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Cycling111

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And Emilia?

I'd like for once for him to take the time trial seriously and not just treat it as a formality like in Australia, where he said that he did the time trial because he was in Australia for a few days. But the Canadian races maff me think that won't be the case. A few days between Montreal and the time trial, and a long journey.
Interesting that he's doing the European Championship. If he doesn't win the WC, he'll have a second chance to get rid of that ugly UAE jersey that looks like it's been stained with oil 😅
 
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Dude u completely drifted away from my whole comment. I said less severe crashes i dont want u to put itzulia or philipsons crash in this category. The better bike handler u are the better u react to certain crashes. Its more about the feel u get on the bike not that u can teach someone
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I agree with what you are saying, i just hope you don't mean to say that Pogacar is a great bike handler. Because he's not. I would not want to go downhill in his wheel. He's a great cyclist nevertheless.
 
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Cycling111 said:
And Emilia?

I'd like for once for him to take the time trial seriously and not just treat it as a formality like in Australia, where he said that he did the time trial because he was in Australia for a few days. But the Canadian races maff me think that won't be the case. A few days between Montreal and the time trial, and a long journey.
Interesting that he's doing the European Championship. If he doesn't win the WC, he'll have a second chance to get rid of that ugly UAE jersey that looks like it's been stained with oil 😅
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Clashes with the Euro RR as only 1 day apart.
 
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Eternal hatred for bitter fans.

This is professional sport. Professional sport is about the best winning.
Anyone who doesn't understand this should look elsewhere, as Merckx would say.

The French do nothing but yearn for Hinault, a guy who never forgave a victory and won by a landslide if he could. When another Frenchman emerges, perhaps Seixas, they won't boo. But they seek to influence a competition through emotional blackmail. That's definitely not professional sport.
I don't see Marchand or Duplantis letting the fans win and demanding it of them. I've always been ashamed of that part of cycling fans.

Now I understand why Pogacar was so depressed and the hatred he's developing for the race. Almost all the attacking riders who have won the Tour have ended up hating it.
Contador said he hated the Tour and loved the Giro.

They go to the Tour for what it means, but everyone loves the Giro and its fans more. That sentiment is a failure of the French.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1953367424457134467
View: https://x.com/Domestique___/status/1953367424457134467
 
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Cycling111 said:
Eternal hatred for bitter fans.

This is professional sport. Professional sport is about the best winning.
Anyone who doesn't understand this should look elsewhere, as Merckx would say.

The French do nothing but yearn for Hinault, a guy who never forgave a victory and won by a landslide if he could. When another Frenchman emerges, perhaps Seixas, they won't boo. But they seek to influence a competition through emotional blackmail. That's definitely not professional sport.
I don't see Marchand or Duplantis letting the fans win and demanding it of them. I've always been ashamed of that part of cycling fans.

Now I understand why Pogacar was so depressed and the hatred he's developing for the race. Almost all the attacking riders who have won the Tour have ended up hating it.
Contador said he hated the Tour and loved the Giro.

They go to the Tour for what it means, but everyone loves the Giro and its fans more. That sentiment is a failure of the French.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1953367424457134467
View: https://x.com/Domestique___/status/1953367424457134467
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The French are some of the biggest clowns in cycling, stuck in the past. They cry about literally everything each year while managing teams as if its still 1980, anything besides focusing on everything except performance aspects.
 
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Cycling111 said:
Eternal hatred for bitter fans.

This is professional sport. Professional sport is about the best winning.
Anyone who doesn't understand this should look elsewhere, as Merckx would say.

The French do nothing but yearn for Hinault, a guy who never forgave a victory and won by a landslide if he could. When another Frenchman emerges, perhaps Seixas, they won't boo. But they seek to influence a competition through emotional blackmail. That's definitely not professional sport.
I don't see Marchand or Duplantis letting the fans win and demanding it of them. I've always been ashamed of that part of cycling fans.

Now I understand why Pogacar was so depressed and the hatred he's developing for the race. Almost all the attacking riders who have won the Tour have ended up hating it.
Contador said he hated the Tour and loved the Giro.

They go to the Tour for what it means, but everyone loves the Giro and its fans more. That sentiment is a failure of the French.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1953367424457134467
View: https://x.com/Domestique___/status/1953367424457134467
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this is the only possible explanation for pog's attitude toward racing and the Tdf specifically in in the last week, french fans but also insiders are simply the worst
 
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If you let random French fans to effect your racing, the problem is on you, not them.

Quick question. Shouldn't Pog ride in UAE kit when training? He probably tries to blend in more and uses plain colors kit for it.
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The problem is definitely on them.
First they start booing you.
Next come the serious doping accusations in the media.
Next is the throwing of p*ss in your face.
Finally physical attacks against you.
All the great TDF champions of the past suffered this (minus the French ones).
As I said Pogacar got some advise after Peyragude to lay low and be conservative.
 
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Gargamel35 said:
If you let random French fans to effect your racing, the problem is on you, not them.

Quick question. Shouldn't Pog ride in UAE kit when training? He probably tries to blend in more and uses plain colors kit for it.
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Sometimes we forget that they're humans. Then we shouldn't talk too much about mental health and complain when an athlete retires due to mental health issues. Of course these things influence them.

The other day, Del Toro made a mistake, crashed, and knocked Ciccone down. It was an accident, but there were reactions that even insulted him for an accident.

An anonymous person on a forum is nobody, but thousands, and of influencer accounts, insulting and verbally attacking each day, take their toll on a human being, and this is also happening in France in many Tours.

Sometimes it seems like some people want Pogacar to be attacked like Merckx at the Tour de Thevenet.

The fans can't be the judges, and they end up being that way. They're increasingly aggressive if they don't achieve their goal, to the point of attacking a cyclist like Merckx.

It was social media that decided Kuss had to win a GT.
That's what many bitter people want. They'd rather watch a lie than professional sport. Professional sport is about competing and winning. Can anyone imagine asking Jordan or Bolt to let themselves win? That's what you read every day in this sport, and som fans are aggressive until they get it.

I've never understood what those people do watching professional sports. Professional sports are all about winning and being the best, which is why the best athletes in history are people with multiple victories. This is something that many fans of high-performance sports hate, who prefer to see a lie in the Vuelta2023 or a stage given to cyclists who aren't the best.

The problem needs to be focused on these people, not on the athlete they end up affecting with their verbal attacks. For now, Mercks suffered a physical attack.
The feeling is that the next step in the Tour is physical aggression.
 
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