Recent content by peterfin

You are mixing up his extroverted character with his mentality. Sometimes he is right, sometimes he overreacts and sometimes he is wrong and you need to give him a moment to see things clearly.

Yes, Vingegaard has shown a winner's mentality too. His comeback if that injury in 2024 was amazing.

That's just cherry picking to fit your narrative.

Probably. It's long ago and difficult to compare with today's performance. To be clear, I am not insinuating he did anything 'special' here. My post was neutral and doesn't really belong in the clinic. I was just very impressed. I thought it would be a battle with Ganna, not a walkover.

Gemini: "A winner's mentality is a powerful mindset characterized by self-belief, resilience, and a relentless pursuit of improvement that allows individuals to overcome obstacles and achieve their goals. Key traits include taking responsibility, persevering through challenges, and viewing...

There must be something that makes him incompatible with the team. I don't know but somebody who is always happy and smiling when talking and is always telling how fantastic things are would get on my nerves, especially early in the morning at breakfast...

With a modem and access to BBS boards (hosted by universities, NASA and others institutes) using a terminal program you could already 'surf' in the late 70's. It was also my first encounter with the internet (in the early 90's).

His late choice to move to a cycling career basically guaranteed that he would take a significant risk and crash a lot. Nevertheless, he did it so all credit goes to him of making that move. His triumphs negate all the sacrifices he had to do to comeback after another crash. And they were not...

Who knows. Maybe he is a friend of Belgian Robert Cailliau (78 yo) who partnered with Berners-Lee to get the WWW started. Maybe it was Merckx who was behind all this? The GOAT! I met Cailliau 20 years ago. I should have asked.

You prove my point. You use your metrics that suits your story. Anyway, we won't agree so let's move on indeed. We will see what the future brings.

As I like to see the glass half full and you half empty regarding Evenepoel and his efforts to challenge Pogacar, I am sure we use different metrics. Being close for me for example means that he didn't lose that much time during the WC RR considering he decided to stop a few times to curse his...

It increased a lot in 2024. Pogacar increased his w/kg efforts by 10% and his recovery is now out of this world. The difference between Remco from LBL 2022 to the giro 2023 (covid exit) and Pogacar 2023 was much closer. However I do think Remco can still close the gap if he is at his peak and in...

The gap between pogi 2023 and pogi 2024 was also too big.

It's always a relative comparison and that has its limits. It looked like a perfect ride from Remco, in a condition of supercompensation apparantly, so it is at least close what we can expect from him in the most optimal conditions. Ganna was probably well-prepared and in great shape but it is...

The time gap is just insane. That headwind provably helped him a bit but regardless, it is insane. Beating Ganna with 43 seconds, who is himself miles ahead of the others with 26 seconds, and this for just a TT of only 25 km and without much climbing. I wonder, did we just witness the best TT...