Yesterday I ran a search of the fastest all time climbs up Mont Ventoux. The list was dominated by riders in this year's Tour, with many of them significantly beating the best times from the top riders during the doping era. 17 riders broke the one hour mark, making it the fastest collective day on that segment. Of course times have changed and the training methods, nutrition and bike technology is much improved from 20 years ago. I sure hope that what we are seeing is legit.
Tadej is just on another level. His dominance is remarkable.
On a personal note, I recently rode Colorado's legendary Triple Bypass. Amazing event...a one day suffer-fest. Best feeling ever to cross the finish line (other than big ND victories).
Link: https://www.triplebypass.org/
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- Nigel Tufnel - 1:01pm 7/24/25
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- Two quotes: - MAS - 1:56pm 7/24/25
- Unfortunately, we're always going to wonder in these cases. - jakers - 1:35pm 7/24/25
- Exactly! - Nigel Tufnel - 2:24pm 7/24/25
- Interestingly, Vingegaard's time up Ventoux two days ago was a good bit slower than his time in 2021 - MAS - 2:11pm 7/24/25
- It may well go that way for him. - jakers - 3:40pm 7/24/25