Most cycling fans are not fan of either team. The deeper JV can be buried, the better.
JV needs to be there for banter.
if you really wish for someone to be buried, well that's Vino
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Most cycling fans are not fan of either team. The deeper JV can be buried, the better.
Hindsight is 20/20.EF did not help themselves by only racing WT events in 2020 after the resumption of racing after the COVID lockdown - It also gave their some of their riders few race days in 2020.
Hindsight is 20/20.
By avoiding sending the team to smaller races, they may have prevented some COVID outbreaks within the team and had their best riders available for the big races, where they performed brilliantly. They were 10th in the team ranking in 2020, almost twice as many points as the 18th team.
It's 2022 where they should have scored more points, not 2020. It's humiliating how badly they're doing this year.
Yep, of the 5-6 worst WT teams this year, EF are IMO the biggest underperformer. Both DSM, Astana and IRT have really mediocre teams with maximum 3-4 riders that can collect some points. EF has on paper at least 6-7 riders of decent quality. But they are all underperforming this year. It is frightinh how weak they've performed.It's 2022 where they should have scored more points, not 2020. It's humiliating how badly they're doing this year.
Yesterday it looked like slapstick.What did they do, or not do, that they were expected to do in Norway?
It's not a hindsight call - I posted the same in 2020 - You need to give all your riders the chance to race.
Wanty may be riding a lot of smaller races, but if EF had as good results as Wanty in big races this year, that alone would've made them totally safe from relegation.Setting aside the injury/sickness issue, it seems that Lotto, Cofidis, Wanty etc. are hitting the .1/.pro one-day races as it is easier to get points by trying to jam the top ten against less competition. Between Early May and the end of July, Lotto, Cofidis, and Wanty have up to 17 one-day and a few stage non-WWT aces, versus 3 non-WWT stage races for EF. If you look at schedules you see that DSM, Movistar, EF, etc are not playing the max points game and are all racing a few races.
LMAO ....everyone is a local lad somewhereCarthy is a local lad, not many mountains round here so it's enjoyable seeing him become a bit of a steep climb specialist.
As for EF, Dauphine coming up and Padun is riding so they should be ok.
It's not because it's not on PCS that he doesn't have races planned.They need to give Sean Quinn some starts. His calendar is empty on PCS.
Bissegger is not on the PCS start list for the tour. I know things change, but Vaughters most definitely stated on the Bobby and Jens podcast that a goal was for Bissegger to take yellow on the opening TT of the tour? Anyone know if these plans have changed or if PCS just needs updated? I know the team has been wrecked by illness/injury?
Yes, but he Tim's, local lad , good for him.LMAO ....everyone is a local lad somewhere
There is no way that Vino should be involved with the sport at this point - given everything (not to mention being married to Ms. Lavrov daughter of the Russian foreign minister.)
There should be 1 more rider for TDF , is 8 riders.And same source for TdF
URÁN Rigoberto
VALGREN Michael
GUERREIRO Ruben
PADUN Mark
RUTSCH Jonas
BETTIOL Alberto
CORT Magnus
If any of the above is true, how is Uran preparing for the race?