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Indeed, hard not to see last year's pattern repeating itself. Skinny is a machine, resting well, moving fast and riding his own race. Would love to see him against Alagaert one year.
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Indeed, hard not to see last year's pattern repeating itself. Skinny is a machine, resting well, moving fast and riding his own race. Would love to see him against Alagaert one year.
Yes, but it might not happen. It looks like Kristof may have lost interest in this type of racing after Mike was killed.
On paper, Kristof in 2016 was a good bit faster than Skinny last year. But Skinny is almost 20 years younger so has plenty of time to improve!
I think that @wheels_of_fire expressed interest in doing this at some point (or maybe I made it up!) but that would be very interesting
frank9755
Skinny definitely riding faster than Bjorn on the same territory today. Hard to see him not making the catch somewhere in Austria.
Bjorn possibly had a better first day route. If their routes diverge and Bjorn has a better one again, he might gain an hour, but it would only put off the catch for a few hours.
Real pressure now - every minute not riding is giving the other an advantage. But Skinny is in control, he knows he can sleep as long as he wants and still catch Bjorn, while Bjorn doesn't have that luxury. It's a bit brutal but, if the other guy rides faster than you, there is nothing you can do unless he screws up or gets lazy and neither of those are likely!