Paris - Nice 2021, March 7 - March 14

[Gregor_Slovenia]

Maybe so. But then his rivals shouldn't wait for him if he has a puncture 10 kilometers from the finish line in the Tour de France.

Definetely. Why should someone wait Primož if he has a flat 10 km from the finish? Lol, where the *** are you living guys? This is war, battle, not commute ride. If you have bad luck, than you have bad luck, you will need more luck next time. Even us, living in Slovenia (ex Socialistic country), we understand what is sport, and what is not sport. Sport is modern war of battle, to entertain us. We of course love friendships, but friendship comes after the finish line, guys. Go on a bike race yourself, and you will see what your goal will be. Winning, right? Not gifting to somebody a win, if you in first person could take a win.

 

[Frankschleck]

I had 15 euros on mader on bet 51/1 so that sucks. But of course Roglic should go for the win. You don't see a football team give the other team a goal for playing good. This is professional sport. You race to win, so hats of to roglic.

 

[Gregor_Slovenia]

So do not be moral judges over Primož, if anyone in the peloton is fair play guy, than this is him.

 

[Gregor_Slovenia]

So do not be moral judges over Primož, if anyone in the peloton is fair play guy, than this is him.

He always fights till the end, lesson to learn, if you haven't yet. Even when he knew on last Tour he lost on ITT, he was fighting until last milimeter of the ITT course. Many of others would just say eh, I do not have any will anymore. And, few days after, he was the first guy in Imola of Slovenian team there, motivated like nothing happened. Move on, next goals are waiting to be achieved.

 

[Blanco]

Ya, I remember Tiralongo helping Contador at Fuente De. I remember Win van Huffel, Garate and Ardila winning Savoldelli the Giro on the Finestre Sestriere stage.

It's good to have friends in the peleton on other teams. If it comes to the Tour and Pogacar has attacked Roglic and the Jumbo team have disappeared but Mader and Landa are there for Bahrain, I can't see them being too interested in helping Roglic if there's nothing in it for them on the day.

And you think Mader would be grateful to Roglic if Primoz only sat in the bunch? He would thought he was strong enough to hold on, and wouldn't even know he got a gift! And what did he do to deserve this gift? Tiralongo was an ex-teammate and friend of Contador, Szmyd worked with Valverde 10km's up Ventoux , and what Mader did for Roglic?

 

[tobydawq]

He looks better than last year? He was 2nd in Algarve and won PN.

He looked better on this climb today than he did last year, no doubt about that.

 

[Faserr]

Schachmanns only problem is Roglic at this race. He is stronger then last year.

 

[Gargamel35]

This forum when Roglič doesn't collect all possible seconds every single day of a race (according to them he should be able too): he sucks, what a looser, we knew he's a bad cyclist, he should attack 100km earlier, bla, bla, bla.

This forum when Roglič collects all possible seconds every single day of a race: he sucks, what a looser, we knew he's bad, bad karma, enemy of the peloton, he shouldn't attack so much and gift victories to others.

Bunch of w*s.

 

[Eeslliw]

Some nice, funny quotes from Gino's interview:

Gino Mäder on Roglic passing him "I was scared I was going to catch a cold, he passed me so quick" and "Obviously, when you’re in the end with like 20 metres to go and a plane passes you, in the first moment you are absolutely gutted. But in the end I must say it was quite a nice experience to be up front and to play in the finale".

Seems he is taking it well, hope to see him win some races in near future (maybe tomorow ).

 

[Lequack]

Some humor for today

 

[Blanco]

Breaking the unwritten rules of cycling (or at least taking them rather lightly).

What rule?

 

[Red Rick]

Can we also please not forget about all the time Mader spent goofing around with Powless. The fact that he doesn't win is on himself.

 

[Lequack]

Roglic:wins
Mäder: "Come on man, I was winning here..."

Also

https://twitter.com/x/status/1370738095084175362

View: https://twitter.com/faustocoppi60/status/1370738095084175362?s=20

 

[roundabout]

This forum when Roglič doesn't collect all possible seconds every single day of a race (according to them he should be able too): he sucks, what a looser, we knew he's a bad cyclist, he should attack 100km earlier, bla, bla, bla.

This forum when Roglič collects all possible seconds every single day of a race: he sucks, what a looser, we knew he's bad, bad karma, enemy of the peloton, he shouldn't attack so much and gift victories to others.

Bunch of w*s.

Inane post made just to *** on your fellow forumers.

You probably now fully well yourself why the premise of your post is false, but you still made it anyway.

 

[PremierAndrew]

Don't you just hate it when the best man/woman wins in sport?

 

[Escarabajo]

Roglic:wins
Mäder: "Come on man, I was winning here..."

Also

https://twitter.com/x/status/1370738095084175362

View: https://twitter.com/faustocoppi60/status/1370738095084175362?s=20

Lol. I didn't know that he was pissed about the sprint. Have to look the finale now.

 

[Lequack]

Lol. I didn't know that he was pissed about the sprint. Have to look the finale now.

Yes it was quite a heartbreaking but amusing moment.

Stage highlights:

View: https://youtu.be/Hx72QACq7EE

 

[Luthor]

Inane post made just to *** on your fellow forumers.

You probably now fully well yourself why the premise of your post is false, but you still made it anyway.

Why is his premise false? Actually it's true, no matter what he does, there are always some users here who criticize him. You got triggered because you're one of them.

 

[wheresmybrakes]

I had a race with my 6yr old son earlier, the first to the creme egg wins and eats it. You should have seen the tears when I ate it. Tough $hit sunshine, should have been stronger and faster! Me too when the wife clouted me round the back of the head for being a tw@t.

 

[roundabout]

Why is his premise false? Actually it's true, no matter what he does, there are always some users here who criticize him. You got triggered because you're one of them.

The premise is false because Roglic made it to the top of the most difficult climb in the race with sufficient advantage not to be really concerned about a 90km stage with 3 category 3 climbs.

Comparing the reaction today, to the reaction when he did not want to take turns in the first big mountain stage of a Grand Tour is still, well, inane.

And no, I don't care that much about Roglic, one would have to be a complete fanboy to consider my singular post on the situation today as critical

 

[Lequack]

Chris Horner on todays stage

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdCNgRlDKV4

 

[Luthor]

The premise is false because Roglic made it to the top of the most difficult climb in the race with sufficient advantage not to be really concerned about a 90km stage with 3 category 3 climbs.

Comparing the reaction today, to the reaction when he did not want to take turns in the first big mountain stage of a Grand Tour is still, well, inane.

And no, I don't care that much about Roglic, one would have to be a complete fanboy to consider my singular post on the situation today as critical

Obviously he cares about stage wins, just like any rider.
He didn't mean just today's reaction, same as me. Your reactions regarding Roglic/Jumbo are always negative, not just today.
I'm not a fanboy but there are some obvious double standards on this forum regarding riders. Denying them or even getting triggered by them is laughable.

 

[Luthor]

As expected, his teammates aren't working to have him let gifts.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1370779090911948803

View: https://twitter.com/josvanemden/status/1370779090911948803

 

[Carols]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1370755413239595012

View: https://twitter.com/maedergino/status/1370755413239595012

Bravo lad! He has his head screwed on correctly .

 

[Axel Hangleck]

Far too many 'romantics' following the sport. It's all about winning - that is their job, what they get paid for; winning!! I actually think there's nothing worse in sport than being 'gifted' wins - I can recall Berger winning the Japanese GP in 1991, as a 'thank you' off Senna....it's not really a win.