Recent content by Rule #9 apostle

imagine pog telling giannetti hey, i'm feeling ready for the vuelta, i want to try to win it this year and mauro going meh, we're not selecting you.

The pressure comes from winning what is in front of him, and beating those he is actually competing with. When you are expected to win something, the external and internal pressure builds. I don't think athletes in the middle of their career have any time or find any value in counting and...

Three of your break companions crashing out and the remaining two just stopping for no particular reason with 16 ks to go is a comically "bad" way of winning a bike race! (Great ride, fully deserved, and 10 gt wins across all three tours is an awesome achievement.)

I might be overvaluing the tour, but in my opinion the number of gts he needs is equal to the number of tours he needs. 6. In an era of (at least) two other all time great gt riders winning the big cheese 6 times would do it irrespective of how many times he bothers to race the other ones. If...

Cyclists are probably the most consistently petty athletes in the world

I think that first week of pure classics racing must have been insanely intense. The whole peloton has been running on fumes for the last week. Maybe with the exception of Arensman. He probably stayed out of that and now he is the only guy left standing

Even after the 'perfect' tour last year he was too tired for the Vuelta. I don't think anyone watching him over the last week would say he is in a good place to jump straight to a new three-week Visma-assault in Spain. Of course i would love to see it. It would make for great viewing and i...

Visma's masterplan of making bike racing as unpleasant, tiresome and boring as possible for pog is working perfectly. Pog at the finish today looks like a guy ready to put the bike in the shed.

I think it was fine to go hard on the climb and see how it shakes out. But it shook out just about as bad as possible

What is leknessund up to though?

Beautiful climb

Visma going nowhere now, they should slow down and try again with yates-kuss-jorge up the loze

Jorgenson not going fast at all though

Was surprised by the same thing seeing him live in the ronde. When he is fighting the big guys up the oudenaarde he genuinely looks like a middleschooler

and even being all time leader with 4 is not completely beyond the realms of possibility