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Pogi is untouchable right now. Amazing. Hope he can carry this into Le Tour.
When all is said and done he will be up with Eddy Merckx.
couldn't catch the race live but your fast paced and good basic illustrations made it a fun recap, thank you chris
You got it Tom. You need at a least 90-8k to go worth of time to watch todays action. It was chaos out there. 👊🦋
Ben Healy was superb today....His future is bright and I hope EF can hang on to him, as I am an EF fan
He cannot beat wva or mvp for 4 years. Nor pogacar for 7
I thought he was gonna catch him with last loop to go and 22 seconds but then again i wanted to see more unpredicted result.
Same here I hope they can. Ben has an amazing future
The kid has been having a very good season. 🔥💥🦋
@@paulsolon6229 comments like yours show a real lack of understanding of pro cycling. Ben Healy is still only 22 years old and a rider of incredible talent. He just finished second in a major classic. That puts him in the top 5% of all pro cyclists in the peloton. WVA and MVP are both 28 and physically more developed and more experienced, so comparing them and saying BH is no good is just silly. BH will win plenty as he matures and gets stronger and has a very bright future ahead of him.
Post race interview, Pog said MvdP texted him with advice on where to attack... plus rumors of MvdP going over to UAE. That would be one crazy team!
I honestly think it happens...since flanders last year and tadej gushing over racing with VDP plus pog won't always race tour vdp would love green jersey and UAE has climbers to deliver it. Then most fascinating idea each help each other with monument sweep as tadej working for vdp to get a liege and lombardia and vdp for tadej at msr and roubaix rest would just be best man wins two phenoms enjoying cycliing together and being compensated handsomely id imagine like liv gold or al nasser in futbol. It makes sense ,if UAE had a second GC prospect i don't think they would be as keen, but without one now they would have a lot of attention in GT race or Tirreno or PN without tadej for team. A team with deep pockets too. Issue us VDP is treasure od dutch cycling but he ws born in belgium and famous grandfather was french so ight not be as sentimental decision as others think
Thanks Chris & Garrett! I have followed you since back in a younger day when you raced The Peter Sellars Stage Race in Clearwater/St. Petersburg, Florida. You might have been with Saturn back then. Watching you in the pro 1,2 crit was amazing. Your insight as a accomplished racer makes it so much easier to understand what is going on inside the peloton.
Happy you are enjoying the channel Michael. 👊🦋
Thanks Chris for giving the Amstel Gold the credit it deserves. Great Race and should be one of the monuments.
Chris, i dare you to do a video with your hands behind your back. loving the insights.
Great show Chris, I really enjoyed it man!!!!! Be sure to kiss your kind wife for letting you do these shows that us old boys appreciate. I have been riding bikes since I was 10 years old and am still riding and enjoying these races!! Bravo Chris, your show is the absolute best!!!
Thanks Rudy I will tell her as she’s next to me at this moment. 👊🦋😜
As an inhabitant of the region i thank you Chris Horner for saying we should be the sixt monument. My friends and i ride these hills on a weekly basis and still love it.
Pogacar is like a Pro racing with Juniors. Pidcock for all the work he did had a well deserved podium.
It´s more the other way around. Pog racing like a junior with the Pro´s
Or a Top junior international riding in a 3rd a4th cat race !
Another great video Chris, Pog is such a baller he chugged his pint of Amstel from the top of the podium! 🤣
Suspect that ego sometimes trumps tactics, especially for a young rider. Tactics says you shouldn't trade pulls. Ego says I am as strong as you and will show you.
And hence they get the knucklehead award. 😂👊🦋
Beer. The podium beer revealed the best man.
That shot at the end is great. I was there, at Cascade when you gave that kid with the broken bike a ride to the finish.
Sunset road race day in Redlands! Love the jerseys, Chris.
Yes it is. Sunset is always a good stage 👍👊🦋🌅
Thank you Chris,as always excellent commentary ❤
Very exciting. Thanks!
Another classic analysis. Thanks Chris
T.P. (not Tom Pidcock) is fantastic. Seems to me that only a whole team (Jumbo) could beat this guy, which they did last year, I have a feeling it won't happen this year.
Many thanks Chris. Your Videos are great fun to listen to.
When TDP got into the breakaway I was thinking the race was over!!
They should have never let that breakaway with TDP in it get 30 sec on them!! Jumbo should have sent a rider or 2 with TDP..But they really did not have the riders to do it!! Great job Chris 👏👍
What a crazy race. I never thought it would play out the way it did but it was enjoyable and memorable 👊🦋😮🔥💥
@@ChrisHornerCycling it sure was!!
The kid is amazing. He has a little luck on his side but, no taking away from his effort. He truly has a little extra, over everyone else.
Right. Wow 🔥💥👊🦋
Its more than a little extra, and he didnt even need to be smart just use his legs, and others riders even help him. The guys is really gifted, imagine if sagan had that kind of help his palmares would be insane
Thanks Chris for your sharp analysis. Especially as you are not afraid of give a different angle of things. I look forward to your posts almost as much as the races themselves!
Thanks Ulf 👊🦋
Thanks, Chris
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What Pogacar did today just underscored how big a differential there is between him and the rest. It's feasible that he will win everything in cycling at least twice before his career is out.
it indeed looks like he has a list and is busy crossing off races - making lots of progress
Amstel Gold Motor-Paced Edition
What was that car thinking. The driver must not have ever been to a bike race or ridden a bike. 😬😮🦋
@@ChrisHornerCycling hahaaaa
As soon as Pidcock went to the front I could hear you calling him a knucklehead in my head!
Instantly. 😂👊🦋
Its insane this riders for sure dont analyse races, how many times wee see that, how much they need to learn ??
When the camera's came on you just missed how TP set fire to the race by opening the throttle and create that front group all by himself. What a display of power all the way through to the finish.
Very interesting dynamic with the front group. I think the big peloton in the 20 sec range gave protection to both Pogi and the other 10. Pogi can't go solo againts a 50 man peloton for 50km to destroy the front group, but others need the group and work within to have any chance of win with rolling attacks later against Pogi. Once the crash eliminated the peloton threat, its a free for all for the top 11, and Pogi can safely go as soon as he likes.
Pogacar is in a different league. The guy loves racing. His tactics are spot on.
The arrow game is on point!
Awesome commentary Chris, thanks!
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Great recap. The Amstel car pulling Tadej at the end was ridiculous. There's no reason for it. He's going to win but it robbed Ben of a chance to make it interesting. Tom shouldn't have pulled so much. Almost lost the podium. He should at worst have come in with Ben's time
Was a bit suspicious
I really don't know what Pidcock was thinking, unless he felt amazing and then just cracked out of the blue. He seemed to have been pulling more than Pog. It really is too bad that we did not get to see how this crazy break came to be. Also the car.. when motorbike draft is not enough I guess, just criminal.
I did the RR stage as a Cat 3 ... in 85 .... then meeting friends at Sam's Family Hot Springs
tadej is at level right now reminds me of prime fabian but with even more diverse skillset, there have been so few times the strength disparity of one rider where he is just unstoppable like fabian in 2011 E3 had 3 flats in final 40 k won by a minute. Fabian 2010-2013 where hed win E3, flanders, roubaix had that turn of pace and hed let race go up the road and then leapfrog group to group essentially using other teams agressiveness as teammates and tadej is doing similar type moves its really special to watch. Sagan never was able to put pieces together except worlds especially bergen was one of most impressive tactical perforances think he pulled back 4-5 flyers himself in finale.
VDP is similar is aggressiveness and style but he usually tries with brute force and not the finesse of tadej. Two most exciting riders at moment by far if tadej does ardennes sweep we have to talk in historic perspective of most dominant starts to any season all before grand tours start which are his strength si much fun to watch he smashed that amstel on podium worse than he beat the field!
Why when you mention the best riders in the world you always forget to mention THE BEST and the most spectacular? MVDP
Chris - Monuments are races >100yrs old. Amstel first ran in 1966 so its got a ways to go. Stade Bianchi only started 2007 and with its current parcour 2012. I'm for sticking with keeping the monuments to a very select group of races that have 100 yrs of running.
I agree with you. Also Strade Bianchi is a shorter race.
The best parts of pogacar in these classics are his two weaknesses. The first one is his sprint compared to bigger guys. The second one is that he is Not so dominant in easy races like flech wallone. Because of that he has to make the races Hard and attack really early. Maybe he Even tries to attack in flech and doesn‘t wait for the Last mur the huy like anybody else.
Wow!
BG 1st today 🏆👊🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋👊👊
@@ChrisHornerCycling Thank you, and I am glad to be first at something.
Pogs win was dope!(d)
It was a bit weird with Pidcock working with Pog as Pog does get annoyed if you don't work and he just blows you away. If you work then there might be a chance of getting further up the road with Pog's help. Pidcock went a way too deep though. He has had some issues with his stomach and taking the amount of carbs riders consume now. He's also coming back too from crashes?? Think Pog doesn't care about tactics too much, you can do anything with legs like that Can you explain about Tyre Liners? Are they so you can keep riding with a flat?
This will be the greatest single season ever even if he doesnt win the tdf
If you achiev what he has this year you are one of the better cyclist of all time and he does it in a year
Yep. 👊🦋
Pogo looking really good , and he makes his own luck too
My favorite was when the riders went over the Cow Turd (the last one).
😬🦋😂👍
Wow wow :o
Exactly. Wow. Pog killed everyone one at a time. 😳🦋🔥💥
Cool to see Redlands Classic jersey .....
It was the sunset loop stage today at Redlands. . 👊🦋🌅
i cannot imagine taking a leak while riding!! omg must need a long dragon
Probably helps. 😂👊🦋
I think you stop pulling with him with 34 km to go, he takes a breather, then takes off. As you said, there are so many little climbs and on any one of them he could turn it up.
Id rather take the chance and go with him and he could puncture at the wrong time.
Waiting for the whole group to catch up you have to realistically think, it's gonna be much tougher to even get a podium.
I think it was good tactics personally, especially if, like Tom, you already have good form and belief.
Id definitely question Piddcock taking long equal pulls when it was just the three. I think then he should, as was mentioned cut it down a bit but at that point I think he thought maybe, just maybe.
Then his wife woke him from his wonderful dream😂
Chris, how the UAE car was there for the bike switch if peloton was 25sec behind? Is that legal?
That car in front of Tadej was not a game changer but not a good look. It's a bike race, not a car chase. And kudos to the two riders teaming up to chase Tadej. Perhaps that's a key? Sit on with Tadej in a break, no pulls, then team up to chase when he drops the hammer? And thanks, Chris, for your coverage of another big Euro show, incredible that our favorite sport is such a big deal over there, beautiful.
That car was just insurance paid for by Arab oil money.
Many riders w o gloves. I don’t understand that. You can really tear up hands in a crash
I preferred no gloves unless it’s cold or crazy humid. I can feel the bars better and I seem to stay cooler. 🤔🦋👍
On that big group crash , I thought I saw one of the riders with a really bad knee socket or skin injury .
Would be tempted to wear knee protection as well even just to protect the skin
EVERY TIME again you managed to suprize me with youre bike racing knowledge ! i think we all knew before the race started who would goung to win this race, it was no supprise for me ...
I thought pidcock was stronger untill Ben rode away from him 😅great ride by Ben Healey
Awesome job!!
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Pogacar is simply on another level. The only one even close to him is MVP, but he could never win a grand tour.
Sounds chaotic 😂my favorite 😈
Chaos 💥🔥🦋👊👊👊👊
Not closing that group down entirely, and the likes of Pidcock working. For TP's rivals, you got to at least give yourselves a chance!
You should have commented on Pog chugging the whole beer on the podium. The man is a champion in more ways than one.
Mate, it's 0.0% nowadays, doesn't count! 😉
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Chris
How can a team car get in a 22-24 second gap? waht happened to 30 seconds plus rule? Do we need to worry about the race sponsers all wanting TP on the top step photo op ( slaming a Amstel Gold )? Always like your views.
That was an official’s car. By the comments below an important official. They go where they want wether they are knuckleheads or not. He was clearly a knucklehead. 😬😮🦋
I think moorms is aiming at Pogacars bike change. The gap there was still way less than a minute, maybe even less than 30 seconds. So a jury allowed specifically the UAE car for the change.
But what de official car (race director) was doing is beyond anyones understanding. Reading on Dutch forums (e.g. Wielerflits) they say this (dumb director moves) is what holds AGR down as a monument and makes it look like a amateur race.
@@ChrisHornerCycling Maybe they had Amstel VIPs on board who wanted a great view of Pogacar.?
@@ChrisHornerCycling Your "at least 1.5 km" statement is very much underestimating what went on. The car was causing draft for Pogacar from km 10 to km 8 to the finish and possibly longer. From km 9-8 the draft caused the gap to Healy to increase again. The worst part that knuckledhead van der Vliet didn't even see anything wrong with what he did.
@@ChrisHornerCycling Clearly, but the VIP / race sponsor wanted a better view
Pogacar said they want to set up Matteo but he showed a sign of suffering then he decided to take it on
Really. I will have to look for that. Next time post up a link. Thanks 🤔🦋👍
SeattleMarko - Chris, with Tadej in the break and pulling through like he did… do you think members of the break felt like, “Let’s drop the hammer with him because it’s a better chance at the podium working with him versus getting sucked up by the peloton?”
If you plan for 2nd or 3rd, then why not?
What’s your take on Tadej’s beer chugging competition win at the podium? 😅
On Belgian tv they thought Tom Pidcock had a Hongerklop, Fringal or hypo
Easy to do on race like today. 🍔🥤🍟😮🦋
The entire peleton are knuckleheads for not shutting down the group Pog got in with 90km to go
I don't see why Pog going in the break was bad... 15 guys, so you're getting good draft... you wont have to make up a 20 - 40 second deficit later on if your back in the Peloton,.. more space, less crashes better maneuverability, better visibility and its proven again and again in each race.. there's always a knucklehead team that will pull the favorite
Agree especially when for some reason the breakaway works for pog
I really dont get it why they drive for the best driver in the world
Well. Hard to argue with you Tim when riders keep pulling him around like they did today. What a bunch of knuckleheads out there. 😬🦋
@@ChrisHornerCycling Why race for the win when you could get the Knucklehead Award on the Butterfly Effect?
Did anyone mention how controversial again this race was by having a teamcar pass inbetween a 20 second gap just so superstardom can switch a bike? is this how we do sports now? yes
this race is very stressful, corners, parked cars and road furniture - and quite dangerous in a larger group - Pogi made sure he wasn't in a large group - I think that this played a role too.
Whats the photo of at the end? Dont think its you?
Maybe I'm wrong here, but the moment I saw that Tadej Pogačar was in the back with was it 15 other riders I had two thoughts. Firstly how the hell did the other big teams like Jumbo-Visma and Bahrain Victorious allow this to happen and secondly why the hell are all the other riders in this break taking turns? As I said maybe I'm wrong but I've seen not too long ago people be in breaks with the likes of Sagan and just refuse to work with him, surely the same is true with Pog?
Surely the move for all riders in the back was to make Pog do most of the work and if he refused bring it all back together. I just don't see anyone other than Van Aert or Van de Poel going toe to toe with Pogačar and coming off on top, not in a race like this at least. I just didn't understand it. After that though I don't understand Pidcock at all, except that maybe the win at Strade Bianchi has gone to his head, but that has large sections on gravel which have him an advantage, this race doesn't. And surely he knew going into the race his good he was feeling, maybe he felt good and he wasn't as good as he thought. Pog though is a machine.
Oh, and we're Lotto Soudal in this race? I didn't realise they even existed anymore!!! 😉
Historically this would have been the best tactic. These days Pog, MvdP and WVA don't care, they just ride off into the sunset... never to be seen by the peloton again. 🙄
@@Deathbybono73 Whilst you are right I have my reservations about whether even Pogačar would have been able to go solo from 90km out against what would have been a less disrupted, because there would only have been UAE and to do this, coordinated chase, say 5 or 6 top riders, maybe more, and win. It was evident once he was in that breakaway that even if it had stayed as a smaller more select group that there would be only one winner. I think with any of the riders mentioned you just can't ride with them. After Sagan was seen in this light no one would ride with him (and he still won stages and races) so why are the latest superstars given this chance?
I can only put it down to certain teams thinking a podium position, even a top 10, is a win, especially with relegation in play, and that they think 2-9 places out of 10-15 riders is better than chancing it against the whole peleton, which wasn't that big by the end, so although this is hindsight it wouldn't have been much more. You can't do this when all 3 of the superstars, WVA, MVDP, and Pog (maybe Evanapoel as well), maybe a few more top riders as well, are in the race, as they can get away and work together, but that wasn't the case yesterday.
Can you please add some more details to how is it possible a single rider stay away from 9 riders if he is so strong?
Tomorrow I will try to fit that into the video. 👊🦋
I'm giving Ineos a lot of credit for being up front and disrupting that chase. Good tactic and well executed. Way to race for 3rd place boys!
Exactly. Perfect for a podium. 😂🦋👊
Best teammate of Pogacar was the car of organization. Him riders teammates all bad 😢😢
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As far as the flap of 🦋 Butterfly wings and the effect that can cause a hurricane 🌀…
Tadej is the wind that is becoming the hurricane in the 2023 European Peleton!!
Thanks Chris for your expert insight and keep em coming!!👍
Hurricane. I like that. 👍🌀🦋
I wonder how things would have ended if mr. van Vliet hadn't decided to give Tadej a little bit of help for all the world to see.....
I couldn’t believe that was happening 😮
Crazy and absolutely out of order IMHO, but I don't think it would have made any difference to the result. The egotistical prat probably just wanted to get some great photos from the car!
Would make no difference, but stupid
That was ridiculous to watch. 😳🦋😮😬
Chris, since the time of Eddie Merckx Tactics mattered. But with T.P. as with Eddie, things like that don't matter. He races for the fun of it all. If something happens, well, that's life, we'll try again sometime. For the rest of the peloton except for Jumbo, it matters. They're racing for survival or what ever. For T.P. none of that s+++ matters.
He races like Indurain and Hainault and Greg Lemond in the last few years of their careers (Indurain for the power)
Mercy didn't race for fun..he needed to win to get paid..in his autobio
@@CxCPromech Cut throat companies but still, Merkx had the power and class
Many riders have pulled for pogacar in many races. Including bewildering help by pidcock here.
Never pull for pogacar! And certainly never do equal pulls. If you are in a two man break w him, pull only 20-30% max. If pogacar won’t do 80% of the work, then get caught.
People wouldn’t pull yrs ago for Sagan nor Cancellara b f that nor Gilbert when he was great. But they do for pogacar, hard to understand
Agreed. Knuckleheads everywhere 😬🦋😳😮
Possible team has unlimited funding...sagans teams were always full with his entourage
@@CxCPromech you think uae pays riders on other teams to aid pogacar?
How about a knuclehead shout out for the driver of the car that was in front of Tadej. What was that all about?
A super big knucklehead indeed 😬😳😮🦋
Good stuff. As I was watching I was thinking "Ben Healy? WTF is that?" Then after the race I watched the extended highlights of Brabantse Pijls and who is animating that race but one Ben Healy. Good for him. Another strong young rider with a lot of promise.
He was never going to catch TP, but still the race director is a moron for defending his car giving TP a nice draft for 2k. Admit you F'd up, and leave it at that. JV is right to complain, but even he knew it didn't really matter.
Hard to believe TJ is not using enhancements - guess history will say
Agreed
His team managers, two of them, were dopers as cyclists and helped dope pantani and others.
In 10 yrs we will know
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Yes I’m sure that’s on a few minds. We can only hope there’s nothing illegal happening.
Listen man, they are all on the dope. But much less that 15 years ago. Don't worry about it, the playing field is more level than ever. Also, somehow in cylcing we are always worried about PED's, while in baseball, wresteling, soccer etc nobody gives a hoots ass.
We should just enjoy the racing and be happy that things have improved.
Chris, isn’t these tactics the same way he lost last year’s tour of France? Just this time he wasn’t fighting with 3or4 Jumbo riders?
In some way yes. But not exactly. I will chat on this tomorrow. 🤔👍🦋
i am with GCN, everyone else on this break was riding for second place and they knew. it seems like all other teams had no plan to win, they only had a plan to do well. Pogacar is just way better than the rest.
Don’t know why Ben and Tom worked with Pogi.
Agreed. Ben at least finally sat on when they were 3. But wow, who pulls with Pog. 😬🦋
It was shaping up to get interesting with Powless in the group and Healy up front.. but then they all crashed.... Pidcock was shattered. Awesome race.
Pidcock was on his last legs. He was lucky that at 200 m to go for a few seconds the other two started slowing playing cat and mouse with each for a few seconds, otherwise he would have been over taken by them.
@@Flakey101 No doubt. He even said so in the post race interview. You could see it. Shattered.
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If Pogacar is competing on 250k hilly course and neither Vintegard nor Roglic, Evenepoel, MvdP, van Aart or Alaphilippe are participating, there will be no one who can really challange him. Finding a race scenario not including Pogacar as the winner is not impossible, but very unlikely and depending on a lot of circumstances. The other teams just did not have a rider having what it takes to beat him. That's why they were racing for the two remaining podium places.
Isn’t it Lotto Destiny now?
Nothing to say, Pogacar was the strongest and deserves his victory.
But I have two questions about race direction/race commissioners.
1) Who was in the race car that stayed way too long and way too close in front of Pogacar in the last 10 km (it was outrageous and Pogi didn’t need that)?
2) When Pogacar changed his bike when they were still more than 10 ahead with less than a minute advantage on the peloton in pursuit (38 sec), how is that possible and who allowed the UAE car to come and help Pogi?
Both excellent questions. Re: Q1, I don't know who was in it but the rumour I read (yeah, just a rumour - sorry!) was that the Race Director wanted TP on top of the podium as best PR for 'his' race. Personally, I think he damaged the race's image fir no reason - there was no real advantage to TP in the end.
MVDP didn't make CH's top5.....sets a high bar as 1st MSR, 2nd RVV, 1st PR is ballistic.
I think for top 3 or 4 you need to be Grand tour winner 😅
MVDP is n°2, find another one who is able to be cyclocross world champion (5 times), win MTB world cup races, 4 Monuments winner, most spectacular wins, and beat WVA every time! Who cares if he doesn't win Grand Tours? He does what he wants and he doesn't want to win GTs...so far...
But according to Chris, he has got to be a gc man 😅 i also agree he is a top dog on versatility 😉
Chris; perhaps you recall the great Dutch Champion Jan Raas. He won the Amstel Gold Race 5 times in his career. The course suited him so well some started calling it: Amstel Gold Raas. Smartest man ever on a bike!
Just a bit before my time. 👍🦋
@@ChrisHornerCycling It IS the 6th Monument and from 1977 till 1982, Jan Raas won it 5 times in 6 yrs (he came in 2nd the other year). As they say: "Horses for courses'.
Maybe I am a hater and love the underdog story too much, though I am starting to like what Tadej is doing, but it still does not enter my head how can same dude beat 170 pro riders in every single race bar field sprint or MvdP and WvA participating? When it is stage race I would understand but now it is every one day race. And I have seen the moment it happened on that uphill when he dropped Healy and Pidcock or as soon as he changed the bike I knew something is up. Good luck to anyone (Vingegaard) who think they can beat him in TdF and Roglič not participating. Lets see what he does next week at La flesche and LBL. Hard to pick against him at LBL.
Well like Chris said you cannot go pull for pull with Tadej. Why isn't there more anti-Tadej racing in peloton like it was with Sagan few years back where peloton was okay with anyone winning other than Peter and they raced it that way.
I wouldn’t pick against him but hopefully Remco is ready to go. 🤞🦋👊
@recrevs You must be new to pro-cycling. When someone like Pogacar comes along and it's too good to be true... well, then it usually is! Your comment also underlines the absurdity of it all - dude beats 170 other riders up day in, day out - not a flaw to be seen. Rolls over the line with a smile like a Cheshire Cat and looking like he's been on a recovery ride. 🙄
@@Deathbybono73 no not very new. been following cycling in detail for about 10 yrs and prior to that occasionally . don't understand your comment fully. are you hinting at some foul action. reason i made comment is that out of so many pro riders there used to be so much unpredictability but did not want to make any accusations since dude appears to be unique talent
@@recrevs963 I've been following since mid-80's... seen and heard many "unique talents" in that time - nearly all of them have turned out to be frauds (or through power of association - it's dirty industry at the pro-level). So I guess that you could call it a hint of suspicion of foul play - I will be saving my superlatives for Pog. ;-)
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Because of the agressiv disc brakes they all fell to the ground. Alas that's how it goes
They crashed like that in my day all the time. 💥😬🦋
@@ChrisHornerCycling ah, ok.. than it’s not because of the brakes…
Heard that last Wednesday winner ended up in the barbed wire there😮
How this race isnt a monument i dnt know and Fleche for that matter aswell, both are better races than Lombardia in my opinion
Flèche isn't a monument. You mean LBL?
@@hansthijs fleche should be a monument as should Amstel
it's not a monument because it not as old as the true monuments.......
@@pauljansen1137 think you missing my point
A car driving backwards on the race parcours and crashing one of the riders, a finish photo drama for two years in a row, and a horrible time display this year. Did not even mention the race director Leo van Vliet helping Pogacar today by driving his car just a few meters in front of Pogacar and creating a slipstream, and this on the moment that Healy was closing the gap towards Pogacar. (And all of this just in the last four years !!)
They should in fact relegate this race back to 1.1 level and kick out the race director Leo van Vliet.
Tadej PogaCar-Paced
No deny that. But it wasn’t his fault. 😬🦋
@@ChrisHornerCycling Yes, but he enjoyed the FAULT🤣
Team Meeting: How do we get rid of Pog boys? ... We don't, we just hope to hell he falls off his bike lol. Cant think of anything anyone could have possible done to beat Pog this day!
You forgot VdP as one of the best riders!
I only list the top five. I didn’t forget him. 😜🦋👍
MVDP is definitely n°2 after Tadej...in my book. Who cares if he is not competitive in Gran Tours, find another one who is WC in Cyclocross, wins World Cup MTB races and he's so spectacular!!
@@Ricky690412 can't take CX and MTB wins seriously. Poor level of competition. But yeah, he's top 5 IMO.
@@qwerty-rh6ht what do you mean “poor level of competition”? WVA and N1NO are for you weak riders??
I'd say he is definitely in the top 5 and I'd take JV out of there list. He is not as versatile as the others in the list.
It does seem that when it comes to the classification of Monuments, someone is being stingy. Up the total to ten for a good round number. And make it a series, the ten Monument champion, all racing and showbiz and fun, why not.
Exactly 👊🦋
With 10 monuments, you have effectively remained the world cup again
@@CxCPromech So I am a fan of it all and I dig that five one-day races are called Monuments. But what does that make the others, Rinky Dinks? Flanders, Monument. Amstel Gold, Rinky Dink. It just seems to me that all of these rock-hard Spring races should be bundled together as a Spring campaign, with the Tuscany dirt-track race, too. And give some prizes and prestige to the Monuments Men and Women of Spring. Maybe something like that. O and the ad slogan could be, Ain't nothin' rinky dink happenin' here. 😀
MVDP not 1 of the top 5 best riders in the world? I'd say he's up there with the ones you mentioned, just depends on the type of race.
MVDP I don’t have as a top five. Who would change him for ? 🤔🦋
Wout v Aert. Time after time MvdP proves he’s smarter, faster and stronger when it matters.
TP, MvdP, WvA, JV, PR, RE
@@ChrisHornerCycling I think you just have to make it a top 6 instead.
Though if you insist on a top 5 then I think Remco has yet to prove he's as good as JV, Roglic, and Pogacar at the biggest stage races, and as good as WVA, MVDP, and Pogacar at the biggest 1 day races.
He's obviously young but I'm not sure that he's shown he can consistently beat the others from the list.
1) Tadej; 2) MVDP; 3) WVA; 4) Primos; 5) Remco. JV doesn't deserve to stay with these super champions, he just focuses on TdF as Froome did...
What about if you have to go #2? Like if you don't, you will become one of HItler's infamous "brown shorts"? What do you do then? You're never getting back on. You're screwed through no fault of your own!
It’s not pretty. I have seen it a few times. Don’t think about it. 😬😳😮🦋
Pog is just getting ridiculous! it's almost like he just had a sunday morning ride out today with Wout and MVdP taking the day off! I'm surprised he didn't take a break at a cafe for a croissant, or have his misses along with him to keep him company. Riding like he has been, can anybody beat him this year? What tactics? I'm a knucklehead, so just curious. Brilliant ride from Healy today, that was great. Lutsenko bitching at Kron for 35 klicks was absolute classic hilarity too. And, Pidcock won in 2021!
I loved watching Lutsenko complain. What was even funnier though, if you go watch the post interview with Kron the interviewer asked Kron about he felt that Lutsenko won’t help pull at the finish. I almost feel off the couch laughing at the interviewer. Then Kron said, it would have been nice to get a podium. I thought sure would have been when everyone pulled you to the finish as you missed turns often. 😂🦋👊🔥
Chris, you mention that GCN+ is providing a lot of races. Not to the US. I canceled my subscription because they don't offer any of the major Spring Classics, no Giro or Tour de France and I don't think the Vuelta this year. What are you watching? They've pretty much flipped the bird to the US. Watched your analysis on the big screen. Awesome !!!
There is are handy services, called vpn providers.
If a USA tv network has paid for the rights, GCN can’t provide it.
@@Flakey101 Agreed. Tried Express VPN last year. Didn't work.
@@bens.6458 Couldn't find one. Maybe I am missing them. Do you know who has been broadcasting them live?
GCN does have the Giro in the US. They have the best CX coverage in the US. It’s split mainly between GCN, Flo, and NBC
Thomas pitcock save this candles for the end of the race and that team car took him away I was cheating because it would have been a lot closer a lot closer if you want up to 34 seconds after the car was gone pitcock was moving that was nasty