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Recent content by Ilmaestro99

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    Giro d'Italia Giro d’Italia 2024, Stage 6, Torre del Lago Puccini (Viareggio) – Rapolano Terme, 180km

    Alaphillipe is thinking, why would I do that when I could pull a group with 2 sprinters along the flat for 20km without getting more than 10 seconds?
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    Giro d'Italia Giro d’Italia 2024, Stage 6, Torre del Lago Puccini (Viareggio) – Rapolano Terme, 180km

    Michael Woods is also a DNS, mild symptoms of a concussion after crashing yesterday. He also missed the Ardenne classics this spring because of illness, feel for this guy a bit View: https://twitter.com/IsraelPremTech/status/1788473167888982340?t=fuPHMuRMdSnkUgUXqdLHJQ&s=19
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    Giro d'Italia Giro d‘Italia 2024, Stage 5, Genova-Lucca, 178 km

    To be fair to pietrobon he only stopped working when it was clear they weren't getting caught. He did a great attack as well, if the fdj guy didn't commit to chasing he would have won
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    Giro d'Italia Giro d‘Italia 2024, Stage 5, Genova-Lucca, 178 km

    Benjamin Thomas has more victories at the giro in 10 stages than his british namesake has managed in 17 seasons.
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    Tour de Hongrie 2024-05-08 to 2024-05-12 ; 8th of May to 12th of May 2024

    Cavendish launch his sprint on the right side of the road and then immediately drift all the way to left barrier. Come on man.
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    Giro d'Italia Giro d‘Italia 2024, Stage 5, Genova-Lucca, 178 km

    There's 120km flat after the climb to the finish. If I was Jacobsen I would just ride my own tempo and use my team to pace me back to the front rather than go to the red chasing this pacing in the climb
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    Who is the best descender (modern time) ?

    Too many hipsters throwing around names like gijs lemreeze and izagiure. The only guys in the debate are nibali, savoldelli, maybe mohoric, Sagan and piddock
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    Who is the best descender (modern time) ?

    Nibali won monuments, and grand tours, because his descending. He is the Goat. The only other guy on the list who I would consider is sagan. Piddock has a couple of viral videos. What did he do with descending to get big wins? Vingegard, lol. Is he a famous descenter? Froome? He only did one...
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    Who is the best descender (modern time) ?

    View: https://youtu.be/KGbnxpvC_a8?si=i2mtxqtGxcZA9mjM
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    Giro d'Italia Giro d‘Italia 2024, Stage 4 Acqui Terme-Andora, 190 km

    Pelotons are full of clowns nowadays, they can't let a break get more than 3 minutes because they have no confidence that teams will cooperate to bring the gap down in the latter part of stage.
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    Giro d'Italia Giro d‘Italia 2024, Stage 4 Acqui Terme-Andora, 190 km

    How do you remove a roundabout? Surely it's still on the road?