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Geraint Thomas best climbing performances: Monte Bondonne (Giro 23), La Plagne (Dauphiné 21), Val Thorens (TDF 20), Monte Termenillo (Tirreno 17), Alpe d'Huez (TDF 22), Plateau de Beille (TDF 15) Pogi: Plateau de Beille (TDF 24), Isola 2000 (TDF 24), Combloux (Dauphiné 25), Sormano (Lombardy...

haha, my favorite riders from the past all doped But UAE is just ridiculous and making my favorite sport look ridiculous, that's what 90% of the critics hate.

Comparing a game vs a sport. :-) They did pump Messi full of growth hormones as a youth player — otherwise there would have been no talk of all those Ballon d'Ors. In cycling, doping has perhaps the most significant effect — along with weightlifting and athletics. And Pogi improving by 10%...

Cancellara was motordoping 100%, Roubaix was way more obvious. In the Ronde it's the bikechanges giving it away. Losing a mechanic mid race in the hectics of the race they said, than suddenly the mechanic is next to the parcours in another village and Cancellara knows this and changes his bike...

I saw that too, but Strava has a setting were you don't show the first and last part of your rides, to don't show where you live. I use it myself on Strava. I think this is turned on on his account.

On Belgian TV he told he had to chase 30k after the crash, it took a lot of energy, that's why he gambled on Gulperberg by taking it more easy and reload a little bit. And then from Keutenberg go full gas again.

He said it happened before the Gulperberg (so 112,9km from the finish), Narvaez was the one who crashed and his bike took out Remco.

MSR and Flanders were great, this one ... mwah, almost as boring as last years big races. To many crashes for my taste and the flat tire of Pedersen destroyed the chance for a trilling final.

Don't know the english word, sports prediction with friends :)

Did he start or did he stop after a few km's? Important for our prono :-)

He is now, first they had 6 riders, than Carapaz stood in the list as number 7 and now it has Healy as the 7th rider

No Healy? Is he sick?

Compare this to Remco and you can put the "talent-card" away

I don't buy it, it's not like every race in the past was ridden the same way. Gilbert won RVV from 100K, there where editions that were almost bunchsprints, it's always different. And they don't only ride faster the first hours of a race, just look at Strava. They are also smashing all records...

I agree that bikes get better, but one thing in the equation that's also quiet important, now they are way faster than a peloton that was juiced up for 99%. Climbing times of Pogi and Vingegaard are close to those of the most juiced up performances ever ... And in GT's it's all in almost every...