Recent content by Berflamand

You're not wrong, it's quite literally in the article. :sweatsmile: Evenepoel stuurde de twee voorstellen zelf door. “De ploeg gaat ze nu bekijken en er feedback op geven. Feit is wel dat in beide gevallen opofferingen zullen moeten worden gedaan voor bepaalde wedstrijden.” Deepl translation...

There is going to be more info in an interview that will be published this weekend but HLN reports that at the moment there is a 'Plan A' and a 'Plan B' regarding Remco's schedule for 2026. Both plans include the Tour which will most likely be the biggest target of the season again (but nothing...

Thanks for the info, I didn't know that. But I do think in this case there would probably have been an agreement between all parties to share the data because it just doesn't make sense to me that one of the parties involved would object to sharing the data considering Remco left QS in good...

IIRC Lipowitz just had nose surgery so it probably wasn't possible to do the trip right now.

As red_flanders has pointed out, one does not exclude the other imo. If he has to sacrifice TT seconds for better climbing that will come down (mostly) to his weight and has nothing to do with his TT position which was the purpose of this trip. It's also at a perfect time right at the end of...

Obviously not his biggest concern but better to stay ahead than to risk others catching up.

After the Red-Bull Bora team days last week, he went to the Specialized Headquarters in California for 5 days together with 6 Red-Bull Bora teammates, including Pellizzari but not Roglic or Lipowitz. Red-Bull Bora sent a big delegation with two specialists in aerodynamics, two mechanics, the...

I think it's just the term 'crazy bad' that some people take offence with. I can't speak for everyone but personally I agree that his results in the big one-week stage races could/should have been better by now (even if there are some explanations for some results) but there's a whole lot of...

I want to join everybody else in congratulating Salvarani for the convincing win and thanking skidmark (and EvansIsTheBest) for hosting the game! Personally I'm very happy with my top 10 place this year. I never expected such a high spot as I always have quite a lot of 'heart' picks over 'head'...

That's only if you exclude TT's. Which is understandable if you do but Remco's dominance in TT's combined with his impact on road races (f.e. clearly being the second best hilly one day racer) is enough for me to include him in a Big 'whatever the number' unless we're talking about the Big 1...

I can only imagine it's your 2nd reason. If it was 'only' about issues between the team and the rider someone must have surely said something by now.

To keep your form you mean? But that doesn't account for the travelling and time difference or do you think that won't have that big of an impact?

I guess this makes it basically impossible to ride the Olympic TT after completing the TDF. But even the Road Race is tricky with the time difference and jetlag. View: https://x.com/laflammerouge16/status/1979077937010806950?t=sQDc5KeY2RIzc0hHbQoe4w&s=19

I could kinda understand it as well but I'd still be disappointed if he misses RVV. I really want to see what he can do in that race. Positioning might ofcourse be a problem and he's not a world beater on cobbles but he thrives in attritional races like this and there's so many places (outside...

I'll be very disappointed if he doesn't race RVV and especially MSR next year. It's high time he tries on these races as he has only ever ridden two different Monuments in his career thus far while being one of the best one day racers out there.