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Francisco Mancebo had 5 top 10 finishes in the tour from 2000-2005 (9,13,7,10,6,4) Could he replicate this run in 2020-2025? Does he do better or worse? Can he go better than 4th?

Mbappe yes, I don’t know Wemby. England have Kane who is better than Mbappe , and nobody really cares about Kane in England, maybe that’s what I meant. Not like Henry who was a sensation and the fans loved him. France have Dembélé too though, I forgot about him.

Fresh? Riis was at least visibly knackered at the end of Hautacam for example. Pog remains expressionless like a robot all the time with his torso sailing in to the wind

Fair enough, Joop did seem to age like wine though. I still think Merckx had the best competition of all the the 5 time winners in the tour

My top ten would start something like Merckx Coppi Bartali Pogi Hinault Anquetil Not necessarily in that order Then it’s between Girardengo, Binda, Indurain, Lemond, Thys, Bobet and one or two others for the other spots

Is that what he said ? I hope he gets the European road race, completing regional and Olympic one day racing would be cool

Zoetemelk won two years after Hinaults first win. And what about Fignon and Lemond??

You have to think that motors are playing a part these days. Anywhere an edge can be found and used , it’s going to be used. How strict are the scans on bikes in the big races ? I don’t know

I will be astounded if sexy ass gets anywhere near Pog and Ving in this tour, over 3 weeks he will have a bad day somewhere.

If Seixas went on to dominate 29/30 year old Pog we would see how fickle cycling fans are.

I’m also interested in teddys body clock. He did start young He did look spent at the end of last years tour, and he couldn’t drop Wout. They’re all on the juice. But if he carries on his level for another 3 or 4 years that would truly be unprecedented, based on his young start in the big time...

I mean, he did actually do this in 2014. And the funny thing is I agree with you. Magic powers of Nibbles

Maybe del Toro Pidcock can surprise again, some fans wrote him off before the last Vuelta and say he had no way of even top ten and he got on the podium

You were stating cycling is an individual sport when that is very much not black and white at all is it. If it were a free for all then Pog and Merckx might still win, Wiggins probably wouldn’t. Sprinters would hardly win a stage. My point re Froome and the monuments is that there those facts...

I’ve said already that I don’t necessarily agree that the fields are better, but we can go round in circles there