Its really incredible how strong he has been especially this year. jumbo are lucky to have him

haha .. yea sure seems like it so far :)

If he was not with jumbo and had a more competetive and less team-oriented attitude, he would be one of the best GC-riders in the world. I am convinced of it. But as a dane, I am BEYOND happy to have him on Vingegaard's team! He is absolutely incredible! It is really amazing what Jumbo has done in that sense. Take super versatile star riders like Wout van Art and Sepp Kuss, who could easily compete for more titles and stages with lesser teams (probably with less results though) and turn them into INCREDIBLE domestiques for the best team in world cycling right now. So cool to watch!

What nonsense

@@oscarskjoldanlook at his TT palmares and say that again with a straight face 🙃 Love the guy but he wouldn’t cut it. Maybe 1 week long mountainous races but no way a GT

Team Sky wasn't that long ago.

@@JG-pm9ty Sky was never on this level and way less fun to watch imho

You don’t have to look that far, sky & ineos we’re op as well, and it was soooo much more boring

@@waitbalthy6342 Sky got 1st and 2nd in the Tour.

Gawd, go check Molteni under the Greatest!

No one want the red jersey now. There is much mountain yet. Because this, riders like Landa, soler, muss are at front of the favorites.. I think that Marc Soler will be the next red Jersey after the time trial

He wont

The ITT will kill those ambitions

@@mearekevin true, but Remco probably wont take more than 3-4 minutes back, so Kuss will still be close to him after the TT. Jumbo can use this in following mountain stages

@@joriszsz95 that is indeed possible, time will tell ;)

jumbo just had a neopro test positive for a peeepee pill ... he came up thru their dev team...

don't be so naive

@@fanda6122 damn...

The whole peleton is doped. Doesn’t mean they’re not incredible athletes though.

perhaps Horner

Feel bad for the guy, I wonder what's going on with him. It certainly would make a more exciting race if he was higher in GC

yeah same here. but he said in his podcast he's trying to lose time so he can go for stages the next weeks, so I don't think he's feeling as bad as the time gaps suggest

Roglic is a cowardof a rider , can only follow and for the rest not much.. Remco is at the age of 23 already a bigger champion dan Roglic

@@susjkaxxx9465 go on kiss your papa remco

Probably not the best of his life. I think that was probably in the 2021 tour but we didnt get to see it cause of the crash. His Collada Llomena and Covadonga performance is still better than what he's been able to show since then (possibly because he's had so many injuries all the time.

@@susjkaxxx9465 Remco has the tactical intelligence of a mule

​@@ShadowboostHe did everything right today. If he doesnt pace there Jumbo attack him one by one and drive Remco empty like they did with Pogi in 2022

Nice huh!

Seems like a big part of his joy is for Kuss - primoz is pumped for him to go into the red jersey.

Yeah, the most unsympathetic guy in the peleton

I love his Kimi Raikkonen "Bwoah"

He always was, its just his temperament to be happy, just not always on the images.

probably even worse, Pogacar had a injured Roglic and Jonas(with UAE being arguably the better domestique team). Remco has to contend with peak Roglic, Jonas and GC Kuss at the same time, while im hoping for a good battle i am pretty afraid of this blowing up

@@shattiieepeak? Are u mad man? Kuss has done 2 big Tour races, Jonas has done 1 big tour, and more he cant do cuz he sucks ass and plans his whole training on only those 3 weeks, he’s nothing big. And sadly Roglic is out of form for 2 years already. The main thing is, Enric fucking Mas can keep up with em and compete, that man already was written down after last year. Not to mention, its only the first week, big things will happen at 3rd week, and thats the way Jumbo makes their plan.

It will be difficult for Remco, but on the other hand it must give him even more motivation, because if he wins, it will shut all his bashers.

@@shattiiee sure, in tdf 2023 Pogacar didn't have the best preparation going into the tour and was battling prime Jonas, with strong donestiques like wva, Kuss only with a little help from yates. But I agree, Remco seems to be in a worse condition now with TJV basically having 3 GC contenders atm

​@@erwinpluys1279You think so? They'll probably say "Pogačar wasn't there" 😊. They'll always find something to hate on the biggest talent since the cannibal

Exactly

yeah stage 13 will be interesting with the 19km 7.4% climb on the tourmalet at the end after already 2 really hard climbs. Think that will be deciding for the vuelta

@@Infiltator2 yes, stage 13. Cd be the key

I suppose the rest of the world could suddenly decide to give a **** about democracy, or at least "freedom" or something .. and anyway boycott their money. -- Course they'd probably want to think about some of the US support of quite a few of them. So then *that* money, too.

I’m in the Middle East and wonder why the west think the gulf nations need to “wash” their oil money, while the wests oil or whatever money is clean? Sincere question

​​@@huttonsdubai411You're confusing green washing and sports washing (both bad but slightly different). Many people do criticize teams like Ineos and Total Energies for being funded by fossil fuel companies. Just look at the criticism of the GB cycling team at the world champs a couple of weeks ago for being sponsored by Shell. The sports washing criticism is more aimed at the gulf states and Kazakhstan (Astana) because they're using sports sponsorship to launder their image on the world stage in the hopes that we will forget about the human rights violations, mistreatment of minorities, women and migrant workers. It's not just cycling that's being used. It's a farce watching sporting events put on at huge expense with no crowds in an environment that doesn't suit the sport just so the simple minded can look past the crimes these countries are perpetrating. It's a bummer

@@huttonsdubai411 Nobody said entities from the West are not involved in similar activities. Just like governments of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Israel, etc think they need to wash their regimes in the eyes of international audiences by using sports and sports teams for that purpose, you have examples of Western climate-wrecking megacorporations like Ineos doing greenwashing in the same way. But my comment was highlighting the Middle Eastern regimes because it was about Jumbo-Visma, who are believed to have signed a deal with a Saudi sportswashing project starting next year. I'm also not from the "West" and not taking some particular point of view based on that.

@@huttonsdubai411 off topic, but why the way I want to know why "the West" thinks the middle east is somehow not part of the West. :) Here in the West we teach ourselves "Western Civilization," and we might start with a week on the origin of western written language (Mesopotamia) or western government (Egypt), but then somehow it's quickly on to Greece and Rome. [ and then we teach ourselves that "Rome" doesn't include the last 700 years of the Roman empire, too :) shit, the Christian bible wasn't even codified in "the West," the way these people think ...... ]

Hyper domestiques

Deserved for sure but when he attacked Remco had him on a string

​@@HkFinn83if I've heard correctly all of Sepp's attacks originate as testing Remco/Soudal and if he has a chance or feels good he capitalizes on it. Today it didn't work out to win the stage but he's in the red jersey so I don't think he is too upset.

Do you not think Vingegaard is just waiting for his day just like he does in the TdF? There he also often was sticking to Pogacar or losing a few seconds, until that 1 or 2 stages where he absolutely destroyed him. I think Vingegaard will pick a day and go crazy.

Or he’s letting his teammates Sepp or Primoz try and go for the GC win.

i mean if you look at the tours both years, he never won them in week 1. This year it was only as of the TT starting week 3 that he destroyed Pogi. Think he still needs a few stages to really get him going. The TT will also be interesting as it is a strong point of Remco but Jonas did look great in the Tour even on the flat

He being there & saving legs is enough. Kuss is freed from staying close all the time because Roglic and Vingegaard can support each other, which allows a lot of room for Jumbo to strategize.

This is what I'd be scared of if I was all the other riders. Even Primoz and Kus I feel like, lol. For now he's mostly relatively saving his legs. If there's even the slightest chance that the vuelta win will be in jeopordy, then on some big mountain in week 3 the Jumbo director will say "fucking go" and Jonas will light the fucking afterburners and put minutes into everyone.

After giro he said he drank for two weeks Two days prior to vuelta start he says he’s waiting for end of vuelta so he can go out and have a few drinks

This comment should be pinned

@@germanlondono8700 ugh

Well if he hits his form, they will know it lol.

Oh never saw that, thanks

I have a bet on it!

you think that's exciting? really? imagine if there was real competion between teams... @@howardcobb4354

If he knew that he was sprinting for victory, Remco would have won. It is obvious when you watch the finale. Plus, it's kinda annoying to rub it in constantly. I get that Jumbo fans are happy that their armada is so strong but come on, a little bit of respect for Evenepoel would be nice. I'm pretty sure he deserves it

Lmao chill out dude it's just an innocent joke. Obviously massive respect for Remco but his fans can be a bit much sometimes

Yeah Remco to much complaining should concentrate on the race 😅

​@@aleksa234he is a bad looser

​@@didi_2201it's loser and not really

Lucky me. I began watching cycling when Pogi had to defend his first tdf gc win against Roglic with Jonas as super domestique. Then Primoz crashed out and Jonas had to step up. I guess I am rooting for them since that Ventoux Stage in 2021. Right now they still have my affection even though they are clearly past the point of beeing the „underdogs“. I really hope that wont change too fast because of some bullshit behavior of them on or off the bike. The way the management of FC Bayern Munich for example behaves sometimes kind of spoils my affection for their team. I guess often it is mostly a matter of timing that decides for which team we begin to root for. I hope you will get your delight with remco winning in the coming years but before that: Jumbo has to get the triple!

I have a similar feeling about their overpowering talent. I think cycling would benefit greatly from a team salary cap - to help spread out the racing talent over a greater number of teams.

I think they still have it open for all three possibilities. Kuss has a >2 minute lead. If Remco doesn't manage to make up more than a minute in the ITT, it is going to be hard for him to make up that time. Roglic and Vingegaard are

Well no shit he did just win the tour lol

i think the plan was to make Evenepoel do the hard work , and that worked. I notice Ayuso riding verey smart and I agree Vingegaard did not look at his best.

​@@henriksylvestolsen4885Working the entire day and Remco still taking more time on Jonas and Kuss than Roglic did on Remco looks like an win for Remco in my eyes.

Remco is doing an admirable job taking on the Jumbo team on his own. I know he's not in peak form but still has there been a less explosive TdF winner than Vingegaard? He can go hard for a long time but has no extra gear.

He is not as eksplosive as Pogacar and Remco, but probably more eksplosive than the rest of the peloton as we saw in the tour on Planche de belle Fille, Colombier and Puy de Dome - nobody was even close to follow when he went with Pogacar.

Yeah the wolf pack is not Quick Step anymore. It is Jumbo Visma, and Remco will stay alone with Roglic, Jonas and Kuss make him dance like a poggy on Granon. It's going to be fun in the Pyrenees. If Remco wants to win the Tour the France anytime, he needs to win in Tourmallet in Vuelta. But I'm afraid he will be loosing time even before Superbarèges ski station

Jumbo visma is a Dutch team in name only. Their best riders are other nationalities. Ironically, most of them being Belgian

Gee, what has happened to all the "Who's #1?" talk? 😁😁😁 I want to believe they can keep working together as much as possible.

​@@bv2623their vuelta team has 3 dutch riders

​@@MaussiegamerAnd none of their GC riders is Dutch. Cowards.

He knew. Just an excuse.

his tactics were wrong. he should have forced them to attack but he thought he could outpace them to the line and then sprint... maybe too confident @@markxkovacic

Yea he could also have won the Tour de France, but decided not to lol

​@@markxkovacic😂😂😂😂😂😂😂sure dude

​@@animetributes6996he wants to make history with story' s more then with wins 😂😂

Les praeres stage 9 Vuelta last year

he knew.... of cause he did. excuses all time :P

Focus! Give the guy a break, he was most worried about the 3 Jumbos! I suspect he thought the break was a larger, cohesive group, and didn't think the individuals they passed WERE the break. It's also possible his Directeur said so.

200 bpm + full focus on jumbo

there were 30 in the break? if he didn't hear his DS/team saying there is nobody in front anymore, i think it is very hard to know if you are not counting.

Or have your team tell you over the radio.

Objectively they have a better powerhouse than Jumbo. Vingegaard was isolated in TDF where UAE came 2 and 3, Ayuso might just win TDF next year, Roglic will probably never hit this peak again.

You guys should learn Dutch. His sprint would have been completely different, knowing there was a victory and bonus seconds to win. He could have won.

Remco started the sprint before Primoz and he got beat. End of story.

Remco didn't look or race like a rider thinking there was a stage / seconds for grabs at the line to me. I was screaming at the TV for him to get off the front and think about the sprint, but he didn't and the sprint he sat down once he was safe behind Roglic.

Just watch the interview. Oh wait, it’s in Dutch!

​@@user-ns1ir4uf1rthat wasn't a sprint😂 . It was speeding up before the last corner. A lot of idiots here.

And he was sick. He'll be getting stronger every single day

he is there for roglic, it's pretty clear. Unless roglic breaks, i dont see vingegaard attacking

How is this obvious. He is in it to win it. No doubt!@@stonedage5087

@@stonedage5087 I think that is a real possibility - he is plan B

I don't think it matters to them who wins. It's not like Vingegaard is falling behind. Crossing the finish line you can see him raise his hand up celebrating for Roglic's win.

If he was "only surviving" there would have been gaps when Remco pushed, like Ayuso and Kuss were yoyoing behind. Throughout the race, Vingegaard has been looking like the one who have had it most easy. They better hope he stays at 90 %.

That was actually the Tour de Catalunya 👍

@@benfolds17 spot on, thanks for the correx. what a year it's been in cycling

@@BryceBreslin no problem...I wasn't trying to be a smart ass so thanks for not taking it that way either 😁

I don't think so. Soler is just a bit too erratic to be a GC threat. They will put some time into him in the TT and then let the Tourmalet and the Angrilu take care of Soler

The two of them together in the team look so great (Hungary and Netherlands)