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That's right. In last year's podcast, he said he weighed more in Flanders 2023.
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Why are you guys so obsessed with his weight? Sounds like the pre-TDF Remco topic in here. Had he ever not been at the perfect weight for the race since 2024?
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This guy lives in the wonderland if he thinks he can beat Pogacar. His ego is so big.
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Underdog or not, Ayuso bodly throws his name Into the World championship fight: "I won’t settle for silver"
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If it was, we can just blame Pogacar himself.
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He doesn't have any good results in such long races, but he can do really well. He used the Vuelta as training.This guy lives in the wonderland if he thinks he can beat Pogacar. His ego is so big.
Underdog or not, Ayuso bodly throws his name Into the World championship fight: "I won’t settle for silver"
Everyone will be watching reigning world champion Tadej Pogacar and his main challenger, Remco Evenepoel, this Sunday. But there are other contenders, riders hoping to pull off a surprise on the gruel...
He says he feels better than ever. In the Vuelta, he said he couldn't help better because he din´t feel well
. But we already saw that he won the stages and used the rest of the stages to train.The Vuelta has always been considered a race that gets the rider in top shape for the World Championships, and Ayuso didn't do the Tour de France, and he didn't even do GC at the Vuelta.
I do think he's very strong. We'll see what it's good for.
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If the spring Classics and Tour de France exhausted him, you couldn't blame him.
We've seen many cyclists who, after a Tour de France, haven't been competitive the rest of the year, some haven't even competed at all.
If his body can't take it anymore, you couldn't blame him for that.
I think Paris stage reflected that this combination of the Classics and the Tour de France is very tough. Van Aert hasn't beaten anyone like that this year. I think it was Pogacar who was exhausted, more than Van Aert being in his best.
People aren't aware of what it means to include Roubaix in the calendar. For one thay there's a very tough training change, and he maintained his shape since San Remo until Liège.
He could have won Paris-Nice and Romandie at his 60% shape, but he needed all his strength to compete in Paris-Roubaix
The madness of that calendar is underestimated.
If that's the reason, we can't blame him . If he wins the World Championship and Lombardia, I'll rate it as more difficult than last year. 2025 season until the Tour more demanding than 2024.
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Oh please. His ego is bigger than his legs. I'm pretty sure he will not make the top10.He doesn't have any good results in such long races, but he can do really well. He used the Vuelta as training.
He says he feels better than ever. In the Vuelta, he said he couldn't help better because he din´t feel well
The Vuelta has always been considered a race that gets the rider in top shape for the World Championships, and Ayuso didn't do the Tour de France, and he didn't even do GC at the Vuelta.
I do think he's very strong. We'll see what it's good for.
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Oh please, he had a rough 2023 after his broken wrist and still fought back to win a 3rd GdL.
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You seem to have gone from his biggest fan to his biggest hater since Sunday. I don't understand this mentality at all. I've never anything from him that suggests he just expects to turn up and win the RR without any difficulty at all.
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I think he means Ayuso
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Re Ayuso - I don’t see an issue with his attitude re this race. He is in it to win it, not ride for silver. I agree his odds of winning are remote having never really shown much in a one day race over this distance and I cannot personally see it, but not sure why he should be criticised for overt confidence.
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If they consider Pogacar, the most winner, arrogant for saying he'will train two tough training sessions, imagine Ayuso, who hasn't won that much 😅.
Ayuso's ego problem has been seen in other circumstances.
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Who exactly has called Pogacar arrogant? I haven’t seen anyone say that in the past few days. What I have noticed is that you’ve been making these kinds of statements quite often, framing it as if everyone is against Pogacar and judging him by different standards than other riders. To me, that comes across as a bit of a “Calimero complex.”
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I think sometimes people conflate confidence with arrogance - there is nothing at all wrong with confidence. You can be confident but humble and respectful.
Pogacar and Remco should be inherently very confident. It would be odd if an elite cyclist was not confident.
Likewise there is nothing wrong with Ayuso being confident and backing his own abilities - even if posters think that confidence is misplaced.
Pogacar and Remco should be inherently very confident. It would be odd if an elite cyclist was not confident.
Likewise there is nothing wrong with Ayuso being confident and backing his own abilities - even if posters think that confidence is misplaced.
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This is not even debatable IMO. It's hard for me to call a rider confident when he never showed anything relevant in a one day race (Ardennes, monuments, WC, OC). So if this rider says something like "I see myself in the rainbow jersey", this is not confidence, this is just his ego talking louder once again.
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Yes but I already explained why. Pogacar said he would be slightly better if he went to altitude but he didn't go because it didn't fit in his schedule.
For me this is pure BS and he just wanted to stay at home/close to his partner. It's okay but don't lie. Mental freshness is important.
Why arrogance? He didn't make a sacrifice to be at his best. Does anyone think Pogacar would not do a altitude training camp for the Tour? Does he want to? Of course not, but he made that sacrifice to be at his best.
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