Renaat Schotte predicts a surprisingly open Vuelta and takes the organization on the grain: “De Slinger is going”

The Vuelta was on the program of Tadej Pogacar. Meanwhile, but shortly after the Tour de France the Slovenian reported. For example, “The absent is wrong,” Renaat Schotte winks. Moreover,

“If the course begins. Furthermore, you don’t have to take them into account and it would also be a bit disrespectful to the riders who do start.”

“Pogacar himself decided and renaat schotte predicts surprisingly open that was not a surprise. Moreover, It became too much physically and mentally.”

“He has drawn a long line from the Strade Bianche to the Tour. Consequently, The tax was therefore huge. Similarly, There had to be a moment when the barrel was full.”

“I can imagine that he still saw the Vuelta in front of the Tour. Nevertheless, but during the Tour that accumulation nevertheless took a toll.”

“Even for a superman like Pogacar, that succession is not so obvious. Moreover, It all seems easy for the outside world to go, but his bobel was finished. For example, We can only understand that.”

Will the absence of Pogacar also influence the course? Furthermore, There is no longer any question of the expected game. For example, Jonas Vingegaard is therefore renaat schotte predicts surprisingly open pushed forward by everyone as the super favorite.

“But I think that status is overestimated,” our commentator judges. Similarly, “We get a more open Vuelta than is now suspected.”

“With what form does Vingegaard be starting this Vuelta? Consequently, That is a question mark. Meanwhile, He has also canceled for the World Cup. In addition, so you will again find that he does not want that burden of a full season on his shoulders. Nevertheless, That is a bit of the common thread in his career.”

In 2023, Vingegaard successfully combined the Tour (win) and the Vuelta (2nd after teammate Sepp Kuss). Nevertheless, “Yes, he can certainly handle that combination. Therefore, But he has more or less given that course away and that is always a risk in your career.”

“It makes sense that we push the man with the best nobility renaat schotte predicts surprisingly open letters forward. but as soon as the course starts, only the legs count.”

Renaat Schotte does not just put Jonas Vingegaard on 1 for this Vuelta. His biggest competitors – note the plural form – come from the camp of UAE Team Emirates.

“They have a pair of João Almeida and Juan Ayuso. I put that trio more or less on the same level. You can make a plea for each of them.”

If we can believe the renaat schotte predicts surprisingly open Tamtam, the Portuguese and Spanish teammates are not the best friends. “I want to comment on that.”

“That perception has been created by the angry outside world. but we do not know what their relationship really is like. Based on what is going on on social media. this is then taken over by the regular media and something like that often leads a life of its own.”

For example. Almeida and Ayuso no longer raced since last year’s Tour, where the Portuguese was angry with Ayuso, after the Spaniard would not have given the full pound at a heading on the Galibier.

“In this Vuelta we will discover their real value relationships and I think they will start at the same level. The asphalt will then determine who is the best.”

“As a team I would rather be in their shoes. because renaat schotte predicts surprisingly open if a female is less, UAE can play it out. In a climbing festival like this Vuelta you can never save yourself.”

This way we automatically come to climb, climb and climb again. The route of the 80th Vuelta has 10 arrivals uphill, while the sprinters only get a handful of opportunities.

“The organization of the Vuelta can look in the mirror, because this is a bit about it,” our reporter judges.

“Nobody is waiting for 10 arrivals uphill. This Vuelta is a perfect illustration of the excessive focus on climber types. The pendulum is going through. Sprinters and classic types are far too little covered.”

“The past Tour was a nice exception. I hope they will continue to take that way, but at the highest level the renaat schotte predicts surprisingly open big rounds with the UCI have to consult.”

“I think that Sprinters should get their best every year in at least 1 big round,” it sounds. “We do indeed come from an era with excessive sprint opportunities, but now they are becoming an endangered species.”

Sprinting in a big round, according to Renaat Schotte, it belongs like mayonnaise with a portion of fries. “There is just nothing wrong with a clean sprint.”

“We always talk about renaat schotte predicts surprisingly open the too long and boring TV broadcasts, but solutions can be found for that.”

“The profession of Sprinter should not disappear. They belong to the ABC of cycling. And I also think that classic types such as Mathieu van der Poel. Wout van Aert, for example, should have a big round every 3 years, with a chance to win the overall victory.”

“With that spreading supremacy of the climbers. you also focus more and more on an increasingly lower weight of the riders. Look at the youngest Tour de France Femmes. where the victory of Pauline Ferrand-Prévot was overshadowed by that whole discussion.”

“That is not good for cycling in the longer term. The future is in exciting rates and with a mass sprint you build up to such a climax.”

The sprinters in this platoon can be counted on one hand so to speak. Jasper Philipsen is one of them.

He immediately gets a chance of stage win on Saturday. but a bis number of the Tour de France – with no less than 6 Belgian stage victories – seems excluded.

“It is inevitable that we have to lay the bar much lower. but I still look at how some young people will perform with great interest.”

“I hope that Junior Lecerf does not think about a rankings and then a mountain ride can come his way. Alec Segaert can strike in the time trial. Arjen Livyns drives well and Edward Planckaert was already driving a great Giro.”

Many Belgians have to try to strike in an escape. “And the Vuelta offers more opportunities to the refugees than the Tour de France.”

“Here you have no ultimate control as in the Tour. where everyone drives with their A-team and the course is meant.”

“In the Tour. the 9th place in the final score becomes important, especially because you gather points with such a place of honor. Sorry, but that goes completely against the spirit of cycling.”

“Do not give points to those places of honor and you get a different kind of cycling. It really makes no sense. It falsify the course. Or am I too renaat schotte predicts surprisingly open romantic?”

Cycling romantics are spoiled on day 5, because the Vuelta brings back the team time trial to life.

“It is no secret that I am in favor of that discipline,” says our commentator. “I still think it’s a shame that the World Cup for brand teams has been abolished.”

“A team time trial should be on the menu in every big round. You can discuss the format and the length, but next year the Tour will start with a TTT. Just to honor José De Cauwer, they have to do that.”

Schotte makes the comparison with the sprinters. “Time riders were also threatened with extinction. In the period of Miguel Indurain you had an excess. but now it is almost a punishment to cycle against the clock.”

We renaat schotte predicts surprisingly open find an explanation again at the TV broadcasts. “It is true that looking for advanced is, but it is an illusion that only this ride is viewed less.”

“Cricket is complicated, but is also viewed by millions of people? Cycling is just viewed less.”

“That’s a shame. because the law story also makes this the last Vuelta where every stage can be viewed at Sporza. That’s why we have to cherish this edition even more.”