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He allowed Valverde to close the gap because he, Pogacar had attacked so many times already. I’m sorry if I have misunderstood what you have said, my Spanish is not perfect.

etb for the retransmission

Pogacar is stronger than Roglic head to head. Although, Roglic strong stage 1 performance may be enough to take the overall. Pogacar attacked and attacked and still had the mettle to take the victory at the very end. We are spoiled by such riders.

Tadej is just a strong rider

@Gerard Vermaat agree this was a pretty hard fight

he is not "letting" him take anything...

Hah this was not gifted

@FED_Nando13 roglic wont’ commit same mistake this year 😉

@Nicolò De Carli yeah like on tt on tdf 2020

Roglic was taking a cup of tea ag the end

That would become extremely tedious.

I exspected him to come back just like that. He is somebody who needs to train outside and needs to race. Last year he couldn’t because of Covid. But now he is back and thats so great to see!

Last year I thought it's kinda over for him but it turns out I was wrong. This man is incredible.

Abusadores los dos

Yes, this is idea. If Pogacar want to win he have to attack on longer distance and endure attack. It won’t go in cheap way as he tried today. He can’t get rid Roglic in 200m.

@Marko Podganjek Yeah, Roglic is a better sprinter, isn't he? That means Pogacar needs to create a gap to beat Roglic on the line regularly.

If he will dare to attack 5 km before finish then maybe he can escape. But just maybe. Otherwise it will go exactly in the same way as today, with difference that next time in finish Roglic will win if there will be less narrow road

@Gasgano The difference is that Bernal didn’t dominate and won the TdF when some big favourites - such as Froome, Roglic and Dumoulin - didn’t participate. Bernal played it very conservative and used his incredibly dominant team, while Poga was attacking like a madman and putting up stellar performances (also qua Watts per Kg). Roglic has also used his dominant team and was sometimes conservative, but was also doing lots of incredible things on his own. Perhaps Froome will return to his top form next year. Evenepoel has the potential to become a great GC-rider, but he hasn’t proven it yet. Adam Yates looks to be in good shape these months. WVA has the potential to dominate in grand tours. Perhaps Dumoulin will be mentally stronger next year and dominate like he did in his prime. I’m probably still forgetting some incredible riders, so there’s still hope for competition.

Let's wait and see. In 2019 everyone predicted absoulte Bernal dominance for the next years. You never know.

& remco evenepoel

Yeah. Roglic is likea cheatcode now. The best in ITT and the best on the climbs too.

They did this initially, but I think showing them before the highlights is the more important of the two. Nontheless, no harm in whetting our appetite by doing it at the end also!

If that doesn't happen then I'll stab myself

I think it is Doping.

This gave me tour de France vibes