Recent content by Gigs_98

I think it's quite important for Pogacar to keep this gap for a while. If it starts to come down the group behind will smell blood and keep working together. Once the group behind starts riding for medals Pogacar has won.

I think the "this guy is younger than XY so he will win GTs once XY retires" arguments usually don't end up working because most of the time, by the time XY actually retires there is someone else who can beat them. I voted for Almeida nontheless because I think he's already good enough to win...

This has been the first GT since I guess the 2010 Vuelta that I didn't watch a single second of live coverage of. Seems like I couldn't have picked a better GT to skip. Also condolences to everyone here who had to discuss all these protests without being allowed to become the tiniest bit...

It's easy to come up with someone creative but not with someone creative I actually believe in.

I went for Vingegaard and Almeida and then wanted to find a more creative third option than Ayuso, but man, this field really doesn't have anyone jumping out. I ended up voting Ayuso but I almost expect someone out of left field to end up on the podium.

But is Pogacar steering towards Jordan's 1993 or his 1998 premature retirement?

Pogacar does have "retiring early just to come back, still being really good but no longer quite the force he used to be" written all over him. It's a narrative in sports that repeats itself over and over again. Athletes who retire at the peak of their abilities because they are burnt out and...

I think it's really mostly @Eshnar no longer providing us with constant updates. I think the Giro gets a similar amount of engagement from the forum as the Vuelta and the Vuelta route speculation thread is usually not very long either.

Yes. Also are you really sure you want to make the argument MvdP is a better classics rider because of non monument one day races? I'll give you a minute to think about this, please come back once you've made your decision.

It's so obviously Pogacar. Cannot believe this is actually something people are willing to argue against. With the same logic that's saying Pogacar cannot win MSR and PR I could argue 3 time RVV champion MvdP cannot win RVV. There is a guy who literally podiumed the last 7 major one day races in...

Ineos must continue to be a gc team without gc leaders!

I was stating in my post that I preferred what we got over a scenario where Roglic and Vingegaard are not attacking each other. @Libertine Seguros then wrote something about how a proper battle would have been preferable. Obviously I agree with that, but my whole point was that I don't think a...

C'mon, at least read my post to the end. I'm saying that what we got was better than if Vingegaard and Roglic had been holding hands, just without Kuss.

But do we have any indication Vingegaard would have raced Bejes differently if Kuss wasn't there? His tactic seems to be independent of whether he had 1 or 2 teammates ahead of him on gc. Perhaps Roglic would have responded without Kuss there but again I don't see why the existence of another gc...

That's what would have given us the best gc battle but I don't think this was ever gonna happen. I think without Kuss, Bejes is raced exactly like it was raced and Visma freezes the gc afterwards. Roglic couldn't drop Vingegaard on the Angliru anyway, the one place he probably did go all out...