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Looks like the next thing will be a new category in every race from now on, the WP or "Without Pogi category", which apparently MVDP won today. Per his team "It's difficult to call this a defeat". Will there be a special set of prizes and medals for that? Something like in the NBA they have the...

Now PR is the most important race of them all. I really hope he doesn't win it this year already. It is the last thing causing him great desire. Everything else he's won. Perhaps he has to tie some loose ends like 5th Tour, Vuelta, etc. But in essence, PR is what is keeping the primordial fire...

Next thing we'll be discussing is if it's possible to win multiple races in a single day. Perhaps Tour De France and Tour of Magnificent Qinghai 2026? Tour of the Alps and La Flèche Wallonne? Chuck Norris could do it in the olden days, why not Pogi?

Looks like pole vaulting has it's own stars and fans. Maybe that's what cycling is missing?

Is it possible that .. I mean .. the motorcade was well organised. And who was the guy trying to high-five in the middle of the road, after the finish line, but Pogi just ignored him? Is this all .. ah, nevermind.

This looked like a post Tour/something criterium. Looking at Pogi. Then the camera switched to the peloton and it looked like 2015 WC RR.

Ah, yes. So the difference is not in terms of sport relevance but in TV impact, that is commercial. Yes, that is always the end goal. Even TDF was concieved as newspaper promotion. The Olympics weren't, but turned out just the same. So, we need Pogi to stop winning so that big corporations can...

I don't hear a lot about National Olympic Committees planning on "how to dismantle domination" of Armand Duplantis, or that "the sport is dying" because of him. Not a lot of fanatics putting "underbelt jumper" stickers on him either. I don't see a lot of high jumpers crying or kicking bottles or...

It's always interesting how people try to come up with strategies for a lesser rider to defeat a stronger one. I understand rooting for the underdog, but i take that to mean "to become a better rider" or "rise to the occasion" rather than "to find a weird tactic". In any athletic sport, 99% of...

Here's my first attempt. Data taken of course from PCS, the GOAT of cycling stats. Methodology: take a cycling race and evaluate it as a series of one-to-one matches. Then calculate ELO of riders with this system. From 1900 - 2025, each year 15 ELO points are reduced from each rider and riders...

Who is the greatest composer of all time? What about the greatest painter? Mathematician? Rock band? We think we know who the tallest person ever was, except we aren't sure since not all people have been measured in meters and recorded. And a certain great writer put it this way "The only thing...

A rider becomes the World Champion. Then you look at his palmares on PCS and it hardly changed. Only in the fifth row of best results a number went from 1 to 2. How much longer this will go on, no one knows. But it's become like a supermario game or something. Just collecting. Where and how...

Pity we will never see Frogačar. Is it even possible? Perhaps if he lets Remco take yellow?

Looks like Pogi is a climber again according to PCS, switched roles with Vinge who is a gc specialist.

I had to google that. Thank you, it's great.