Recent content by pmcg76

Van Empel does not look fantastic so far, but early days. One new thing I noticed from her today was bunny-hopping the planks. They were not the highest for sure, but I cannot recall her bunny-hopping before. Van Alphen did the same, but outside of Puck, she was one of the few ladies who could...

In one sense, what UAE have done this year without a top tier sprinter is incredible(Reminder HTC had Cav, Greipel, EBH), but on the flip side, they are way too overloaded with talent. I much preferred when teams had 20 riders and talent was more evenly spread. Imagine Cofidis or Arkea with some...

Holmgren did a lot of work in the finale for NFB and still managed to beat most of the group. Really strong ride. I think Kim LeCourt really needs to change the National Champions Jersey, it was quite confusing with her, Vallieres and Moolman-Pasio in the group today. With the Rainbow helmet...

Silver or Bronze doesn't make much difference to a rider as decorated as Van der Breggen, and she had sat on Kasia's wheel the whole time so it was about respect really. If it had been some other Dutch riders, it might have been different.

They came at the end of the Hinault era, he had won 4 Tours before he faced off against either and was coming back from injury in 84 when Fignon was a freak. Just look at the margins of Hinaults victories, twice over 10 minutes. He dominated every bit as much as Pogacar. Roglic is a clone of...

Hinault won his first Tour in 78 and didn't face Fignon/LeMond at the Tour until 84 when he was 29! How is Zoetemelk better than Vingegaard, please explain that one? He couldn't win even when Merckx wasn't there, Ocana, Thevenet, Van Impe all won Tours in the same era. Likewise, Zulle...

How was it more competitive in the eras of Hinault or Indurain? neither of those guys even had a Vingegaard type rival, who managed to beat them a few times. They won their Tours just as easily as Pogacar.

So why bother putting a list then if you don't want discussion. If you compare Pogacar to those other riders at the same age, he should be in the Top 3, that is if it is based on talent like you say.

Yeah, but Pog should be well ahead of him, ahead of Hinault if we look at their careers at the same age.

Where are you from? Ireland Who's your favourite cyclist? The Irish guys and attacking cyclists Your favourite moment in cycling history? LeMond winning in 89 was what got me hooked in cycling, though I do remember Roche winning in 87, but didn't get into it then. What's wrong with cycling...

Before LeMond got shot, he had won 1 Tour, Worlds and a Dauphine at age 25. I like LeMond, but Pogacar was well ahead at the same age in terms of palmares. LeMond was competitive in one day races, but rarely won. Pogacar had 5 monuments by age 25.

But what happened in the Tour le Femme, that is anyway comparable to that incident? or even comparable to the Moser/Fignon incident at the 84 Giro or the Delgado 'bribe' in the 89 Vuelta. There is nothing that happened that you can point at and say that looked a bit iffy, maybe at a stretch...

Is that related to her injury from Worlds a few years back? Can still see the scar clearly. If it is, I would tend to agree. She did a real turn on the front earlier in the stage after many had already been dropped so I was surprised to see she barely made the time-cut. Must be real bad.

Said at the start of the Tour that PFP was an unknown quantity, but could win it and boy did she crush it today. Didn't expect her to be so dominant though, Gigante went as about expected, but the downhills tomorrow will be the real worry for her. Vollering, Niewiadoma, Rooijakers about same...

Puck doesn't look to have the form to do much unfortunately, i think she was going better last year. Disappointing to see Gigante and Rooijakers lose time today, but not exactly shocking considering their descending abilities. I think both will be in the shake-up tomorrow, but whether they can...