Recent content by Brullnux

Right so Piccolo is an idiot who got addicted to a glam lifestyle.

The lower end Italian biathletes have been flying this year, so it's not an enormous surprise that someone got popped. Carrara had been skiing at a ridiculous speed, too, so my money would've been on her. At the higher end, I think Wierer has been the one surpassing my expectations in terms of...

Methanol and letrozole is quite the cocktail, lots of respect for her.

From what I gather half the Royal Navy was born in Carlisle

Narrow, twisty, bumpy roads with cat eyes and just always slightly up or down. Should be a good watch, though!

Harder run in before Caerphilly Mountain and twice the length, but yes. To be honest, I think Caerphilly is the best way to enter Cardiff anyway, so it's nicely designed. I doubt we'll get a random Kooij victory

I feel like Lidl-Trek went from very focused squad-building, almost Quickstep like ability in classics (minus not having the aliens), to a bit scattergun in the hope of repaying Lidl and becoming the next superteam. Gee, Ayuso, Skjelmose (maybe even Ciccone) will all expect to be supported in...

A shame

I think it was likely a decision he toyed with last season, decided to give it another go, then midway through off season training/as it ramped up realised he couldn't mentally hack another year. Sometimes you have to try it before you really know. Visma do push their riders hard, after all.

I don't think they paid what they did for him to lead the Giro, but we'll see

Something remarkable is that only five stages have a climb Cat 3 or harder in the first third of the stage. I think only six have one in the first half of the stage.

The mountain stages are all as expected. I had hoped for a lot more from Stages 5, 8, 12, 17. The Andalo stage is maybe the most disappointing one, given the chance to make a genuinelu hard medium mountain stage after a simple unipuerto and before what is effectively a rest day. Worse than the...

The Giro doesn't want to be in August as RCS don't want it to be an afterthought, and May is synonymous with the Giro in Italy. ASO are happy for the Vuelta to be in August because they want as many riders from the Tour there. It would be a tragedy if they swapped, for the Giro at least

Too hard of a combo? As in, it'll fatigue domestiques too much to then nuke it? I think it depends on race situation and on the riders. The opportunity will be there, and I don't think it's a waste of the climb like the Giro has done with some others recently. It's one of the rare stages where...

I think if it hadn't been for all the other MTFs I'd say it's a risk worth taking. Lots of upside. Giau isn't as hard as Finestre but it's a great climb anyway