Recent content by Berflamand

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.

I agree that the Olympics in cycling lacks the history the other races have but for me personally that's why I rank it amongst the other big wins and not above them like in a lot of other sports where the Olympics are the true pinnacle of their sport.

What are the chances a sprinter wins the TdF, Lombardia or Liège? Ofcourse not winning the Olympics won't define any riders career, not even Pogi's (or perhaps maybe only Pogi's but that's because he does win everything and can rightly be considered the GOAT). That doesn't mean it can't be...

In my opinion, the limited possibilities to win actually add to the prestige of the event but I understand how others can see it differently. Also it's not true that Pogacar only had one chance in his career to get the gold when he was 21. It was his own choice to not participate in Paris (or...

It's pretty easy to rank them: Olympics RR comes first because Remco has won it and Pogi hasn't LBL comes second because Remco has won it twice Worlds RR comes third because Remco has won it MSR and PR come joint fourth because Pogi hasn't won it RVV comes fifth because Pogi has won it twice...

Looks like I've joined that battle as 9th according to the daily updated site. Though I'd be very glad if I could just hold on to my place in the top 10 in the final rankings!

There is one very important aspect where Remco pre-2024 was clearly better than Pogacar pre-2024 and that is 'being talked about' as is proven by an undeniable statistic on this forum. At 01/01/2024 the page counts for the threads were as followed: Pogacar thread: 385 pages Remco thread: 891...

You could argue that but I'm not doing it. Are you?