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    Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

    The run is up?
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    Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

    Pog doesn't like the Tour? Reverse psychology kills the competition. Imagine if he liked it.
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    Christopher Columbus's True Origin

    Who needs a triumphal arch when you can have a giant obelisk?
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    Christopher Columbus's True Origin

    The world changed in so far as the Europeans arrived where not even Roman Mars had reached.
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    Vingegaard vs Pogačar - The Duel

    But, as we saw, and according to the gurus who are inside, when the others are on the limit, he is still in his training mode. Then ...
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    Christopher Columbus's True Origin

    Ok, but the European colonizers subjugated the native populations, founded new nations and wrote history from their perspective. In that sense Columbus made a discovery unknown to them. The people of what came to be known as the Americas, didn't sail across the ocean to "discover" Europe, even...
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    Christopher Columbus's True Origin

    He discovered the "new world" Americas, subsequently given that name by a Renaissance Italian voyager and map maker, Americo Vespucci, by the way, for Europeans. The US would not exist for another three centuries. The Vikings reaching an island off the coast of Greenland in the ninth century was...
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    Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti

    Aye, matey, but let's see what happens if Gianetti goes down. Somehow, however, with UAE petrol dollars, me thinks that won't happen. 🍿
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    Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti

    You obviously were'nt watching in 2008. Don't miss the sprints next year, you might lose something.
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    Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti

    I think at the time he, Cobra, did and was actually suprised how good he was becoming. He showed it on many levels that season, physically, but, above all, mentality, enhanced as he was by the magical arcanum, a transformative substance that elevates from lead to gold.
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    Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti

    Gianetti had it covered, until it slipped through his fingers...But now he has the right industrial backers.
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    Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti

    Riccò was red hot, brazen and full of fight, so yea, if I've gotten what you mean by translate against the field.
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    Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti

    I've got news for you, having come out of the Giro stronger, where he had already pushed Contador to the limit, Evans was about to learn of the Cobra's force in the mountains. Had he not gotten busted, I bet Riccò would have gone on to sensationally win that Tour. When you consider Gianetti has...
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    Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti

    I didn't say he was the scientific mind, but the organizer with immense financial backing. Gianetti made Riccò a legitimate rival to Contador on a much smaller budget. So it's conceivable that with UAE backing you now have this Pogacar.
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    Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti

    Point being after the 80s there is no way of assessing "innate talent", as since then performance science, combined with ever increasing budget gaps, has taken over. As I've said before, you put Pogi, who may even be on the upper spectrum of innate talent, on a team managed by Gianetti with 60...