Team Visma LAB

[fbjim]

Ok, apparently wellknown cycling analyst and cycling youtuber Benji Naessen has been working as a video analysist and tactical analysist for Jumbo….

My God, no wonder why no one talks critical of their performances…

I am losing my joy for cycling rapidly now.

Even the podcasts I watch are apparently linked to the most suspicious team in the recent history.

But yeah Benji is still objective on social media. Yeah riiiiight….

Meanwhile their Data Guy implied that Brendan McNulty fabricated his Strava data before deleting the tweet the next day lol

 

[capuldemetal]

is wvva doing san sebastian? if so..we allready know the winner.just need to channel his innerself and attack from the beginning.just for the comedy to be completed

 

[Ripper]

a sub 60kg guy defeating the 2 best TTers while not climbing. This is even worse than Contador -Cancellera, because contador only overtook cancellera at the end... not on the relative flats before it.

If I recall the Conti/Canc TT, there was a gentle climb in the middle?

 

[Ripper]

A giant FU to the peloton

 

[sir fly]

New goods on the street?

 

[dutchdescent]

Disgusted

 

[Libertine Seguros]

If I recall the Conti/Canc TT, there was a gentle climb in the middle?

 

[Melo]

is wvva doing san sebastian? if so..we allready know the winner.just need to channel his innerself and attack from the beginning.just for the comedy to be completed

Yeap, Hulk is going to be there.

 

[Ripper]

Thanks ... my faulty memory had that bump more in the middle

 

[burning]

Thanks ... my faulty memory had that bump more in the middle

Contador was faster than Cancellara in the first section (before the climb) by ~20s if I recall correctly. He lost a lot of time in the final kms, but managed to hang on.

 

[Ripper]

Contador was faster than Cancellara in the first section (before the climb) by ~20s if I recall correctly. He lost a lot of time in the final kms, but managed to hang on.

Yup, I recalled the race, just not exactly where the hill was. I believe conti also had some helicopter help, or there was chat about that (I don't know if there was ever objective proof about how much helicopter prop wash might have helped)

 

[roundabout]

Yup, I recalled the race, just not exactly where the hill was. I believe conti also had some helicopter help, or there was chat about that (I don't know if there was ever objective proof about how much helicopter prop wash might have helped)

Motorbike not helicopter.

Even 13 years on it is still hilarious to see that 3km climb used as crutch for Contador's performance with other 37km favoring Cancellara with over 30 of those being a flat run around the lake.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

JV could end the Russo-Ukranian War in three weeks.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Ok, apparently wellknown cycling analyst and cycling youtuber Benji Naessen has been working as a video analysist and tactical analysist for Jumbo….

My God, no wonder why no one talks critical of their performances…

I am losing my joy for cycling rapidly now.

Even the podcasts I watch are apparently linked to the most suspicious team in the recent history.

But yeah Benji is still objective on social media. Yeah riiiiight….

Looks like they took the money, hope the price was decent at least.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1550874323086458880

 

[fbjim]

Lmao

 

[Tim Cahill]

Lmao

This could get a bit messy actually

https://twitter.com/x/status/1550021031745781760

 

[fbjim]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1550878863152087041

View: https://twitter.com/derailleurkate/status/1550878863152087041

 

[Fantastico]

Looks like they took the money, hope the price was decent at least.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1550874323086458880

So why exactly does he announce this only now after the yellow jersey is safe? What a bad way to handle this.

Anyway, never really cared for his content. The video titles on Youtube are pure clickbait most of the time and if anything make me not wanna watch.

 

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

This could get a bit messy actually

https://twitter.com/x/status/1550021031745781760

What's the context behind the tweet? (the articles he's talking about)

 

[Fantastico]

He now even deleted his tweet after the first backlash. What an idiot.

 

[fbjim]

What's the context behind the tweet?

I believe he was asking how their W/kg estimation worked when they don't have reliable measurements of the "Kg" part of their equation.

 

[SHAD0W93]

What's the context behind the tweet? (the articles he's talking about)

If he is asking riders weights on their performances to then give to TJV.

 

[Tim Cahill]

What's the context behind the tweet? (the articles he's talking about)

The 'CyclingGraphs' twitter account that is part of LR/Working for Jumbo covertly has been doing his w/kg estimations by asking the riders their weights before the races.

If the riders were disclosing this information on good faith not knowing they were working for Visma then that's a real ethical issue imo.

 

[Rackham]

Lanterne Rouge-Jumbogate! So cynical & manipulative, I love the brazenness of it all.

Next we need confirmation the team behind The Move podcast (hello Lance!) were working tightly with Jumbo Visma on the performance side of things.

It would explain quite a lot.

 

[fbjim]

hearing rumors that Chris Horner was working with uhhhhhhhh TotalEnergies or something