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4 hours ago, Eugene Oppelt said:

 

TdF stage victory Nr 20 for the Slovenian and rainbow jersey. A force of nature.

 

 

Just watched today’s stage……Seeing is believing but tbh it’s simply UNBELIEVABLE 

I find it extremely hard to understand how 1 rider can consistently be so much better than everyone else

TNT commentator: “He’s from another planet”

 

 

 

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10 hours ago, SwissVan said:

Just watched today’s stage……Seeing is believing but tbh it’s simply UNBELIEVABLE 

I find it extremely hard to understand how 1 rider can consistently be so much better than everyone else

TNT commentator: “He’s from another planet”

 

 

 

Same same, It is not just that he wins, what looks like with ease but the fact that he does this no matter the terrain. he almost seems immortal. The prior days crash had zero effect on him, it might even made him faster having a little less skin to carry around. 

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Hautacam fastest times

Year

Winner

Time

1994

Luc Leblanc

35:20

1996

Bjarne Riis

34:40

2000

Lance Armstrong

36:19

2008

Leonardo Piepoli, Juan Jose Cobo

37:28

2014

Vincenzo Nibali

37:21

2022

Jonas Vingegaard

36:34

2025

Tadej Pogačar

35:08

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, shova1 said:

Hautacam fastest times

Here is the top 19 in order. Interestingly, all of them except Pog, Jonas and De Las Cuevas have been involved in some doping scandalhautacam-top-19-list-13-25-km-8-01-1061-m-v0-1ky9k3cj7hdf1.webp.97ecbab5a72fadc2cae7168bdf703b8c.webp

Edited by peepeekaitjie
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Just now, peepeekaitjie said:

but he is eating 150g of carbs per hour. they didn't have carbs in the 90s

Adequate nutrition must be the biggest performance enhancer ever. For myself it had a massive effect, taking me from mediocre, to nearly not mediocre anymore and I'm still in double digits per hours.

Apologies if this has been posted already, also not Pogi, and for the day before:

 

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