SPOILER of the YEAR

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Not really. He got exceptionally wealthy

Originally Posted by merckx

LA was the dumbest m’effer in the peloton.

[shadco]

Originally Posted by jlwdm

How would it matter if Wout was there? I guess you are just a Wout fan.

Jeff

I am a huge Wout fan but his presence would not have made any difference.

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[prototoast]

Originally Posted by shadco

I am a huge Wout fan but his presence would not have made any difference.

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Second place begs to differ.

I think it's unlikely he would have won, but he almost certainly would have been in the van der Poel group. That group without Wout got the gap to Pogacar down to about 40 seconds. Wout is a big engine, and adding him to the group might brought that gap down to 20 seconds or so, then maybe that's close enough for one or two guys to jump across.

Or maybe with Wout in the race, the group dynamics are different and Pogacar attacks with 50k to go instead of 100k to go and wins by 3 minutes.

[Jaybee]

Originally Posted by trener1

I don't want to be rude.... but I am not sure what race you were watching Quintan Hermans and Victor Camparnats went to the front and rode ALL OUT for as long as they could, they did actually bring the gap down ever so slightly, then MVDP attacked, and they got blow out the back, the commentators were also talking about Tiesj, he was did not help pull, but he was on a bad day, they showed him getting gaped on some really small "climbs", I can't comment on Jasper.

They did organize a chase eventually, but only after giving Pogi 30 free seconds. And they spent some of that time with Wellens attacking off the front in some sort of misguided attempt to organize a smaller chase group. They weren't ready, and they weren't organized after, but that's part of the genius of Pogis attack.