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While there are some fair explanations for Vingegaard's weak performance in France, he did do something quite inexcusable which was to put in an enduring ride the day before the RR. As he said before the race: "What I'm hearing is that many actually train quite hard the day before a one-day...

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When you let go of the gas pedal, you'll still have something left to bring you forward. But you're decelerating, so you want to spend the force you've built up very soon. It seems Vingegaard had a window right after the Vuelta, but saying no to Rwanda and saying yes to the EC a week later was...

Prior to the race, Danish TV 2 asked five of their so-called experts (of whom four are former pro riders) about how the race would go. Three of them expected Vingegaard to be 2nd or 3rd, and the other two had Skjelmose as 3rd. So all five expected a Danish medal. That's why I have a problem...

Good point, at least when you look at how Pogacar easily stays a minute in front of the chasing group even though he doesn't have a wheel to be sitting behind.

True - bronze in 2023.

Yes, but since this is an RR thread, it was RR I was thinking of. :) I see a discrepancy between the high level of individual Danish riders and the bad results in the team events. Denmark has had perfect conditions for success (the biggest teams ever), and yet so little has come out of it...

Denmark's medal count at World and European championships (men and women) since 2019 is ... zero?

I have sometimes started a one month subscription to watch only a couple of specific events, but I often end up forgetting to unsubscribe, so I'd rather not do it unless it's must-see and memorable stuff (which is of course hard to know in advance when it's sports). When I decide not to spend...

Well, if the roles had been different, then probably not. If Seixas was the leader who attacked with 75 k to go, and Pogacar was the chaser, then it would have been exciting. The whole problem is that the top riders play the same role and the races follow the same terribly predictable script...

I'm a bit surprised to see that the European champion only gets 250 UCI points, while you get 300 UCI points for winning a race like Copenhagen Sprint. I would have expected UCI to favour the European Championships more.

So happy I didn't pay to watch this.

I was actually expecting the startlist to be just as strong as the one in Rwanda, but it isn't quite that. Even if Mads Pedersen had participated, the PCS startlist quality would still have been around a third weaker. As I see it, it mainly has to with riders like Carapaz and Vine being at the...

Yeah, so why watch this screenplay.

I don't see why that guy from Visma should question Vingegaard's shape if he didn't have something to base it on. So I'll lower my expectations and hope that Skjelmose can improve his 4th place from the other day.