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Tadej Pogacar and Mauro Giannetti

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New propaganda just dropped.

Its called a Brain Coach
The interview from Nieuwsblad with the 'brain coach' is quite funny. Apparently the man in question, Stijn Quanten is his name, received his training from the (in)famous MilanLab. You know, the place where careers magically got extended and had alleged ties to Fuentes. Furthermore, he says Pogacar is an exceptional talent because he scores higher on several cognitive and emotional tests than Wayne Rooney. I mean, if he ain't the pinnacle of mental strength and fortitude I don't know who is.
 
Was in part the British that cannibalised Team Sky, lots of money, political/cultural capital, made on the back of their rise but they were absolutely loving it when they fell as well, parading Wiggo around on Andrew Marr was a highlight. You just wait until Jude Bellingham puts a foot wrong, they're already circling.

Whether the Slovenians, Dutch or Danes have a culture of eating their own I'm not entirely sure. Whatever brings these guys down will most likely be outside the cycling body politic because the current crop, outside of a few random Frenchmen don't have the brains or the bollocks to do anything.

I kind of think the press are already on a Bellingham feeding frenzy, alot of which feels manufactured. Sky always had that Murdoch connection, and now Ineos with Radcliffe, a sort of easy to attack figurehead connection, they probably get less grief for the cycling team currently because theyre in this not good enough anymore category, but you can see the amount of angst his Man Utd deal had, and then how much Ten Hag had to put up with, and the instant Brailsford appeared in the stands it was all about what does some guy from cycling know about football.
 
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The interview from Nieuwsblad with the 'brain coach' is quite funny. Apparently the man in question, Stijn Quanten is his name, received his training from the (in)famous MilanLab. You know, the place where careers magically got extended and had alleged ties to Fuentes. Furthermore, he says Pogacar is an exceptional talent because he scores higher on several cognitive and emotional tests than Wayne Rooney. I mean, if he ain't the pinnacle of mental strength and fortitude I don't know who is.

I think my cat would score higher on cognitive and emotional tests than Wayne Rooney
 
Bobby Julich was interesting on the WEDU youtube cast last night. Obvs the gains that he talks about would be in tandem with "medical" assistance. But it's a fairly good breakdown of why this generation is just so much faster ....every day...throughoutt the peloton.
I thought the same and I don't doubt that newer fueling strategies are better. As others have noted, I don't see them explaining the big jumps in performance, across so many riders. Part of that skepticism is from knowing fuel is just part of a very complex set of inputs and the rest is from knowing that every single time someone put up a similar explanation in the past the bigger factor was doping.

Floyd Landis, via Antoine Vayer thinks:
"Here's my quote: marginal gains (the BS British version of "faster tires") has given way to maximum gains. At this point they should give Lance Armstrong his 7 jerseys back and maybe we can all just accept cycling for what it always was and what it will always be. I still love it, but from a distance. I don't want to be involved."

At this point I wonder if anyone cares whether the UCI acknowledges LAs wins or any of their other decisions on dopers anyway.