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The sad thing is, had Pogacar come in second to Roglic like 99% of people expected, there would still be plenty of questions about Jumbo-Visma's riders being able to put a stranglehold on the entire peloton throughout the Tour with such ease. WvA winning bunch sprints and shedding climbers at the end of mountain stages like they were nothing. Then their DS expulsion after an allegedly bungled bike check.

Fact is, Pogacar's performances on the Peysourde and then the Planche are so eyeraising it's easy to forget about the rest. Comparing the former to the previous confirmed doping era speeds, and the latter to everyone else he left in the dust that day with stronger track records at TT or climbing (Carapaz soft pedaled the entire lead-in to the climb aiming for the KOM, and was still a minute and a half slower than Pog on it)... Even the reasons UAE immediately gave on his otherworldly performance (scouted the course so well, has amazing recovery blood) seem remarkably convenient and prepared, from a team employing a number of staff with "history."

Lots of shade cast on the W/kg that all the stronger riders were effortlessly putting out by Bernal before he withdrew, then TomD with some salvos about that world-beating ITT. Do they know something or are they just sore losers? And even if they did know, do they not blow the whistle because they also have things to hide? Maybe Roglic was so gracious in loss because he knew either that the level was most likely even or that the truth will come out in the future.
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