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Richard Carapaz managed to win the National Time trial championships however he has not yet delivered a big result since his move to EF Education EasyPost. Will 2024 be the year?
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No it was the very informed yonan n of inos grenadiers he took that ahead of Kapa who finished in second place third place goes to Jefferson Alo Sepeda that’s the one who rides for karal whilst Jefferson Alexander Sepeda the one who rides for EF finished in fourth place really wish their parents gave
Them different names um nevertheless naravas just carrying on the really great form he had in Australia he was fantastic in toand and at the Ocean Road Race thing and that silly little Criterion beforehand um so cool to see him win there and if you look at the podium celebration they bring out this
Like hog roast like they’re all on the podium and there’s this huge tray of what I think is like just like a hog roasted pig Nas and catap pass just like eat a little bit off this hog roast whilst they’re on the podium I wish I had more context for our Ecuadorian
Viewers out there can you please give us a little bit of context as as to why there was um a cooked pig presented to Jan Nas after winning his national championships but um this does also put an end to an iconic era let’s let’s lighter let’s light a
Candle in memory of the very very cool Ecuadorian EF national champions Jersey particularly the one for this season we’ll see in the time trials but like not really um so it’s a real it’s a no but like time TR stages aren’t really like big deals and you’re saying that
Richard caras is not someone we’re going to see in a time trial basically well there’s only like 10 12 time trial stages per year so like that’s like minimal amount and if he goes so early we don’t get it on camera then what’s the point it’s only like 30 minutes if
It’s if it’s a prologue we only get that Jersey on screen for 6 minutes come on I want that Jersey back in your scad is you better do a good job if they don’t do a good job which they probably won’t um I I will demand that AZ ceremonially
Hands that national champions title to Richard katath in the name of fashion and style and taste but I mean staying on katath uh you and you had some insightful well few nuggets of katas obviously last year he didn’t quite achieve the big Bill that he he was
Brought to the team because of a crash on stage one of the S of front but yeah what what kind of the MERS around Richard catas well definitely a disappointing toour of France last year crashed on day one you spoke to Jonathan vars last year um about how he got Richard carow and
The big effort that that the team and the sponsors put into actually securing the ryer and making sure they have a legitimate Grand toour Contender for 2023 didn’t quite go to plan but this week Jonathan V in the media uh was was talking about carass has being the most
Talented GC Rider they’ve had on that team in any iteration so it’s going to be interesting to see what this team what what caraz will bring this year given that he’s got such backing within the EF setup despite the fact he hasn’t really given them any major results so
Far a win last year at the merour AL classic uh in the south of France it’s the only thing really to go by alongside I mean the strong sort of Italian classic season towards the end end but no real victories not even aort of w tour race Podium apart from a day he
Sprinted well in the Criterium D do when he lost out to J fipe lashz du so definitely in need of really proving himself this year otherwise he could Fade Into Obscurity very quickly especially once those golden arm bands disappear well he won’t disappear but they’ll become a lot less important
After the Paris Olympic Games assuming that he doesn’t win on that Cobble through MRA which I don’t think he will that’s very true I’m just looking back through ef’s teams through the years and Scott has informed me before um recording that I can’t go back to the liquid Canon days doesn’t count doesn’t
Count to look for talented Riders and I will admit caras is probably most the most talented one that they really 2017 uran was second in the tour different era though yeah but I mean vus has the number so he knows he knows his Riders better than three people having a
Cycling podcast so I just felt was a different air of cycl like you said there was a shift after covid and the fact that caraz was on the podium of the tour postco I think is more impressive to me even if it was a step lower than around finishing in second place prior
To Co in the FR era that’s just my take on it so I would say that caran is probably is the most kind of high-profile GC R they have that’s definitely proved by how much they pay him which is you know always been rumored to be like 2 million whatever a
Year don’t qu me on that that’s just like you know random numbers get thrown around that nobody really has any sources for so yeah I think M caras what I don’t really know what I expect from this year I think he really needs to be top five at all to be like
You know a for forf to be quite happy with him they’ve put a lot into him and considering that they got very little out of him last year like Yan was saying giving him a run giving us a rundown of a results from 2023 I think that this
Does need to be a good year for caras for sure he’d very quickly turn into a sort of um flash in the pan kind of writer it is incredibly imp impressive like his Grand to record is fantastic removed last year’s toor France of course but he’s been on the podium at an
Awful lot of these of these races he’s finished on the podium of grand T in 2019 2020 2021 2022 that’s fantastic Pacha and rock are the only people to actually Rockit hasn’t even done that pach is the only person to have done that so it’s it definitely shows his
Like longevity and I also think his his expertise in racing he does have quite a good six sense in racing we saw that I think really displayed in tyin on that Jos stage back in 2022 where he really sort of ripped that race up I know Bor
Did a lot of the work but car has had the instinct to sort of go for it and make the GC race a little bit more attritional in the end and brought it just well sort of filed it just to himself and hinley in the final couple
Kilometers of that stage and when he won the gar back in 2019 there were some great tactics on show during that race I don’t think we’ve seen that level of car has in even in terms of his tactics over the past 12 months we saw some silly carass tactics
Of the doofan last year that stage the first stage yonas won in particular he was a little bit of chaotic on that one we we just need to see him get back to his form but I love this team but have we really seen cohesion in supporting
Kerath in the past 12 months at EF it just kind of seems like it’s just a team which got so much promise like your shavez is and all those other South American Riders like and Powerless and stuff but it never seems to really form together into a like you say a cohesive unit
Caras I don’t think this year wins a grand tour just because there’s pogy and there’s literally every man in his dog ever all and then the W’s going to be yonas he’s going there and basically I just think that as long as there one of
The Pacha or a yonas at a grand tour I just don’t think caraz is winning but if you were to remove those galacticos people like those proper top Echelon people do you think that carapaz could win a grand tour if he goes there without any one of those in other words
He could finish second at the gong yeah basically Yates against K panth would be an interesting battle Yates is better in time traling but they’re both quite similar riders in terms of their profile but I think yeah I think car pass is probably one of the better of
The non- galacticos but I think the results from last year have definitely made me doubt that more than I would have like 12 months ago I think I would have said caraz should be up there fighting for third place at the toor France but now I’m thinking I don’t
Really know if it even get top five of this year’s total France yes we have more galacticos but I think there is a bit more of a Chasm between him and even the sort of the people who will be the Super domestics your ginley your your
Adam Yates your help me out here um Sasha Etc maybe yeah lit I know you mean like the biggest difference the last even like two years hasn’t been really like the top level Riders it’s been the Supporting Cast rising up to support those Riders who have now infiltrated
The top 10 it isn’t just leader leader leader leader leader maybe one super domestic occupying like an eighth it’s like the super domestics are now on the podium places as well like this is getting towards when Fran Lander were kind of head like going got on the same
Team in Sky back in like you know 2017 time yeah so it’s going to be is going to be really hard I’m with you and I’d see kaz’s position for this year being more of like a six to eth sort of candidate than a four
Fif what I would like to see in that case is the Richard cath of the BTA spia 2022 where he went on to win a number of stages in the Breakaway got the polka dot Jersey and he used that race savviness and that flare that he has in
A breakaway setting that was really exciting to see that once the GC was over boom he fits into this new role I think it’ll be really interesting to see him perform that at the tour to France next year will someone let cater house go off in the first week of racing
Particularly when we have those High Point stages to Pino and the other one to the self Shier wherever it is um that goes over the the galib like on those High Point days will someone let caras go away in the breakway that early on in the race maybe not but hoovering up
Those points in the Breakaway later on in their Toto France could be a real way of him getting something out of that race and for EF to get something they don’t win Toto France stages very often let’s not forget for them to win the polka dot Jersey that would be a huge
Deal for2 million EUR you want the polka dot Jersey okay I’m big fan of the PO okay okay okay e one sixth place in GC or yeah yeah I know I know stage wins in Pok dots what’s better out out the Twitter FR uh I mean if you ask Alexander vuro when
Was finishing 67th he said that he would have preferred him to win a stage Ren because nobody remembers the lower top 10 in the next year’s tour France who finished eth in last year’s tour France exactly this know exactly there we go so yeah it’s valid a state join is more valuable than
An eighth or a ninth or a sixth or whatever remember Felix gal anyways but he got a stage win so he was okay I remember a stage win of C Oso exactly but I mean maybe car pass could try to do like a filic scal of like top
10 end stage win because that’s quite nice that’s quite that’s quite a decent way to to have a to of France but Felix gal and Richard caraz are on two different asons Richard caraz is a former Grand Tour winner here one of the probably top 15 most paid riders in the
Palon I don’t know what that gets out the article said go you you were in the loop about that one is he top 10 no he’s not but Tom pck has paid a lot of money according to that article yeah but think about all the baked beans eating flag
Waving British people out there and yeah I mean they have a lot of money as well exactly but is caras actually going to win a World Tour stage race this year I don’t know Brandon MCN is winning more stage races oh yeah exactly okay World Tour level World Tour level if the
Galacticos like if yonas and and Remco and Rit don’t go caraz will probably win one but I just refuse to believe that there is I don’t think there’s a world tall level stage race where one of those four isn’t ever in attendance romendy romeny that’s it that’s where Richard caras will get his
But I use it might be there I usly no yeah is that that’s the conclusion from this carass and yinson are going to battle it out for toor romedy
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Lads ripping that hog apart. Carapaz will get a win soon, the McNulty jinx will continue.
Carapaz is too fat. He's like Jan Ulrich now.