Who will reach 100 wins (2025 version)?

[Cycling111]

Don't disagree with the point you're making, but the second half of Nys' season is not the best example - he got sick right before the Tour, started it before he'd really recovered, and it completely wrecked him to the extent where he had to end his season early.

Probbly, but illnesses in cyclists are also closely related to fatigue. Cyclists stay very thin, and the greater the effort, the greater the risk of illness.

Running the Tour de France has affected Nys's schedule. It would have been more difficult to do what he did in Poland after the Tour de France than last year, when he didn't do the Tour de France and was fresher for the season finale.

 

[red_flanders]

Roglic is not at Almeida's level anymore, though.

A totally reasonable take given this past year. Roglic's behavior and seeming detachment this year was odd to me. Sprint abandoned him, just didn't seem to care. Weird.

13 months ago he won the Vuelta though, and Almeida has no such win on his palmares.

Age is a thing, of course. I don't really doubt what you say, but...part of me also thinks we haven't seen the last of Roglic just yet. Just seems so much more a naturally talented rider than Almeida, and I wonder if something we've not yet heard about was affecting him this year. Or I'm wrong and he's just washed.

 

[Wyndbrook]

A totally reasonable take given this past year. Roglic's behavior and seeming detachment this year was odd to me. Sprint abandoned him, just didn't seem to care. Weird.

13 months ago he won the Vuelta though, and Almeida has no such win on his palmares.

Age is a thing, of course. I don't really doubt what you say, but...part of me also thinks we haven't seen the last of Roglic just yet. Just seems so much more a naturally talented rider than Almeida, and I wonder if something we've not yet heard about was affecting him this year. Or I'm wrong and he's just washed.

Remcoitus perhaps.

 

[red_flanders]

Remcoitus perhaps.

Maybe. Add a case of Lipodosis and that might explain it.