Recent content by Extinction

I don't know what your point is. The entire UAE team has been riding at a ridiculous level, so Vine's performance, who has always been fast in the TT, is little surprising. Look at how Almeida almost won the Vuelta. I doubt Pogi destroying Remco in the WCITT, would have been prudent before what...

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Pog's bad moments ceased after twice getting beaten by Vingo at the Tour. Afterward he's been untouchable, while Vingo's level improved, despite the setbacks. It's not like Vingo fell off the map. UAE must have reprogramed him or something.

I'm a heretic.

I'm not inferring motor doping. Remco got dropped, because he could not handle the pace. The last 30 secs gained by him, was because Pogi was celebrating. My point was that, contrary to the Armstrong to Froome era, to only go back that far, but I could go back to Delgado, when I first became...

The truly amazing thing is nobody seems to be asking questions. It's like a journalistic white flag has been raised over him. I don't take this as a sign, however, that suspicions have lessened from years past, just the hog has devoured all discent. Terrifying.

There is always hope, but, man, sure doesn't look like there is any.😁

Yea, and you forgot to mention Almeida at this last Vuelta, after Vingeggard sat on his wheel for the enth time, saying that "eh, sure, Vingeggard never wants to pull." When Vingeggard does some classics or a Worlds with more than 5000 meters of elevation (or any Worlds for that matter), I'll...

Well, it seems fairly obvious, Bora needs to transform him into a climbing world beater. Anything else would be a poor investment. Like what Sky did to Froome, which I'm using only as the paradigmatic example, not clinical stuff. I'm not saying this can be done, only that it must to really get...

Read again man, I said on a super budget team. He's been seven years on a mediocre funded outfit that was trying to metamorfosis without sufficient cash or know-how, which has repeatedly missmanaged and/or misprepared him. All I said was will going to a top budget team improve him, because if...

There are multiple factors here, but, generally Evenepoel expresses his power best in most TTs other than at the end of a GT, with a major climb, for a TT. We still haven't seen a mountain TT in the middle of a GT, when he is in top shape and not hampered by a not ideal prep. I'm curious to see...

Don't know what you mean? Merckx, Hinault, Lemond, Fondriest, Armstrong, Bugno, Cipollini, Cavendish and so forth won Worlds, not all could climb. Consequently, varried selection of talents has been always present.

Remco got cramps, so he said, at the worst possible moment, but not Pogacar. Fatal. Evereything else is fantasy. It's in his head by now. Poor Remco, in a manner of speaking, but chapeau to Pogacar.

Exactly what I said. And Grenoble.

Historically this has been the case, with World Champions varying between big engine climbers, to classics winners, to sprinters.