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Axel Hangleck

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Ricco' said:
I'm curious to see what bike will Vader use as I don't think Cervélo has any offerings for MTB right now.

Also curious to see so many riders focusing also on the road right now when the fight for the wins in XCO is more open than ever with Schurter not looking like the previous dominating man.
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They are part of the same group as Santa Cruz; Minnaar was on a Cervelo road bike last week.....
 
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Roku

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Men's team should sign Lucas Eriksson from Sweden and Antti-Jussi Juntunen from Finland to build up a true Nordic team.

(Don't know about any pro/semi-pro from Iceland)
 
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Samu Cuenca

Samu Cuenca

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Roku said:
Men's team should sign Lucas Eriksson from Sweden and Antti-Jussi Juntunen from Finland to build up a true Nordic team.

(Don't know about any pro/semi-pro from Iceland)
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They are probably not going to do that, because the men's team is solely focusing on Danish and Norwegian riders.
I'm not sure Eriksson will be deemed as Danish enough, although he has spent the last three seasons with Riwal.
 
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postmanhat

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According to cycling fever, Movistar have not renewed the contracts of Alba, Cataldo, Villella and Cullaigh. Wouldn't be too surprising to see the latter move to Ineos as a, sort of, replacement for Doull. He rode with Pidcock before at Trinity
 
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Anderis

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Mayomaniac said:
Probably just cooked after riding Giro-Tour and riding on a high level from Itzulia until the end of the Tour.
56 race days from April until mid July with 2 gts, that's a lot of racing.
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Sylwester Szmyd would laugh at that.

In 2010 he rode and completed: Trentino, Romandie, Giro d'Italia, Dauphine, Tour de France and after all of that he still fought for GC in Tour de Pologne (which started within a week of the end of Tour de France).
 
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Ilmaestro99

Ilmaestro99

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Mayomaniac said:
Probably just cooked after riding Giro-Tour and riding on a high level from Itzulia until the end of the Tour.
56 race days from April until mid July with 2 gts, that's a lot of racing.
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He also did Larciano, Laigueglia, Strade, Tirreno and Gp Indurain before Itzulia. Between Tirreno and Indurain he was sick so couldn't do much proper training. And 1 week less between giro and tour this year. So he was doing National championships only 18 days after giro and then straight in TDF.

Remarkably heavy period of racing.
 
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Ilmaestro99

Ilmaestro99

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Anderis said:
Sylwester Szmyd would laugh at that.

In 2010 he rode and completed: Trentino, Romandie, Giro d'Italia, Dauphine, Tour de France and after all of that he still fought for GC in Tour de Pologne (which started within a week of the end of Tour de France).
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Thomas Voecklee from the same year.

-Tropical Amissa Bongo
-Besseges
-Haut Var
-Giro Di Sardegna
-Classica Sarda
-Paris Nice
-Cholet-Pays de Loire
-Criterium International
-Ronde Van Vlaanderen
-Cuircuit De La Sarthe
-Brabanste Pijl
-GP Denain
-Tour Du Finistere
-Fleche Wallone
-LBL
-Giro d'Italia (finished)
-Val d'Ille classic
-Route d'Occitanie
-French RR Championships
-Tour de France (Finished)
-Tour l'Ain
-Tour Poitou Charentes
-Quebec
-Montreal
-Isbergues
-Tour de vendee
-Paris Bourges
-Paris Tours

Managed to win French champs, a TDF mountain stage and Quebec
 
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tobydawq

tobydawq

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Anderis said:
Sylwester Szmyd would laugh at that.

In 2010 he rode and completed: Trentino, Romandie, Giro d'Italia, Dauphine, Tour de France and after all of that he still fought for GC in Tour de Pologne (which started within a week of the end of Tour de France).
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Bilbao would laugh at it himself. In 2020, he did Burgos, then the Dauphiné, then the Spanish TT nats, then the Tour where he was 16th, then both of the races at the Worlds the week after the Tour, and the week after that he started the Giro where he ended up in 5th place.
 
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Samu Cuenca

Samu Cuenca

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And Marino Lejarreta would of course laugh at all of them after riding three GTs in less than three months in both 1990 and 1991.
And he actually also did it in just over three months in 1987. where he rode a three day Spanish stage race in-between the Giro and the Tour.
 
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tobydawq

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There is a lot of laughing going on here.

The bottom line is that it still seems a bit odd if the Tour was supposed to be the final race of the season for him.
 
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Sciatic

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Riders just aren’t as tough as they used to be: in the olden days riders used to ride all the Classics, multiple one-week races, all 3 GTs ( even though two overlap), AND rode from the finish of each race to the start of the next race, harvesting crops along the way, milling their own flour to make the pasta and bread that sustained them!
 
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