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Yeah Kämna said something along those lines. That the physical weighed on his mental and that a break was needed.

He got blasted by Denk who called him a liar and refused to recognize his mental issues. You won’t read about that on social media though… Hope he gets back soon.

There’s been talk of offers close to 3M EUR... If it’s true that Almeida wants to go to a team where he can get leadership and support then he’s better off at DQT (Movistar: Mas, Soler, MAL), Bora (names already mentioned by Logic + possible Hindley and Cian already next year), UAE (Pogacar...

As to that last part...QST offered him a renewal last year. Reaction of Almeida and his agent: « ow don’t worry about renewing now, no need to talk, we can do that later ». In the meantime he already had an offer from UAE (or another team) and supposedly an (verbal?) agreement of some sorts. So...

Politt and Schachmann (if we’re counting other years) ? That makes 5.

It will be interesting to see what happens this weekend. Both stages have climbs that should suit Evenepoel better (just like yesterday). On one hand it’s probably best to just keep calm and save energy for the really big mountain stages but one has to wonder if he shouldn’t try to get some...

IF he continues I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s with a different team.

LMAO at Bora. Denk is feeling the pressure from his sponsors to go big. So he’ll just propose (big) contracts to about any big name that’s free on the market or any youngster with potential. Curious as to how the sale pitch goes to all these guys... “Hey man, we believe you to be the next big...

My take (spoiler: this might be highly unpopular): Groenewegen recently through interviews made it seem like they had a good conversation, that they both felt good about it and feels like he can move on from there. In the meantime he’s expressed he felt sorry for what happened... Now I can...

You’d have to think he’s missing some « base » form after all these months + competition rythme. Coming back in competition after such a long time is pretty confronting for your body. A few (ex)pro’s recently attested to that. It did look like he was hurting himself in the Ardennes these last 2...

Must have missed it then. Good to hear. A latest report from within the team also indicates that everything went very smoothly in Spain and that he’s on track for the Giro.

Maybe I already forgot what was being said, but I don’t remember the conversation going that way. It was more like: « Is he back to pushing the same numbers as before his crash »? To which Steels answered: « Well it’s certainly going in the right direction, let’s put it like that » after which...

The coolest name ever was Crescenzo D’Amore

Here’s the author and interviewer’s take on the matter. Spoiler: she says it got completely taken out of context. View: https://twitter.com/braeckmanann/status/1371168270993268741?s=21

Yeah the goal was Ballerini. At one point with about 350 to go I think, JA was trying to back off and let Ballerini go in MVDP’s wheel. For some reason the Italian then seemed to let JA stay in front anyway, even letting Higuita getting in front of him because of it. Lack of...