Pro-cycling thread

Kuss is paid, extremely well, to be a domestique - and he's lucky to be a domestique to the two best GC riders in the world. He could be doing all that work for Landa or Vlasov. The leaders don't 'owe' him anything. They could, perhaps, 'gift' him the race by becoming his domestiques but it would be blatant and it would always be a win that everyone knows he was 'given'. I actually think that is what they should do but then I am a big old softy. Who knows? This situation is unique. It's normally the other way round, the domestique who was better than their leader - LeMond and Hinault, Indurain and Delgado, Froome and Wiggins.
I'm going away tomorrow and so won't know how all this turns out till I get back next Tuesday and binge on catch-ups. My prediction:
1st Landa
2nd Ayyuso
3rd Buitrago

Kuss, Roglic, Vingegaard DNF, stage 21, Interpol warrants issued.

^ very good points

They should do what Ineos did with G next year when Rog leaves for Trek and take him to the Giro as a leader.

Fucking Kirby today with his guessing and speculating about how they all feel and what they really think and what their expressions really mean, like some kitchen sink Cracker. If he was a criminal psychologist Lucy Letby would be the Health Minister.

he came across as a bit of a cunt tbh

Yep
https://www.teamjumbovisma.com/longread/news/one-crash-too-many-for-primoz-roglic-though-there-is-hope-for-safer-racing/

on his birthday

Roglič and Vingegaard climbed Angliru in 41:24 min, pushing 6.43 ᵉW/Kg. They were 29 seconds faster than Heras on the steep section of the climb, doing 6.75 ᵉW/Kg for 26:28 min.

#jumbobrownstuff #tinycoke

gonna taste so sweet

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Anyone defending the snakes is clinically psychopathic.

Judas Vingegaard

Primecock Rogdick

Jumbo Wankers

The history of professional cycling is full of incidents where a rider put his own interests ahead of a better placed team mate.

It should surprise no one that this situation has played out as it has. I expect Vingegaard to take the lead tomorrow and hold it until Madrid.

Is that an awful defense or just a compilation of vague statements and predictions?

There seems to a consensus, and not just among the primary school fans, that Kuss has been badly treated. Plenty of ex-pros expressing their disquiet.
I think the real rivalry here is between Roglic and Vingegaard, already with an eye on next year's Tour.
I'm not sure Vingegaard will go for it unless Roglic goes first.

Says it all really. Only Vingo checked over his shoulder, which backs up these headlines. Vingo and GCKuss to form an anti Rog alliance tomorrow and deliver the old good cop bad cop with GCKuss to take the spoils.

Edit. Targeted ad knows I'm sitting on a sofa. Creepy AF.

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Vingegaard has already gone for it. He's closed the gap from 2'44 to 8 seconds.

The Jumbo Instagram comments are delicious. Whoever signed off that post on today’s stage should be fired.

For the pensioner fans, that’s a photo-sharing app that you can install on a smartphone.

Tbf he followed Rog today and didn’t twist the knife. He’s the only one who said he wants to see Sepp win. He showed the most support after the stage.

Hopefully he saves his reputation over the next few days. That would be the ultimate move on Roglic, now.

I've been thinking about when Vingegaard made up a minute - I think the time actually came from behind, I doubt he had any expectation of that gain but the others didn't chase. He could have stayed with Kuss today but that would have looked weird and I don't think he would let Roglic go at all any more.
But who really knows, including the Jumbo management. No one has ever had to work this out before.

Amen.

I just want to watch the scripted reality netflix version. Will be up there with Pete and Megan on TOWIE in some list programme on C5 in ten years time.

From a team pov they have the opportunity to show how strong they are by not only winning all 3 gts, but also doing it with 3 different riders. Unprecedented and unprecedented strength in depth. And to show what a great team they are to ride for. Everyone will ride for each other and being a super domestique can be rewarded with palmares as well as £.

Instead they pretend not to have been able to hear Kuss or see the coverage and pander to the stars' egos by insisting it's all mano a mano.
They could have won hearts and minds, now everyone thinks they're cold and heartless.

They’re preying on a selfless teammate riding his third GT in a row, and in those previous tours he dedicated himself to their victories. Kuss just doesn’t have it in him to tell them to knock it off.

It’s such a sad state of affairs. It’s most revealing of the management who are showing no leadership or values by letting it ‘play out on the road.’ Very, very sad.

I think the only way they could resolve satisfactorily internally, was to go down the route of the old cliche and let the road decide. At the moment the momentum is very much with Vingegaard but there are still two GC days left, so it could change still.

Or they are playing out a very calculated game of let's pretend that we aren't going to let Kuss win this? I'd still put money on Kuss to win. We're being tricked.