People forget that Quintana was showing a lot of strength in his first months at Arkea, until he had a crash in Colombia that derailed everything. Also: his stage victory at Paris-Nice was their first EVER victory at WT level (which sounds weird, since they've been around quite some time, and with decent riders like Barguil, Greipel or Bouhanni).
I think it's pretty much accepted, now, that Covid 19 was released by the UCI with help from their friends at Movistar to prevent an invitation team winning GC at the TdF
It was a shame the crash he suffered, really unlucky guy, he started quite strong and motivated with Arquea but this is cycling. Greetings from Colombia, watch this channel trying to learn English.
@@alanmony1582 hahaha I see I see, too hard to understand sometimes, seems like australians are the chileans of spanish, they need subtitltes incorporated haha
Respect, LR talks so fast! My English is pretty good, but I have to focus A LOT to be able to follow. Doesn't help that I am relatively new to cycling, so there's that lingo, too.
his Provence attack was just insane to watch.. even the commentators were silent for a few seconds waiting for him to stop and whenbhe didn't then it was just "wooooah!"
Nice but I have always felt he was overrated as a GC rider. He won the Giro in a less than stellar way and has never really showed the williness to do anything but follow the wheel since.
The content you produce makes my life better. I get so much enjoyment out of it, and I wish I could thank you in person. Benji too now that he is on the pod. I pay nothing for your work, and I want you to know that it makes me happy. Each and every time a new pod or video comes out I am excited. It is just high quality analysis with a compassionate edge delivered in an incredibly entertaining fashion. Nothing more haha :)
Dude! Thank you! Nairo was flying in 2020. Even in the Tour looked like he was gonna have the performance we'd always awaited for. Damn stinging nettles
Thanks for posting this. I tried multiple times to no avail to find footage of that insane performance. It's sad that we didn't get to see what Nairo could really do due to the pandemic.
It might be because of the pandemic warming time but it feels like it’s been SO long since Nairoman was good. It really wasn’t that long ago hopefully he will be in good form this year.
Great video. But can we please stop pretending that Pinot is a legitimate contender for anything? Hot take: Pinot never wins another World Tour race before he retires.
Every year he is hyped up, and every year he does nothing and gets crushed, dropped, smashed by every top tier rider. He barely has a stage to his name in the recent years, he's worth 2 bananas and a bag of coke, drinks boi is Quintana, there to make up the numbers.
@@fireinpoe9317 The post you are reffering about was a 20 minute effort, not 60. Also, the numbers have been received by a lot of criticisme. Don't believe everything they tell you.
