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He must’ve heard they are switching to SRAM.

It's not had the greatest history.

"We'll need to wait till February to see who won"

Jumbo-Visma Tour squad most likely, adopting the Ineos style... Kruijswijk to lead the team at the Vuelta

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That’s too light on flat stage workers for me.

You’d take Bennett too, no?

Bennet will be leader @ the Giro

They can all do their bit I guess. Not taking a sprinter this year

Martin and van Aert are worth quite a lot on flat stages.

Agreed, but there's two of them and two leaders, assuming Kruijswijk is riding to support Dumoulin and Roglic, so I still think they are at least one rider short to do the grunt work on the non-GC days.

Look at Ineos, they will usually take Rowe plus two others, this year it was Van Baarle and Moscon, who can do that leg work. They also are able to take Kwiatkowski and Castroviejo, who are useful across all terrains. Personally, I think that Jumbo-Visma team is too mountain oriented, but the course next year looks like it could have more GC days than recent editions.

Van Aert is a handy sprinter when it comes to it...

If I was Groenewegen, I'd be pissed.

If he's not going to France, I don't blame him for getting on the sauce the Christmas.

the only thing that matters now is this: https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/7530/netflix-are-releasing-a-documentary-about-movistar

He doesn't want to go to the Tour. Not enough sprint stages.

https://www.wielerflits.be/nieuws/geen-tour-voor-dylan-groenewegen-meer-sprintkansen-in-de-giro/

Can we nominate the rider of the year yet? My fav is... MVDP. 90 race days (CX, MTB & road combined) brought him 47 wins. Includes most amazing/crazy/wtf (road) win of the year: Amstel Gold Race.

Totally agree Peter. Phenominal.

Annemiek van Vleuten

geoffrey soupe

reading that it's just crazy how he can be competitive in all three.

Genetic doping. I'm calling it now...

Not to be for connor dune who has hung up his race wheels early.

He rode 29 cross races this calendar year, won 28 of them.

I'm not surprised, but sorry to see him retire at a relatively young age. He was never going to be a hitter at WT level, but maximised the talent he had.

Alaphilippe for me. Nuts to be winning one day classics then clinging on to the yellow jersey right into the last week of the Tour. Such panache.

MVDP was rubbish at anything in excess of a week ;)

it was a 35 win run from november 2018, up until Ronse a couple of weeks ago. continuing his junior/U23 habit

Would definitely be Van Der Poel for me, with Alaphilippe close second.
I wonder though what CX results would've looked like over the last 2 years if Wout Van Aert had been able to ride without worries (TdF injury and the year before his contract issues which surely had a massive mental impact).

Regardless of that, VDP still won all of it, and what he did at Amstel, the MTB WCs etc... would be great for him to get gold at the olympics in the MTB (dont think he is bonkers enough to compete on road as well? But then, we are talking about him)