State of the Peloton 2025

[Rob5091]

Now retired Franc Bonnamour gets 4 year ban - that's the way to do it UCI! Wait until they retire then, bang! you're banned ....that'll teach 'em.
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/no...d-abnormality-in-athlete-biological-passport/

 

[Dazed and Confused]

ah, but Bonnamour is 30 and therefore part of the old doped up brigade that continues to bog down the ultra healthy broccoli consuming youthful pro peloton. Good thing hes gone.

 

[Rob5091]

ah, but Bonnamour is 30 and therefore part of the old doped up brigade that continues to bog down the ultra healthy broccoli consuming youthful pro peloton. Good thing hes gone.

Yeah, it's a good job we've got all these clean team managers, coaches, DS's and team staff to balance up the ol' dopers!

 

[pastronef]

just watched the Renewi stage in Geraardsbergen. 47kmh average. that's absolutely wild. the way De Lie Vdp Wellens pushed had during their breakaways was incredible. not a second of respite. watts over the roof

 

[Unchained]

just watched the Renewi stage in Geraardsbergen. 47kmh average. that's absolutely wild. the way De Lie Vdp Wellens pushed had during their breakaways was incredible. not a second of respite. watts over the roof

Cherry juice with broccoli shots!! And a big Chimay after the race!!

 

[Rob5091]

Cherry juice with broccoli shots!! And a big Chimay after the race!!

Don't forget the ice tub!

 

[Tim Cahill]

Resisted speculation so far on the chance that the absence is mental health related but Denk's outright refusal to comment or say it's health related has invited it;

The latest we know about him is from today, at the end of the second week of the Vuelta a España, with Patxi Vila, the Red Bull director, denying any information to Marca: "I can't comment on anything due to team directives."

Lazkano popped?

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Resisted speculation so far on the chance that the absence is mental health related but Denk's outright refusal to comment or say it's health related has invited it;

The latest we know about him is from today, at the end of the second week of the Vuelta a España, with Patxi Vila, the Red Bull director, denying any information to Marca: "I can't comment on anything due to team directives."

Lazkano popped?

Apart from the rumours in spanish that I have read, the longer this goes on for, the more likely that this is the outcome. If he has a mononuclosis or some other illness, an injury or nerve problem, over training, even at this point mental health problems, they would likely say something to minimise speculation.

You can see from strava that he started training again after Paris roubaix, in May he was doing altitude training Andorra. Then after 31 may he just abruptly stop uploading rides

 

[Rob5091]

Romain Gregoire's opinion on 2 fellow riders - ******!
https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...pogacar-evenepoel-and-the-rest-of-the-peloton

 

[hrotha]

Romain Gregoire's opinion on 2 fellow riders - ******!
https://cyclinguptodate.com/cycling...pogacar-evenepoel-and-the-rest-of-the-peloton

Not the A-word

 

[YellowSocks]

Not the A-word

It wasn't. He used the word extraterrestres, not aliens. The first has fewer connotations than the second in French.

 

[Rob5091]

It wasn't. He used the word extraterrestres, not aliens. The first has fewer connotations than the second in French.

Not of this world, I suppose would be more accurate, but the meaning is really the same.

"Les écarts sont juste monstrueux. Il y a des extraterrestres devant et il n'y a juste pas match avec nous, enfin, avec moi, personnellement”

 

[Rob5091]

Apart from the rumours in spanish that I have read, the longer this goes on for, the more likely that this is the outcome. If he has a mononuclosis or some other illness, an injury or nerve problem, over training, even at this point mental health problems, they would likely say something to minimise speculation.

You can see from strava that he started training again after Paris roubaix, in May he was doing altitude training Andorra. Then after 31 may he just abruptly stop uploading rides

Sounds like something serious, getting caught is one possibility. Does Andorra have the same "no testing at weekends and after 6 p.m." as in Spain?

 

[Ilmaestro99]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975545450427232646

View: https://x.com/unclecycling/status/1975545450427232646?t=U2REh7sfMzYmbMW4kL117A&s=19

 

[Tim Cahill]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975545450427232646

View: https://x.com/unclecycling/status/1975545450427232646?t=U2REh7sfMzYmbMW4kL117A&s=19

I have checked with the hombre's over on forodeciclismo and none of them seem to know where he is.

Oier if you're reading this please come home, your family and friends are very worried.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975597894150602863

Maybe Samu knows? He's always going on about Basques isn't he? Very suspicious stuff.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I have checked with the hombre's over on forodeciclismo and none of them seem to know where he is.

Oier if you're reading this please come home, your family and friends are very worried.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1975597894150602863

Maybe Samu knows? He's always going on about Basques isn't he? Very suspicious stuff.

I promise I'm not keeping him hostage.

I do hope BORA are simply upgrading him in a secret lab somewhere in a forest on the border between Austria and Germany and that he will go full Búfalo Gutiérrez in the Giro next year, but it doesn't appear to be the most likely outcome.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

His prolonged absence isn't doing much for my claim that he's better than van aert

 

[Samu Cuenca]

His prolonged absence isn't doing much for my claim that he's better than van aert

Van Aert's only wins during that time came from sucking Del Toro's wheel and on some fake stage in the Tour. Lazkano could easily have achieved the same. Had he stayed at Movistar, he would have helped Mas to that elusive Vuelta victory.