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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19068
Location: PDX

9/23/20 11:19 AM

I thought Roc paid for those authoritative attack answers in the previous climbs ultimately...

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KerryIrons
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 3234
Location: Midland, MI

9/25/20 8:44 AM

Plum tuckered out

It may well be that he had given all he had defending the yellow jersey and the final TT was just a bridge to far. Or maybe it was the famous jour sans (day without). We'll probably never know, and maybe he won't etiher.

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dan emery
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 6884
Location: Maine

9/25/20 4:15 PM

Eddy thinks

Jumbo should have attacked harder:

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/eddy-merckx-jumbo-visma-rode-tour-de-france-stupidly/

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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5096
Location: Nashua, NH

9/25/20 7:23 PM

Yeah, I heard that. He definitely has a point, though one wonders if it would have done more harm than good, as attacks would have extracted a toll on Roglic, too.

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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19068
Location: PDX

9/25/20 7:31 PM

"attacks would have extracted a toll on Roglic, too."

Maybe even the same as on Pog. But I am now thinking those Pog attempts to go up the road that got answered were thermometer readings...

The kid is either way smart, or knew how to listen to his earpiece, or both.

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