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Let me find you the video where Sagan puts the Cannondale F-SI through its paces...
Here we go. He's entirely credible as a 'mud-chugger'.
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Oh believe I know, but in an elite field on that first lap through the technical sections he looked slower. And reading comments from the MTB crowd online, they were pointing at his technique. I mean he hasn't rode MTb competitively for 8 years.
Not saying he's shite mind. Just compared to the top MTbers who do it week in, week out he was slower. That said they were plenty of punctures for the full-time muddies.
Jimmy_Fingers
Although I wanted him to do well, I think it's just as well he flatted and didn't podium, imagine all those poor mud-chuggers getting beat by a roadie in the Limpics.
Watching it he was beasting it around but on the technical sections looked uncharacteristically tentative and noticably slower, lack of technique that may have caused the puncture. At least that is what MTBers are saying.