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    Jumbo - QuickStep merger

    I'm sure Ala' will be picked up by a French team at least, no matter how declining.
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    Team Visma LAB

    Typical Clinic bias, this thread is booming while no one dares to comment the suspicious results of Pog' in this Vuelta.
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    Teams & Riders The Great Big Cycling Transfers, Extensions, and Rumours Thread

    I would imagine Louis is not a cheap rider to contract though. But he's exactly the right profile for a super dom on the Tour.
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    Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

    I mean it will also happen if he drops them.
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    The Real Football Thread

    German team struggling at football ? You hate to see it. (Sorry. Atavism...)
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    The Real Football Thread

    I think the "Serie A is bad" mostly boils down to the big Italian clubs missing out or getting dropped out of the latest steps of escalation for capital concentration / liberalism in football + the national team having erratic results which is, IMO, interpreted as formation and development of...
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    General Doping Thread.

    Put that on the account of a decaying brain and foggy memories from 25 years ago.
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    General Doping Thread.

    The sentence was apocryphal as I edited above but I do remember some of his excuses in his apologetic book written right in the heels of 1998 that in spirit were pretty close to that, yes. When I say "spiked bottle" it was as a label for the non specific cross contamination of unknown origin.
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    General Doping Thread.

    Edit : After double checking, he never said that phrase, it was the writers of the puppet show Les Guignols who attributed it to him and it became embedded with his character, mimicking some of his excuses and his style. Leaving my following message as is as an humbling experience. I guess...
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    General Doping Thread.

    I guess you're thinking of "Dopé à l'insu de mon plein gré" which doesn't translate well because Virenque conflated and misused two idioms creating an oxymore. "Doped unwittingly of my own free will" is the best approximation I can make.
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    Tour de Pologne 2023 (July 29th - August 4th)

    Going to be awkward on the team bus.
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    Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

    Only way to know how Remco would do in the Tour is entering him... But it could also decrease his value if he is not competing as high as hoped. I think he is chomping to the bits to try though. Would be a waste to wait for him to be 25 before making his big start.
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    Teams & Riders The Remco Evenepoel is the next Eddy Merckx thread

    Patrick Lefevere has been complaining that inquiries were so incessant for Evenepoel they were "harassment" (in his usual moderate style). We know some people thought a little about what would be an acceptable contract buyout fee. It's definitely something in the air along with rumors of the...
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    Tour de Pologne 2023 (July 29th - August 4th)

    Narrow corridor to hard corner to autobahn strip is something. The change of scale in the video is jarring.