Over there ageism and nasty media are currently the predominant issues. Luckily neither has to be taken all that serisussly and at least when it comes to the media i assume Belgian and German media to shift the focus for the 2026 season.
Over there ageism and nasty media are currently the predominant issues. Luckily neither has to be taken all that serisussly and at least when it comes to the media i assume Belgian and German media to shift the focus for the 2026 season.
All in all guys, we finally did it, stick it to Ayuso, gave him exactly what he demands. Heavens forbid he would now go and secure Almeida an overall victory, that would be daunting.
Chapeau!
Chapeau!
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I’m replying by to you saying Ayuso didn’t get everything he wanted got leading GTs because he couldn’t go to the Tour. Why would you want Ayuso to go to the Tour when he won’t work got the leader like you’ve stated your dissatisfaction for other riders.
You have been, always stating your dissatisfaction and “we will see” of Roglic showing they were wrong.
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Roglic is not quite the young up and coming superstar. To your other post I don't think Bora will send any more than 2 of their big three (Evenepoel, Roglic, Lipowitz) to the same GT ever. The other 3 that you mentioned would make fine top glass mountain doms.
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I don’t think they would send all of those riders to the same GT, this isn’t a video game. But the post I’m replying to wanted Ayuso, Pogacar, Almeida, Adam, and who knows who else potentially to go to the Tour together.
Congratz to Ayuso on the 400m pull yesterday.
It was a pull so strong it almost dropped Victor Campanaerts, who finaly dropped after another 300m pull from Mikkel Bjerg.
And the way he almost stopped pedaling after such strong effort reminded me of Wout van Aert in Hautacam when he dropped Pogacar.
It was a pull so strong it almost dropped Victor Campanaerts, who finaly dropped after another 300m pull from Mikkel Bjerg.
And the way he almost stopped pedaling after such strong effort reminded me of Wout van Aert in Hautacam when he dropped Pogacar.
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Meanwhile Jay Vine wasn't waiting and Soler was thinking only of Soler's GC.
But Ayuso contributes and gets the criticism.
Why?
Because must....obey.....narrative.....
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With the weak attack of Almeida, I think the objective was to not lose time, put Vingegaard in red, win the stage, and preferably have the break take all bonus seconds.
It went perfectly.
I mean the original question was what more could Ayuso have wanted. Now you seem to suggest he would never see the Tour riding for UAE for as long as Pogi is doing it and he should be OK with it? And in his new team do you reckon he will go to the Tour? Will he be a leader?
Dou you believe RBH has send a well balanced GT GC orientated team to the Tour 2025?
Regarding yesterday's stage people are just making jokes. It's not criticism.
The criticism comes from all the other times.
Ayuso set the bar so low that he's getting praise for pulling 400m at the base of a climb.
When he goes to a new team and does this several more times it will stop being news worthy and everyone will forget about it.
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It's hard to say where criticism stops, jokes start and vice versa.
With Marc Soler for example it's always jokes for example.
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One can hope this drama causes new young talents to think twice about joining UAE. For all their dominance, the only GC rider at UAE that has won a GT is Pogacar. In the meanwhile, Visma has won a GT with Roglic, Kuss, Vingegaard and Yates in the past few years.
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Yes people are sheeple
Or maybe people pay more attention to Ayuso because he's legitimately the more important, more accomplished rider
Nah it's just people being sheeple
Soler is seen as a brat by everyone who cares enough to notice. "Higher-profile riders get more of a reaction" is hardly an earth-shattering observation, it doesn't mean there's double standards at play or anything of the sort
Maybe Remco should have joined VLAB then 🤪
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Higher profile riders than Ayuso have been poor teammates without it turning this level of circlejerk.
When much of a narrative is driven by a twitter account that belongs in an asylum, I don't find the "people are sheeple" angle that trivial to dismiss.
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That’s not what was said, just wondering why your stance is changing for different riders on why they don’t deserve full team support. Unless his new team is Visma or Bora he will be at the Tour next year and he would be the GC leader. If it’s Lidl, he would share leadership with Milan or Pedersen.
Besides Meeus yes, only other riders I would have wanted there would be Martinez or Hindley.
Yeah, first establishing what exactly one is arguing about makes much sense.
First of all we were speaking from Ayuso perspective all along, on where i said the Tour participation. Responding to somebody else asking on what more he might have wanted from the team. Age 22, 15 wins and counting, GC orientated and a good TTer.
Then you changed the angle and up to this point i didn't know exactly what you are arguing about. Basically you started the debate from Pogi perspective, Pogi not wanting Ayuso at the Tour, due to supposedly Ayuso not willing to support him. Such claim IMHO confirms what i was arguing about to the fullest. That is from Ayuso perspective he is limited at this team in terms of his options.
As for your question if Pogi deserves a fully dedicated GT GC orientated team at the Tour? Of course he does and he is basically the only rider in pro peloton that gets one. So again any present and future options for Ayuso are/were rather limited in this team.
I see, he will most likely get to go to the Tour and there is a big chance that he will be a team GC leader.
I see, you would only change 3 riders. You have to admit that the situation, comparing UAE and RBH, at the Tour 2025, that is like comparing incomparable things. That is saying one has double standards if saying Ayuso eventually would need to join the UAE Tour selection, due to the type of rider he is, comparing that to RBH, on were Lipo and Rogla where the GT GC team. You have to admit that you are far stretching it, serisussly saying this two situations are comparable in any meaningful way.
You’d think so. But a young lad high on his own super talent will back himself to dethrone any Captain, even Pogi. So it’s a bit weird.
i also think UAE should be starting to think about how they avoid these situations moving forwards.
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According to Italian ex-pro, Strada Bianchi winner, nephew of the legendary Francesco and Eurosport commentator on live Vuelta coverage today, Moreno Moser, it's been heard through the grapevine that Pogacar told the team he wants Ayuso out immeadiately. Now if anyone on the street were to say such a thing, you'd righty dismiss it as mere hearsay. But when someone from a member of a cycling dynasty close to a pivotal figure in the signing Pogacar at UAE, Giuseppe Saroni, himself a star in the 80s, says it, well, it can't be just ignored.
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Ayuso was perfect scapegoat for UAE, wasn't he? Today nobody from UAE was there at the end and hence it's Ayuso fault. Ayuso told the team to not be there.
Yeah, looking back this was truly ridiculous behaviour from sports media/fandom, UAE didn't even have to fuel it as it was self sustained, although and said that they had no problems resulting to it in need.
Vine and Großschartner were and pulled at the beginning of the last climb, while Ayuso long couldnt be assed anymore.
All while he obviously is stronger than those two.
Today's Stage 11 effort would seem to say yes. Well represented although the chaos at the finish precluded any pursuit to catch the 2 breakaways.
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