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Hi folks, You may have noticed the site was acting a bit off earlier today. We wanted to quickly explain what happened now that... -
Cookster15 replied to the thread Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti.Merckx won the 1969 Tour by 18 minutes! Poulidor was 22 minutes down! And if both Merckyx and Zoetemelk were using rudimentary...
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Cookster15 replied to the thread Moderation.I am drawing a deep breath :laughing:. Thanks for the support.
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Good luck boys. I will not miss moderating during the Tour.
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Cookster15 replied to the thread Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti.So how was Merckyx not a level playing field? Some of your points are valid some aren't - like 5 countries deep at best. That would be...
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Cookster15 reacted to hayneplane's post in the thread Tour de France 2025 route rumours and announcements with
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Cookster15 reacted to Red Rick's post in the thread Tour de France 2025 route rumours and announcements with Like.
You get conservative racing when there's no place to do anything on. They actually did manage to make stages where something will happen...
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Cookster15 replied to the thread Tour de France 2025 route rumours and announcements.La Mongie is 2nd category. Le Deux Alpes is cat 1. AX-3 Domains (2001) is cat 1. Scary that the 2025 Tour is the first with 5 HC...
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Cookster15 reacted to Krzysztof_O's post in the thread Tour de France 2025 route rumours and announcements with Like.
@Ulle97 I meant five HC finishes, not just 5 MTF. Only 2025 has five HC.
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Ultimately, doesn't the entirety of this corner of the forum come down to one thing and one thing only? What you choose to believe...
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You also have to consider he came from a small nation with not the same resources. Humble beginnings and being very young.. He was still...
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Cookster15 replied to the thread Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti.You can't predict future performance at junior level and the 2016 Junior WC RR is a good example why. Look at who was in that race. From...
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Cookster15 reacted to KZD's post in the thread Question The Tour 2025 without the mutants: who would win? with Like.
I don't see how Ayuso can be better than Almeida at the moment. Even if we just focus on w/kg, Almeida has produced some impressive...
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Cookster15 reacted to Krzysztof_O's post in the thread Tour de France 2025 route rumours and announcements with Like.
Only now I realized that this Tour has 5 HC MTFs. Those are 5 big climbs (even the easiest one Superbagneres actually has 17 km, not 12...
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Cookster15 replied to the thread Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti.There was no oxygen vector doping during Merckx's era either - so how did he dominate? Maybe he was simply more talented? It certainly...
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