Seriously chuffed for Weening and Orica! Big win for them, especially in a moutainous stage race.
Wss going post earlier, hoping Weening would keep Top 5 and continue great season of results starting from Langkawi, to Pais Vasco and Amstel. But never expected him to take it, chapeau!
Shame Majka missed the podium spot. Capecchi can thank Kiserlovkski to such good time today, another example of duo TT.
ruben wrote:
Who says you need small gears to win?
59x5 wins this race
It's very unacademic.
If you only consider power (because all the other aspects aren't really related to the rider pedalling fast or not), it's the result of strength x RPM (P = C x omega).
The optimal output (in terms of ressources used, energy transmitted to the bike) for cycling is reached at ~70 RPM and a rather low effort. From there on, to go faster, either you just pedal faster, either you just push stronger (bigger gears), either you do both, which is the most logical thing to do for most people.
Second aspect is that using a too big percentage of one's maximal strength tends to slaughter muscular fibres quite quickly.
Apparently guys like Honchar and Weening (plus a handful of others in recent years) have found a thing to use a maximal strength during ~1h and a very slow number of RPM.
I'm very curious to know how cycling physiologists would analyze it.
Weening has literally made the best move of his career by going into GreenEdge at that time, kudos to him for making that move. He literally got opportunities left and right where he would had very few at other teams.
nothing to do with being at greenedge. These ITT courses were pretty much perfect for weening. Uphill/downhill and grinding a big gear is what he's always done.
The only thing different at Greenedge is that Weening is almost always a free role in the mountains, without the pressure of being a leader (because greenendge doesn't expect results in mountains anyway).
Weening doesn't cope well with pressure or being a leader. So ultimately Greenedge is the perfect team for him.
At Rabobank he was under close scrutiny of the dutch press and certainly after his TDF stage victory he was always under pressure as people, press and team expected him to deliver big results. Weening is the kind of rider that doesn't do well with that
Seriously, can anyone tell me who though it'd be a good idea to turn around the way the times are depicted at the finish line?
Usually, you see how much time the rider just finishing has left before he loses another place.
Somehow, the Polish guys thought it might be more interesting to show the rider that can't be passed anymore anyway...gives a nice surprise everytime another one pops up and we know the current rider lost a spot.
Yeah.. those poles had to many strong alcoholic drinks again this Tour.. Already during that 2nd italian stage where they only showed Riblon and never the chasers. But the ITT was a nice fuckup as well
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