Roubaix this year was the first time I ever turned off the television due to too much of a lack of suspense. It's looking likely I won't even turn on the tv next week.
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Pogi did his first ascent of San Luca in 5:32. At the Tour, he and Vingegaard did 5:29. We're in October, six days after a 100-kilometer solo effort to win the World's on a terribly hard parcours, and the weather is terrible. And yet Pogi is only three seconds slower than he was on stage two of a Grand Tour. That's just laughable. We cannot do anything but laugh at this point. This sport is dead to me right now.
Why all other UAE riders can't have his palmares? Hirschi, Del Toro, Ayuso, etc
Yeah, cycling is going again to a dark place, Pogi is doped to the gills, everybody knows that but don't come here saying he is not talented. That's just a stupid argument.
You are joking, right? Del Toro won a World Tour stage at age 19 on his second-ever race day as a neo-pro. Hirschi has eight this season. Ayuso has placed in the top-five in two of his three Grand Tour-starts.
I like Riccardo. I would never do him like that.
This what you get when he is doing and he is physiological better than everybody else. We already have a lot of dopers, probably in a better doping program compared to his rivals (Indurain, LA, Froome, Contador) but the gap was way more leaner for their rivals. This gigantic gap is not explained only by doping, it can't be.
Pogacar was always a huge talent and he became an even better responder
You don't have data to prove he is physiological better than the other top guys.
Pogacar was a TdF winner before turning 22 years old and had a podium in the Vuelta too. Are you really trying to compare Pogacar’s palmares and specially performances to all 3 I mentioned? Do you need to wait 3/4 years to understand I am right or do you really think Ayuso or Del Toro will win the Tour in the next 2 seasons?
You don't have any proof he is doping.
No need to share these sweet secrets with everyone in the team. His most trusted lieutenants like Novak, Yates or Majka can have a partial knowledge about his preparations but I doubt they wish to spill the beans anytime soon.
Thanks. I am going to take that number and do a call to Merckx.
I believe in you, since you said a couple minutes ago, he is in a doping programm.
We either are watching that once in a hundred years talent that is now so perfectly tuned and supported by so much money that the Merckx era will be nothing in comparison or we watch a fake freak show that make Lance look good in comparison. The second is a 1000x more likely but in either case pro cycling is doomed. The fact that it is yearly confronted with deadly accidents, even in official WC races makes it even worse.
Thanks, so you believe also he is more talented than other riders, right?
Oh come on, I'm sure his gelateria is just fine and the ice cream is probably yummi - is the shop still even open? I'd visit just for shits and giggles, it would be like visiting a legend of sorts.
As for the topic: Teddy is by far the strongest he's ever been in this part of the season (having ridden two GTs), no fatigue after the season or his WC ride. It seems porridge for breakfast works really well and since the Tour he's not reduced its quantity. Lombardy won't be nice for his rivals.
At least Ricco was funny, we haven't have a good funny-doper in a while, Horner the last? Froome was in like 2011/12 for a bit, I vividly recall everyone egging him on to attack Wiggo.
In 2023 I think it wasn't that implausible to assume there was a modicum of parity between Vingegaard and Pogacar. In 2024 there it actually is implausible to consider that there is a modicum of parity between Pogacar and anyone else in terms of doping.
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