Looking back, it's crazy that by 2016 QS or Lotto hadn't offered him and Wout a WT contract they couldn't refuse. Was CX really that lucrative?
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Maybe people for some reason didn't think the skills in cross were in any way transferrable to road?
There were rumours back in 2016 that Team Sky were already making contacts with him (that is said back in the first posts of this topic).
The truth is back than he considered road racing "boring" and prefered a dual career CX/MTB to CX/Road. Only in 2019 this started to somewhat change.
The first few pages ARE a good review. Even Wout casting shade on road racing. The fact is those two have imposed themselves on the peloton since then
He crashed in the feed zone at Flanders...and was out the rest of the spring. (broken collar bone????)
Do you think number of top-4's when the other was top-2 is the pretty basic way to slice it? Not the least bit overfitted?
It's very specific, but the patterns are quite stark wherever you put the cutoff
No it means the fact that one piece of data is very specific doesn't mean the bigger trend also goes the same way. Despite peaking for the same races together for over a decade, they only truly clashed a small handful of times, and they almost never stopped each other from getting the W.
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MvdP is not like Sagan, who spent the whole year from January to November drilling at the front of the peloton, for which he was paid handsomely. MvdP concentrates only on the biggest races. It might have been a big risk to offer him a very big contract that he couldn't refuse. Looking back at MvdP's road results in recent years, it would have been worth the risk, but who would have predicted in 2016 that he would become the best classics rider?!
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It's only you who has a problem with that stat. I don't know what you mean by overfitted, it's true data and tells a picture.
But yeah, just keep pretending that they have never faced each other or whatever the hell narrative it is you are pushing.
Well I think those 2, back then, got a startiing fee close to 10000€/race. Add a couple of 10k more for superprestige gc + their normal contract wages and, yes, it is thát lucrative for the top dogs.
Is it your belief that overfitting is usually done with fake data? If not, then the data being true is irrelevant.
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Is there some news about his calendar?
Where he is going to start?
Where he is going to start?
Wasn’t he going to ride Figueira Champions Classic to start?
PCS removed Figueira champions classic. PCS just have Tour de Flandres on his profile.
Figueroa Champion classic is surely too soon after cyclocross worlds to get a proper break and training camp for the classics.
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