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Uno-X are also in a much better starting point than last time around. Over the three years they went from 6569->8939->10816 points. So even from where they ended 2025, the have a decent gap of 1800 points they could drop and still be above the 9000 points benchmark per year. And even with that...

Negative development throughout the race for Brennan. From fastest to 7th from first check to finish.

Pogacar to start showing some cracks. Uno-X to win something big. For the gap to disappear between the extra terrestrials and everyone else. Jakob Söderqvist to win something prestigious. No one to mention the One Cycling project.

Imagine that. I have no recollection of that at all.

Has anyone ever tried making an anti-CQ manager team? One where you try to pick riders who you think will under perform in the coming year so you want them to score as few points as possible. There would have to be a very strict set of rules I imagine otherwise you just pick retired riders. So...

I think a crucial part will come down to who will ride the "Hirshi/Del Toro calendar" for UAE. That more than anything will impact a lot of points each season. My assumption has always been that it would be a suitable calendar for Cosnefroy but then people started mentioning Morgado as well and...

It's not the U-23 races I'm talking about. Of course should have ridden them. There he had a chance to compete and win against his peers. It's more races like Tour of Norway he shouldn't ride. It's obvious why he was sent there being Norwegian but it's a bit of a waste. There are also better...

I think the argument is more that Nordhagen likely/hopefully won't keep being sent to races that doesn't suit him.

I wouldn't focus too much on the average points scored over those 5 non-U-23 races. Tour of Norway is not his terrain at all. Coppi e Bartali was when he was still recovering from the illness that kept him out of Oman so he wasn't in full race shape yet so extrapolating that to a whole season is...

There is a podcast episode from the Skirious Problems podcast from August 2024 which features Nordhagen. Among other things they discuss nutrition a lot.

Kron for sprints you mean? Unless he gets dropped it will be Blikra for the sprints.

Well, that was the scenario I initially responded to saying only getting 2500 from Remco seems like it would leave a lot of work for the rest of the team to compensate for. Well, somewhat obvious and popular picks over 1000 with huge potential upsides like Remco is a completely different matter...

Not sure what you mean by 6 spaces. The 7 riders was how many "failures" Salvarini could afford in his team and still win whereas if Remco is a "failure" at 2500 points then no other rider can afford to also be a failure or else the remaining riders will need to be even more profitable than the...

I'm not sure how true that is. At 2500 points he has a profit of 30%. That contributed to a team that scores overall 9720 if the whole team performed like that. And it's a significant proportion of the teams cost. Looking at Salvaranis winning team last year and seeing how many riders returned...

Top of the rankings after Aus nationals 1 Mason07 147 2 armchairclimber 118 3 karaev 104 4 Pantani4ever 85 5 Rufs 79