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I literally made no mention of long climbs. Also pointed out that before 2024 Remco did cook pog even on a climb. Pog fans literally cannot compute that there is a difference between pre-and post 2024 pog. Or maybe they simply note that to admit it shows some doubts. Lol. Just listening to...

well we don't know of course. but he dropped him on a hill at the 2021 euros...(when remco was still not fully back from Lombardia crash), so it's not really that difficult to surmise this could happen again before the 2024 transformation. the only thing being pointed out was pog pre-2024 was...

bingo.

fair. I think, however, it is my experience on a discussion board that qualifiers and balanced talk rarely win out. I honestly don't think @Logic-is-your-friend ever said or even intimated that Pog was "terrible" pre-2024. I know many remco "fans" like him (and myself) who will grant you that...

I'm not Belgian and I have plastered all the walls in my house with this image.

Oh I had no idea that’s all anyone has to do to make a huge jump. Don’t tell the other riders about this groundbreaking training regimen, whatever you do!! 🤓

and of course Hirshi was "let go" by DSM after his breakout season when he did not follow their "whereabouts criteria". Alarm bells! he then went to uae (shocker!), where he never went to a GT but won a ton of small races (picking up wins and UCI pts for the team) -- seemed like he only did...

yup, but in the same article he says increasing watts/kg at this point is complicated. in fact, he has previously said that his ceiling has hardly changed since 2022 Vuelta. maybe he is suggesting potentially increasing the length of time at a certain watts/kg, IDK. thing is pog just looks...

it would be nice for us fans that he gets one more win, but the Chrono really has not meaning at this point. It is not the GP des Nations of yore. Hopefully he gets another podium at Lombardia and then break and build and no postal vans!

He made his name way before as a super-doped rider requiring emergency hospitalization (google it). gianetti + cycling = doping. all he has ever known is doping, and to extremes others didn't dare -- as a rider and then as a manager. what made him suddenly stop? there's nothing. no way...

he's just 25. chances are...

I, too, thought he may have cooked himself. however, he clearly didn't since he recovered fast and ended up gapping all others by 3+ minutes. I'm glad it didn't take him out of the silver. so, not a bad reference to make to see how long he can last if he goes into the red (as oppesed to 2024...

agreed. however, I will always believe the guy who trounces everyone as soon as he picks up a bike more. maybe it's that I am a Lemond fan. but there is something to say about these teenage prodigies who then inexplicably start getting beat by racers who make sudden huge jumps in performances.

...what about carbon monoxide? WADA is banning it in 2026. great. but how do you police that? and it can apparently give the same boost as EPO which is the type of jump pog did between 2023 and 2024. and we have Visma and UAE who both admitted using it, and now there is really no way of...

didn't seronni (1982 world champ at Goodwood) also manage UAE (before it was UAE)? Makes sense he did not pull to try to catch Pog (of UAE). :cool: