Recent content by Jagartrott

Few people know that Eddy Merckx invented the internet, finally finding the time for it after retiring from cycling.

You're new to cycling, I take it. In an attrition race, everyone dies slowly - some more slowly than others. Evenepoel cannot allow to the other 4 to set the pace, as several of them are clearly nearly cooked.

Don't bother. There are clearly several people here who thrive on negative emotions.

So, is it known what exactly his physical issue was? I'm very curious what could cause a sudden drop in performance consistently at such a young age, and apparently also remained so mysterious for so long.

He now won a stage in 3 consecutive GTs (Vuelta 2024, Giro & Tour 2025). I guess that makes him part of a pretty select club.

He's a proper racer, treating the sport with great respect by have a go at basically every race there is. A big thank you, Tadej.

How salty can you be. Pogacar raced full, Van Aert raced full. There was no Gerrans here.

Mwah

Jegat deserves his top-10. He went in breaks consistently and did his share of the work. I also like it that today, he let all the shouting from some of the riders in the breakaway slide right off him. Why wouldn't he have the right to be there? Jayco of course very underwhelming. Only one...

If everybody raced like that, cycling would be long dead. There were possibilities both yesterday and the day before to at least try and put a dent in Pogacar's invincibility armor. Yesterday was too late for GC, but Vingegaard could've gone out fighting. Now, he looked terrible for most...

Perhaps there's a bathroom renovation coming up, so Jonas had better be prepared for that!

What do you mean 'of course'? Had UAE sent someone up the road, or if UAE had Almeida, Pogacar would not have been alone. He was, though, but Visma failed to really test him. There was a 20 km valley where being along would really have been a problem, but they rode up Madeleine the last 5 km...

Nonsense. Adam Yates is largely a no show in this Tour, and Sivakov hasn't been of any help. With Almeida out, UAE depends on famous mountain goat Nils Politt, Wellens and Narvaez. Those guys are riding at a very high level, but this is very far from being the strongest UAE team in the Tour...

The team was constantly blabbing about Jonas' biggest strength being his relative freshness in the 3rd week of a GC, they manage to isolate Pogacar twice from any teammates in the past two days to go man-to-man, but then basically nothing ensues - then I cannot comprehend how that would not be...

His posture is really different from all other GC riders here. Bigger, broader. A grinder more than a flyer. He seems to be able to go *very* deep into the red though. Very tenacious, and seemingly great recovery.