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Full agree. Will never forget that 'black friday', especially because the box with my long awaited (some socks weren't at stock or something like that) T-Mobile 2006 team gear (I used to be a big Ulligan also and had just bought a road bike) only arrived that afternoon, after that horrible...

Well especially whilst Sky constantly using the 'hardest sporting event on the planet' narrative. That's freaking annoying.

Re: Re: True that. It's highly annoying seeing them winning HC-stages, dropping the rest of the field like stones, without giving the impression of being devastated.

Re: Re: 2nd place is excellent if it's the result of going all guns blazing for a small chance of winning ;).

Quäl dich, Tour-Gott! Oh man, I'm close to tears reading this stuff.

Very good points. The artificiality is something that really annoys me. I don't like this globalized homogenic peloton. Always the same teams and basically the same riders that contest all the important races, most of which are made important only at random. Many beautiful smaller races in the...

Re: Re: It's a bit strange indeed. A couple of years ago Dutch runner Adriënne Herzog almost got her career jeopardized by a journalist who was handed some secret e-mails in which she asked for dope, that was a good bit of digging. But now he rightly chooses to write the more generic pieces...

Re: I guess Tom Boonen would be sixth? Quite surprising not to see him here.

Re: I must admit here and there I saw some eyebrows raised. But lately her results aren't that special anymore so there's not too much reason to focus on that.

Re: Re: Haha, exactly. And also outside the field of sports. The Netherlands are one happy nation where no one even feels the need to be corrupt or to be a fraud.

Re: Re: Sagan is a single rider (who's extreme level of competetiveness wherever and whenever he shows up is seriously questionable though). The problem with Sky is: they do it almost suddenly after their first appearance, they do it with former donkeys compared to the brilliant talents that...

Re: The Dutch media are very strange. In the last couple of years at least in any preview before a big race they made some remarks about 'the D-word', every single newspaper was involved in a quite laughable battle about who could dig the best in the past. That lead to some horribly naive...

Re: Re: Indeed. It's comparable to the F1 hype in my country these days. Tons of people who never really cared about the sport or the culture itself suddenly are making the most noise about it. If you are a genuine lover of the sport cycling and it's culture, you just have to die in front of...

Usually me neither likes this open letter stuff, but this is actually a very good one. Good job MI. And Froome/Sky ofcourse don't need to do anything. But they just take the piss on every real lover of cycling. So rightfully the crowd isn't exactly going to line up to cheer for this wonderful...

Luckily, although many people tend to think otherwise, cycling is about much more than the TdF. And more than the Giro. And more than the Vuelta. Contador attacked for glory at almost ANY of all the MTF's he has ridden, especially since 2011. If he just had aimed for highest as possible he...