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Best parcours for a while. It's not overly backloaded. as has been the case in the last years. Aosta is very short, prefer it longer, but by having nothing at all the next day, there should be action. With Pila being long probably only will really take off on the final climb, but that's good...

No he didn't. Pogacar cooked himself. Very strong Evenepoel caught him. 8km to go. Tried to go past and their Pogacar had trouble for a moment. And then? They lost 10" or so to the group behind... There was absolutely ZERO cooking going on there. The cooking was the chase, which was impressive...

Revisionism trading high right now I guess? The "jump" by Pogacar from 24 on is incredibly overstated. The watts! Plateau de Beille. Whatever, you guys really think everybody just got sooooo much better in one year? So that the lower number Pogacar of 20-21 would be beaten by x riders from 24...

Ah, that's the new narrative I see. Remco the only one trying. Mathieu too, but since it's only in 3 races really, hardly counts. Remco is the man. Pogacar's equal when it comes to mentality! Vingegaard of course never ever tries to beat Pogacar, no winning mentality. Nobody tries but Remco...

Well, the only proposals we ever read are: Teams want part of the TV money in some form or other. So what is your solution? In the stuff you wrote below you never address the problem organizers have. You address team problems, can even agree with UAE, Bahrain etc that shouldn't be there...

And the answer is to give teams money from TV income? Yeah, that will work, less money for the organizers! Maybe the opposite is necessary? Have the team-sponsors pay a fee to the organizers for the advertisement!

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...