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The run is up?

Pog doesn't like the Tour? Reverse psychology kills the competition. Imagine if he liked it.

Who needs a triumphal arch when you can have a giant obelisk?

The world changed in so far as the Europeans arrived where not even Roman Mars had reached.

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

Gianetti had it covered, until it slipped through his fingers...But now he has the right industrial backers.

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

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...

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.

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...