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Look, no other top cyclist (Ullrich, Basso, Beloki) stepped up and said "Those Tours should be mine". None said it was unjust. They knew... -
My major interest is seeing how close Almeida can get to Vingegaard. Almeida been in such good form in 2025 that i expect him to push Jonas.
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Cookster15 replied to the thread Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti.Just caught this comment. Depends on how you define “loads”. Since this is the Pogacar thread, according to a quick search he is...
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Cookster15 replied to the thread Your favourite grand tour.In the time I have followed cycling I would say the Giro was my favorite followed by the Tour. But in recent years I think the Tour has...
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For me the Giro, I remember watching the 2010 Giro as a kid and falling in love the race. In particular the Giro's of 2015, 16, 17 and...
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Physiological talent, mental energy/drive, bike handling skills, bravery when descending/attacking, race craft ie knowing when to attack...
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it's not a mess. who cares. he did it on himself, he shouldn't have made the comeback in 2009 and things woulda been normal
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Cookster15 reacted to Sciatic's post in the thread Teams & Riders The "MVP" Mathieu Van der Poel Road Discussion Thread with
Sad.
Maybe he’s remembering the last time he went to a different continent for road WCs and thought better of it ;) -
It’s very hard to separate pure physiological output from the rest as to display the other talents properly having strong legs is a...
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Cookster15 replied to the thread My top ten, on talent.Of course discipline is an aspect of talent. I think I would rank the importance of prerequisites of talent in this order: Physiology...
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Cookster15 replied to the thread My top ten, on talent.I can't talk about anyone before Indurain as I wasn't following the sport back then. I have to read the record books and form my own...
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Cookster15 replied to the thread My top ten, on talent.Of course it is! I would have thought that physiological talent is the main reason for all the riders being suggested?
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Then what is?
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Cookster15 reacted to Ilmaestro99's post in the thread Announcement Disabling Direct Messages in the forums with Haha.
Nobody ever messaged me anyway , clearly I'm not popular : (
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Cookster15 replied to the thread Pogacar v Merckx.There is ignorance and recency bias. But there is also that many believe the level of the peloton today is much higher than in 1974.
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