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The Lizzy Banks and Kateryna Nash *** is just hard to even comprehend much less tolerate if you consume any kind of english-language cycling media. It's just astonishing how much journalists yearn to be lied to and just how overwhelming is the need for that ersatz-cosmopolitan progressive...

It's always good to have a teammate to fetch stuff. No need to save yourself for the coffee ride.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's not as improbable as you're making it out to be. The profile strikes me of Richmond more than any other recent worlds, and even if you look at the European Championship in 2018 there were eight guys within seven seconds. All it takes is a nervous...

Was wondering why Colombia took Vargas, an unusually smart choice. First time I can remember that Colombia's surplus star rider is a sprinter. A sprinter who loves racing classics even though he's not particularly suited to them, but someone who could potentially contribute nonetheless. I...

Great stage. I think it was generally well played by Jumbo, you have to go for it when you think you have the upper hand, but Pogacar was really crafty there going at the end of the steep bit. It was a great move: just when Jonas had finished his effort and relaxed a bit on the start of those...

I can't find an European average in that link. So if you skipped over my previous posts, looking at the latest measured representative studies: Having gone back and forth on this before best guess for Europe is actually around 1.76m, when you look at measured heights, but I haven't done the...

Source? It would seem to contradict all of the published studies, so I'm intrigued. So first, almost half of the podium places in Grand Tours over the last 10 years have been filled by guys born outside of Europe. So there's even less of a reason to quibble about what you think the average...

I think the Ineos top-level domestique package includes all the aero and free shots at time-trials and team backing for select one week races. It seems like he'd rather have that than leadership at Uno-X.

I mean, it's a depressing viewpoint, but the way I see it they're replacing riders who don't want to be domestiques with riders who already fought the law and realized that the law won. I actually think it's a bit of a Win-Win as far as Ineos, Verona, Foss, Martinez and Sivakov are concerned...

It's fairly odd that both TGH and particularly Tullet both leaving, but then again Tullet is in with a fairly tough cohort in Sheffield, Turner, and Tarling and might just want a change of scenery, doubt it will be that much better for him at Jumbo but then again look what happened with Dunbar...

Again, given the trends, I think taking the national average is a decent estimate. If you look at the Netherlands data is averages actually even slightly decreasing. If you take the latest cohort in that study you should actually take off a centimeter from the national average. Germany might...

So the born-in-1980 cohort you alluded to in that study averages 183.9cm, the average for Dutch men as a whole in the Nature (via Wikipedia) study was 183.8cm. As that, and not incidentally the headlines of both those studies would suggest, height has stabilized in at least the Netherlands. I...

As I said a couple of times the average male height in the Netherlands is exceptionally tall, but so are the Dinka, the Tutsi and the Herzogovinians, who are not that relevant to cycling except as contributing to the global averages. In Germany the average male is actually bang on 1.75m in...

So national average height differences bar for the Netherlands aren't that big. Looking at the top 10 cycling countries only the Netherlands (1.84) has an average measured height of over 1.80m, and in the flip side Colombia has an average height of 1.71. So no way is the average of the pool of...