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Milan will still be at a pretty significant lead out deficit to Kooij I would say in the Giro, so I wouldn't be super confident yet. Especially with Theuns looking incredibly poor so far this year who was meant to be a big part of Milan's lead out.

He'll get one once he wins his eponymous monument ;)

Once Trek get him dialed in on the TT bike, he's gonna be a problem in that discipline as well. He appears to have elite power in the short to medium ranges and climbs incredibly well considering I believe he's >90KG (PCS has him at 84KG but that's certainly a mistake if you compare that to...

I think you'd find in Italy more Olympic gold medals are much more notable than winning a classic like gent wevelgem. The green jersey would probably be more important than a single Olympic gold providing he won quite a few stages on the way to getting it. You're right there is more money in...

He's even more suited to track than Ganna. If anything Milan should be looking at getting into the bunch events considering his abilities. Olympic gold medals are pretty significant.

Despite this narrative, most of Pidcock's best results are in 200KM+ races? Amstel, Liege, Brabantse, WC RR 2021, Strade 2024.

You can keep saying that yourself I guess but no one in their right mind actually believes you. You saw Bernal drop a tonne of WT GC guys and then immediately decided to talk negatively because he was dropped by the best climber in the peloton.

Jez Cox. He's hands down the worst commentator I've ever had the displeasure of listening to, and ES has quite the stable of terrible commentators. His knowledge of the sport and ability to spot riders/actually pay attention to the race is so awful he makes Adam Blythe appear like an...

Doubt it personally.

Could say this about another massively hated (far more than vingegaard) GC rider but in a much bigger race

That's not what the research on fatigue resistance/WT rider power profiles suggests. Older/more training experienced riders don't get worse at fresh efforts (they get better), they just have less of a drop off between the two. More training tends to make you better at everything other than...

You saw Bernal do a great ride and immediately went to how he should limit himself to stage hunting and won't ever achieve a big GC result. That's obviously a very negative outlook.

Have you ever thought of y'know... not being relentlessly negative?

Yeah although his schedule this year doesn't allow him to win much. Surprised he's being sent to so many stage races without TT's. PN, Tour of Norway and Tour of Austria I don't think will have any TTs (PN = TTT, Austria is a prologue, will depend how short of a prologue whether it's viable for...

Dario Cioni his coach said that he doesn't train a lot for a professional and is getting brought along slowly in that respect still. Tends to lead to poor fatigue resistance - large drop off in power from fresh vs fatigued - which would explain him being relatively poorer in road stages...