Recent content by jono

He will never achieve some of the counting stats of some other riders due to not riding a complete CX season, apart from his early careeer. But the duration of his dominance (nearly a decade) is substantial, and the degree (level compared to the rest of the field) of dominance is unmatched, as...

If VDP quits CX (I have my doubts) and WVA increases his focus and commitment (ditto), unless Wout won 5 consecutive seasons he'd be trying to complete the set in his late 30s. How many more injuries will he have added to his collection by then? How much stronger will Nys and del Grosso be by...

Today was raced very differently by the rest of the field, also partly because of those punctures. But once MVDP got away the pace went out of the group entirely, as can be seen by how much the group increased in size from lap 3 to the later laps of the race.

I also think he would aim to peak for RVV, not just because of importance, but anything less and he doesn't have much of a chance there against Pog. Not quite the same in those other two monuments.

No.

It's the smart thing to do, but if everyone else was racing full gas instead of letting Mathieu go and looking at each other in the race for 2nd the gap would be much smaller.

What could possibly be baffling about the best rider ever winning easily?

Haha, not sure whether or not to give him credit for tactics as he's botched that section 3 out of 6 times. But it worked!

Can Nys pull an EF and win from a group of 3 teammates?

Well, this should be fun for the VDP haters. He'll have to ride half the course to the pits and will actually have to ride hard in the second half of the race for once.

If Backstedt was in good form I would say this opens up the U23 for some other riders, but would she even have been favorite for that race this year?

Should Vine and Narvaez riding away really be all that surprising given the sad sack start list at TDU?

A non-illiterate version of mou

I agree with lots here, but you can't put the final (and decisive) interception on Allen. He put the ball right in the hands of a receiver who hadn't managed to get himself open on that play, but that player (controversially?) hands the ball to the Denver QB with the game won if he manages to...

There have been some rumours about him racing Omloop for the first time.