captain hook

Climbingrecords schreibt in der Zusammenfassung 2017 folgendes:

After 37 rides around the Sun, Alejandro Valverde left us wondering if the Fountain of Youth is not out there, somewhere around Murcia. While winning pretty much every race he entered, on the slopes of Mont Caro, El Bala turned back the clock to 2005, recording his best climbing performance since the famous sprint against Armstrong on Courchevel. It was a wild first part of the season, really. Sixteen years passed since the last time Poggio di Sanremo was climbed under 6 minutes and it almost looked like this barrier won't be broken again. Until Peter Sagan attacked, that is. At the top, the stopwatch showed 5 min 55 sec, the 3rd ever fastest ascent of the Poggio. The watts were blooming in the spring.

und was passiert in den Folgejahren?

Poggio
2020:3,7 km@3,9%---5:55---average speed 37.52 km/h(Julian Alaphilippe)
2019:3,7 km@3,9%---5:50---average speed 38.06 km/h(Alaphilippe-Kwiatkowski-Naesen-Valverde-Sagan-Trentin-Van Aert)
2018:3,7 km@3,9%---6:13---average speed 35.71 km/h(Vincenzo Nibali)
2017:3,7 km@3,9%---5:55---average speed 37.52 km/h(Sagan-Kwiatkowski-Alaphilippe)

Das ist dann halt so, als wenn im Kugelstoßen auf einmal (wie bei der letzten WM glaube ich) soweit gestoßen wird wie zu alten Zeiten.