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  1. Orton looked massive and the pop was huge for him. Overshadowed by Punk however, his return was heavily rumoured weeks ago but everyone had basically decided he wasnt showing up. They did a great job keeping it quiet beforehand. Will be interested to see how long he lasts before trouble appears this time.
  2. They have been using most of their wind tunnel time this season working on next year's car and haven't really updated the current car since mid season so I would guess the Bulls especially Max will have an increased advantage again at the start of next season, though not as big as the advantage this year.
  3. That was an unbelievable carry job while on one leg as well
  4. MVDP should have won, milan-sanremo, Roubaix and world champ in cylcocross and on the road
  5. I see rumours are flying that Jumbo and quickstep might be trying to merge. Might make it more likely for Remco to go to Ineos. Probably wouldn't be the best for the overall pro peloton to lose one big team and creating one even bigger more dominant team.
  6. Going to try and catch some of the last week of this vuelta, barely managed to watch any so far. From what I have seen Remco cracked and went way out of contention and is now stage hunting and Jumbo are dominating. Angliru is in a day or two so will definitely tune in for that.
  7. It's going to be very interesting to see what pogacar does next year because the whole schedule trying to win everything early and through classics season hasn't worked the last 2 years. Does he go to a schedule more 'traditional' for a tour contender or maybe go after the Giro? That TT was ridiculous from Vingegaard I mean he beat Van Aert by nearly 3 minutes!
  8. Shame that Hindley got caught up in the crash because I don't think he loses that sort of time without the crash, Rodriguez looks in the box seat for the final podium position now, I think he's a better TT than Hindley. Pogacar was killed for the bonus on top of the last mountain by the motorbikes I think he was looking for one of those big attacks to make a gap onto the false flat. This tour really looks like going down to the TT between the top 2, although there is still a lot of climbing to go it seems like they are at really similar levels to each other.
  9. Dammit Cav that's not the way this is supposed to end
  10. The way F1 has moved since about the 98 season makes it really hard to compare the generations much further back than that. So much more in the way of reliability issues for a start. Even a dominant car back then had the odd issue with reliability and a lot of years there were times that any one from a top half team could pop up with a win out of nowhere. Plus there are so many more races now. For a long time I remember 16 races being the number every year now the calendar for next year is I think 24?
  11. It would be a bit Hollywood to do it in Paris but as long as he gets it done somewhere I won't care. I just can't see him taking down philipsen with that alpecin lead out
  12. Yeah over the top of the tourmalet and Jonas and pog look like they are in a different race to the rest of the field pulled 2 minutes in no time. Will be interesting to see if they can come back at those 2 on the last climb but that's for later on because I need sleep
  13. Yeah looking forward to seeing how Hindley goes he's not really as punchy as the other guys I don't think but it's a good sign that he hasn't really lost time like O'Connor has. I really wonder about the sport science and training side of the French teams some times I mean look at what a beast Laporte is now that he is on one of the top teams in that regard. The french would love a GC winner but I think they will struggle until a really good young guy goes to a non french team at like 20-21 to push on to really crack it like Pinot and Bardet haven't, Gaudu would be interesting at say Ineos but I'm sure he will stay at FdJ and have a career like those 2. Not bad but never quite cracking that really elite level especially over 3 weeks
  14. The only solution to red bull dominance is for its competitors to build a better car, the end. That's how F1 has always worked and it's how it should remain. I'm not even really a red bull fan and I don't like Max. Build the best car within the regulations it's that simple currently it's the bulls for 8 years it was Merc.
  15. I think Ayuso is targetting the Vuelta this year but he is looking really good. The lack of TT KMs is something that the French have designed to try and help their riders in recent years. The likes of Bardet and now Gaudu are rubbish at TT and Pinot was only decent on a hilly one when he felt like it. After last year the French clearly thought Gaudu might be a shot at a better finish this year with as few TT KMs as possible. Hopefully there is a big battle for yellow between the two favourites and someone else lifts up to their level. Mainly though I'm hoping Cav gets his stage win as early as possible.
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