Recent content by dacooley

I think had any magical secret existed, it would've been exposed and put in use by other teams a long ago. The core of the edge he has comes down to sheer natural ability. Even if is there are some tricky things involved, UCI will never touch him.

I'm pretty sure after the stage Jonas and Remco hurt all over and I'm talking not only about their bodies. The ego is hurt really badly. After preparing for year or so and getting ass-beating like this must feel really painful. On the other hand, to put things into perspective, Hautacam stage...

Its pretty much the same as mtf's in the giro 2024, but in the TdF such a huge gap is percieved with greater shock ..

it's mostly down to commercial purposes me thinks. In Benelux, Branantse Pijl getssold better than Montreal.

Amazing athlete. Perhaps the most gifted physically cyclist ever. What caught my eye as early as in 2019-2020 was that where almost everyone struggles, twists himself into knots, and pushes the pedals with the entire body, Pogacar just pedals smoothly, with almost no unnecessary upper body...

Let's not conflate Remco himself and the way he reflects on what's happening on one side AND qualities attributed to him by passionate fans (Pogacar anti-fans) on the other one. Yes, Remco is considerably inferior when it comes to both induvidual engine and sprinting. As of the 2024 season...

You've massively diminished the role of Finestre, putting like this. It will miss the active TV slot with this stage configuration. I'd like Finestre to be at least penultimate climb.

Pogacar is right skipping the Olympics and Vuelta. Proving the superiority on any day on any type of race and on any terrain is far harder than it seems. Time to relax, rest and recharge the body before the next season's feats...

Avoiding climbs is immesuarably harder and hardly possible.

I have a feeling this route model was swept under the carpet due to 2 reasons. 1. It heavily stinks the era that ASO dilligently try to erase from history. 2. Long TT's are not welcomed by TV and business interests. It's been 17 years since 2 50+K TTs were held and that can not be accidental.

From global perspective you are right, but that was clearly the only stage when Pogacar expierenced some negative emotions. During all the other stages he was obviously enjoying the race and his own domination. Pla-d'Adet stage was a turning point...

It was stiffer in the Tour, despite the relativity of absense of competition. Until the Pla-d'Adet stage Pogacar had no guarantee... On Lioran he even got light ass-kicking.

There is a glaring gap between the Giro in the legs for Pogacar and the Giro in the legs for Froome, Contador or Pantani. The entire Giro field almost immediately realized that Pogacar was riding kind of out of competition. No stress, no doubts, no tough decisions, no opponents defying you... It...

The reality is that the duo will never start the TdF without some excuse-relating preparational things, one of them will always have the edge. If anyway a miracle happen and both arrive fully fit and ready, there may be some dark swans as in 2014 or 2006, God forbid. Life is too complicated and...

To me, there's no question who will win if both reach top shape, but we heavily need the landscape providing exciting battle for the overall win. I'm convinced the others will partially close down the gap until the next tour. Any domination results in a dominator weakening the grip in a way and...