It also helped them get to +70 victories as a team, so that's something too. How many would they trade for a Giro victory though.
Oh I actually agree with you. I think Ayuso is singled out because 1. groups needs scaping goats to function. 2. Ayuso is a scape goat because he slanted Pog. That's how I read it. He didn't like to pull for Pog. That's the only thing that really really differ him from the others.
People have been complained about Vine, Soler, McNulty, or Hirschi not wanting to really help others in the past and during races while they just focused on themselves though. Ayuso gets more “hate” since he’s a higher profile rider.
I don't think it's because he's a higher profile rider. I think Ayuso gets more "hate" because he did it last year to Pogacar.
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I think this is partially right. Some of the same people also needed a scapegoat for Pogacar not winning Paris-Roubaix, even though it should be totally unrealistic to expect any cyclist in the history to reel in MvdP once he goes in PR. Yet somehow, the blame landed on his teammates by some. So you're partially or even fully right.Oh I actually agree with you. I think Ayuso is singled out because 1. groups needs scaping goats to function. 2. Ayuso is a scape goat because he slanted Pog. That's how I read it. He didn't like to pull for Pog. That's the only thing that really really differ him from the others.
But I also believe he has probably tried to get out of contract. And I don't blame him for it either
They get hate but also the behaviour just continued and continued and continued.
ratty face? What does that mean? If it's about looks I think he's very close to conventionally attracktive apart from skin problems. Tall broad shouldered, amazing smile, with dark expressive sparkling eyes. I can find a lot of less conventionally attractive men in this vuelta lol.
That's not really true.
That would partially explain the bad behavior from Ayuso. Do stupid things so that only Trek is in the negotiations. So the negotiation benefits Ayuso at the end of things. Very costly if you ask me.Among the many media sites reporting on this in Spain, I have found one that says explicitly that UAE was demanding an amount of contract buyout money pretending to get negative answers, but Lidl-Trek has accepted the proposal.
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Ah. There's a Chinese actor and singer who is also compared with a mouse and has a long face as well, so I had seen similar discussions about others and was curious
Even Lopez worked for other riders. For Mas and Valverde.
Exactly! Something like this was bound to happen in UAE sooner or later. They are just like Movistar in this regard; just create internal drama by bad management.
That's probably part of reason he rage quitted though
This has to be such an exhausting way to follow pro cycling
For some yes but unlike those riders or Almeida in 2023 Vuelta and being talked about till 2024 Tour; Ayuso has said he’d work for others and hasn’t done so or it was like pulling teeth to make it happen. The blame isn’t solely his fault, UAE should have half to the majority of the blame for all of this due to their too many chiefs/cooks not enough Indians/servers. If Ayuso started in Lidl or the Wolfpack era Quickstep, maybe he’d help out more when not in top shape.
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