I disagree, Jens was pretty much always doomed to fail and was a lot more for show. TDG attempts are often far more calculated.
I could do all of that, I just don’t want to… 
Yeah…and when he was in the break with Wellens (who had the polka dot jersey) before TDG would sprint for the mountains points while Wellens sat on. As soon as nobody sprinted with TDG, he took off.
So in stage 8 every time TDG would sprint for the mountains points everybody also would sprint because they were afraid he would take off if they didn’t follow. So every KOM point Terpstra and King are just getting crushed on an up hill sprint. I bet Ben was shattered after that stage.
But anyhow it didn’t matter…eventually Terpstra and King couldn’t follow & sure enough, TDG took off with De Marchi in tow.
But the most amazing thing was the last few kilometers when Alaphillipe and Pinot…two guys who had ostensibly been sitting in the peloton all day…who were supremely motivated…couldn’t close even a few seconds on TDG even on a climb. What a monster.
Think his palmares speaks louder than I can Jensie’s Palmares
…the only rider I ever really looked up to was Jens Voigt because of his aggressive style of racing.
Each year I try to spend a little more time out front, 2018 was the first year I spent over 3,000km in breakaways – I did 13,000km of racing.
At the [2018] Tour Down Under I did three days of chasing the breakaway and then one day I was in the break. That is good training for later in the season. That’s 300-350 watts for three or four hours, that’s the power you produce. In training that would be impossible – maybe you could for an hour, but then… mentally you just can’t do it
– TDG
The next time I’m working with another rider, I’ll just turn to him and say “it’s 420 watts from here to the finish, agreed?”
“nice” he’ll say and that’s how we will win.
Easy.
He said something along those lines earlier this year too.
2 man breakaway, in the last 50 orso km he looked at the guy and said : ‘From here on out we go full-gass’.
The guy looked at him with desperation/fear/defeat in his eyes and that was that.
De Gendt picked up the pace, dropped the guy and solo’d to victory.
He’s outright insane.
To be fair, pro cyclists are all insane, just to differing degrees.
So you agree?
Great find, always knew he must have been an acolyte of Jens.
I feel as though Clark is a really good representation of this if you extend the sprint portion out a bit longer for each interval. Hard snap to separate from pack before settling into something around threshold to sustain the gap. Lion Rock also comes to mind as being something that would mimic it as it also includes that attack at the end of the steady state interval. The only thing really missing from these is a longer threshold/ss interval after the final attack, which I suppose you could just tack onto the end of these workouts if you really wanted to bury yourself.