Wout van Aert Needs REDEMPTION for 2024 

Agree. I loved his "the fun is over " comment. A real breathe of fresh air.

Yep. Agreed. I love a good honest interview. On a good or bad day of racing. 👊🦋

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Portugal is a beautiful country. I spent time in Lisbon and Porto and enjoyed both cities.

How about the pond with the hole in the middle. That was crazy. I loved racing there. 🤔🦋👊🇵🇹

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I still don’t understand why Chris calls him his man, and now our man.

Loved that - he tried hard repeatedly to get onto the breakaway early on but the peloton always shut him down so as the commentator on Eurosport put it he said to himself ‘I’ll make you all pay for it now’ and went for the solo lead 1.8km out and forced everyone in the sprinters teams to expend huge energy to catch him. I’m convinced his action forced Alpecin to burn some matches early on in their sprint train and weakened Kaden Groves final sprint when he could not catch WVA.

@@sgroadie6367he was Chris’s team mate when Chris still cycled in the European pro-peloton and they are great mates.

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And he is like 38

He certainly deserved a mention today when he was still at the front with 15k to go. 👊🦋💪

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I didn’t believe he went early. How much longer would he have to wait when it’s 210meters to go and the best so sprinter so far in the race is front of him already? I just thought Wout was better/stronger/faster than Kaden today. The move to the left I thought was going to be close to a relegation penalty truthfully. I wouldn’t have done penalized him but if Kaden was any faster/further ahead I would have. Wout always likes to change his lines and somehow get away with it even when he should have been penalized(TdF stage with Sagan many times). But today he won fair and square. Just 🤔😜🦋👊

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Not yet. But understand where you coming from but Roglic has a gold also and many GT wins. Plus everything else except the TdF. When Roglic stops winning and he hasn’t crashed recently, then I may change my mind. 👊🦋

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Honestly. Everyone might want to test Roglic’s fitness but Iwouldn’t want to be the one in the wind doing it. So they better use their teammates to do the testing because if you are wrong then Roglic is going to make you pay for that. But if got big balls then maybe now is the time because Roglic will probably only get better. 😱🤔🦋💪⚾️

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Well, if you can try it on stage 6 of the TdF 2022. Why not here. 😂🤪🦋👊💪🔥🇪🇸

😂😂😂😂😂 hell no

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Nope

Wondered about that myself. Surprised wva didn't give a shout out to vc

No. He wants a Vuelta win to go with his Giro and TdF stage wins. 🤔🦋💪

They make that headlight. I know because I have it. Lupine lights SL model. European approved for the streets. 👊🦋

@@ChrisHornerCycling Thanks Chris! I'll take a look... that 24% discount code is compelling.

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Vic is loved by all 😂❤️🦋👊

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Good question. It’s hard to know who will do the work tomorrow because I am not inside the teams seeing exactly how good everyone has trained and what their fitness is before the Vuelta started. If I knew exactly how good Roglic was after his crashes during the TdF then I could answer your question because Roglic’s form is key to how you would race tomorrow. If he is super fit and you personally attack him he’s going to make you pay for that. So better to force his team to work hard and hope you see Roglic not at his 100% best form and then attack if Roglic is suffering and you have some help out there from some of the others. The first mountain stage is always a bit tricky during Spain. During July it’s easy to know who’s riding good before the first mountains starts though. In short I would be very careful tomorrow and my plan for the finish of the stage would be decided as the race goes on, not in the bus before the race starts. The first part of the race though I wouldn’t be afraid to have a teammate in the break (assuming I am not on Bora) who could possibly win the stage if the break was allowed to go all the way. 🤔🦋👊

@@ChrisHornerCycling Thank you, Chris. And if you have time for a quick follow-up. If Roglic sent someone up the road, would the leader send someone up the road with him to sit-in case he's needed on the final climb?

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He’s always trying hard. 👊🦋💪

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Feel exactly the same way. 😂😱🦋👊

Olav Kooij seems a nice kid too but with sprinters you never know..😂

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Yes. But I bumped it after the first couple of takes failed and we forget to set it back in the correct spot. 😱🤪🦋

I did yesterday. 😜🦋👊

3ATGL podium 🦋👊🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

The question is can he do a ride like he did on Mount Ventoux three times a week in the last two weeks? He is a big guy and heavy and the best climbers are skinny and light.

Wout on his TdF 2022 form could beat most climbers here. But Roglic is here and no one here can match Roglic if he has his best fitness, “if he has his best”. And doesn’t crash. Wout I think would have already won stages one and two if Wout had his best form. But tomorrow will tell us a lot more. 🤔🦋👊

@@ChrisHornerCycling I think Yates, Almeida are a problem as well. I'm not really expecting Wout to be able to stay with the top GC contenders on that final 20% kicker, mainly because of his comments and how punchy that climb is. It will be interesting to see how Sepp Kuss does against the likes of Rog up that final steep section.

@@epincion I wouldn't expect Wout to be able to do it day after day if the climbs are steep, but it they are only 4-6%, which they seem to be on stage 5, 6, and 7 it's more in his range I would say, but I'm not sure he's got the fitness to go day after day even when it's undulating, but I guess we'll only know after today's stage.

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My wife and I have never seen that. But it has been almost ten years since we were last there. 🥲🦋👍

It ain't going to happen . I have 63,000 reasons why.

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For a long time now. McDonald’s played a big (mac) role in his winning the Vuelta.

Since birth. Or as long as I can remember. 😂🦋👊🍔

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Slow all day unless your name is Gesink. 😜🦋💪

I understand your thinking. I just don’t agree with it. 😜🦋👊

Watch our second video today. Knuckleheads all over the place. 😜🦋👊

Yep. Wout’s super strong but sometimes the tactics are way off and Visma try to force everything with power. 🤔💪🦋

@@ChrisHornerCycling That's just going to have to change, I think. I mean the power equation is very different without Roglic.

Ouch. I won’t believe that after I saw his Basque Country form. ⚾️😱🦋

a couple of seasons more and he will join Sagan

The peloton is letting them go because they know that they can bring them back easily. Not because they are the invited team. 🤔🦋👍

@@ChrisHornerCycling nah, they agree to stay out of it so they can get tv time to themselves. This was revealed by some pro riders awhile back.

Sepp Kuss is a light skinny climber. Van Aert is bigger and more of an all round rider. This version of the Vuelta has a ton of serious long steep climbs which will favour light weight climbers like Kuss and Roglic.

Only pure climbers with good TT SKILLS win GTs. Period. Wout can win all the TTS and hilly stages he wants and then lose 5-10 minutes on high mntns

Wout is not known as a climber on the long (often >15km), steep (>10% average gradient) climbs that La Vuelta is known for and often two or three in succession. Wout admits that this is because he is too big and heavy - which why he is such a good sprinter. Certainly on a good day he can win such a stage but he is less likely to be able to do it daily.

75Kg + too heavy for mountains

Wout has absolutely no chance of winning La Vuelta. Whatsoever. Have you seen the parcours? Why do you think he has suddenly become a GT GC contender?

Nope. Won’t do it. Remco has been super no doubt. But I would still put Roglic third. My list is dependent on each riders 100% fitness or one rider doing something that I thought the other couldn’t do. Roglic has been injured a lot and I believe Roglic on his best form could do what Remco has done. Which has already and then some. 🤔🦋👍

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