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Every time the camera showed Pog on the climb yesterday there was a teammate dumping a bottle of water over him. At the time I was wondering whether that was theatrics or whether he was actually suffering. I guess the finale showed the answer to that. He was feigning suffering on the Tourmalet stage too. I reckon he plays up to the fact that people don't think he can handle heat and altitude.
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I know you didn't. As I said before, I'm not picking on you about this, but you are saying what seems to have become received wisdom, that Vingegaard is better suited to longer climbs and, as you rightly say, there is limited evidence of this.
There's a similar thing happening with Pogacar in that people believe he doesn't like the heat and he's weaker at higher altitude, even though the evidence to support this is also patchy. (He didn't look too troubled by the heat yesterday for example).
I just find it an interesting phenomenon, how something is said by a journalist or commentator and becomes accepted as fact because, presumably, people tell other people and everyone accepts it.