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Yeah, but presumably (hopefully) Gillespie will get better at positioning. She’s only in the WWT for a few weeks and podium finishes here, at Samyn and at the the Omloop von het Hageland is pretty good going.

If Carapaz just doesn’t have GC form, due to a crash and an illness, then it isn’t really a big tactical decision to focus on stages. I agree with the people saying that they will have him try to hang on in GC for a while anyway, just in case the form is coming back, but the squad has clearly...

Is Chaves still Colombian champion?

Smashing the national rrs today

In Ireland the early attack by the strongest riders succeeded and killed the peloton. There’s now 8 of them approaching the finale, constantly attacking each other. Group includes Rafferty, Dunbar, Townsend.

In Ireland it’s the usual pattern: the WT/PT pros plus a few of the strongest other guys attack from near the start so there’s no traditional break and no tactical messing around with large domestic teams.

You can see how the premodern era of giants with legendary palmares works very easily right now by looking at the women’s sport. Teams, tactics and training are less professionalised because there’s less money in the sport. The participant base is smaller, so the talent pool is less deep...

Lara Gillespie (UAE Development) won in Antwerp, with Zoe Backstedt (Canyon SRAM) in 2nd and Sanne Cant (Felixstowe-Deceuninck) in 3rd. I don’t think an Irish woman has ever won a 1.1 race before?

That’s a pretty dismal showing. Is there no way to arrange it on a weekend when more of the top pros will turn up?

Come on, if you don’t bury Philipsen now, you deserve to lose

Philipsen puncturing preserves a tiny bit of suspense

Pays de la Loire obviously isn’t the biggest race, but that was an encouraging performance. Van Den Berg is turning into a very useful second tier sprinter, there was strong domestique work from a couple of neopros and Healy is showing form at the right time.

Lol good

No, you simply took Lefevere‘s claims at face value, treating them as facts, because you are a sycophant.

This is just as stupid as your previous contribution. Bennett got injured. The injury was very clearly real and with the benefit of three years of hindsight we can now divide his career quite cleanly into the period before and after that injury. There may have been all kinds of disagreements...