Laporte Discussion Thread - The Greatest?

[Red Rick]

Dylan van Baarle was just talking about the wrong Championships

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Now he is officially Europe's best bike rider.

Mehmet Sampiyonbisiklet is officially best bike rider, and he‘s from Europe.

 

[Red Rick]

Christophe Laporte gracously dragged his teammates along to join him on the podium. What a lovely gesture.

 

[Netserk]

Now we know who will be the team captain in the classics next year. An actual winner.

 

[Blanco]

Laporte indeed the greatest, at least in Jumbo classics squad.

 

[Tonton]

Bravo Christophe. He was a warrior. It took everything he had, what an effort! His best win so far, for me. Christophe Laporte was the greatest today, and the bravest.

 

[theyoungest]

Now we know who will be the team captain in the classics next year. An actual winner.

Meanwhile, over in Belgium: angry fans and commentators because they think he should have let Van Aert win. Really.

 

[tobydawq]

... is still yet to discover that Christophe Laporte is in fact a cyclist of greater quality than Peter Sagan, which is thoroughly proved by his dominating performance in beating Sagan by over 2 minutes on the Ventoux stage of last year's Tour de France.

Laporte has also bested Peter Sagan on many an occasion and is often willing to sacrifice his own chances for lesser racers, such as supporting Bouhanni to many wins out of his pure kindness, on top of that he took an excellent victory in the Tour of Vendee 2015 against a high calibre field, against which he dominated and proved that he is in actuality one of the greatest cyclists of our time.

What an incredible turn of events that Sagan will finish his career at the Tour de Vendée this weekend. His final push to equal the greatness of Laporte

 

[RedheadDane]

Meanwhile, over in Belgium: angry fans and commentators because they think he should have let Van Aert win. Really.

Do they not understand how national teams work?

 

[Wyndbrook]

Using Sagan as a reference for greatness is behind the times. Is this Laporte better than Van Avermaet, Valverde, Gilbert and Kwiatkowski?

Six years seems a long time in bike racing.