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Teams & Riders Jonas Vingegaard thread: Love in Iberia

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  • The Chicken who eats Riis for breakfast

    Votes: 32 33.3%
  • When they go low, Vingo high

    Votes: 6 6.3%
  • Wings of Love

    Votes: 8 8.3%
  • The Fishman Cometh

    Votes: 14 14.6%
  • The Mysterious Vingegaard Society

    Votes: 12 12.5%
  • Vingo Star

    Votes: 15 15.6%
  • The Jonas Vingegaard Discussion Thread

    Votes: 29 30.2%
  • Vingegaard vs Roglič

    Votes: 6 6.3%

  • Total voters
    96
  • Poll closed .
I've always seen Roglič as more of a Yoda.

And Froome is of course Darth Maul.
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Yeah, people that feel holier-than-thou for supporting Pogacar always amuse me. I mean, well done, you picked the second strongest, potential strongest GC rider in the world, good effort to act almighty on a forum.

It's like football fans padding themselves on the back for supporting Real Madrid over PSG. Some real standards at display there!
 
So you've turned to dark side circa TDF 2022 Stage 5, when you let your anger takeover your posting after the biggest betrayal since Cesar and Brutus? I guess it gives you focus while posting, makes you stronger...
You and @Unterlenkerfahrend have some issues and it's not up to me to straight them out. So please, do move on with your life :)

Regardless there's no denying that in the very thread of Vingegaard he has not been assigned a Star Wars character perhaps says all there is to know about his lack of charisma. As for me, I think Gollum from LOTR fits quite well.
 
If we're getting all Star Wars here (not that I actually believe gizmaLAB to be the forces of good) would Jonas not be the New Hope? After the evil Empire stamped out the Jedi Rogi, and asserted it's strength on a cycling universe, a new hope was found through the unbeknownst Jedi Jonas Skywalker
 
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Regardless there's no denying that in the very thread of Vingegaard he has not been assigned a Star Wars character perhaps says all there is to know about his lack of charisma. As for me, I think Gollum from LOTR fits quite well.

I already likened him to my "favourite" SW character last year.

Jonas is Jar Jar Vings: A character that suddenly appeared on the scene, but no one can really explain why he's there, and many people find him annoying.
 
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You and @Unterlenkerfahrend have some issues and it's not up to me to straight them out. So please, do move on with your life :)

Regardless there's no denying that in the very thread of Vingegaard he has not been assigned a Star Wars character perhaps says all there is to know about his lack of charisma. As for me, I think Gollum from LOTR fits quite well.
No, no issues, just a slow day at work, waiting to go home...
You're the one occasionally slamming the guy because he took from Rogla what was his, now even bodyshaming him for being small and thin, like the lack of charisma isn't enough for the guy.
Some of us can defend him in his topic, surely...
 
No, no issues, just a slow day at work, waiting to go home...
You're the one occasionally slamming the guy because he took from Rogla what was his, now even bodyshaming him for being small and thin, like the lack of charisma isn't enough for the guy.
Some of us can defend him in his topic, surely...
Hmm...no, I don't slamm Vingo because he "took" whatever from Roglic.
Although I'm Portuguese, I'm not a simpleton peasant.
Vingo won every race I can remember fair and square.
It's just he seems very hollow. The second coming of robotic Froome. Noone of it matters for racing though, but fans usually end up cheering for those more flamboyant or empathic riders.
 
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That's indeed the other possible end. On the one hand he might not race and they have an excuse, if he races and loses they have an excuse, if he races and wins they have a fairy tale story.
Sponsors love the payoff when a hero emerges from real tribulations. They already have him under contract so the financial benefits could be worth far more than his salary.
Still; let him have his private time to recover!
 
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Sponsors love the payoff when a hero emerges from real tribulations. They already have him under contract so the financial benefits could be worth far more than his salary.
Still; let him have his private time to recover!
Ugh, that’s something I really dislike in American sports media coverage of the non-mainstream sports they have to have come back from some “challenging” hardship or setback to be worthy of their star status and interesting enough to hook viewers and readers.

We will see the absolute worst of that kind of thing in the Olympics coverage this July.