Miburo said:
Come on, no is doing it anymore? Jesus, guess it's up to me
LS WHERE ARE YOU???? WHY DO YOU HATE SAGAN?
Really?
I've literally watched two races he's been involved in this year. Literally. It's apparently never boring to add more sycophancy to the Sagan bandwagon, but it's apparently boring to hear any opinion that isn't gushing in praise, and because I find him so objectionable I can't help myself getting wound up by it, and because I get wound up by it so easily people keep poking the bear, to prevent all of the Sagan Defandboys from throwing a strop at me every time I say anything remotely negative about Slovak Barbosa, I've just taken to avoiding him all out.
Sometimes you just get a sense something is going to happen. At the Ronde I was so angry about Lizzie beating Emma J at the end that I just knew it meant Sagan would win, and I would lose my rag and probably get myself banned. So I didn't watch the Ronde van Vlaanderen. I got that same feeling today. This World Championships has been such a shower of garbage from start to finish that as soon as the riders who made the selection were announced on social media, I just had that sense he was going to win, so I didn't watch, so as not to repeat the Richmond go-around. I don't recant anything I said then, nor do I have any intention of apologizing to any of the people I insulted simply by proxy of liking or defending Sagan. But while "Sagan is amazing", "Sagan is a beast" and "Sagan is the best thing to happen since the invention of the bicycle and a model human being omgyea!" can apparently never be heard enough, I've been told often enough that voicing my contrary opinion is boring, so to stop myself from throwing those same tantrums as I did last year I've been steering clear of him as much as possible. Doha got the World Championships based on vulgar, opulent excess, so he's the perfect winner for them, when you think about it.