Recent content by benpounder

If Wiggins was one to enjoy schadenfreude, he would be in heaven. That is not to say he isn't a prima donna like the rest of Sky's talent, just that Brailsford put all his faith upon one rider alone - Froome - when that failed he pretended that having Porte was good enough for his high euro...

David Brailsford has to be second guessing. Succumbing to Froome's petulance to deny Bradley Wiggins to ride the TdF I suspect will haunt.

One would think. However with only 55sec separating third and ninth, there should be some interesting dynamics; all will want to move up which will make it much more difficult for both Quintana and Uran to mark and Movistar/OPQS to control.

The first year of the USAPCC, with stages finishing and starting in my home town - Steamboat Springs - I talked with a number of essential peons. Most donated their time while their jurisdictions picked up the operational expenses. I dont know how ToC works, but I suspect it is similar as long...

Or Nordic Combined. On the day before, have a flat 5km ITT in the morning and an uphill 2km ITT in the afternoon - combined time gaps determine next day's start order. Heck why not time how long one can hold a stall on either cobbles or a hill and use that. :D

So smaller fields? If not, smaller teams might just have the opposite effect. PR had 25 eight man squads (200 riders). Dropping to six riders per team drops the field size 25% or to 150 riders. If the organizers wanted to maintain the same field size, that means eight more teams or a total...

Good on you and your fellow moderators. and yet i wish our other fellow commenters would spend their bandwidths talking about the race rather than pi**ante trolls.

Sagan's brave move at 20+km wasted him. the only way he could have won a sprint was if everyone else chose to drag his *** into the velodrome. and Boonen did much more to animate the race...

My read: once Terpstra took off the rest started looking around. No one wanted to drag Sagan into the Velodrome, and with such a strong composition of a chase, all knew that he would be dragged there. re online coverage, after Eurosport crapped out on me (both english and spanish versions)...

Watching the Belgium broadcast with the podium players. Van Avermaet looks pi**ed, Vanmarcke looks pleased, and Cancellara is humble. Both GvA and SV have great talent, and hopefully great palmarès forthcoming. I suspect both will learn much from today's great RVV.

But he didn't... or couldn't. As Hitch points out, Spartacus won because he was the smartest amongst the strongest. Sagan, Boonen, and all the other pre-race favorites, bar Van Avermaet, were left behind. It was a great race.

Risking crossing into Clinic topics (but not really because that is what you clearly insinuated), Horner has ridden for several GT contenders in his long career. Mostly strong, mostly as a domestique, and mostly interrupted. That he shines now is perhaps an effect of the tarnished luster of so...

We are talking about top WT riders, not conti teams with primarily BOL, VEN, COL, and MEX riders.

Anecdotal. Training at high altitudes for more than just several weeks (think months) is beneficial. Blood necessarily has to carry more oxygen. However training at altitude saps pure strength - a trade-off certainly. Ancillary, this is the reason that the USAPCC is hyper reluctant...

"Pseudo fans"? I'm guessing that includes anyone who doesn't share your enthusiasm for your favored riders and favored races. Belittling them is a sure way to increase their general cycling enthusiasm. Predictability yes; but your recommendations are cosmetic. Several years ago the Vuelta put...