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That UAE doesn't know what co-leader actually means? As for the rest. Galibier last year with Almeida not being happy.... Sunday dropping that early. Sunday maybe he couldn't have been much help once Vingegaard went. And nobody really expected him to go that early, if he hadn't Ayuso wouldn't...

Somehow not really sure if adding Remco really makes that much sense for Red Bull Bora... but ok, they think it does, so here he is. Of course, having Remco is good, but on the other hand they had quite a good team, that didn't fully deliver in 25 to be fair, without him, add Remco and the...

Giuseppe Saronni! But well, only knew Saronni and Moser, a bit later some more... and soon realized that Saronni wasn't really all that great. Then once saw a bit more got better choices: -Marco Giovannetti, Federico Echave, Franco Chioccioli, Laudelino Cubino. Fabio Parra over Herrera of...

Well, but it's also the recent VDP that stands out. 24-25: 2 Roubaix, 1 Sanremo, 1 Ronde. Also 2 E3. Pogacar since 21 per season, just monuments: 2-1-2-2-2.

Something went wrong here: In the races you listed, so ignoring the "such as" VDP has 10 wins. 8 monuments, Amstel and WC. If "such" includes E3, it's 12, if it includes Strade Bianche, it's 13, if it includes Dwars it's 15. Pogacar? 9 monuments, 2 Flèche, 1 Amstel, 1 WC, 13. Nothing changes...

But maybe they already have? At some point blaming the team, blaming his trainers, blaming him for his training becomes ridiculous. It's not like he's riding 20' behind everybody else, beaten by Gall and Gaudu, Mas and McNulty. He's number 3. Last year he was clearly beaten by Pogacar and...

The so called "haters" strangely enough seemed to have all the information necessary. Very nice of the fanboys to acknowledge that Bernal won that. Fair! Also irrelevant, it's the predictions, that were hilariously over-optimistic that count. Since he wasn't able to start in 20, the reality...

The same members that told us he'd win the 2021 Giro at the start and during the first week of that Giro. So the track record for the predictions of those members might not be the best.

I googled something too. Highest paid Rugby player in 2025 gets 1.2 million Euros google told me. Or Volleyball., 1,4 millions. For all the mad growth and enormous market share, that has cycling on the brink of extinction, oddly the top salaries in cycling are higher. Market shares? What market...

Well, so far this "wrong moment" has cost him what? Lombardia 24? That's about it. WC 24, without Pogacar that would have been ridden so differently, it's impossible to say who would have won, but yes, Remco with chances. But for the most part this 'wrong moment', the Pogacar era, simply hasn't...

If your sponsor calls it quits, usually there is somebody to take over. As for Cycling becoming less popular? Based on what? A Brit just won the Giro ahead of a Mexican ahead of a Ecuadorian. Guess how much of the Giro people saw there in the 70es? Guess how many watched it there this year...

That's old school. Where you didn't attack on Mortirolo, because tempo was enough. Attacks, you paid for that later. Nowadays they seem good enough to do the attacks and not pay later. I don't think Carapaz paid for the attacks. Or Del Toro for following. It was deciding not to follow or then...

Except that he has no teammates capable of doing that. No, what I meant is at some point it became clear that Del Toro could answer the accelerations. Ok, then try to ride him of the wheel. But Carapaz has to do that all on his own.

No, makes little sense. He refused to ride in the climb. Afraid to be attacked and dropped by Carapaz. This makes sense. But once Yates advantage went up over 40-50" taking that risk would have made sense too. Asking Carapaz to ride with him in the valley then, he can try, but it certainly made...

Of course they will make similar routes. It works! It works! No, it really doesn't. It was a nice series of pretty exciting stages. But unimportant for the GC. Then the last week, all open on Finestre, big change of maglia rosa, of course now Vegni and co are convinced they did everything...