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jmdirt

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Logic-is-your-friend said:
That's wikipedia, that's not an official source in any way, a website managed by volunteers. The official UCI website has the season's overview on their website, where obviously stages are part of the WT overview.
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Is it really necessary to tell me what wiki is? No its not.

Are you saying that the wiki chart is not correct?

The UCI chart is so great that you linked right?

The wiki graph gives a quick glance at results, the UCI site does not.

I admittedly have a bad memory so after I posted that a Belgian hadn't won a WT race yet this year, I thought that I should check my memory. I went to the UCI first, but you have to click on each race, then final result, and then back out to the next race and so on. With stage races you have two more clicks if you want to see each stage result. One click or 200+ clicks, you choose.

To help you sleep better though, I will go delete my previous posts about this.

EDIT: Next time that someone asks you who won (pick the stage race you want) the TdF, I want you to list each stage winner not the GC winner.
 
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jmdirt said:
Is it really necessary to tell me what wiki is? No its not.

Are you saying that the wiki chart is not correct?

The UCI chart is so great that you linked right?

The wiki graph gives a quick glance at results, the UCI site does not.

I admittedly have a bad memory so after I posted that a Belgian hadn't won a WT race yet this year, I thought that I should check my memory. I went to the UCI first, but you have to click on each race, then final result, and then back out to the next race and so on. With stage races you have two more clicks if you want to see each stage result. One click or 200+ clicks, you choose.

To help you sleep better though, I will go delete my previous posts about this.

EDIT: Next time that someone asks you who won (pick the stage race you want) the TdF, I want you to list each stage winner not the GC winner.
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I'm not sure why you are making a big deal out of this. You said there where no Belgian WT winners in 2025, in the topic of a rider who won 2 by himself. You were corrected and instead of saying you made a mistake, you used wikipedia as a source and hid behind "silly UCI rules", while UCI most certainly has WT stages count as WT wins.
 
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jmdirt said:
Every gram counts:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT6Sa3qMijw


I remember an ex pro turned performance guru talking about the importance of light pedals and shoes since they are constantly in motion.
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I'll reply to myself here: maybe the 'ex pro turned performance guru' that I'm thinking of is Joe Friel?

Related: He was/is a proponent of centered/mid cleat placement too. No need to discuss the physiology of that here, but it resulted in plenty of (tri) crashes from toe-tire overlap.
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More on Cleat Position - Joe Friel

The first blog I ever posted was January 30, 2007. The topic of that post was cleat position for cycling shoes. A few months prior to writing that I had started placing my cleats in the arch area of my shoes based on the suggestion of an interesting and creative acquaintance – Goetz Heine...
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Logic-is-your-friend said:
I'm not sure why you are making a big deal out of this. You said there where no Belgian WT winners in 2025, in the topic of a rider who won 2 by himself. You were corrected and instead of saying you made a mistake, you used wikipedia as a source and hid behind "silly UCI rules", while UCI most certainly has WT stages count as WT wins.
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Read the post then reply...

"Corrected" :rolleyes:
 
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AmRacer said:
Shouldn't Remco have won the national easily, or was it wrong racing it?
Can he find better legs for the Tour?
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Sure doesn't seem like a week before the Tour he should be losing to a 40k Tim Wellens solo. I didn't see the race so maybe I'm missing something but for a rider ostensibly shooting for a TDF podium not sure how this could be spun as anything but an unhealthy sign, especially after a lackluster Dauphine.
 
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dobrien said:
Sure doesn't seem like a week before the Tour he should be losing to a 40k Tim Wellens solo. I didn't see the race so maybe I'm missing something but for a rider ostensibly shooting for a TDF podium not sure how this could be spun as anything but an unhealthy sign, especially after a lackluster Dauphine.
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I'm not particularly a Remco fan but in this case: yeah, you're missing something.
 
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Valv.Piti said:
Well, then enligthen people who didn't watch the race. What happened?
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I agree with Cycling111's take:

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Wellens didn't beat Remco in a 40km time trial. Did you see the race to say that?

Philipsen conditioned Remco too much.
Aside from the fact that Remco spent the previous kilometers pulling the group. And he crashed before.
By the way, Wellens had a little help from the moto :smirk:

Don't just have to look at the result or final kilometers to interpret a race.
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Valv.Piti said:
Well, then enligthen people who didn't watch the race. What happened?
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There's an article which seems to cover it on the main site... ;)

Finally, as the riders were tiring, Wellens attacked at just the right moment with 41km to go, and when Evenepoel didn't immediately react, the UAE rider had the momentum to go solo, and he would not be caught again. The gap was never huge, but the chasing group disintegrated – partly thanks to Vermeersch's interference for his teammate – instead of working together, allowing Wellens to solo to the win.
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It was not optimal prep to ride here and it ended up being harder than expected. He crashed. Had to pull out a big effort in the end.

I dont understand why he would prioritize it this time if he is serious about challenging Pog and Vinge. It doesnt fill me with confidence.

It feels a bit like the NC titles would have been something nice to walk away with when you sum up the season and valuing that higher, rather than being all in it for the Tour.

Maybe he feels things needs to happen to the others and know it will be hard otherwise. Then fair enough. His participation here wont matter if that is how he feels.
 
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dobrien said:
Sure doesn't seem like a week before the Tour he should be losing to a 40k Tim Wellens solo. I didn't see the race so maybe I'm missing something but for a rider ostensibly shooting for a TDF podium not sure how this could be spun as anything but an unhealthy sign, especially after a lackluster Dauphine.
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He didn't 'peak' for this race.

That he couldn't or wouldn't close could be several things other than an 'unhealthy' sign.
 
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