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I’m interested to see how some of the older riders have adapted to training in a pandemic. G openly said on his podcast that in the first lockdown he stopped training and didn’t expect summer tours to run. He did random things like riding 24hrs on Zwift to support the NHS, which would have had quite an impact on his routine. Friebos said Sagan was going very well at the end of 19 season, before the pandemic, but didn’t come out of it in his usual form.
It seems like the young guns adapted to pandemic training well, and came out of the first lockdown firing on all cylinders whereas the older generation were a bit sluggish. So I hope this season we’ll see the likes of Sagan and G on top form as they’ve realised racing will go on and they need to adapt.
For Tirenno, I’m most excited at Ganna and Sagan playing with Wout and MvdP. I want to see more big-lad haymakers.
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Sagan has said that he is someone who thrives on racing and found it difficult to train properly during lockdown. He was spending a lot of time with his son though, which he wouldn’t normally do.
He raced a lot last year, over 60 days I think when most riders did less than 50 days and you could see he was improving at the Tour and then the Giro. I still think his Giro stage win was hugely impressive given the race situation, he held off a day long pursuit from the peloton, initially in a group but then on his own when a GC race was happening behind.
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Ganna is the one I'm most excited about.
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Chalfie
Is Sagan still a top competitor?