UAE Tour 2026, February 16-22

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Apparently I missed Remco's antics. Will need to look for replays..
The time to get time back, the time to be assertive was on mountain climbs where riders are more isolated by ability, on flat road in final day getting all aggravated acting like something significant was going to happen was silly.
Remco's outbursts are days late. After this he should definitely race Giro and Vuelta because if his feelings are this hurt at a race like UAE the TDF will make him lose his mind.
The final GC for this race turned out great, Del Toro, Tiberi and Plapp all raced excellent. Very good competition for top 10. Lots of excellent racing.
 
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Every time Milan wins a sprint with a 2,000 watt effort I always wonder what his margin of victory would be if he learned to be efficient.
How do you gauge efficiency though? This might be Milan's optimal position to generate power. Make him more aero and he could lose 200 watts in peak power.
 
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How do you gauge efficiency though? This might be Milan's optimal position to generate power. Make him more aero and he could lose 200 watts in peak power.
Yes, but have you considered my knee jerk reactions prefer to think the trainers at an 8 figure budget team are too stupid to consider that?
 
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Yes, but have you considered my knee jerk reactions prefer to think the trainers at an 8 figure budget team are too stupid to consider that?
Speaking of knee jerk, you see that Milan is one of a handful of riders that can actually use a 10 tooth cog! Guy has crushing power. If you watch I think win number 2 or his recent 3 he actually runs out of gear and muscle right near line. It wasn't pretty but his legs came to some ugly lactic acid point of failure just before or at the line. As far as effective, efficiency anything smooth or pretty his pedal stroke was something square and looked like omnidirectional leg spasms. Much of the last part of his sprints come off as violent wrestling, were it looks like he is trying to break pieces of the bike off, handlebars, stem, cranks, pedals, guy is brutal not beautiful.. As far as efficiency, he is trying to transfer his energy and win the race, guy is pretty F-ing efficient in my book. And the his positioning in the crunch, the guy is pretty efficient at getting in the right place at the right time.. No high paid coach can give you the cantaloupes it takes to do that.. I will take Milan's primal abilities over efficiency any day.
Don't know if lots of his finishes are available in slow motion..
View: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/B_wOyd9wWqI

View: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/lOUAMztiq2s

This video is scary good
 
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