chesterbells
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Good to get into this yesterday. Roglic looks unbeatable, not just on the fact he won the first stage prologue yesterday, but because of his exemplary form since the start of the year. Tom Dumoulin had been playing down his form but still had a decent finish.
It was good to see a short time trial stage with a steep finish like that; I think the next one in San Marino, and the last one, have similar profiles.
Simon Yates was brilliant to grab second place yesterday, having waiting 2 hours after all the favourites had gone off. Yates also made waves with his pre-race comments, saying the other riders should be “shitting themselves” at the prospect of having to race against him! Tbf, he did win the last grand tour of 2018 in Spain, but it’s quite amusing to see him being so provocative ahead of a 3 week tour.
Another aspect is that this is the first grand tour for a while without Sky/Ineos having a genuine contender, so will be interesting to see who emerges from there team.
Having said all of the above, I think today’s stage is one that I won’t be watching live ;-)
It was good to see a short time trial stage with a steep finish like that; I think the next one in San Marino, and the last one, have similar profiles.
Simon Yates was brilliant to grab second place yesterday, having waiting 2 hours after all the favourites had gone off. Yates also made waves with his pre-race comments, saying the other riders should be “shitting themselves” at the prospect of having to race against him! Tbf, he did win the last grand tour of 2018 in Spain, but it’s quite amusing to see him being so provocative ahead of a 3 week tour.
Another aspect is that this is the first grand tour for a while without Sky/Ineos having a genuine contender, so will be interesting to see who emerges from there team.
Having said all of the above, I think today’s stage is one that I won’t be watching live ;-)