With perfect conditions and a competitive environment, almost all the GC riders set their best pure ᵉW/Kg values or close them in the exciting Tour de Suisse stage 6 mountain top finish.
Due to the weather conditions rendering the major pass impassable, stage 6 was shortened to 43 kilometres, which meant it would be the best possible w/kg test for World Tour riders. The first 34.5 kilometres of the stage went downhill and served as a good warm-up. The final test was up the Blatten climb (7.1 km, 9.1%), where in the 2005 Giro d’Italia Femminile Nicole Brändli set one of the most impressive climbing performances in women’s cycling.
UAE-Emirates after two successful mountain stages, again set a fierce tempo up the climb with young climbing talents Jan Christen and Isaac del Toro. After being the strongest rider on the climb the day before, Joao Almeida was riding behind the race leader Adam Yates. But similarly to stage 4 when Yates attacked, Almeida stayed in the group, while Mattias Skjelmose and Egan Bernal were chasing after the Briton. Almeida attacked both rivals with 1 kilometre to go and quickly bridged to his teammate. Yates kept pushing hard, but Almeida overtook him and was stronger in the end.
With all the perfect conditions and a super hard pace throughout the climb, the ᵉW/Kg numbers went through the roof. Even in the mountain time trials, the riders do not perform that well or in training sessions where they test their maximum power for a certain duration. Tour de Suisse stage 6 was the perfect 20-minute test for all the riders, as they had the motivation and adrenaline to perform in a competitive environment to relatively low altitude in moderate weather conditions. As the race was in Switzerland the wind was neutral on the climb as usual.
Adam Yates pushed 7.19 ᵉW/Kg for 19:31 min, while Joao Almeida with more draft averaged 7.13 ᵉW/Kg. Mattias Skjelmose after an unsuccessful stage yesterday performed better on easy parcour with 7.13 ᵉW/Kg for 19:36 min. All three riders broke the All-Time Top 30 trend line, which has become more like the red Generational trend line as the riders have improved in the last two years and continue to reach new heights. Even Egan Bernal and 10th place finisher Felix Gall broke the red trend line, which 10 years ago in the Sky era even in such perfect conditions was practically impossible.
7,19W/kg is stupid. I don’t doubt the validity, I just disagree with people being that good. It’s close to my 1min power.
Yates is straight cookin’
Idk if it is accurate, they have onley down as doing 6.67, on his strava his power is 386, he weighs 62kg (you can look it up) so he’s doing 6.22, that’s almost half a w/kg difference, that’s the difference between a junior and a pro there’s no way there calculations are accurate like they have quite literally gotten it 0.5w/kg wrong
you are right for onley but if you look at paret-peintre 12secs ahead of him on the same segment he did 350 which at his pcs weight of 52kg would be exactly the above estimated 6.7
so my guess would be that onley is a lot lighter than his pcs weight which I think is plausible at his height
There is no way oscar onley weighs 62 kg’s. I have more faith in these calculations than in weight estimations of years ago
Second best performance of the last 15 years altitude adjusted after Pogi’s attack on Foscagno. But this is with 470kJ on the back, that was with 5200.
Seguimos tragando entero con estos “nuevos métodos” de entrenamiento. Es una burrada lo que están mostrando los UAE.
Skjelmose pagó ayer lo de la etapa anterior, ¿pagará mañana lo que hizo hoy?
I’m sorry, but putting this performance in the graphic just makes no sense. I understand the hype, but it was such an unusual stage that it’s illogical to compare it with other performances.
I mean, that’s the point, isn’t it? To show how this atypical stage provided monstrous watts. That doesn’t mean they’ll include today’s performances in the chart when commenting on Pogi’s and Jonas’s upcoming tour performances…
That said, I do agree that it would be nice to see, in the chart, how many KJs each rider spent before the shown performance
Definitely, they absolutely need to re-evaluate each performance based on the previous KJs. Because otherwise the chart makes no sense at all. Comparing only the pure w/kg is fair, but they’re not comparing the performances in this way. They are extrapolating a single element from a complex performances and then they make comparisons between those single elements. Which doesn’t make any logical sense