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Finally a World Champion... in 70.3 Ironman age group 40-44. https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/former-olympic-cycling-champion-greg-van-avermaet-wins-70-3-ironman-world-title-in-his-age-group/ Unsurprisingly the only age-grouper to go sub-2.18 on the bike (2.16)

With running times like that... can the man swim? Give him some lessons and with his natural ability sure he would be a pretty good swimmer quickly. Would be fun to see. He is a better runner and cyclist than Cameron Wurf who has a 5th, 7th and 9th place finishes at the Ironman Worlds and has...

Kind of crazy how many guys are bowing out this season within 10 wins of 100 all-time. Kristoff (98) Demare (97) Viviani (90) Only 36 riders ever have 90+ pro wins and 3/5 of the active riders who have hit that mark are retiring at the end of this season. With these guys gone... Tadej...

It could depend where Gee signs next and whether the UCI place sanctions against him etc. As well as how his contract etc is laid out... as he resides in Spain and works mainly in the EU and will be paying taxes in Spain etc and therefore likely considered an EU based worker... complex and...

I mean, given the Diarra case a lot of governing bodies should be a bit wary of escalating. The ECJ ruling in that case will be replicated for other bodies aside from FIFA if it gets that far. And sure now CAS are going to adjust some of their rulings going forward given that case.

Not the best sprinter not the best bike handler not the best on flat cobbles not the best TTer not the best descender... Everything else? Yeh... he is the best I guess.

From what I understand... Disc wheels started in the mid 80s, and I think the first aerobikes were designed for the 1984 Olympics on track. Later 80s were when tri bars were first used, famously by LeMond. After that was when the whole TT specialist bikes and "aero" components kicked off in a...

I don't think Pogi has proved himself the GOAT yet... Merckx still is.

I had never looked into Anquetil's TTs properly until recently... I think on balance he is the best. 9x Grand prix des nations wins when it was basically the World TT Champs. Hinault also won 5x... 1965 Chrono? Anquentil averaged 47km an hour... for 74km... he had a 48km average for a 50km...

Jaques Anquetil wasnt exactly a big bruiser... relative to era the best TTer of all time really. 9x winner of Grand Prix des Nations, which was in effect at the time the TT Worlds. Hinault was also fantastic in flat TTs. Ofc you also have Cancellara, Martin and a host of others who are big...

Tarling I guess died in the last few km... or Hayter did an insane final negative split. Lost 8 seconds relative to Ethan Hayter over the final ~2:40 of their respective TTs.

Not too often you see a high-level TT with EVERYONE on the course at the same time... guess will just about happen and Evenepoel will start before Ilic finishes.

Really hope he can win either Ronde or Roubaix in the next few years... will need some real luck or a crash from VdP I guess, seems Roubaix more likely due to Pogi being as good/better than VdP in Flanders. heck, was not so long ago it seemed likely he might be able to win 4/5 monuments! If he...

Because I think the "ethos" of the worlds in general is historically/should be slightly less specialised than the most specialised terrains. This was the "hardest" Ardenny type course in history and harder than LBL really. I am fine with that every now and again, lets say once every 5 years or...

Can only imagine how much the last 40km were... he lost probably 7 minutes relative over those last 40km once dropped, and seemed on the limit until the end of the race. 1:45 per 10km lost while working hard? Must have been up to his neck in lactate.