Hirschi is a very good pick IMO, even though after having seen what we saw in the women's race: it's easy to make this a hard race, yet it's very hard to drop the other favorites, and even when you manage, there's time for them to come back (as Kopecky did today) - this does not play into Hirschi's advantage in my book - it shows to me that MVDP will be a real contender here, and that there's plenty of in between rolling slightly uphill stretches where Remco can try and surprise. Enjoy the race!

@@CyclingGuy Tx for the response. I should have checked his sprint points on PCS before putting in my 10$. See you at the charity homeless canteen next week😅. I watched part of the women's race too. I agree it's hard to stay away. Looks like they spend a lot of energy getting to the crest of the hill, thinking they've got it made. Then they chill a few seconds, but it starts rolling again and they can never recover from the initial effort. So chasers gradually roll them back over the next kms, on a plateau that looks like a saw, with more attacks all over the place. It's a great course for tv. Marc will have to hold his fire, save his legs and attack on one of the very last upswings. Let Pog, Remco, and Mathieu do the work. He did well in Bretagne, it's all up and down. I think it's a good pick, for some reason Betway have him at 21.

@@Mike-rm1lb 🤪 cheers ey and 🤞🤞🤞 enjoy the race tomorrow!

Hoi Hans, more than welcome to the community! And even better to hear that the word is spreading, thanks for that Swiss!!! And for sure, we can disagree, as long as the discussion stays constructive and positive, I'm all ears 😉 - really like your 2 picks who find a course here that suit them. I did not go with Onley, because it's hard for young riders to impress on first participations at the Worlds and I've been going with Bagioli in the past, yet he has always disappointed me (never doing better than 39th in the Worlds, out of 4 participations), here again, I'd love both of them to prove me wrong - enjoy the race ey!

@@Lion-wd1px I havn’t seen it, yet very interesting indeed, also Segaert who came in 3rd is a ‘big’ bloke - it’s why I’m not ruling out MVDP and Bling, and it may may prove me wrong on Pedersen and Girmay, then again, they’re doing a 100 k and 2000m of elevation gain extra, which is a big difference - thanks for sharing your thoughts - Enjoy

@@CyclingGuy probably yeah but I would love to see him defending it as fanboy haha, especially since next year he has no Chance with 5,5k elevation gain

@@Lion-wd1px after 270k, anything is possible ;-)

Very good point to consider. 1m95 is 5 cm taller than Wout Van Aert!

@@Mike-rm1lb sorry to who did you respond friend?

Yo!

Great stuff, thanks for sharing you podium here, hard to disagree with it, Hirschi is on fire and how cool would it be to see Alaphilippe back on the podium

I like Healy too, yet didn't pick him because he's @50/1, talking about dark horses, just decided to chuck a Euro at Gee who's at 400/1

@@CyclingGuy Good luck with it! Gee would be a cool story!

Jorgenson and Gee are both great picks IMO, yet I keep on feeling that people underestimate MVDP - that steep ramp is punchy and should suit him and I’ll not so sure they’ll drop him on the 5 to 6% incline afterwards - he can gamble and follow wheels behind for it to come back together OR he can send it from far out, let’s see ey, I’d love to see him disrupt the race - enjoy

Not unlikely ey! Question is, will it be in the chase of Evenepoel, who will go in round 5 or not 🤪 - enjoy the race

@@CyclingGuy I would call Pog Attacks on the 4 Round and then still 10 Riders will be in the Group. On the Round 5 MVDP Attacks and Only Roglic Pogacar and Remco can follow

@@alessio4236 nice, nice, nice, I like, that would be a dream scenario for POG ey, having a team mate up there

Agreed! POG remains the main favorite, yet there’s plenty of options to turn the race onto its head

😝sorry about raising the dark horse hopes too much - the bookies definitely underrate Powless @101 Powless is amazing value!!! Thanks for your thoughts here, much appreciated! Enjoy!

Planning to upload on Wednesday or Thursday

he only focuses on the road race

Check, full focus on the road race, he wants to wear the 🌈 next season!!!

no point he can't win it

He’s been added to the selection after I recorded my prediction, so it will be Ganna and Affini for Italy, Ganna’s been feeling seriously off though and hence his preparation has been far from ideal, should still be up for a top 10 though - I’ll leave a note in the video description later today

Groetjes!

Cheers ey, glad you enjoyed, stay tuned, there's more to come!

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Great stuff, glad you enjoy these, thanks a lot ey!

My pleasure Jelle! Have a good day

Cheers ey, thanks for being part of the journey!

I didn't do on super detailed analysis there, yet I'd estimate the average speed of the winning rider will be somewhere around the 52 km/h

Cheers Jesse, it used to be a weakness for him, yet he worked on it and now has a decent ITT

My pleasure ey and glad you like them - unless he's really completely off (no reason to believe so, based on what we saw yesterday), he should be OK

and nothing for Campenaerts ? he finished last in the last 3 stages : was he preparing or is he finished ? He is a big outsider for the victory !

I agree Skjelmose will need to push and has a good chance of being in the Top 10

@@1972ced I may have been misguided by his Stage 1 performance, where he blew up completely, which is very unlike Campenaerts, so you could argue it's unlikely he'll make the mistake again, ...

Hi there, enjoy!

Yes, personally I also like the attacking riders a lot, those willing to push the disruptor button, and Carapaz is certainly one of them!

I absolutely loved it, it's been pretty open for quite some time, with Mas looking like he could potentially drop Roglic, that combined with the need for Roglic to claw back time, made it interesting to me, combined with the great breakaway battles, I loved it!

Cheers, glad you like them, time to catch up some sleep now on my end 😅

Cheers ey!

My pleasure ey, next up, I'll be covering the world championship races

my pleasure ey, and thanks for joining along

That is great to hear ey, hang in here, there's more to come, next up, the worlds

Cheers ey! The things I like to hear - well done bud (I had a similar strategy for the day, so had a good day as well ;-))

It all depends on O'Connor really

I think he has a good chance, tends to do well in tough stages and he’s not afraid to attack

I hope we get to see some fireworks

Hi there, I’m not saying he looks weak, he has shown some weakness in the longer and tougher stages where the pace is high, yet he always clawed back and never really got into trouble, this is a very strong Roglic. And I’m fully with you on Lipowitz, another big revelation and impressive riding by him

@CyclingGuy I've read it in a lot of yt comments and sadly they want him to lose. Thanks for your work. You nail it more than you don't.

@@matthillard9363 I never get how people want somebody to loose ey, I tend to support all of them

F the only 2 who missed the break 🤪🤪

😜the joys of cycling predictions - I could not watch today, yet looks like my pick got screwed by one of his teammates - what a grand tour for kern pharma ey

Because IMO the Stage 18 profile suits Miquel better - he can get into the break and he could even win it from a reduced bunch sprint, the man is properly fast. I expect Castrillo in the break on Stages 19 and 20, which then again suit him better. Enjoy the stage

Watch his previous vids. I think he mentioned Adam Yates for 1st

@@DenTibee yep, he was my pre-race pick, at that time, I went with Yates - Roglic - Landa, obviously, with the extra info we have now, that no longer holds

My pleasure ey - Roglic is definitely in pole here, with Mas in second, for the 3rd spot, I expect it to be between Carapaz and Landa, and I'm leaning towards Carapaz

Nice - for Stage 19, there's also a chance a non-dangerous break goes up the road (knowing what's coming the days after), yet it's a fairly flat start and I don't think the right climby boys will get in there, ... let's see ey

Expecting Narvaez tomorrow, yet you could say he's a good pick for today as well

Yep, I agree

I absolutely love his fighting spirit, to get dropped with 6k to go and to limit the damage to under one minute is very impressive IMO

While I thought he had dropped time to be allowed into the break, he seemingly has been sick and had a really bad day prior to the resting day.

Check, definitely the most likely scenario IMO

I considered both, yet wend with Lazakano in the end - I don't think any of the Movistar riders will shine on this stage though, none of them made my 10 rider selection

He might go into the break but I think he might save his legs for stage 18

Yh same as Campenaerts​@@BMCS97

@@BMCS97 I'm with you on this one - yet I'm realising I should've mentioned it as such, so it's clear to everybody

I'm expecting him on the next stage, yet I should've mentioned so + if he decides to go for this one, he is one to consider

Cheers ey, thanks for your supporting words, and check, I wouldn't be surprised for Roglic to take the jersey today (had actually already expected him to do on Sunday)