Originally Posted by
raptor3x
I think you've got this backwards. Shorter more intense efforts become harder with age, the longer efforts don't decline as fast. It would be expected that Contador would have the advantage in the shorter events.
No, this is incorrect.
A long
easier effort does decline slower with age. But a long TT is not that. The difference between a prologue and a long TT isn't that one is a short
hard effort and the other is long
easier effort. A long TT is long
hard effort. The prologue is a shorter
hard effort. 8.9km versus 52km. Both are intense hard efforts. AC's youth is in the longer hard TT. Its called the "race of truth" for a reason.