Recent content by staubsauger

Sunday reminded me of 2013 Dwars door Vlaanderen when locomotive Stannard reeled-in Voeckler only for Boasson Hagen completely dying in the final sprint just like Sam Watson. Luckily locomotive Ganna pulled it off himself this time!

Exactly. If Hagenes preserves this shape for 1 1/2 weeks he's THE big joker for Paris-Roubaix indeed!

Maybe Visma should've ridden for their strongest rider instead of letting Hagenes work, attack, disturb until he's tuckered out!?

Ayuso seems to have a stinker subscription. First his nasty achilles verse inflammation. Then he ruins his season with the nonsense idea of riding the Tour de France as Co-leader. Crashes and hurts himself during the Giro d'Italia. Plays offended and isn't ready once he finally gets the Vuelta...

I was only being half serious with the point being that in 2016 nobody knew that Thomas in retrospective would become quite a handy general classification contender. Same goes for Martinez. Maybe he becomes a fantastic pure climber on his day with a nice kick to secure points for the polka dots...

At Paris-Nice? Alberto Contador!

Yeah really poor compared to world class riders like Sandy Casar, Antonio Colom or Jörg Jaksche which podiumed Paris-Nice before!

Gavia 88 is a bit extreme, but nowadays race days like Les Deux Alpes 1998 get altered or canceled.. That just can't be right.

At least you could have given @Red Rick the favor to post the video with Mart Smeets commentating! 😄

The Van Dijke bros are incredible domestiques! Big misjudgement by Visma to let them go!

Decathlon is going to become the Paris Saint-Germain of cycling. They already have an ideal super-domestique in Riccitello for Seixas. Likely have a good shot at getting Valentin Paret-Peintre back from Quick Step if they want to. Lapeira is a handy rider that can become their Lauren Brochard...

In the TF1 years I do think so, yes!

I would have expected Vacek or Teutenberg to step up in absence of Pedersen. Both weren't fielded today, just Milan. Maybe that was the simple fault. Lidl overestimated his ability/shape for today

Again no Van der Poel?

Evenepoel won a 2022 Vuelta a Espana where he was able to come from altitude camp in peak shape and hit the hardest 2 mountains still being super fresh. Afterwards there hardly were any true obstacles. Neither @Libertine Seguros nor @hrotha with full Spanish patriotism considered that specific...