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And that's how it works in such a team. They all need to assert their alpha maleness so it's a problem with an easy solution, you either have the legs and become the leader or you don't and have to either domestique or wait for team tactics I am honestly not expecting anything from Roglic. He's...

I don't think it's the case anymore, the only recent time we saw him do a fresh effort was last Tour's Ventoux stage and he was at a very similar level as Lipo and Onley, in fact Onley was distanced because both teammates 1-2'd him, if they all rode for different teams they've probably crossed...

I'll throw the questions back at you to hear your explanations and reasoning. Believe me, I wish I had your optimism and I didn't feel like he's already started to decline in a way that is not sustainable in today's fast-paced peloton, but I think that's what's happened: 1. Do you really think...

I admire your optimism but I disagree. He doesn't have any extra tools compared to the other GC riders in the team and the current rivals. -Without his stomp he won't find it easy to win, look at Lipo and similar riders, they are consistently good at high placements but struggle to get...

I feel like Greek Cassandra, I saw it well before it happened. So I wrote a huge wall of text when he had a disastrous start of the 2024 season. It didn't make a lot of sense that he was all of a sudden many levels worse despite being in an inferior team, when he had such a great end of the...

Why all this gloom and doom? I'm the first to be frustrated and disappointed, this season has been *** and I'm really nervous about Bora deciding that they shouldn't put all their eggs in his basket for next year's TDF, but Hindley was *** for no reason (Denk admitted as much in the Tour...

I think the worst is not knowing how he'd fared against Remco in the race. Numbers-wise he might've expected to be slightly better but maybe this new, improved Remco would've been on top so imo moving forward it was really useful to know whether his chances against the rider closer to his level...

So what do you think can be realistically done to improve his chances moving forward? Sure, he will not be able to produce the same insane watts the other Big 3 have (Remco seems to be getting there, isn't he?), but he should still be good enough to put up a fight for the podium against them...

Soooo... I decided to sop lurking early this season worried about his Paris Nice performance. Needed to know what was going on and if the next races would shed a light on current and future form and where he stood in the TdF puzzle In true Rogla fashion he answered and didn't answer my...

Don't believe them either and that's the most head-scratching thing here, Bora putting pressure on themselves by lamenting that they didn't get the result they expected instead of doing the sensible thing and telling people not to panic because the first races will be a test and it's all part of...

Tbf all the riders that have left VLAB were domestiques so they might have a different role in other teams (and certainly different leaders and different ambitions), it's difficult to judge.

FFS this is so silly Does the coach really believe all this nonsense? So nutrition at VLAB is so good that it works immediately for every single rider that joins , no matter what they did before, it's one formula fits all, but it you leave that team it turns into the search for the holy grial...

It would seem so, but then the man himself said he didn't have the legs. There are a few narratives here, I've seen several interviews and articles and they seem to contradict each other, although it's true that most have been translated from the original language and then I've translated them...

Yeah, I read that. What I don't know if they were the only team with this problem because I haven't heard of other riders complaining. But what I don't understand is why tf was Vila talking about disappointment if they knew their riders were freezing and they couldn't get to them on time...

Sure, but my long rant was not about whether it makes sense that he'd be bad in the cold (we know he is) but whether he should be this terrible and the team wouldn't be able to notice and take action because it seemed they were still expecting him to fight for the podium on the last stage. He...