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Il Lombardia 2024, one day monument, October 12, farewell to Domenico Pozzovivo

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This is a preview of 2025. Everyone avoiding racing with Pog
Into the mountains we go I get flashback from stage 15 in the Tour and Isola stage where Pog put up the nr 1 and 2 best climbing performance of all time and dropped Vingegaard and Evenepoel like two amateurs in their best ever performances even. Im not sure the peloton are looking forward to this they know the slaughter which is coming.
 
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This is a preview of 2025. Everyone avoiding racing with Pog

Everyone who? Certainly not the true cycling fans. Maybe the blind fanboy of one rider or another, but it wouldn't be a shame. They can return to the stadium. cycling remains one of the few universal sports where nationality comes after the rider. Eh, buthere is no show... but what would the show be? In the case of Lombardia a procession to S.Fermo to then discover that no one or almost no one has the legs and we arrive in a sprint with 4/5 riders? 200km of racing reduced to the last 5km, what a wonderful show! I have already seen too many of these so called "shows" in the last 20 years. I continue to prefer a solo attack of one hour. If Pogacar is too strong, then so be it. I don't think the era of Michael Schumacher or the Nadal-Federer duo was very different.
 
Pogacar is an absurd favorite according to odds:

Pogacar: 1.22
Pidcock: 15
Evenepoel: 17


I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before a WT race. The odds basically suggest that the only realistic way Pogi loses is by crash, mechanical or illness (I think that 0.15-0.2 can account for that).
 
Pogacar is an absurd favorite according to odds:

Pogacar: 1.22
Pidcock: 15
Evenepoel: 17


I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before a WT race. The odds basically suggest that the only realistic way Pogi loses is by crash, mechanical or illness (I think that 0.15-0.2 can account for that).
With all the hassle for me just to be able to bet, 1.22 is more like no money than free money. What a joke. So Remco.
 
The other riders. The other riders are supposedly avoiding racing with/against Pogacar.
LOL
forgive me if I'm rude, but then they would do well to retire in total shame, because they would not be worthy of the title of athletes (not even cyclists). If they are afraid and do not want to compete, they should hang up their bikes and go into agriculture, industry or get a job at KFC. Didn't Gimondi, Poulidor and Zoetemelk race when Eddy was around? Charles Barckley, John Stockton and Karl Malone what they did in the Jordan goat age?
Ps And believe me , none is more sad than me that Stockton-Malone never won a ring.🤪
 
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forgive me if I'm rude, but then they would do well to retire in total shame, because they would not be worthy of the title of athletes (not even cyclists). If they are afraid and do not want to compete, they should hang up their bikes and go into agriculture, industry or get a job at KFC. Didn't Gimondi, Poulidor and Zoetemelk race when Eddy was around? Charles Barckley, John Stockton and Karl Malone what they did in the Jordan goat age?
Ps And believe me , none is more sad than me that Stockton-Malone never won a ring.🤪

Yeah, probably just people around here making things up.
Nobody is "avoiding Pogacar".
 
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Pogacar is an absurd favorite according to odds:

Pogacar: 1.22
Pidcock: 15
Evenepoel: 17


I don't think I've ever seen anything like that before a WT race. The odds basically suggest that the only realistic way Pogi loses is by crash, mechanical or illness (I think that 0.15-0.2 can account for that).
Crashes and illness I guess. Not even a mechanical would stop him.
 
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