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He's losing 10 secs per KM. Gotta be there unless Pogi lifts up the pace

A bit of PCM and fantasy cycling here: I would take the Wanty licence and riders, sell Girmay to Astana (bye utterly annoying Eritrean fans, let Vino handle their antics) and bring Beckmoers, Craps, De Buyst, De Lie, De Schuyteneer, Menten, Van Eetvelt and Widar. That completes a balanced 2026...

According to the article about the fusion, Francesco Busatto is heading to Alpecin.

Don't like it at all.

To sum up my thoughts: Pogi should be okay. Eye test of the crash tells he got up extremely quickly, he was pedalling fine, he moved along okay after finishing the stage. When a heavy crash takes place you can't get up as quick as that. Even if you are the top favourite if you are damaged you...

I think everyone is panicking too much. He looked okay, the crash wasn't that hard. Don't think this will be a relevant factor of the outcome of the race.

Completely jinxed him

If you have a couple of euros to spend, place a bet for Dylan Teuns in yellow after today's stage. I would bet it's either him or VDP in yellow today.

It was Rickaert who is one of the most disgusting riders in the peloton. I've seen a couple of really dangerous and intentional moves by him in the past.

He's always been linked with Ineos, precisely. I think he will end up there.

Yeah, I know, an infamous five year window spearhearded by the nefarious Sky train and Purito. Thank god that era is over. Anyways what i wanted to stress is this kind of racing is not modern cycling, but traditional cycling.

Nothing against your post, but I found funny that longer efforts on the mountains are perceived as modern cycling, when it's the opposite. Muritos and wall climbs are modern cycling, GC was traditionally built on long and sustained efforts on multi mountain stages and really long TTs...

UNO-X is absolutely flying. Johannessen will be a Top-5 contender. At this stage, it looks like a fight between Picnic, Wanty and Uno-X for the last spot. Cofidis is likely out of the question.

Zimmermann and Rutsch there?

I don't think the team selection is that bad. Roglic' limit, under normal circumstances (i.e. no DNF from Pogi / Vingegaard), is a 3rd place. They are never going to control the race, so they will be fine with just Lipowitz and Aleks on the proper mountain stages. Dani Martinez and Adria are...