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Yesterday I randomly listened to a youtuber talking about another topic completely, it might have been Nietsche!
They took an example how athletes in competition needs resistance for it to be a challenge and hence enjoyable. Someone who always is way ahead of others gets no resistance and hence it won't feel like an accomplishment. It will just be stacking things without meaning.
I think Pog fans have a lot more fun than Pog himself.
For a long stretch the gaps stayed steady at 40” between each of the first 4 riders.
Winning all five monuments, the Tour and WC is a massive challenge, including Romandie and Suisse.
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Not the individual wins no. Not if you don't have resistance in the individual races.
It's at least a mental challenge, and also staying in shape the whole season
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What a monster race of attrition! Five classics stars battling and arriving alone, one by one. Crazy gaps, only two front guys with 50 km to go.
Cograts to Teddy Merckx. Call him Mr Kwaremont or Kwaremonster. What more can one say? The alpha of cycling is continuing his dominant run: 4th monument in a row and chance for a non-calendar slam next week. His dominance is looking to be at its peak and I'm not expecting stage races to be different ( he has to survive Roubaix first). Also congrats to Mattieu on a great fight and to Remco on podium spot on his debut. Credit to Wout and Mads for big fight as well: podium missed today but next week one of them should get a podium spot.
Cograts to Teddy Merckx. Call him Mr Kwaremont or Kwaremonster. What more can one say? The alpha of cycling is continuing his dominant run: 4th monument in a row and chance for a non-calendar slam next week. His dominance is looking to be at its peak and I'm not expecting stage races to be different ( he has to survive Roubaix first). Also congrats to Mattieu on a great fight and to Remco on podium spot on his debut. Credit to Wout and Mads for big fight as well: podium missed today but next week one of them should get a podium spot.
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In the end, Picnic managed to beat Burgos by a couple of spots btw, with van den Berg in 62nd ahead of Fagundez in 70th. Although Sainbayar probably got more TV time than half of the other teams together.
Also Ineos (51st) and Topsport (56th) didn't place a rider in the top 50, but the former's result was obviously heavily influenced by crashes.
Also Ineos (51st) and Topsport (56th) didn't place a rider in the top 50, but the former's result was obviously heavily influenced by crashes.
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about the train incident: as mentioned above, a precedent was set in 2018, when 35 guys were taken out of the Scheldeprijs:
View: https://x.com/inrng/status/981524629301989378
To be fair, that level crossing had overhead- and early flashlights, so much easier to spot than today's one:
Nonetheless, cars going 50kph are of course expected to stop there as well, so I would think it's still the responsibility of the riders. Whether that means a yellow card or dsq then is a different story, but nothing at all seems odd.
View: https://x.com/inrng/status/981524629301989378
To be fair, that level crossing had overhead- and early flashlights, so much easier to spot than today's one:
Nonetheless, cars going 50kph are of course expected to stop there as well, so I would think it's still the responsibility of the riders. Whether that means a yellow card or dsq then is a different story, but nothing at all seems odd.
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That's not the collective wisdom of the forum, it's the utterly sorry state of cycling in 2026.
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All good and fair points. I still enjoyed seeing all the stars come out and battle.I wouldn’t mind if Pogacar eventually distanced himself but what I really feel is missing is the drama around the selection. There was mainly just the one selection, going from 20 riders at the bottom of the Kwaremont to just 2 (one of whom already struggled to hold on) by the top. At least Remco’s pursuit added a bit more interest. But the tactical element of riders deciding which late attack to go with and which to let go and stay in the bigger group—there’s none of that. Just who has the legs when Poggi launches. I can still enjoy watching the race [which might say more about how little I have going in my life] but I really miss that tactical element.
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I disagree with that youtuber
It just changes the perspective
Instead of measuring yourself against your peers, you measure yourself against history
It's why a great champion like Cavendish, who everyone agreed was the greatest sprinter of his generation, still killed himself for 2 years beyond his natural abilities, to get that record
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CN forum experts are the finest in the world. Even @Red Rick (as one of them) can't disagree at heart.
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I'm damn thankful I watched only the end of those Cav victories. 21 and 22. Had I been there for the long run I'd get absolutely bored.
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