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Looks like it. He was absent for a while.Adam Yates looks back in topshape!
Maybe the swapping identity theories were right all along!The Yates career trajectories don't make any sense to me. Both were seen as TdF top 10 guys who could win GT stages if they went into breakaways. Then from one year to another Simon reaches ultra mythical climber status, just to lose it again the next year. Simon is subsequently seen as the better one of the two. Until at age 30 Adam suddenly makes a jump and is now looking even better than his brother. I don't get it. It's not like Adam was riding for teams known for underperforming.
Have you checked UAEs results by any chance?The Yates career trajectories don't make any sense to me. Both were seen as TdF top 10 guys who could win GT stages if they went into breakaways. Then from one year to another Simon reaches ultra mythical climber status, just to lose it again the next year. Simon is subsequently seen as the better one of the two. Until at age 30 Adam suddenly makes a jump and is now looking even better than his brother. I don't get it. It's not like Adam was riding for teams known for underperforming.
The Yates career trajectories don't make any sense to me. Both were seen as TdF top 10 guys who could win GT stages if they went into breakaways. Then from one year to another Simon reaches ultra mythical climber status, just to lose it again the next year. Simon is subsequently seen as the better one of the two. Until at age 30 Adam suddenly makes a jump and is now looking even better than his brother. I don't get it. It's not like Adam was riding for teams known for underperforming.
Yeah, getting fourth in that Tour does not move the needle.he was 4th at the TDF in 2016 age 24. 2nd at the Dauphine in 2018 age 26.
Riders going to UAE and suddenly becoming world beaters is mostly a myth. What rider other than Yates, already had a decent palmares prior to joining UAE, and then far surpassed his results from before the team switch? The cliche that riders get way better there is honestly mostly based on Yates himself.Have you checked UAEs results by any chance?
I thought exactly this, their performances never made sense to me, in grand tours itself, excelling and then cracking massively, but also in career trajectory. For all we know Simon will be the best in the next two years again whilst Adam suddenly retires.The Yates career trajectories don't make any sense to me. Both were seen as TdF top 10 guys who could win GT stages if they went into breakaways. Then from one year to another Simon reaches ultra mythical climber status, just to lose it again the next year. Simon is subsequently seen as the better one of the two. Until at age 30 Adam suddenly makes a jump and is now looking even better than his brother. I don't get it. It's not like Adam was riding for teams known for underperforming.
Every youngster that joins them starts flying instantly. Politt joins at instnatly gets top 5 at RVV and PR. Wellens joins and instantly starts making top 5s at cobbled classics and getting his best monument results since 2018/2019. Ineos Yates collapsing was by a rando UAE domestique on a cat2.Yeah, getting fourth in that Tour does not move the needle.
Riders going to UAE and suddenly becoming world beaters is mostly a myth. What rider other than Yates, already had a decent palmares prior to joining UAE, and then far surpassed his results from before the team switch? The cliche that riders get way better there is honestly mostly based on Yates himself.
Plus an epic blowup that we will remember more than some of the wins!Simon has won a GT and ten GT stages. Adam has a way to reach these heights.
To this day I maintain him attacking the best GC riders of his day, winning 3 stages then blowing up spectacularly was far more valuable than going steady for a podium, which he might've been able to do. Proper cycling, no brains all sensations.Plus an epic blowup that we will remember more than some of the wins!![]()
Politt:Yeah, getting fourth in that Tour does not move the needle.
Riders going to UAE and suddenly becoming world beaters is mostly a myth. What rider other than Yates, already had a decent palmares prior to joining UAE, and then far surpassed his results from before the team switch? The cliche that riders get way better there is honestly mostly based on Yates himself.
Not counting the current year (since it's not over and points tallies skew towards the Spring classics), by official ranking points, not a single one of the riders you listed had their best year on UAE.Politt:
2e Omloop
7e E3
3e RVV
4e Paris Roubaix
Wellens:
2e Kuurne
4e E3
12e RVV
15e Paris Roubaix
Grosschartner:
2023 his 2e best season in carreer
Almeida:
Climb much better than in QS + Podium Giro
Gotta love it, especially when you add in the “sh!tying their pants” quoteTo this day I maintain him attacking the best GC riders of his day, winning 3 stages then blowing up spectacularly was far more valuable than going steady for a podium, which he might've been able to do. Proper cycling, no brains all sensations.
Yeah let's ignore performance in big races and main targets and instead prioritize dumb ranking systems with biases for farming 2.1 races that are extremely schedule and leadership dependent.Not counting the current year (since it's not over and points tallies skew towards the Spring classics), by official ranking points, not a single one of the riders you listed had their best year on UAE.
And in Almeida's case, that's actually rather surprising, given that he joined UAE at 23yo.
Wellens rode almost exclusively a WT schedule back in his heyday.Yeah let's ignore performance in big races and main targets and instead prioritize dumb ranking systems with biases for farming 2.1 races that are extremely schedule and leadership dependent.
Is weird.The Yates career trajectories don't make any sense to me. Both were seen as TdF top 10 guys who could win GT stages if they went into breakaways. Then from one year to another Simon reaches ultra mythical climber status, just to lose it again the next year. Simon is subsequently seen as the better one of the two. Until at age 30 Adam suddenly makes a jump and is now looking even better than his brother. I don't get it. It's not like Adam was riding for teams known for underperforming.