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Who is the closest to being a horse?

  • Pogacar

    Votes: 17 51.5%
  • Armstrong

    Votes: 2 6.1%
  • Landis

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Ricco

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Vingo

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Roglic

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Remco

    Votes: 1 3.0%
  • MVDP

    Votes: 4 12.1%
  • Ben Johnson

    Votes: 6 18.2%
  • Vino

    Votes: 3 9.1%

  • Total voters
    33
I really think cycling has never been in a better place. There will always be winners and losers. Cycling has a superstar and 3 or 4 pretenders. I'm partying like it's 1987 and going to the Giro. The show goes on.
 
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I hate it. I've been watching cycling since 2015. I was 11 back then. In 2017 or so I discovered the clinic and I was mostly starting to learn more about cycling - past winners, scandals, etc. I was supposed to go see the Pyrenees stages in the TdF in 2020. Then Covid hit, and I soon found out I wasn't going anywhere. I still remember watching those stages from home, Hirschi's attacks, Pog absolutely shining over everyone - it was the moment everything went downhill for me. I already was suspicious about Pogacar, knowing Gianetti and Matxin's history, but after those stages, I just started noticing. Turn 2021, it was already a freakshow. I resumed to watching 2. or nat races in France, Italy and other races in the Europe circuit, only sometimes tuning in to the bigger events. The years went by and I couldn't even watch it with my family anymore as I'd left home for uni. Now I just check the clinic once in a while and open PCS to see another season where Pog (and others) seem to do a Jalabert in 95. Maybe I'm just screaming at the clouds, but I hate everything about it - the ignorance, the arrogance, the influx of new fans that seem to love eating this slop up, the lack of serious scrutiny, the comerciallisation. I made this account just to rant. I hate it.
 
I hate it. I've been watching cycling since 2015. I was 11 back then. In 2017 or so I discovered the clinic and I was mostly starting to learn more about cycling - past winners, scandals, etc. I was supposed to go see the Pyrenees stages in the TdF in 2020. Then Covid hit, and I soon found out I wasn't going anywhere. I still remember watching those stages from home, Hirschi's attacks, Pog absolutely shining over everyone - it was the moment everything went downhill for me. I already was suspicious about Pogacar, knowing Gianetti and Matxin's history, but after those stages, I just started noticing. Turn 2021, it was already a freakshow. I resumed to watching 2. or nat races in France, Italy and other races in the Europe circuit, only sometimes tuning in to the bigger events. The years went by and I couldn't even watch it with my family anymore as I'd left home for uni. Now I just check the clinic once in a while and open PCS to see another season where Pog (and others) seem to do a Jalabert in 95. Maybe I'm just screaming at the clouds, but I hate everything about it - the ignorance, the arrogance, the influx of new fans that seem to love eating this slop up, the lack of serious scrutiny, the comerciallisation. I made this account just to rant. I hate it.

can I ask your nationality? do you come from a traditional cycling nation? how did you begin watching cycling? thx
 
can I ask your nationality? do you come from a traditional cycling nation? how did you begin watching cycling? thx
Interesting to see how he started to watch cycling in 2015, being a tender age of 11 years old, and also can reference Jalabert 95. Impressive. He had also dwelled into the history with Gianetti and Matxin as well. At just around 15-16... he was all up to speed on this, getting real underground to only watch 2. races or nat races in France. Very interesting. Good stuff.
 
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Interesting to see how he started to watch cycling in 2015, being a tender age of 11 years old, and also can reference Jalabert 95. Impressive. He had also dwelled into the history with Gianetti and Matxin as well. At just around 15-16... he was all up to speed on this, getting real underground to only watch 2. races or nat races in France. Very interesting. Good stuff.
Some people care about the history of the sport. I also waste most of my time with cycling topics and know about a lot of stuff from before my time.
 
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can I ask your nationality? do you come from a traditional cycling nation? how did you begin watching cycling? thx
nope, Europe but not a traditional cycling country. I started with the 2015 Giro, it was just randomly live on Eurosport)))
Interesting to see how he started to watch cycling in 2015, being a tender age of 11 years old, and also can reference Jalabert 95. Impressive. He had also dwelled into the history with Gianetti and Matxin as well. At just around 15-16... he was all up to speed on this, getting real underground to only watch 2. races or nat races in France. Very interesting. Good stuff.
nah bro I just fell in love with the sport (so much so that I started saving money for a bike) and after a while I got really obsessed with the 90s, especially in 2020 when the schools closed and I had *** all to do so I started watching old races, reading stuff etc