessons 🇸🇿
This is my go to post race analysis to make sure I fully understood the race. The live feed is no longer enough. And whenever the post race comments start on Facebook, I point people to your post race work to comprehensively clarify and resolve the issue. Always on point and always insightful - examples the crash and the panniers from the parked moto. No one else bothered to explain or even mention this.
I’ve not fully experienced the race until I watch your analysis. Chapeau @chris
Unbelievable that MvdP still managed to be third after decompression from Tour de Flandres and Paris Roubaix. Outstanding performance.
MVDP went deep into well for that well deserved podium. 💪🦋👊🔥
Yep, quite incredible to still snatch a podium after a very poor race. A champion!
I just wanted to hear Chris Horner call Van der Poel a knucklehead for being at the back of the race.
Amen brother! 😂
I was about to and probably should have but then MVDP sat so well on the chase group when Tom and Kevin were losing their heads attacking for no reason that I then thought, MVDP wasn’t as bad these two knuckleheads. 🤪👊🦋
Tom and Kevin playing checkers, mvdp playing chess in comparison. Just a training ride for him until the attack
@ChrisHornerCycling mvp wouldn't of even got back to the 1st group if it wasn't for the cars drafting them back on, and pidcock did it the hard and right way and paid dearly, mvp and bardai only got on the podium because of it, watch between 79km and 75km from the end, you can clearly see what happened, and nothing was done about it
MvdP was in the back to get rid of his leg warmers (that's what he told in the interview after).
Just a correction, it was Novak that had pulled before Tadej's attack 👍🏾
Just fixed that in the corrections. Thanks 👊🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Chesterfield Effect ❤😂
Thanks Chris. Tadej has great momentum going into the Giro.
I was hoping EF would've done better but... Healy was pulling and Carapaz tried.
Carapaz went deep 👊🦋
“I CAN’T MAKE IT”
hahahaha....maybe he should try harder on the next climb
What was that kid Kevin thinking. I got the best form of life so I’m going across solo. Oh wait, this is the pro field, I can’t make it ! 😂🦋👊
Ahhhh. Jesus... you're right... that fooking motorcycle. Now that you mention it, I think that crash could have been avoided! Damn. Tough break for the crashee.
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I'm pretty sure that the speed bump was a significant contributing factor to the crash at 97K to go... And kudos to Bardet, I never thought he'd make it from so far out by himself.
Bardet was almost caught soooo many times. And yet still finished second 💪🦋👊
Great race, was very exciting to watch. Expected pogi to ride away tbh but seeing the battle behind him was very exciting!
The moment Pogi attacked on Redoute, I simply got up and watched the rest of the race standing up out of pure respect.
Pidcock called it! You called it! Everyone knew it’s gonna happen. After that it was like watching Strade Bianchi all over again. What a race! What an athlete!
Thanks for the race analysis, Chris!🙏
What BS, do u really believe he is not doped?
Respect for sure 👊🦋🔥
@@evoathletewhy would you say this? Any chance you have supporting evidence? Is he dodging testers? Is he failing tests? Is his biopassport out of wack?
Or are you just a moron…
@@evoathletegot any proof he is?
Your comment comes from jealousy and no ability…….pathetic
I watched in awe at Ben Healy's valiant ride with the 3 French riders chasing Tadeij Pocagar who was on fire. Your perspective post ride and what really went on, is invaluable. I miss all of that during the race. Great work Chris!!
Thanks a lot Chris - love the race analyses 🦋
The other reason for it being a monument is the age of the race. That is why Amstel Gold wasn't added to the list of monuments despite requests from organisers. The first Amstel Gold Race was held in 1966. All the monuments are well over 100 years old (LBL the oldest -1892-). That is the main reason why Amstel Gold and Strade Bianche aren't added.
I CAN'T MAKE IT! 🛋️🦋
Young kids. 😂🦋👊
Been waiting for the Horner Report all day!
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Chris, any chance for you to cover LBL femmes, too, please? That was an incredibly exciting race with a lot of tactics in the final. Thanks!
Chris I followed your career as a fan and you had a phenomenol run as a Pro. I do have to say I am enjoying your cycling career even more as the best cycling commentator / tactical interpretive genius / inside knowledge guru!!! Your insight is unbelievable and watching your vids takes me back to my days as a competitive amatuer. Keep this gold coming! Thanks!!
Hi Chris. I enjoyed your race analysis. That was an exciting LBL. I think the Tour of the Alps helped Bardet get second place at LBL. It makes sense to me that Team DSM would have Bardet use the Tour of the Alps to get ready for LBL: they need a lot of points, LBL is worth a lot of points, and yesterday, they got Jakobsen to win. I noticed you said Lutsenko just got done winning The Tour of the Alps, but as you know it was actually Il Giro d'Abruzzo.
👌👌always great listening 👌👌
No mention of the 2nd group drafting the cars to get back upto the front group, how do people think they closed a 1min 30 sec gap in 4 km.it happened between 79km and 75km to go, but I doubt they will show that part again,
2n and 3rd on the podium benefited massively drafting them cars
That kind of annoyed me in the race to, Piddcock went because he knew the rear group was not going to catch the peleton, but that was before the cars drafted them all the way to the back of it. They all should have been pulled out when the gap became under a minute. You even had a shot of one car shooting past other cars with about 20 riders glued to the back.
Another Monument, another great review!
Congratulations to Tadej and his team.
This is the second race I've seen MDVP ride in a manner that I am not familiar with. He appears to prefer the Slow Burn than jumping around chasing the wind and burning bullets. No one, not the Eurosport announcers, nor myself, expected a 3rd place from him after La Redoute.
He never looked flustered. Even at the crash site, he stood there waiting, as if keeping mentally calm was more important than arguing and hustling other riders out of the way to get back in the chase. Listening to Chris this morning though, ADC were chasing hard but it did not appear so, it looked like a steady diesel train.
To have the energy to hold a 200m sprint after the length and tension of that race shows he might be unto something with this chess Grand Master style.
Thanks Chris...great race to watch ....Papillon rules !
I really enjoy your commentary. You give us more insight in to the subtle tactics of the race. I watch the other coverage to see the action, then listen to you to find out what happened. Great job Chris.
Great analysis as ever and with the current injuries in the bumch- Bernal a dark horse for a tour podium (should he not crash)?
Thanks a lot Chris
You make me love cycling more and more
Keep going 💜
Thanks for your great commentary.
Great day weather-wise, and Tour de Romandie starts Tuesday: yodel-aye-eee-hooo🎉😂
One of the best races we have seen so far ! Great coverage Chris ,as always !!!
A great analysis! Thanks, Chris.
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You called it Chris 👏
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Let’s be fair, calling Pogi wasnt exactly clairvoyance :)
Always enjoyed your analysis Chris 🤌🤌
This is the channel whom you will understand immediately the race how it made to the finish. Thanks Chris #knukleboys
I kind of wish I found you sooner. here The La Vuelta you won was the first non TdF race I committed myself to as a road cycling fan. And I enjoyed you on NBCSN etc. Plus Oregon. Bend. Ha!
Anyone who joins UAE becomes a beast... before that he was very average rider... after joining UAE he finishes 2nd on Giro.
Super commentary
Watching this race I've found a strategy for Pogacar to win Milan - San Remo. The only way Pogacar can do it is by attaching on Poggio and not by staying behind a teammate until the steepest part, which is too short to make a difference against MVDP. He needs to attach from the beginning of Poggio. MVDP can follow any wheel up Poggio but Pogacar's. 500m is a distance MVDP can hold Pogacar wheel. 1500m is a different story. If Pogacar attacks from the beginning by the time they get to the steepest part MVDP will be seriously in red. If Pogacar can get a 10-15 second gap at the top he can hold it down Poggio and very likely win.
It’s not steep enough like the climbs here. Video really sucks to show the real life differences between MSR and here at LBL. Plus you add in the fact that MVDP form is dropping and Pog is peaking for the Giro after some quality training. I wouldn’t bet on Pog going solo top to bottom but we may just see Pog have to try that one year if his teammates can’t get to the Poggio on the front. 🤔🦋👊
I can see Pogi with 15 monuments under his belt before he retires - none of them MSR and Paris-Roubaix
He already did what you propose the year Mohoric won. Winning MSR for Pogi depends on the race conditions. Nibali could win in 2018 because Sagan didn't follow., whilst this year MVDP didn't let Pogi escape. In Lombardia and LBL he can win just because of the legs
@@erichgerber251 I think he can win both, although yes, MSR will be tricky and will require a lot of luck. But he's shown that even in a sprint, he can beat most of the guys at the line. Paris-Roubaix is such a hard race that someone as good at recovering/staying fresh at the end of a race as Tadej will benefit from that immensely, and he's obviously a great bike handler and good on the cobbles as well. If he gains a few kgs and focuses on it one season, I have no doubt he can win it.
@@bbuuttercupp Don't disagree - and as a big Pogi fan, I wish he can win all five. But isn't "putting on a few kilos for Paris-Roubaix" going to have some consequences for the TfF?
Great vid Chris, as usual; you often seen to see things I never did watching the same race. I wish this channel exisisted when I was a young racer in my 20s. It feels like we're watching history being made, IMO Tadej has already eclipsed other riders who were young superstars (Lemond or Ullrich?). No male rider has even come close to Merckx's total accomplishments, but if Tadej has the staying power of your career, or M. Voss, he appears to have the broad skills to break many of Merckx's records.
Right. Pog could be winning for a long time. 👊🦋
Man, Merckx has 19 monuments. 19! +3WC and 11 GT. Let's say Pogi could try to equal Hinault maybe
@@alessandrobardini6885 If you're making the argument that Merckx is so far ahead, that there's no close second, I'll totally agree with that. I do not agree with those who say Pogacar is the next GOAT or the next Merckx, there's never been another Merckx and possibly never will be. Merckx crushed flat sprints, long climbs, time trials, hour record & Madison/6-day races on the track and he probably could have crushed MTB/Gravel if it existed at that time.
Good catch on the cause of the crash. Both TV and all other podcast made no mention of the motorcycle
Bob is starting to look like a cross between David Letterman and Howard Hughes locked up in his Vegas penthouse.
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Can’t wait for the Giro.
Chris has a future as a race caller at Pimlico😅
GO EGAN! Egan is back!
Excited to see what he looks like in Tour de Romandie this week.
Egan is getting into the classics and the fitness is coming. 💪🦋👊
I certainly enjoyed it from the Chesterfield with your analysis to assist me.
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Got to love the Pog - attacks sitting down!
Wooo
Wooo. That was a crazy 110k. Riders losing their mind and a few keeping their cool under pressure. 🔥👊🏆 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
I was a proud member of the Horner Chesterfield Surfing group today, a blast!
chris, did you ever think about getting a international feed and doing live commentary on these races,? many of us would pay for that.
I have not looked into that yet. Certainly it would take a lot more time and at least one other person to come in and work it with Garrett and I. And someone other then to me to make breakfast while the race is going on with 100-70k to go. 🤔🦋👍
I don't get what Israel were doing either. For beating a clear favorite you probably want other contenders to still be there and together do attacks, on the flatter sections, and put pressure on UAE. You don't want the race to be made extra hard, they were pulling hard in
the toughest section of the route (trio of climbs Wanne-Stockeu-Haute Levée), probably their guys already felt there that their legs weren't so good after all and they stopped pulling at some point.
Another great win by Pogacar, we all know its not, but he makes it look so easy and what a season Van Gils is having, he is surely going to pick up a big win soon his strike rate of starts to top 10 finishes in 2024 is amazing.
Again great analysis, but @ all the other fans: you must watch the women's finale of LBL! It was so much more exciting than the men's race! AGAIN! (Teaser: A breakaway breaking in parts chased by a breakaway of favourites forming new sub-groups again and again + a really unexpected win...)
I watched it and I’m still wondering what the Hell was Demi doing when she let Longo Borghini close the gap without her. Did she really think Niewadoma was going to work with her when her teammate was in the group in front. Demi was lucky she didn’t let the gap get any bigger. Nightmare tactics thru out the race. But very enjoyable to watch. 😜🦋👊🔥📺
@@ChrisHornerCycling Indeed! That (Demi not closing the gap) was like her asking Kasia "Do you really not want to win PERSONALLY?" and testing her team-loyalty. (In an interview before the race, Kasia DID say her goal is to win, so not an totally silly test IMHO... ;-))
Team-Loyality-Test passed! About their team strategy in the final the German commentators speculated Kasia might launch an early sprint in order to force longo to start to early as well which is exactly what happened. Only that Elise Chabbey wasn't there to profit from that but the rider who almost crashed just 2 kms ago, who would have thought of that? :-D Great win from Grace Brown, also regarding she was in the breakaway before all the time...
Hands down, Chris’ analysis of the tactics is second to none. Chris, for the love of cycling, why aren’t you managing a team??????
UAE executed to perfection and Pog was racing like Pog. Sure, Jonas is recovering but there seems to be a maturity and next level burst in Pog’s legs this season. Hopefully Jonas is 95% fit for TdF to challenge Pog but I do think anyone can match Tadej if he races smartly and efficiently.
One question, do you mean that you „do think“ anyone can match Tadej or „don’t think“ anyone can match him if he races smartly?
What do you think about Pidcock taking pulls with MVDP to catch Egan group last 10km ? Wouldn’t have been better to take back seat and save it to the sprint if they catch them!
Normally Tom is fast so I’m ok with it even with Egan there. But hopefully he made MVDP do more than him. 🤔🦋👍
I am 66 years old. I watched Greg Lemond become a great champion as he battled ultimately beat two great French Champions (Hinault and Fignon) at the TdF. This signaled an end to French Cycling as we knew it. Now I am privileged to witness another great champion, perhaps the greatest since Mercks , Tadej Pogačar. He is magnificent.
True that. Pog is super 💪🔥👊🦋
However, I would like to point it out that as soon as the big crash happened with MVDP blocked, Israel Team took the lead and pushed like crazy. This is not fair play at 90 Km still to ride. Usually this does not happen unless the race is already blew up. It has been more than 30 years that I following road cycling, racing when I was young and enjoying riding and watching each single Monumento Classic Races as well as Grandi Giri and it is common fair play that, should the peloton have a big stop like the one yesterday so far from the end and when the pace was stable, that all teams are waiting the most of the peloton to recover. Yesterday I was surprised that one single team took the decision to push just after they understood that the crash blocked several big names. I did not like it
Consider the source.
I thought it should be Almeida' turn to lead the pace at the 35km climb, but turned out its still Novak to do the job. So what Almeida did through the whole race?
Pogadcar was simply amazing, what a show
not sure who impressed me more; Bardet or MVDP. Hard men, both.
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Nice analysis why the crash happened. Didn’t notice that at all.
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Before Redeute it is not Almeida it is Novak. Armbands are Slovene.
True, Almeida and Hirshi were nowhere to be seen whole race, they should have been pulling on Redeute
Damn. I quit. 😂. What a ride from Domen Novak today after all that riding in the front and he was still leading Pog up La Redloute setting up his attack. I told Garrett to add a correction comment above. You not falling asleep during T🦋E was almost as good as Domen’s ride today. 😂👀👊👊🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
I’m happy for Bardet, hear he’s really nice guy
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How does Bobke do bike rides with those Santa Claus whiskers?
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Hey Chris is there not one thing these teams can do to make it hard on the obvious favorites. Is there some strategy that can happened. Make the race harder than it should be earlier to strip Pog of his lieutenants. Its so obvious everyone knows whats gonna happen but know one seems to be altering the script.
Lutsenko did not win Tour of the Alps. It was Juan Pedro Lopez
Good catch. Lutsenko won Giro d'Abruzzo.
Becoming more and more frustrating when other teams pulling the favorite team - totally agree - UAE should have done all the work
Racing for second and third place was sure exciting.
Well, well, well, it seems not even MVDP could throw a spanner in the works for Tadej's unstoppable train in this race. And let's give a round of applause to Romain Bardet! Second place, but hey, he was the first human across the line after Tadej's otherworldly performance at LBL. Big kudos to Romain for reminding us mere mortals that we still exist! Now, onto the Giro! But seriously, do we need to start considering shock collars for Tadej to prevent him from snatching victory in every single stage of the Giro?
Oh, and let's all cross our fingers and toes that Jonas graces us with his presence at the Tour de France! My Danish cycling buddies keep harping on about how he needs to 'hill' (they meant 'heal,' but who's counting?), but I suspect they're secretly terrified that he won't be able to put a dent in Tadej's dominance if he's not at 100%.
Now, here's a wild thought: if Pogi manages to snag the Giro and then somehow pulls off a win at the Tour de France (I know, I know, it's a Herculean task and a boatload of 'ifs'), should he just go for the Vuelta as well? Hey, might as well complete the grand slam of cycling domination, right?
Yes Pog should go. 😂👊🔥🔥🦋
It was a great race.
Super entertaining. Never time to jump away from the screen. 📺 👊🦋🔥
I was waiting for you to call out Carapaz for being a knucklehead trying to follow Pogi’s attack. If he didn’t waste such a big effort on that climb then maybe he could have helped Ben Healy break away from the group later and possibly get a podium spot…
I think he did a good try, if he happens to stay on his wheel he can play it cool and try to beat him at the finish or frustrate him having to pull. If you don't try you don't win for sure.
7:35 LOL
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Hooahhh
Hooahhh indeed. Just enough cold and rain today to make it a little more interesting but not enough to cause to much pain.🥶👊🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Novak = a Beast. So Strong
Not on LBL subject but in future could you comment on this new proposal by the UCI to give riders red and yellow cards as a means to improve safety or to highlight offenders? With a history of controversial and/or inconsistent commissaires' rulings during races, how would this work or make sense. Cross country skiing as an example has a similar system, but with much smaller fields during races it is often obvious who is a fault when someone is impeded, a crash happens, or there is a clear rule violation, like being out of bounds. I don't see anything in cycling that can be that well defined and those cards/penalties don't address organizer failings.
steve williams and his team were already gunning for second place when they started pulling with 100km to go while uae where chilling. i cant blame them, less favorites in the peloton makes 2nd or third more doable. nobody had a chance other than poggie.
True that. Pogacar shows up and it’s the only race that second is almost a winner also. 🤪🦋👊
Get Chris to do the friggin commentary for Flo bikes.
I have a feeling that Pog told his team to slow down, not just for FFB and DU, but also for the MvDP/Pidcock group to catch up after they were caught behind the crash and distanced. Just so that no one could claim afterwards that his win was due to their misfortune.
Well I watched a race who I already knew who was going to win. The best part of the race is when that group got caught behind the crash and fought all the way back and then seeing MVP got 3rd.
The lady's race was spectacular.
And on motorcycle gate the crashed going into the ditch not trying to jump out of it in my honest opinion. And it wasn't the greatest place to make your move also. When in doubt blame it on the motorcycle not the rider choosing to make his move in a bad spot.😂
And on the rider hitting that poll. They had flag guys on other obstacles like that but not on that one and I didn't see any rider point out the obstacle also.
Great job Chris thank you.
Chris, is "The Butterfly Effect" a reference to your Project Monarch/MK Ultra/Freemason connections?
It’s a secret society. So I cannot say either way. 😂😂😂🤪🦋👊
I agree with one feedback i dont understand why this channel doesnt have 1 million of followers
Great win for Pogi! But it is not an exciting race! It is a TT.
It would have been a better race with Evenepoel in the field to put pressure on Tadej. He was the missing elephant in the room.
One thing I noticed watching LBL is the guys who rode Waalse Pijl generellay looked like they hadn't quite recovered from that race.
Once you spend it , it’s spent ! A day of hills is harder to me than a mountain.
Excellent comment, even you don't like Slovenian guy..
I'm just as impressed by Romain Bardet's ride, as Pogacar's, if not moreso. Bardet just raced all week in the Tour of the Alps, including like 13,000 ft of climbing on Thursday, with one day off to get to the race. Pogacar just had a normal training week. And then I hear Vande Velde saying on NBC that Pogacar is maybe the single greatest racer of all time, good grief.
Thought carapaz was in Tokyo Olympic form for a second
Right. He almost made it to the top. It would have been so fun to see what Carapaz was going to do if he did. Oh well. 🥲🤪🦋😂
that wasn't Almeada on the front.. Novak I think.. Go Pogi
My bad. I put (well Garrett actual ;) the correction below the video above. Novak had a special day today to ride the front for that length of time. Damn impressive. Good eyes on the catch. 👀💪🔥🦋
Israel was the clear winner of the knucklehead award this time. After that massive work in the front, seeing williams dropping so soon was ironic.
Now I just come here to hear Chris talk about Bob and Christian, luv it. And I grin and say, c'mon, Chris, that Lotto-Destiny rider was totally at fault for bashing into the peloton lest he bash into a motorcycle clearly parked off the road. And I respect that you are a rider advocate and always side with the riders, no knock, seriously, but the day must come with riders are called out for their wrecking ways. And I dunno, maybe they think it is all a goof, just barge your way through and make the others deal with it, that's racing. But it isn't, actually, it is bad driving and it really doesn't make sense, especially when these crashes are taking down and out the top riders, not new recruits finding their way and plowing into road signs. And I'm not saying the guy should get in trouble, just that the sport should blow the whistle on rider errors which cause mass takedowns, if only as an appeal for riders to use those disc brakes and do something other than acting like cowboys on a cattle drive.
It’s the Wild West up there in Belgium. How it looks on tv does it no justice to how it really is in the peloton. 😱🦋👊
I loved it when Christian said Pog was the best ever, I remember not long ago he said he would take Jonas before Pog. My favorite was Christian saying Tom P had no choice and had to go across the gap. Ooops. I guess he forgot that Ineos still had riders in the front group along with Alpecin. 🤔🦋
you forgot to say mvdp group got drafted by a car wich pidcock group didnt wich is unfair
Pidcock was definitely in the front group. There were no cars in the gap back to MVP’s group so when he has a mechanical he went through both groups to get support from his team car, as all the team cars were behind the MVP group. I don’t know how no commentator saw that he was near the head of the race before the accident. MVP was lucky to get back in the race as he did very little and relied on other teams, and the cars, to get back in. Tactically astute, yes, but also very fortunate
What does it mean, “starts proper….”
What does Tadej have? He's a skinny bike rider like the rest but he just rides away. Does he have a third lung, extra muscle
fibers? No one else had a chance. Great ride by Bardet, wow!!!
No one indeed💪🦋👊
as soon as the big crash happened the writing was on the wall, Pog doesnt need any favours in the Ardennes, the crash just sealed everyones fate
I’m starting to think Pogi may try to win all 3 Tours in 1 season
Hes got a chance. This year atleast.
Me too 🤔🦋💪
If he wins the Giro and TdF, which he’s got a good chance of doing, then I agree he will go to the Vuelta.
Exciting, it was boring compared to the women's race. Make that the last 3, one day races in Belgium/Netherlands. Chris- you needed to give a shoutout to Vos, Kasia, and GB.
If only there was more time in the day. 🥲🦋👊
I thought it was a pretty boring race actually. I knew Pogacar would go on La Redoute and he did. I knew (like almost everyone else) that without any serious competition he would win and of course it happened. I am not interested in "exciting" fights for the second and third place. Same is true in Paris Roubaix, it was a bit more exciting in de Ronde van Vlaanderen. We have one guy, MvdP, who won virtually everything he logically could win and that is a great achievement but we sorely missed Wout van Aert and Remco Evenepoel.
MvdP said before the race he was okey, but not great. After the race he said he did not have the legs of Roubaix anymore and regardless he would never beat Tadej. Also he said that next season goals would be different and he clearly indicated that LBL was probably no longer on the list....That is a wise decision, it is next to impossible for him to win this one with Remco in there with Tadej....MvdP added that we will hear what his goals are for the second part of the season in this week.
You never mentioned Roglic. How do you forget Roglic already. 🤔🦋💪
If you found that boring, probably time to look for a new sport!
@@brentrasmussen2440 No. Compare these races to WC in 2023, Paris Roubiax of 2021,2022, 2023. Ronde van Vlaanderen the last couple of years, Milan San Remo in the last couple of years and so on and so on. There are plenty of races where it is very difficult to predict who would win even during the race because guys like MvdP, TadP, JulAla, R Evene, WvA, Pidc and PEdersen were in top shape and contended with eachother over almost the full coarse of the race. Sorry, that is exciting. We need WvA, Remco and Julian to get back in top shape as soon as possible.
@@ChrisHornerCycling He just won one monument and zero classics in his career. All classics and monuments combined he got the grand total of two podium places. You think he should be mentioned? I don't. He is not in the same category as Tadej., MvdP, WvA, Tom Pidcock even, Julian Alaphilippe or Remco Evenepoel.
Tom Pidcock 🤦♂️ what a shame he was burning matches for nothing against such a stacked field