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    Teams & Riders The Red Bull - Bora - Hansgrohe team thread

    They make an echelon and do another TTT with Remco doing 50% of the work and the others giving him just enough time to recover. Total carnage.
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    Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti

    I watched cycling for 40 years. You could consider them stupid movies . I have seen many stupid things, including from those I was a fan of too. Ullrich just to name one... You say this is Europe but standards differ. Eastern Europe has its problems and the influence of entities such as UAE is...
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    Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti

    There is nothing 'twisted' in my logic. You are reading things I did not say. I am not saying that ITA is playing dirty. Compare it with corrupt politics and the law. It is not because there is a trustworthy system in place to ensure the law is enforced that there are no corrupt politicians...
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    Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

    It was a Mas-terpiece. Performance-wise it was his carreer top apparantly.
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    Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti

    Saying the UCI has "no influence whatsoever" and the ITA is "completely independent" is too strong. The ITA is an independent foundation, but it operates as a service provider under a contract or mandate from the UCI. The UCI is its "client." The rules the ITA enforces are the UCI Anti-Doping...
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    Teams & Riders Tadej Pogačar discussion thread

    Controversy sells.
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    Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

    You sounded as if he has anything to prove by riding LBL. If the Giro becomes his main target, he should focus on that. He can try MSR and RVV in the spring if that works for him in the build up. That would be something.
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    Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

    I tell you what the facts are. I am not telling you if he or anyone else is satisfied with it. This thread is full of subjective interpretations about what he should be, should do or thinks. So, no, objectively speaking he doesn't have bad GC results at all. Is Pogi better? Obviously, yes. Pogi...
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    Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

    "...crazy bad at stage rages ..." Since turning pro he has 12 GC wins and 18 GC podiums or 2 wins and 3 podiums on average per year.
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    Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti

    Red Bull's cycling team budget is less than UAE and Red Bull's overall marketing budget is less than UAE's marketing capabilities too. UAE has the third largest sovereign wealth assets in the world (2.5 trillion USD).
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    Results of clean riders

    So you mean that Roglic is the actual GOAT?
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    Teams & Riders The Big 6

    Indeed but not by all current posters
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    Teams & Riders The Big 6

    We should refine the definition: a rider is considered part of the "Big X" if he wins almost everytime when he starts and he is in shape and no other one of this group is present in either road races or a stage races (or both) considering that the race is a target to win (e.g. not a bunch sprint...
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    Teams & Riders The Big 6

    Or maybe we should call it The Big One instead?