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So Michael Storer says Pog deliberately threw stage wins in the last week. https://www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/tadej-pogacar-wilde-tourrit-naar-superbagneres-niet-winnen-door-boegeroep-franse-fans/ Due to boos and his team not wanting the French to turn against him. Yep, definitely a healthy...

I don't think so. I reckon if anyone is totally realistic regarding who the strongest in one day races is, it's Rog. And that strongest guy is obviously Pog. He didn't even pretend to do anything other than do whatever Pog needed him to do last year in the Worlds. The big question about the...

Oh sure it was always B.S. He always paid for everyone else's sins. Like in that Vuelta 2023 when Vingegaard kept on attacking Kuss but Rog was labelled the selfish bad guy. So it's not just the almighty Belgians and their narratives. It's cycling and a few of its players. FYI no one spoke...

I'd hope for everyone's sake that Rog manages to sell his domestique credentials to Denk and the other bigwigs. It'll be very important for Rog, his career and his image in the public sphere among cycling followers, i.e. finally shedding his image as #selfishRogla and doing what's right would...

Cycling is also all about the marketing and sponsorships. Rog is a tough sell because futurism in his case barely exists based on how the sport likes its multi-year future plans (which usually come to nothing but in the meantime some people make money and get to keep their jobs based on that...

Honestly I don't get the obsession and constant drama surrounding Rog. Even a terrible Rog got 8th in the TdF. It is what it is and he is who he is. That's not cheap bad sports psychology there it's just a fact. You can't extrapolate (& especially in Vanthourenhout's case because he was about...

If this is real then I'm about to go onto X and join the #TEAMROGLAMOMS in boycotting Red Bull. So where was your boy Evenepoel eh Sven? Stepping off le vélo eh? I guess only other riders can carry injuries and problems than merit a lesser performance. Nah, what sort of asinine commentary is...

Solution: split the team and create a new outfit, like Toro Rosso aka AlphaTauri in f1 is Red Bull's second team. Rog can be leader. Give him a few besties (Tratnik, Vlasov, Denz) and he's good to go. Anywhere. Even the TdF.

Man, if Vayer is all we have on the anti-dope crusade then we're screwed, I'm telling ya... screwed. Seriously. I also think there's some sort of history between Marion Rousse and Vayer as well like bad blood over something he was involved in when he wrote for l'Humanité (& was fired over a...

Any of the usual crowd who talks about doping was buried under the BRAVO CHAMPIONNE onslaught and exploitation of the "emotion" by a very aggressive media. Which is expected these days. So to answer the question, what accusations? The French only care about doping when their own guys and...

Because no one cared until they did. Let's not pretend there's even a real dataset of TdF Femmes (or women GT) 'standards' to base anything on. It's a new race i.e. the first few editions featured memorable events like semi pros ploughing into the bunch in a huge crash because hitting the...

I can't wait for Marianne Vos to live up to that early hype and crush the TdF femmes 2026!

Indeed. And just like after Granon when people defended Vinge's atomic climbing performance that day by stating Pog had cooked himself chasing those dual attacks (which was true to an extent), i.e. explanations and excuses (in the clinic) which were blown away when Vinge demolished Pog on...

It's not just perception that Rog rides with a Damocles sword over his head, it's the truth. The big elephant in the room is his 2025 season went to hell irrevocably when he crashed on the gravel in the Giro and his injuries got infected. But due to a myriad of factors he's constantly being...

Interesting read, thanks. I don't perceive women's cycling as a separate entity per se though. It's too reductive and too binary considering the actual reality of what we're seeing and 'who' these top performing cyclists ride for, aka teams and people highly involved with the men's side of...