Recent content by theyoungest

The Dutch have won 9 out of 10 editions of the women's Euros, so Rabofail doesn't quite apply here :) It was the first ever win of Demi Vollering in orange though.

That's not entirely true, but the culture around it is just totally different. The average person in Flanders knows much more about the sport than the average Dutchman. Ask someone in the Netherlands about Olav Kooij, I bet 90% of people don't know who that is.

Wielerflits has become absolutely terrible the last couple of years, just pure clickbait, but it's not necessarily pro-Dutch or anti-Belgian clickbait. They just know anything Visma (preferably negative) and anything Evenepoel (also preferably negative) will generate clicks. As for my stance...

I don't think Visma have said anything at all about Uijtdebroeks leaving the team, so far. Except for, weirdly enough, Plugge in the Movistar press release. Btw I'm not anti-Belgian. What I cannot stand is the huge nationalistic bias in a lot of your media, which (in my mind) is just unhealthy...

Mostly, everyone was injured. Nobody's forgotten how poor Visma were last year, but it seems you've forgotten why. Uijtdebroeks had some kind of physical complaint as well, it seems they never quite figured out what it was but it's not part of some great malaise at Visma... I still think he...

Why? Remco got dropped fair and square. Whether Pogi will "get away with it" remains to be seen, but he did attack on a climb that clearly suited him much better than Remco, which is not a stupid thing to do.

Nothing's going on. Remco is his usual ridiculous self, just not good enough and blames it on his bike, and on his spare bike. Initially Del Toro seemed the strongest, but now it's clear that Pogi is.

Evenepoel is so ridiculous when he's on a bad day.

The Netherlands always take responsibility, always try to control the race. This year they didn't, and you can see it just disrupt the whole order of things. I don't know how many times Vollering has been the "overwhelming" favourite, but usually when she is she's very much not the wheelsucking...

It's tempting to say she's another Kiesenhofer, but then again, she did drop some very serious WT pros so it probably wasn't a complete one-off. Still she's probably not going to suddenly be a contender in the biggest races.

Italy are used to just follow the Netherlands. Whatever happens, follow the Dutch. If the Dutch then are passive/don't have the legs, they just don't know what to do. I actually liked Vollering's attitude today, basically saying "screw you all, I'm not doing anything". In the end she even won...

One of Le Court's two teammates already out.

I think you underestimate him a bit. He's good vibes, yes, but he also has a bit of snark to him. I think he's not afraid to criticze Lady Demi, or whomever.

If the PFP from the Tour shows up she's the favourite. Otherwise my money is on Le Court. Reusser if the race is really hard and it's a case of woman against woman. The Dutch have a pretty good team on paper but all of them have to finish alone, and none of them have really been dominant in...

Yesterday we've watched some proper dumb tactics from the Belgian U23 men... in the end it didn't really matter because their leader didn't have the legs, but even if he did he would have had a hard time winning the race with those tactics. In elite men's racing we have Movistar, need I say...