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Second most - first is Menchov winning 2009 Giro. Anyways, GOAT

Instantly reminded me of late Antoine Demoitie who was run over by a race motorbike in 2016 GW - His wife is now married to Vervaeke.

What a stage. This is why Paris Nice is (usually) the best stage race of the season.

@search Have you read anything about Zimmermann lately? He has notably underperformed since crashing out of TdF.

This kind of stuff is usually clinic related. Let's see if there is any development soon.

The Evenepoel case is very simple - He is the best Time Triallist in the world, second best rider for mid - mountain parcours (close to Pogi and miles ahead of everyone else) and "average" for a GC rider on the high mountains. He demolishes everyone else except Pogi in shorter climbs and is...

Johansen is a big powerhorse. I never understood why Wanty let him go in the first place back in 2023. He deserved the win.

Happy for Arne. Hope he gets more chances. A mistake for Lotto lo leave him out the team. There was room for De Lie, De Schuyteneer and him.

So gutted for him. Crossing fingers he will be in shape for chasing the podium in Roubaix.

Luca Paolini was caught using a phone as well in a Vuelta stage 10 years ago. By the way, Firstcycling has Vermaerke in the front group now. This looks like another UAE 1-3-5 or something like that. Without Dunbar and Double no one is going to challenge them (Voisard, Eulalio, Garofoli...

So hyped to see Alexandre Mayer, Giorgios Bouglas and Clement Alleno light it up the Paterberg and make Fabio Roscioli climbing Xorret de Cati look like Pantani in his prime.

Good start for the Wanty boys. Rex with a powerful sprint to 4th and Page with a very good lead-out for Fretin.

Thing is this Wildcard systems was allegedly designed to avoid piss-poor teams to enter big races, but you have Burgos, which is nerfing amateur asian races to enter the Top30 but quality-wise is probably a fringe Top-50 team, riding races like Giro and Omloop Het Volk.

Burgos getting Omloop and possibly Giro means the wildcard system is a complete nonsense. Tarteletto, Wolker-Vessels or any other belgium / dutch CT would make more sense than Burgos. The same with Solution Tech or MBH Bank - Ballan.

Vuelta is the perfect race for one hit wonders. Nozal in the early 00s, Peter Velits in 2010, Horner in 2013, Carthy in 2020, etc. Anyways there's obviously a non-disclosed issue with Carthy, given he did not race since June. He was also supposed to be contracted until 2026, the team did not...