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Who had forecast Inge Van der Heijden to win the women's race?

I said it was zero logic to criticise riders like those mentioned who do far more to earn their wins than sprinters ever do. One is criticised, the other lauded. Its not a different perspective, its the realty.

By that logic, sprinters and their teams are "stealing" chances from all the other riders in the peloton by shutting races down. How many breaks are caught right at the end of a race only for a sprinter who hasn't done a tap of work all race to come through to take the win. That is more akin to...

What a clown, how many guys got busted in 2008 alone? Also Petacchi was still a top sprinter in Cavs early years, and he was mid 30s at that point. Hushovd, Freire, McEwen, Zabel, Dean, Hunter, Cooke, Boonen all raced though the Armstrong years and were still up there in the Cav era. Were they...

Something I will never understand is how guys like Rui Costa or Gerrans will get flak for wheelsucking, yet sprinters are celebrated for doing far, far less than those examples. Zero logic.

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...