Recent content by Keldergoat

Well, Heemskerk didn't manage to improve JV significantly in the last 1,5 years. His 2024 Tour level was at par with his 2025 Tour level, but in the former he had to endure a massive crash. Maybe a change of scenery isn't bad at all for him.

You are actually completely right, quite impressive that you remembered that. But it's one of those constructs that in part of Flanders is used a lot.

How's that Cofidis rider not relegated seriously? If we're not going to penalize this kind of reckless sprinting it's going to be a painful season with loads of crashes.

This is an all timer, insert 'the best time to delete this post was immediately after posting it. The second best time is now.'

If you want to use the Tennis analogy, there's never been a time in which the dominance of Djokovic came close to that of Pogacar. Djokovic's reign spans two generations, the old generation with Federer and Nadal, and the younger generation with Sinner and Alcaraz. Yes, there were seasons where...

If you truly believe you have earned a free role in the Tour after *checking notes*, winning the Tour de l'Ain, you are beyond delusional. I rather think that he wanted a free role in another GT, which is still a stretch, but in case too many of their GC guys would be injured, you could make a...

I suspect the pages on this forum / wins ratio for this rider might reach even more unexplainable levels. :tearsofjoy:

Well, exactly this. What AxelHangleck already points out in his link, that PFP diet is managed professionally and sensibly with the help of professional nutritionists. The fact that PFP realizes this, and puts the disclaimer on that approach and does interviews about this subject is already in...

If you truly want to adhere to such a nihilistic mindset you can discard any discussion about mental or physical health in professional sport. Fine by me, but I'm glad that teams actually put focus into these matters and that a debate arises. Professional sport athletes are role models and I...

That's a bit too simplistic for me. Fact is that for a female body being underweight has way more long term health risks than for a male's counterpart like hormonal changes, loss of periods, let alone what eating disorders can do to the mind. Even PFP herself admits that she was on the limit...

Who were the riders involved in that crash?

Even in the Netherlands we would say this goes a bit too far.

Congrats to winning another grand tour to this team. Van Emden proper trash talking FDJ was funny, also curious to see as PFP riding for a Dutch Team while Vollering riding for a French team.

Didn't watch a lot of this TDFF, but those crowds on the road were so great to see. Even yesterday on the first part of the stage with 90 km to go it was absolutely packed on each centimeter next to the road. Women cycling is really on the up. Any data on the TV viewership numbers?

The great thing about this win is, it's wins like these that colour someone's career. That WvA is part of theelite group of very best cyclists of his generation you don't have to convince anyone who follow this sport closely. However, beating Pogacar on a stage like that, those are the types of...