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Bang on, G2 syndrome is what kills things, not exciting riders doing exciting things like actually attacking and comitting from a long way out. At some point those guys need to realise that the old rules don't apply just now and you can't just wait for him to come back by himself like anyone...

Things around this are surprisingly interesting - you're dealing with significantly weaker riders but who focus completely and obsessively on one specific type of event. For example, Marcin Białobłocki doesn't have any particularly results to speak of on the continent, but when he came over to...

Again a bit OT, but I enjoyed seeing this advert on my train just now - Heart of Wales / Lein Calon Cymru is a very little used railway line that cuts diagonally across our small but hilly country. It traces out to ~200km so a nice little semi-classic, on paper it looks like always a sprint...

A bit OT but why do we never see profiles with the distance measured back from the finish? Forwards from the start for the riders' version for sure, but for viewers would be much better to have ones that tie up with the countdown distances in the corner of the tv screen. Are we all watching with...

Maybe the question is more, does a strong team identity make it more attractive to future sponsors? In some ways it's easier for someone like Lefevre to get and keep sponsors on the back of such a strong team identity - buy into my team and you're associating yourself with this legacy of...

:p that was part of our regular training routes back when I was racing. But you know, there's about a million ways you could make that stage wayharder and plenty of spare km's you could add to the length, presumably they just didn't want that for the last stage. They've got to be desperately...

True enough, I was expecting something much harder for the Newport-Cardiff stage but there we are. Tumble, it's a shame the Gospel Pass isn't like 20km further south that would be a great combo. Not sure if the Llangynidr mountain road has ever been in a big race (4km @~7.5% descent finishes 5km...

For the people like my parents that love a bit of cycling but don't follow all year round: TdF [biiiiiig gap] Vuelta Olympics Tour of Britain Roubaix Giro For me: RvV TdF Giro Roubaix Worlds MSR Strade Bianchi Liege Olympics Lombardia Olympics is on the way up in prestige; it's hard to be...

I also remain very much still to be convinced, but much the same was said of helmets in the late 90s. Innovation became a necessity. (ps, anyone can look up the death statics pre- and post-Kivilev and decide for themselves whether going for an obvious solution actually helps in this type of...

Strictly speaking Remco is probably right when he says he's the one with the best chance to make up the performance gap to Pogacar. His problem in reality is that he's the guy that also needs to be at the highest Pog% because the two tend to win their races in similar ways (do races have to keep...

This is right. And also the other guys are really not so far behind that it's unbridgable in a Monument if the game plan is perfect. Tadej had (effectively) two teammates in front when he went clear at the Worlds - was it seriously impossible for Belgium or Netherlands to have anticipated...

I wonder about this stuff. Maybe my perception is wrong but it seems to me that one of the responses to the more controlled style of climbing trains has been guys trying to use the descents as a better opportunity for open racing - that descending has in part changed from Savoldelli smoothly and...

Presumably the local coroner will now have to investigate and report on causes of death. In the UK they may well give a narrative judgment along the lines of 'contributed to by neglect' - you'd imagine Swiss law has something similar. And if the pathologist finds she died from complications...

Probably I already pondered too much already when I started this other thread :p nonsense I started anothe thread with and back then I wasn't even really thinking that Pogacar would necessarily beat Merckx's records - only that his at-the-same-age results showed that what we might have thought...

It has to be both these things. For any move like to work it needs the attacker to be super strong and for the others to make mistakes. Pog had the ability to ask the others a really big question and Belgium, and Evenepoel in particular, fluffed their response. Remco can say what he likes...