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It's been a long time, 2014 I think, where the final TT has been an hour long effort. The tendency in recent years has been to shorten them to around a 30-40 minute effort, precisely because they tend to distort the overall standings so much. Chris Froome has been extremely effective in gaining significant time on his rivals in late race TTs.
If you look at the 2014 race, where the GC had been long decided by Nibali's dominance in the mountains, Tony Martin won by over 1:30 from Tom Dumoulin. Neither was riding for the overall classification, but gaps that size in TTs of this duration aren't unusual.
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When was the last ~56min time trial this late in the TdF?
I only ask because I think it’s impossible to make comparisons.
Can anyone find the splits for the flat section? Was Pogacar faster than Dumoulin?
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I’m in the don’t know what to think camp.
I really like Pogacar but I didn’t feel any sense of joy for it weirdly.
He won it by 1:30, those more knowledgeable might be able to recall someone winning a late tough TT by so much...