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Somebody at the WWT level is going to sign Segato for next year, right? Right? She's not done anything mind-blowing yet but she's quietly having a very solid season, finishing in the Francis de Greef spot in Itzulia, Nafarroa and the Tour de Suisse as well as 8th in the Alpes-Gresivaudan...

Because while Enric Mas is very good at a lot of things, minimising killer instinct is the one thing he is absolutely the best in world cycling at.

Yea, Beixalis isn't gravel anymore (Beixalis east used to be), it's the climb where Sepp Kuss escaped to win a stage in the Tour a few years back. The gravel is on the bit between Llac d'Engolasters and the Els Cortals road. If it had only been about the gravel being unsafe, I wouldn't be sure...

Of course, but there's a difference between a pay rider like, say, Alexis Vuillermoz, who clearly had the requisite ability to ride competitively at that level but whose sponsorship deals helped get them a foot through the door, and a pay rider like Muller or Ramón Carretero who are simply...

Yes, I'm sure what will really set the calendar over the top is a S**********s clone. Lorena Wiebes being the one to call out the UCI on rider safety is kinda comical given her propensity for riding like a bull in a china shop. I mean, she isn't wrong, she just isn't exactly standing clear of...

Certainly the team has done its fair share of dumpster-diving and points selections, or gambling on riders who've had potentially unsustainable breakthroughs (George Jackson, for example, who may still be able to deliver on his promise as he's still under 25, but it's very clear his 2023 score...

Abarcá never had an 'official' feeder, but the connection with Lizarte was close enough to be unofficially so until Kern Pharma became a pro team with a formal direct connection. It's similar to how the Orbea team was linked to the Fundación Euskadi but wasn't an "official" feeder, enabling them...

I don't think he wants to rid us of the Grand Tours and Monuments. However in releasing these ideas of what the cycling calendar should be and what all the big riders should be at, I don't think he needs to explicitly state it for it to be clear that much of the short stage racing calendar is...

Well, there’s these: https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-racing/racings-extreme-makeover-explained-what-is-one-cycling-will-it-happen-whos-behind-it/ “He (nb: Plugge) talked about the need to make cycling more comprehensible, to make shorter stage races the same length – currently they...

Everything we've claimed it to be has been what has been in the information we've been given about it. The city centre circuits. The "races need to be the same length so people understand it better". The "a translatable uniform format of races, probably including TTTs". The selling tickets and...

I was also talking about what the stakeholders like Richard Plugge and the Saudis want, not what the ones like RCS and Flanders Classics want. But I guess it's too early to tell what the plans involve and we aren't allowed to judge it yet (or at least people who aren't going to glaze the...

lmao, peak Unzué AGAIN. Just like Óscar Rodríguez and Sérgio Samitier, Adrià is a rider that was in the feeder, somewhat ignored, develops, moves on, then Unzué pays to bring them back.

The Monaco Grand Prix pays no more points to the F1 World Championships than the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Without races to enter, the team owners have no value proposition. We saw from the limited interest in the additional footage and data given by Velon (it attracted curio value but was not a game-changer) and the lack of a continued clamour for the Hammer Series that they have thus far struggled...

Franchising works in those leagues because there is a finite number of spaces at the top and a structure built entirely out of affiliate teams who don't actually compete with the sole goal of victory (since they serve as development teams for the parent club primarily) and parity rules that...