but also feels like he crashes out of the tour every year ^^

@@rokutaro "Feels like" is right. He doesn't actually. He was pretty upright in 2018 and 2020 and he went to the Giro in 2019.

Imagine winning a race where the two best riders in the world not even bother to show up.

@@Gufolicious Who are the two best riders in the world?

Primoz stick to Vuelta, Pogi can take the Tour. Then Slovenia has two shirts. You can still compete at UCI WC or Tour de Slovenia :)

Yeah i feel like he’s saving energy for the GC stages coming up. Never count Primoz out! Hope he stays on the bike tho🙃

If he doesn't crash....🙄

The ground may have something to say about that.

The 'lack of preparation' will show in the last week...If Primoz manages to stay on the bike 🚲.

It's a long Vuelta, but that would be stupendous to see

What a beast though today.. finishing ahead of every climber except for one

Comme Van Aert sur le Tour.

Pat you should pin this tweet mate. Froglic had me in tears a few days ago, and ROJOGLIC (preferably with a rolled R) is the move for red jersey Roglic. Well done Lennie Nelson 😂👍

Great spot 👌

Though I think the jury might have took the first gate. We don't see the line on the ground, but I think the Bahrain rider was within the top 3 at that point, but they didn't place him (Rogla, Alaf, Vine got points/boni)

I don’t think so, it’s like giving bonus seconds in the flamme rouge. Only top3 get bonus seconds and I think Vine got 3rd there

A cause de sa malchance légendaire.

I think they'll probably give it away in some further stage to a non threatening breakaway rider

Probably tomorrow!

Sounds like a tactical mistake, why have that pressure on your domestiques the whole Vuelta?

@@MarvinWestmaas I think it's like the above comments said, they'll let some breakaway rider take it. Never hurts to nab a few bonus seconds on your gc rivals in a race parcours as mild (by these guys standards) as this one.

Its not confirmed what exactly the injury was so nobody knows 😅

Like on turini

Yeah, and neither of them might be good at the sudden accelerations/steep sections? Considering Masnada finished in the group of the sprinters, either something is wrong with him or he was meant to lose time and save himself.

he is the new Van Aert 😂

But Mads Pedersen was the only sprinter present at the end. Well, he's actually much more than a sprinter.

That's the timetrial effect

That's called, "making something up to be mad about"

Roglic for the next few weeks

Kuss deserves it next and he is only 13 seconds down on GC.

@@joelhanson6351 yeah but Roglic is not going to waste 13 seconds to let the red jersey to Kuss. That would not make sense

Population density in each country is a key factor to take into account here. Another key factor is the stage happening on a weekend or not.

I loooove big crowds, especially when they go nuts. But TdF is during summer vacations. It makes a huge difference.

Correct it was Van Wilder.

;)

Yes because he was in the green points jersey earlier in the race and it's a running joke

@@King_Ears think it's more of a cycling joke tbh

Exactly. I watched the last kilometer a few times. I couldn't find Evenepoel within the first 30 riders when they were half a kilometer from the finish. Still finished eight. Must have flown uphill

He actually is, just not great at reacting to others making a weird decision in a descend and last year he had some lingering mental trauma from his Lombardy fall, which he worked on. Before his Lombardy fall he actually was considered a good descender, he was just bad for a few months and people only seem to remember that.

@@MDP1702 I do remember that. He isn't right now. He was never exceptional to begin with.

@@philsmtbs2956 If you call him a bad descender, I guess you haven't seen him descend since last year. I am not saying he's a super great descender like Mohoric, Nibali, ... no one has claimed that, but he is a good descender regardless and definitely not a bad one.

@@philsmtbs2956 He's in no way a bad descender. That's reserved for the likes of Brandon McNullty and Zakarin.

Remco fanboyz immediately on tilt 🙄

lol right "deserved" XD you sound like those people that cried when Roglic didn't "gift" Mader a stage win in Paris-Nice

@@AshenWednesday I am sorry if you understood it like that. That was not my intention. And I think you are right - deserved, was not the right word for me to use. There is normally no gifts in cycling, which is totally fair. Keep trying and keep losing is the beaty of cycling. Mads Pedersen didn't deserve anything. It would have been so cool though if he got the win, cause he rode amazing and showed a new style. Being a heavier sprint like rider, I was so impressed with him and his team on this steep finish. Top 20 for the stage was all GC folks and climbers - and then Pedersen. Like seeing an ostrich suddenly take off and fly 🙂

He is still very young, it's also something he has to develop.

why should he help quickstep when he is their main leader? + Van wilder had a perfect position but alaphilippe just couldn't follow him ...

He is a bad teammate? I don't think you actually followed his races close enough. He even often helps his teammates to his detriment, like doing sprint lead-outs as GC leader/going for GC. As for this vuelta, he is their main leader by far, the only way to be a bad teammate here is not doing his best, which he clearly is doing. Just maybe young and pretty inexperienced in some ways making small mistakes.

@@MDP1702 he even waited for Julian at the end instead of saving his own time,

@@tommytommy7535 I don't think Remco waited for Alaphilippe at any time, you sure you aren't confusing Evenepoel and Van Wilder?

Eh? He's awesome, the best on KZfaq. I hope you're a non native English speaker...if so, I forgive you.