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Marc Madiot proposed this Big 6 (in no particular order) : Pog MVDP Vingo Remco Del Toro Seixas So Roglic and WVW are out.

Some of the best races this year were exciting because of Pogacar — MSR especially, which in my opinion was the best major race of the season. Paris–Roubaix and Flanders were also pretty good, with Pogi as the main animator, and Strade Bianche too. Unfortunately, Il Lombardia might end up...

Remco has been getting help from a car or a motorbike for 50 km… if he ends up winning, it would be a real robbery

Evenepoel finished 59th at Liège this year…

It’s quite likely that Remco would lose his advantage fairly quickly, but I still think it would add more tension and uncertainty to the race — a yellow jersey Remco fighting to defend his lead would be far more interesting than what we got this year. As for your idea of a mountain stage with...

It’s wild how many commentators and pundits still act like “smart tactics” are enough to beat or even endanger someone like Pogacar. When a rider simply can’t be dropped, no tactic is going to work. If Visma had two Vingegaards, sure — that could create real pressure and force Pogi into hard...

Riders make the race — we should never forget that. But they race within the framework they're given. I really hope next year's Tour de France route offers more tools to avoid the kind of one-dimensional scenario we saw this year. 1) Much more flat time trialing. If Remco shows up in top form...

I think they’ll go for a multiple-leader approach in the Tour. If Lipowitz wins the white jersey and finishes on the podium, I really don’t see him accepting a domestique role for Remco next year. I’m wondering how they’ll spread their leaders across the three Grand Tours next season. It’ll be...

I think Jonas and Visma’s plan was to try and drop Pogi on the Madeleine, just to see if he was vulnerable. But once it became clear he wasn’t, the goal shifted to taking the stage win and locking down second place overall. That would explain Jorgenson’s behavior before the Loze and Vingo’s...

Remco is amazing and he is very unlucky, but his fans might just be the most delusional in pro cycling. The gap between their hype and actual reality is hilarious.

Jonas completely backed up what he said on the rest day. Visma were also spot on — smart strategy, perfectly executed. By far their best team performance since the start of the Tour.

We can speculate for hours about whether Tadej was on the limit or not. But the objective reality is that by the end of the stage, he’d only used one teammate all day — and still gained 2 seconds on Vingo. Personally, I think he’ll seal the Tour on the Col de la Loze.

If we look at the past 24 months, I’d place Remco at 5th or 6th among the best climbers in the world. Taking into account peak level, average level, floor level, consistency and accomplishments. It would be silly to judge him only based on the three days before his withdrawal from this Tour —...

According to the DS on French TV, Julian’s earpiece was broken.

It's confirmed—Julian actually thought he'd won. His team director even said so on French TV.