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People claiming it’s the riders fault sound like F1 organizers in the 60s who didn’t want to build barriers around the track despite several deaths during a season because it would eat into their revenue. Drivers should simply drive less fast if they can’t keep their car on the road was their...

Re: Re: So what did Pinot, Porte and Uran and Fuglsang ever do in a GT that Kruijswijk didn’t? None of those 4 ever challenged for a win or challenged SKY. If kruiswijk isn’t a credible challenger (which is a defendable position) those 4 aren’t either.

Re: Re: Badmouth other riders... Seriously...? "dalen als een oud vrouwtje" as Dumoulin probably said is a harmless comment. It's a Dutch saying that is used in cycling to describe a rider, any rider that isn't very good at descending. By riders, journalists and fans. Just like "Hij sprint...

Re: Re: You're going to have to work on your comprehensive reading ability. He's not crying over Reichenbach's descending skills. He's 2nd guessing his tactics because of Reichenbach's descending skills... Apart from that this whole "Dumoulin always needs others to ride for him" vibe in...

Re: Easy to be gutsy when you're simply better then everybody else...

Valverde If cycling was the same as it was 30+ years ago, and the ~same 180 guys rode races from February till October he'd have a Merkcx-ian palmares.

Re: Contador isn't troubling the leader. Sky is fine with him taking 30 seconds. That doesn't hurt them. Sunweb might lose a podium if they lose 30 seconds. You only let the leader chase when the leader is indeed chasing. If Sunweb does nothing they lose double: Sky isn't wasting energy and...

Can anyone point to the proof that Zakarin climbs better then Kelderman? Maybe he will th coming week, but so far he hasn't and it's purely wishful thinking presented as fact...

Re: Re: Yeah, there seems to be a vibe that Dumoulin has trouble on punchy climbs... But when you look at his results on punchy climbs he's actually good at it...

Re: Re: For years Kickboxing had a terrible image. All Dutch kickboxing events ended up in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Fighting among the crowd. Open drug dealing. A who's-who of top criminals ringside. Nobody talked about what happend inside the ring. But it seems most of that...

Re: Re: Americans do seem to love them... It's clickbait. It's google-ads revenue. And it works.

Re: The timer was off by 15 seconds.

Come on Tom pace yourself to +1 behind van Emden.

He isn't. Watch his interviews. You can tell. Look up his power output over the last 10K yesterday (at the end of a very tough mountain stage). It shows. Fatigue is highly overrated on such a TT. He still has the aero advantage. He still has the power advantage.

Re: So if Dumoulin has the best TT possible, he needs Nibali and Pinot to be mediocre too pass them? Ok...